Got Termites In My Smile????-TOCOA Week Thirty Five

 

what's up guys this week went really slow idk why but anyways it was a chillish week pdays literally over right now but can't ruin my streak so here's some good stuff from the week

 

Elder Shanklin & Elder Salanic enjoying Little Ceasars

-had Popeyes, pizza hut, and little Caesars new area is goated🐐

-had a baptism even tho I didn't do anything but add it to the stats

-all the people the past elders where teaching are not progressing we starting from ground 0 YESSIRRR

-gotta head up to the beach for pday today and it was so beautiful love the beach so much

 

Pday in Trujillo

K story time

At the baptism we were helping get stuff ready and I hand a pair of baptismal pants to the dude that's gonna do the baptism. I turn and start walking away and he goes "hey elder shanklin come back" so I go back and at this point there's another dude, two 35ish year old fat latinos and when i come up to them one of them goes "yo doesn't elder shankling look like somebody from a movie?" and I was like YESSS they about say I look like Ryan Reynolds or smth, but the other dude answers and goes " yahhhh.... he kind of looks like..." And at the exact same time both of them go "THE GRINCH" and they both just start freaking dying. I wasnt having any of it cause how can you not take offense to that so I hit them with the animated or live action grinch and bro doubles down and goes "oh for sure Jim carrery". So yep found out who the ward trolls are out here and im plotting something for revenge.

 

Womp Womp

Elder Shanklin & Elder Salanic in Tocoa

But yuh chill week out here, been reading currently in Alma and man the second half or basically the book of mormon after 2nd nephi is pretty awesome I encourage everyone to read it and skip Isiah if you need to

 

-elder shanklin

Chapter Three: Tocoa-La Ceiba Week Thirty Four

 

Alright we recieved those transfer news this week and Im leaving my area to a part even farther in the mission about the 2nd farthest area from the mission office WOOOOOO rn I'm about 4 hours from the office and its another 3ish hours so if theres any emergencias that'll be fun. But the areas called Tocoa for all those people that wanna learn more about Honduras cities🤝🤝

 

TOCOA

-the city is split in 2 areas, and we share it with SISTERS first time being close to sisters and I'm scared

- all of my district is latinos so thats chill

-apparently its a richer area so there's less success... as of now🌊✅️

-pizza hut, mall, burger King, we got all the goods

 

Lowkey might sound like a not bad area but I've been warned by some people that elders tend to die there. Apparently there is a member that just makes people get lost in the purpose. He's got like a ps5 or smth so dangit

 

THIS WEEK

baptism of my guy Juan Jose. Only thing you gotta know is dudes like 70 and cant bend so we basically just turned him perpendicular and shoved him under the water but hey it works. Me and my comp had to get in the font to help him but he was so excited. 

 

Elder Shanklin on divisions and enjoying some ice cream

PDAY TODAY

We woke up at 4:30am to watch the sunset then played soccer for two hours and then did errands for like 3 hours im so cooked rn and I gotta get all packed to get on a bus at 2am on wednesday😭 but hey that be the mission life #straight grind

 

Sunrise at the beach

Easter was lit because of jesus and the purpose otherwise we legit did nothing to celebrate lol but love the holiday and all the purpose behind it. Everything we teach out here is centered on jesus life and what he did and theres nothing better than easter to remember the resurrection. Jesus lives and nothing better than that.

 

Monopoly Deal for Pday

Zone picture at the beach for the sunrise

-e shank

La Punta......-La Ceiba Week Thirty Three

 

WOOOO we in that holy week let's gooooo. 

Elder Shanklin and his companion

Something crazy here is people either become super religious or super demonic during holy week. So some people called "jews" (idk why) dress up in Halloween masks and hoods and go around either fake robbing people with water guns or legit robbing them so thats cool. Hasn't happened to me yet but I throw a picture down below of my district leader with some of them.

 

Other than that pretty chill week out here. Did some divisions with the ZLs and bro toys his nest but I think hes dying lol. Sat in the house for like 2 hours after dinner so rip. But still learn alot from them and it's nice to get outta the area.

 

People update is it's been kinda rough recently with finding. Lots of people receive us and then the next time want nothing or never wanna go to church. Still on that grind tho but man I'm so burnt outta my area idk how people do more than 3 transfers that's insane.

 

Just a fire on the street???

Not much else happened this week just a chiller see you guys on easter✌️🐣

 

-e shank

 

Dangit almost forgot the whole title thing. So there's this dance here called "la punta" basicallyyyy it's just twerking lol but it's cultural so I guess it's okay💀💀. But we got invited to a birthday party and they had la punta on the tv and everybody like EVERYBODY was watching it. Kids, girls, guys, married couples, grandparents. I was ofc weirded out cause it was like 7 girls just twerking on the tv but hey honduras is honduras what can you do. My comp after was like "it's not that weird it's like Hawaiian hula dancing" and I was like ummm I dunno bout that lol 

Double Dates and CONFERENCE - La Ceiba Week Thirty Two

 

This week was no joke so long but i think it was cause I was so hypped for conference that time showed down lol BUT got 2 baptismal dates outta it so thats pretty dope.

 

Elder Shanklin on divisions

First one was this dude we eat with every day for lunch. The missionaries had been there for like a year so we imagined he just didn't want much with the church. Welp literally we taught him the restauration and then we're like yo wanna get baptized and he was like sure sounds good. Dude is a little older tho and kinda outta it so that was on our side but his wife was so excited that she could get sealed in the temple which is what we here for🤝

 

This is the husband and wife in the story above

Second date was this gray point and it was a 17 year old  girl that im pretty sure is just in love with the missionaries cause she has 6 months of teaching without progress but hey I was on divisions and my comp for the day went for that fecha so I respect it. We than had a lessons about tbe book of mormon and she was glazing it before I even started she just spammed ever compliment ever. Like "I love the book of mormon" " I've already prayed and read it and know it's true" so that was kinda cool lol we still taught her about it but she ended up having dance practice and couldn't come to general conference.

 

Elder Shanklin and his companion

But oh boy do I love general conference

 

10 HOURS IN AN AIR CONDITIONED CHURCH

 

Gotta love that but also some awesome talks from people. I really liked kearons talk about gift giving and uchdortfs about the representation of the church and how we are really there just to worship God

 

God's promise....a RAINBOW

Nothing super crazy happened this week but we did get a baptism so dubs🌊🌊🌊🌊

 

-elder shanklin