Star Gazing Gone Wrong-TOCA Week Thirty Nine

 

Welcome back go week 41 (its actually week 38), im hoping that's right. I just took elder walkers email title and subtracted 1. BUT LETS GET INTO IT

 

We gonna do bullet points this week

-saw three dead puppies on the side of the road with guts spilling out and it was just so not awesome🥺

-our fechas mom keeps telling us her daughters room is possessed or her daughter is and im like uhhh sorry? Tried offering them a blessing but they said the house had already been blessed.

-dope divisions with elder mangum(ZL) and his comp, stayed up till 12:30 talking with those dudes they both go home in 2 months so lotsa girl talk from them lol

-BAPTISSMMMM our boy Alex got baptized and bro has been fighting for 2 years to stop smoking so lets GOOOO🔥🔥

-RAINNNN we had a full day where the sun didn't come out and it was beautiful

 

Elder Shanklin, Alex & Elder

Besides all that amaziigness one night our DL called us and was like uhhh you guys got like 20 mins for a story? Then he started talking about how they were on their way to a lesson and started star gazing for like 10 mins when all of the sudden 2 dudes on a motorcycle pulled up and started searching them and yelling "GIVE US YOUR PHONE"  and within 10 seconds they had left and the missionaries were phoneless lol. After telling the story my DL goes, after getting robbed I was so excited that I finally had a story to tell, but then I realized that I now don't have a phone💀 

 Super fast week ngl just working hard. Been studying this week in revelations the last book in the bible, super hard to understand but I've been reading it with the institute study manual and holy cow it's so good. Literally just prophesies of the coming of Christ and all the signs and tells exactly what's gonna happen. Everyone should read it it's so dope.

 

-e shanklin

Lost In The Boonies-TOCOA Week Thirty Eight

 What's up guys totally forgot about this but can't ruin the streak

 

Pretty chill week just out here grinding, found ourselves in the middle of nowhere trying to find a reference so that was highlight of the week

 

Elder Shanklin & his companion

-elder shank

So Whats The Purpose of This Visit?? TOCOA Week Thirty Seven

 

SHOUTOUT TO MY MOMMM HAPPY MOTHERS DAYYY literally the best mom ever love her so much🔛🔝

 

LOVE YA MOM!

Now to the week

 

We had 2 BAPTISMAL DATES YESSSIRRR and they weren't even planned so thats dope.

 

Our ZLs this week were like give us a list of all the people you can put fechas with and we were like uhhh nobody. Welp then we ended the week with 2 so lets see what happened.

 

Beautiful Beaches in Honduras

First lady we learned on sunday in ward council that she has a son who is 9 and isnt baptized and they both are super active members. Like they both always come to church and activity but the son was just never baptized. So we message her and are like yo can we visit and she goes sure. Me and my comp planned to not talk about baptising her son first visit and get to know them. We walk inside and she gives us some pineapple juice(goated) and the first thing she says is "what's the purpose of your visit" me being prepared I go "oh we just want to get to know you" she than responds kind of laughing "Oh! Cause I really want you to baptize my son" we were like uhh yep we can do that too. So we grabbed the 3 pamphlets, a book of mormon, and baptismal interview, threw them at her son and left. Nah jk we taught him the plan of salvation and put him on date but the mom and son are both so nice and im so grateful to get to help the family make this happen.

 

Lunch with fish, plantains an salad

SECOND STORY

So this girl named Camilla is 12 and her whole family is baptized besides her younger sister. And the missionaries have always visited her but she's like no I'm not getting baptized till me sister turns 8. Me and my comp thought the sister was 5 so we were like welp not for us. Well we visited the family on saturday and baptism came up. We asked when the younger daughter turns 8 and the mom goes "in june this year!" So me and my comp were like wait wut. Boom bop bam fecha put. Camilla actually is scared of baptism cause she doesn't feel ready. She thinks she needs to be perfect to be baptized but we told her the secret that if she ever wants to actually become more perfect she gotta get baptized. She still scared but we got some time to help her

 

Elder Shanklin with Camilla (in the back)

Longer email this week but crazy cause we've been working hard in the HEAT its so hot here I wanna die. Its step outside and your completely soaked and dead inside and out but anyways we've been working hard with little success. Even tho these weren't random people on the street, it was awesome to see that we've been here to help motivate people. I know god recognizes effort and something I like to tell people is the blessing always come after the trials of faith. Work hard, then you can play hard after.

 

HAVE A GOOD WEEK happy mothers days to all the mothers out there your awesome

 

Another One Down-TOCOA Week Thirty Six

 

Elder Shanklin gettin some coconuts

Another week out here in tocoa and the travel is AWFULLL I did divisions in the area of my district leader and the next morning we had to wake up at 4 am to get to zone council on the other side of the zone. It started at 10:30 and we were STILL late. The bus broke down but it's pretty insane how far these areas are from each other.

 

Besides that the area interesting. Missionaries have run through this place and everybody either knows the missionaries or is an inactive member. We focused so much on member points this week and a few people were like yah we wanna come back none of them came to church😐 but nah chill area but the heat has picked up this week and they are all dirt roads so there's so much dust in the air

 

Elder Shanklin with his Zone

Multizone pday is so dope love being with all the boys from the mish. We got conference tomorrow and it's tbe last one before our president leaves so he boutta drop some bars

 

That's all I got not much else love you guys.