National Pride = no one in church

Hurrah for Independence... boo for iniquity.  Basically, because of the iniquity of this nation´s high schools, the whole zone died in church attendance.  They obligate the youth and children to march or they suspend them... I told them all to still go to church, but most of them didn´t listen.  But there were still lots there, and after church was cool.  The ward members all got together and split up to give our tons of invitations to ward conference next weekend to the in actives.  I was happy to see that.  Elder Ficklin and I both asked ourselves, "why don´t we do this every week?"

Hogan and Vanessa gave Elder Ficklin dinner (baleadas and cake) for his birthday.  I love being able to see the love of investigator families.  It gives me a lot of hope for their progression.  Hogan went to church with his dad who came into town from the Cayman Islands because he´s going to Tegucigalpa to visit the temple for the first time.  He´s a cool guy with a very strong testimony.  Hogan is really really tall, so it was funny to see him put his head on his short chubby dad´s shoulder during Sunday School.  

We had to move a ton of stuff into new houses for the areas in the zone that are being opened... it was horrible.  So hot.  From noon to 4pm carrying furniture and stuff up and down stairs.  I was so dead afterwards, and so sweaty and dirty.  We didn´t have time to eat lunch that day, and I got sick randomly in the stomach.  And yesterday and today, I´m super dooper sore!  I´m so old and out of shape!!!  I look it a little, but I feel it a lot.  I just want to eat a room full of vegetables and fruits.  haha.

President Klein called us last night and scared us to death.  He calls and says he wants to talk to both of us, so we put him on speaker.  He says, "well, I´m going to talk to you two about something that I don´t want to talk about... you two are going home."  I almost died when I heard that.  It freaked me out so bad.  My mind went racing, thinking, "what have I done!?"  Then he says, "you two are in the same group for December 10th, right?"  Wheww!!!!  We both thought he was sending us home like Wednesday!  haha.  He just talked to us about having a life plan ready and stuff.  What a guy.  He´s super funny even when he doesn´t want to be.  But that wasn´t funny... it was scary (until afterwards, then it was like nervous laughter).

Thanks for your love, and I´m looking forward to those missionary experiences that I know are coming my way soon! :)

Love,

Elder Thalman