Morazán, Yoro

backstory... As of over a year ago, I was in Copan with Elder Young from Idaho.  We were talking about where I might end up in the mission.  He said that there was this place in Zona Progresso where the zone leaders worked every now and then.  They even baptized a young woman there.  There were apparently a bunch of super stalwart members down there that just were dying for missionaries.  I didn´t ever go there, but did open the area and sent two missionaries six months ago.

With Elder Young in Copan

View from Apartment in Morazán

 

Flash forward until this last Wednesday.  I packed my bags.  I am thinking, what zone am I going to go to?  I was looking at the zone leaders and not many had changes... they don´t normally drop you to lower position in this mission, but this mission president is a fireball, and has been throwing curves like crazy.  I love it!  Elder Limatu goes to Morazán 2 with Elder Thalman who is trainer and opening area...

The Morazán 2 District

 

It was like a blur.  I wasn´t expecting to hear my name.  Not expecting to train again.  But here I am!  In that same area that Elder Young predicted over a year ago, and I´m opening half the area and training!  It´s so awesome!!!!

Morazán chapel

Morazán is the coolest!  Honestly, who cares about being a zone leader!?  I´ve always wanted to train again, and Elder Limatu is the man.  He´s really really smart, and totally into working.  No complaints.  And thank goodness for him, because I´m horrible at direction, but he´s like a human computer, so he pretty much already memorized the area.  Amazing really.

The members here are golden.  I love them all already, and I feel like since Wednesday that I´ve developed a relationship with all of them.  They are giving references up the wazoo, and were just working with all inactives.  We went with a young man on Saturday to all the inactives and on Sunday they tell me that 53 is a record for this place!  That´s great!  We just have to double that before I´m gone.  My goal is honestly to leave the area with an attendance of over 100, 10 elders (or active future elders), and a more centralized church house just for meetings (not the home of a member).  I honestly feel that we can and will do it.  I feel very called to be here.  It´s something I´ve truly never felt before in my mission until now.  I love it here.

We found Emil, a less active man in his twenties.  We shared with him about how we were sent by Christ to him to invite back to full activity in the church.  We explained that the Sabbath day was a commandment from the beginning.  He accepted and was in church Sunday.  Our branch pres. interviewed him after so that he can know what to do to repent and get the Melchizedek Priesthood in November.  He is the first of many priesthood holders that the Lord is preparing here.  It´s a miracle!  No one even knew who he was.  The young man who told us about him said that he was a lost cause that he´s visited a million times.  haha.

Elder Limatu is really just a sponge.  He´s from Guatemala and a major in electronics.  He was teaching teenagers mathematics before the mission, and is only 18!  Just a baby.  haha.  But the best comp ever.

I love you all.  Happy birthday Grampa!!!  You´re the best and I love you.

Elder Thalman