"Yooo are you guys a couple?" TOCOA Week Forty Five

Welp my email streak is over sorry mom for missing last week🤫🧏 I dont remember what happened 2 weeks ago we just gonna go into THIS WEEK

 

Lowkey flew by as a week which was a shocker, I read smth that when you get in a schedule the time goes by faster cause there's less big moments or memories you remember and lowkey thats what this week feels like cause nothing crazy happened we just grinded

 

I think spanish may actually be smth I understand now cause this week we would spend maybe an average of an hour in every lesson and I'd be talking the whole time and just FLIES by🆙️🆙️

#giftoftonguesreal

President and Sister Ostler with Elder Shanklin
Going home after three years as mission leaders

 

Yah but heres the highlights

 

our penchinista left us to go to the usa🇺🇸🏈🦅so we needed to find someone to make us food, that night we were teaching a lesson to a member who has 3 kids and tons of stuff have happened recently that have made her not able to work. I was sharing a scripture about god being with us in all times and then I got the thought to ask her to be our penchinista and she was THRILLED, she apparently studied how to cook and now has a way to earn money, so dope to see god looking our for his children through other people. AND WE GOT FOOOD✅️🆙️🔛🔝

 

Missionaries≠Gay

So me and my comp were flying through contacts one day when I was like I want a popsicle🍦 so we went and got a popsicle and my comp got one too. So there we were two missionaries eating popsicles walking down a honduras road and I had the thought "this feels kinda gay right now" and then right after that thought a dude in fluent english yells "YOO ARE YOU GUYS A COUPLE" caught off guard so im like "WHAT?" and then he repeats his question and starts talking about how Trump doesnt like gays and he was warning us that in honduras they aren't welcome either. I was so confused so I explained we weren't gay and then i just started talking about Jesus and then I had an hour conversation with this dude about the trinity and then he said he would come to church(spirit) but yah kinda weird interaction but if he comes to church I'll take being called gay.

 

The guy who was worried about us being gay

So we returned to visit that dude and had a 2 hour lesson(rare for hard working missions idk bout you state side guys(tyler)) and bro was 100% like he's going to church(update he didn't but high hopes next week)

 

GRATEFUL FOR 0 ASSISTENCIAS 

So we had like 8 people confirmed coming to church... 0 came but lowkey a blessing cause maybe one of the worse church experiences I've had. It was stake conference and they transmitted the video to our chapel but whole bunch of technology problems and 7 people showed up in total: 6 inactives and 1 member. Yes I've listened to uchdorfts last conference talk but yah lowkey was kinda glad our investigators didn't come lol🔥🛶🌊

 

That's my week we at the ocean right now fishing with
some other misioneros for pday so dubsss, my mission pres and his wife go home in 3 days so we'll see if my new president pulls a "better that one man perish than a whole nation" and sends all the disobedient elders home. Mom you might be seeing me soon

 

Have a W week

-elder shanklin 

Temporary Office Elder-TOCOA Week Forty Three

 

This was probably the hypest week of my missionary life. SO LETS GET INTO IT🧃🧃🔥🔥🏢🏢

 

TRANSFERR WEEK

SOO basically this whole week happened because of transfers and some W luck so shout it to God for the luck. Imma do a day by day run down cause I just loved everything bout this week.

 

Elder Shanklin (Dad) and his kid (new missionary)

TUESDAY

K so last day for my comp to say bye bye🤫🧏 to all the members before leaving. Turns out no one likes him cause they werent home but we had to go to the ZLs house to spend the night so we took the last bus there. Since this zone is so big all the elders get together before transfers so everyone can have a comp. Basically just a giant boys night it was dope, we yapped till 1am and then freaking elder coleman(love this guy) plays guitar like a beast and was just taking song request all night it was magical. He plays this one song thats always on instagram reels and stuff (or was 9 months ago) and its just so fire🔥🔥 but yah we got on the bus at 1am to head to the office, I had to go with my bro elder stout cause we both training. Basically we became comps for the week which was SICK cause we got like the same personality

 

TUESDAYYY🔟💯🍹🍹

K this day was just nuts, we got to the office at like 8 am but before that I gotta see like all the mission bros at the bus stop doing transfers. But we when got to the office all the elders about to go home we're still there😭 SHOUTOUT ELDER BASHAM AND ELDER BROWN🫂🤝 but yah after they all left me and elder stout got assigned to "work" in the office all day. Here's what we did

-played piano

-opened birthday presents

-spent an hour getting juice that noone drank📉

-did references with the office elders(shoutout elder carreto I love you)

-got kicked out of references by the stake president

-got reenvited to do references by the APs

-went on a joyride in the office car listening to funky popcorn poping

-and then finally went to the office elders house and slept with all the boys 

ALL DAY we were hiding cause we weren't allowed to see the new missionaries so we were getting moved around the office and stuff buy such a W day gotta see all the dawgs of the mission.

 

Office life with elder Carreto😘

WEDNESDAY👨‍🍼

Alrightttt so today we went back to the office and did MORE REFERENCES and by that I mean we chilled in the room where we should be doing references and just yapped. Putting more than 2 elders together is a problem but nah we did work still. Eventually the time came to get our kids and.... mine and elder stouts missed their flight in Panama. So we had to wait till 6 pm to get our kids and so MORE REFERENCES except at that point the office elders just weren't working so we just talked to them lol. Eventually we got our children and my bros from Ecuador shout out annie Barton if she reads this. He is so hyped to be here and believes everything we tell him. We trolled him pretty hard but bro where's a 2 peice pajama of dog prints so he's pretty hype💀💯🐕 our areas 8 hours away from the office home so we had to stay the night again which I was complaining, always good vibes in the office house.

 

Elder Shanklin and Elder BASHAMMMM

Alright I'm stopping there the rest of the week just was working, my comp has SO MUCH enthusiasm. Like bro in church saw it was empty and with 100% seriousness goes "next week these rows will all be full theres too many people who need our help" lowkey can't talk to him without getting a pep talk it's nuts but he chill. His names chucuiano so thats cool.

 

Anyways thats it for my week hope lifes good for all you guys✌️

 

-e shanklin

 

(I love you basham🫶 go get married)

Father and Son-TOCA Week Forty

 

If you understand the title hit me back and I'll give you praise

 

BUT YESS I am going to be a father and have a child, whether it will be a latino child or gringo child we don't know stay tuned till next week to find out. That's all for transfer news I'm staying here in Tocoa. Now onto the week

 

5 DAY DIVISIONS YUHHH

sooo my DL is a smart guy, too smart I think, he like takes dreams very seriously and I've found him praying at 2am because he had a bad dream so rant anyways, he planned to come to pday then do divisions with us the next day, then we were going to have Zone council on wednesday. Butttt the ZLs got stuck in the office or smth and had to change the date of zone council to Thursday so we did divisions again on Wednesday cause with how far our areas are away it just made sense. Literally they got to our house sunday night and left Thursday morning lol.

 

Elder Shanklin & his companion

DIOSSS

on exchanges I was with my boy elder Ross and this dude calls at us from a distance we go over and bro looks a little cooked, I think weed, but he starts asking us for money. I hit him with the good old "sorry we can't give money but heres a pamphlet" but he was having none of it, he wanted our money bad. He said if it's God's will we can give him money... welp literally as he said that a motorcycle drove by and the passenger was putting smth in his pocket and a $20 lempira fell out ($1USD) and landed right next to the dude. He was so high he didn't see it so I go "hey hermano there it is" pointing to the money. He looks and immediately starts going "DIOS DIOS DIOS" snatched the money then readily took a pamphlet lol. What are the odds💯💯💀 He also said that he was coming to church🔥🔥(update didn't come)

 

Elder Shanklin & Elder Brown

Rest of the week was chill, we had zone council and I had to say goodbye to the absolute dawg elder brown🐐🐐. Shoutout to him cause he on the email list now. 

 

Some highlights

-had a member get mad at us for baptizing people that go inactive and we were like uhhh sorry we just here to gather people God does the sorting🐑🐐

-IT RAINEDD🌊🌊🌊 first time in a month, but besides that this week was straight 113 degrees Fahrenheit so cool

 

Bad stuff

-all the gringos are going home😭 like legit all the homies who had a year in the mission when I started are going home rip hope all get married fast(basham)

-all the people we were teaching just decided that everything we taught them doesn't matter and aren't progressing👍👍

 

Spiritual thought (getting official here)

 

Matthew 5:14

 

14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid

 

I shared this scripture at a family night this week and I loved it because even tho Jesus is the Light of the world, during the sermon on the mount he says WE are the light of the world. Jesus Christ and God trust us enough to be on this earth and bring light to those around us. We are always instruments in the lords hands. This brings me back to the quote that says, "God loves us and watches over us but it is usually through another person that he meets our needs"

 

-elder shanklin