Hermana McKenzie Whittle : December 2014

Hermana Whittle and her zone visiting the hospital on Christmas day.

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas!!! I sure did :) We ate a TON....here in Honduras for Christmas they make a ton of tamales and chicken sandwiches...we ate soooo much and our fridge was full of tamales that people had given us. And now for New Years we are going to eat even more yaaaayy!

Here what everyone does is on Christmas eve everyone stays up super late and then they set off fireworks at 12. We had to enter our house at 7 but we stayed up until 12 playing games and having fun :) It was good!

Christmas morning our zone went to the area hospital here and we visited and sang to the people :) It was sad to see people there miserable on Christmas but I could feel the spirit so strong as we would sing to them...it was an awesome experience! Then I got to talk to my family and then I helped another family in our ward talk to their daughter who is in the mission...it was awesome to see them so happy :)

We were able to visit Carlos this week and we talked to him again about his baptismal date...we had to move it to the 10th of January but he agreed to it! I hope everything works out!

This week has been a little hard because our investigators all left and no one has wanted to listened to us so we have done a loooooot of walking...but such is missionary life.

I found a quote this week that helped me a ton. It says: Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength. I love that because its so true...if we spent too much time worrying about the future and what will happen, we can't enjoy and life in the present. So enjoy every day that you have because you won't be able to go back :)

I love you all! I hope you have a great New Years and that you can set good goals and do everything possible to achieve them :) Elder Cook gave an awesome talk about that in this past conference...you should all read it :)

ADIOS!!!

Hermana Whittle