The Finals

We did a stake activity this week where we had to make a soccer team of young men investigators or in actives.

The fútbol activity was a success, and we brought a team of all investigators and inactives, about twelve. We got second place out of 14 teams if you wanted to know.  But they all seem like good kids, and this week we´re going to start teaching all of them and see which ones progress.  I loved rooting them on, and it was really intense when they got to the finals.  one of the funnest things I´ve done in a while.  I think that many will remember the church because of the experience (and we´ll see how many we baptize sooner rather than latter).

Mostly I feel like there are many great investigators that aren´t progressing as much as they should because we´re not focusing on them. This week we´re going to pull things back a bit, focus on the important ones, get them to church, and drop the ones that just won´t budge. Their are a lot of people here in Morazán that are ready for the gospel, so my idea is to leave the area book full of good recent converts and antiguos investigators.

I talked to Elder Ficklin and he let me know that Hogan and Vanessa got baptized!  And two of Moncha´s daughters this week are getting baptized.  Also, two other young women that we found are getting baptized next month.  I didn´t feel like I had much success there, so it´s such a blessing to see that it wasn´t at all a waist of time.  This is the Lord´s work.  He that sows and he that reaps are the same, and the blessings are eternal.  I won´t see the ends of all that I do, but the important this is to just keep doing it.  I love it here!  I love the mission, and the Gospel.  It´s a good thing that I don´t ever have to stop being a missionary.

Love you all.

Elder Thalman