Show Synopsis:
Church of Latter-Day Saints missionary Elder Price wants to be placed in Orlando, Florida for the next two years but instead gets placed in Uganda with the rather incompetent and nerdy Elder Cunningham. As soon as the duo gets to Uganda, they are robbed by the warlord General Butt-Fucking-Naked and learn that the local villagers are extremely blasphemous and live in terrible conditions. Elder Price is shocked that the other Mormon missionaries have kept on living in Uganda when none of their efforts have accomplished any conversions among the villagers. Elder Price sings and dances about the found of the LDS Joseph Smith but the villagers find him annoying. General Butt-Fucking-Naked threatens female circumcision on the entire village population and the Church of Latter-Day Saints presses the missionaries to do more work, so Elder Price decides to leave Uganda and transfer to Orlando. Elder Cunningham is now in charge of the mission, and he starts telling the villagers a made-up history of Mormonism, since he never paid attention at the training center, but the villagers start to listen and learn. Elder Price has a scary dream that convinces him to stay in Uganda and try to convert General Butt-Fucking-Naked and his followers, although he fails. Elder Cunningham and Nabalungi are starting to develop feelings for each other, and after Nabalungi asks Elder Cunningham to baptize her, other villagers line up for him to do it as well. Elder Price starts to doubt that his life and his commitment to the church have progressed the way that they should, but goes to meet the head of the mission. Nabalungi and the villagers perform a pageant about Elder Cunningham?s version of the foundation of the Mormon church. The head of the mission tells the missionaries to leave Africa because the Africans will never understand God and the Mormons, but Elder Price realizes that Elder Cunningham was right all along: scripture is not as important as religion and belief helping people. Nabalungi angrily wants to work with General Butt-Fucking-Naked to take over the village when she learns that Elder Cunningham told her the ?wrong? stories, but the villagers help her realize that the stories are supposed to be metaphorical and not literal. They force the General to leave and embrace ?The Book of Arnold,? their version of Mormonism, in hopes of making the world better.

Character:
Elder Kevin Price, an eager young Mormon man who thinks highly of the Mormon tradition; wants to make the world a better place but is easily discouraged when things do not go his way.
Elder Arnold Cunningham, a nerdy and overweight young man with an imagination but very little street smarts or academic smarts; persistent; gung-ho to try new things; very optimistic.

Song Context:
Elder Price believes his mission work is going to be fruitful and life-changing for many newly converted Mormons, even if it is not in the exact location he wanted, and reluctantly accepts Elder Cunningham's eager partnership in this endeavor.	

Fun Facts:
1) This song was written for Andrew Rannells, who originated the role of Elder Price on Broadway, during the workshop of the musical, and he described the experience of getting a song written for him "really thrilling" in an interview with BroadwayWorld.com. 
2) Rannells was nominated for a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for his performance. 
3) When Rannells interviewed with GQ, the interviewer Mickey Rapkin described him as "someone who looks exactly like you'd expect a Mormon to look: Basically, cartoonishly white." Rannells replied that "Trey Parker said that he recognized a common Midwesterner in me. He said, 'There's this underlying cheesiness about you that is exactly what we need.'"