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