A missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Gus Garcia, became famous last week when a video of Garcia participating in a dance-off against a Michael Jackson impersonator went viral. Garcia, who is serving in Barcelona, Spain, is shown giving the impersonator a run for his money and proving that even Mormon missionaries love to dance.
The video’s popularity is similar to a video that was posted a year ago that showed a missionary dunking the basketball in a friendly game of pick-up.
Garcia’s dance-off has been picked up by news sources throughout the world, including The Huffington Post and The Telegraph in Europe. EOnline prefaced its post of the video with, “Whatever you think you're about to experience, it's better than that.”
More than 2 million people have watched the video on YouTube in just one week.
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