DON'T EAT THE PEANUTS!!

Magandang Araw Po,

It's More Fun in the Philippines:

I simply have one WILD story to share with you. Last Friday while teaching one of our investigators he fed me some fried peanuts. He told us that they were old, so my companion didn't eat them, but I didn't want to offend him by not eating, so I ate them all hehe. BIG MISTAKE!!! Not long later, my stomach started churning. This continued through Saturday and progressively got worse. At each appointment on Sunday my stomach churned and I could hardly cover up the fact that I was uncomfortable. Well, Sunday night we went to a dinner appointment with some members. I didn't feel like my stomach could handle most of the food that they cooked for us, so I kindly thanked them for everything they cooked and simply ate the rice and soup while avoiding the other oily foods on the table. Not long after I felt a sudden and intense urge to use the restroom. Without asking, I frantically ran into the bathroom. By the way, this home is a very small apartment and the bathroom is connected to the living room in which we were eating at. The only barrier between the bathroom and the living room is a curtain! At this moment I had what is known in the Philippines as LBM, or Loose Bowel Movement. There was no stopping it, and everyone was quickly aware of the seriousness of my sickness due to the fact that curtains are not great sound barriers. The members began laughing extremely hard, I was dying laughing, and on top of all of this I was not sure how I was supposed to enter back into the Living room and face all of them hehe! When I finally came back out they were still laughing and luckily were very understanding of the fact that I was sick. They asked me what caused the sickness, and I told them it was peanuts. From there they went out and bought me MORE PEANUTS and told me that I needed to eat them to get rid of my sickness. I was like WAIT WHAT!! That can't be right. They then proceeded to burn the peanuts on the stove until they turned black and the room was covered in smoke. From there I was told to drink them with water and then rub the leftover charcoals on my belly. I agreed and did it, but let me tell you, it was a wild experience!!! Lets just say nothing will ever embarrass me because I've experienced the worst of it!

Elder Hemmert

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