Monday, March 10, 2014

A beautiful view of the mountains in Honduras.





This week was SO LONG. 

A lot of our investigators that were doing super great are having problems now. We have these two awesome investigators named Dunia and her daughter Vilma. Their family is my favorite family...I feel at home when we go over to their house. And so they have been coming to church and making friends and everything and doing super great. So we had a lesson with them last week and we were planning on giving them a baptismal date. So we started off and it was going SUPER well. I bore my testimony at one point and seriously I could feel the spirit so strong it felt like my chest was going to explode. It was crazy. And then the lesson got really weird. Vilma accepted a baptismal challenge but Dunia started acting kind of weird. She kept changing the subject and avoiding the question. I just remember I left that lesson feeling really confused and kind of depressed because I was really hoping for them to get baptized before I left the area(because I think I am leaving soon). We will keep trying.

But on the bright side we had two investigators get baptized last week! Katy(12) and Antony(10) who are the niece and nephew of Marcario, our convert that got baptized a couple months ago. It was so cute to watch them get baptized! They were so excited for each other and they shared their testimonies...it was so sweet. Those two kids and Marcario's daughter Vania that just got baptized are going to be so strong in the church...I know it!
Thats all I've got. It is still super hot here and it is only supposed to get worse...hopefully I will get to go somewhere a little cooler soon! Have a great week!

Hna. Whittle
Hermana Bahr, Hermana Whittle with Katy, Antony, Vania and another child. 
Katy, Vania and Antony





Hermana Bahr and Hermana Whittle having dinner with 2 of their investigators.

Monday, March 3, 2014

¡¡5 meses ya!!


Hermana Bahr and Hermana Whittle with their investigator, Evelyn, whose father and sister were baptized about a month ago.

Celebrating P-day today with some yummy ice cream! :)



Hey everyone! I can't believe I have been on a mission for 5 months...its crazy! 

This has been a week full of ups and downs. We were sitting in District Meeting on Tuesday and in District Meeting, we always talk about our investigators. We write the dates of the upcoming saturdays and we talk about our investigators and who has a baptismal date for what day and what challenges they have and stuff. So we were doing that and Hna Bahr and I realized that we had a TON of investigators up on the board...the Lord is blessing us so much. We have been working hard and now we are starting to see the fruits. I know He is helping us out even though the members don't want to help us and our citas are always falling!

We have one investigator named Gaby that we are super worried about. She has a lot of problems in her life and with her family. She is living with her mom and her brother and they are bad influences for her. She really needs to find a job and live somewhere else because being in that house is not good for her. We are trying to do all we can to help her, but we just don't know what to do. She already knows that the church is true and she wants to change...we will just keep praying.

So one day last week our cita fell through and so we decided to go stop by this lady that we have only taught one time. So we were just standing there talking to her, and she was completely ignoring me and talking to my companion. If she had a question about me she would just ask Hna. Bahr, even though I would answer her questions. Like once she looked at my nametag and asked Hna Bahr how to pronounce my name instead of asking me. It was really starting to bug me. And then she told Hna. Bahr that she needed to take care of me because I was humble and I didn't know Spanish(even though I was right there and I understood every word she said). So Hna. Bahr was like, "Umm she speaks spanish and she understands everything you are saying" and I also told her that I understood. POR FAVOR. It was pretty funny though!

I hope you are all doing well and that you have a good week!

Hna. Whittle

Hermana Whittle and Hermana Bahr