This is it!

Wow...I can't believe its all ending! What a journey!!

Thankfully, I was able to keep motivated my last week and it was a good week :) I could tell Satan was trying hard to get to me with some different things that happened, but that didn't get me down! I tried to do my best to help the people I could while I'm here.

This past week the members from our branch had an excursion to the temple and in church on Sunday a lot of them shared their testimonies about the experience. It was so amazing hearing the experiences that they all had in the temple! I gained a strong testimony of the temple before leaving on my mission, and I know it will keep growing! For the members here, it is really hard going to the temple because it is expensive. But a lot of them make sacrifices because they know how important it is! I really liked something that one member said, that when we exercise our faith and take a step, God helps us to take 10 more. So true!

I am so grateful for the experience that I have had to be a missionary in Honduras! It has definitely been the hardest thing I have ever done, but its also been the best thing I've ever done. I have learned soooo much and I have changed even more. Its weird...I feel like I'm myself, but a much better version of myself. And I know that I will keep growing and changing my whole life! Because that is the purpose of this life...to become like our Father in Heaven. 

I know that this gospel is true. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer, and that He knows exactly how to help us and comfort us. I know that God has a plan for each of us that helps us to become the best we can be! I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that it helps us to become closer to our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that he helped restore the true church that Jesus Christ established when He was here! I know that we are all children of God and that He loves us soooo much :)

Thank you all for your support these 18 months! I love you all and I can't wait to see you! Nos vemos!!! :)

Hermana Whittle

Keep on keeping on!

Getting ready for their water fight today for some p-day fun!

Hi everyone!!

So it was another rough week this week...I think every week will be rough from here out! But we just keep on keeping on :) I am super grateful for my companion and the other missionaries here because they help keep me happy and motivated to work.

SOOO the highlight of this week was that we got to have a conference with an APOSTLE!!!! It was sooooo good :) Elder Neil. L Andersen, Pres. Maynes, and Bishop Davies(70s) all spoke to us and it was great. I loved seeing that really they are all normal people....but when they teach they do it powerfully. Elder Andersen talked to us about the importance of the Atonement and why it is important for us as missionaries and for our investigators. He was struggling a bit with speaking spanish because he also speaks french and portuguese(cool right?) so he confused words sometimes. But his message was still powerful and the testimony that he bore was really simple, but so true, and I could tell he knew with all his heart the things he was saying. It was sooo awesome!

We found a HUGE less active part member family this week...I was a little intimidated teaching them all haha. But we will see how that goes with them. Even though this area is hard, we still find things to do and people to teach and we do the best we can...thats all we can do right? :)

I love you all! Have a great week!

Hermana Whittle

Hermana Whittle with her comp and district today on p-day having a water fight. :)

Hi Everyone!

Well this week has been difficult to say the least...to keep a long story short 3 of our investigators that had baptismal dates told us that they didnt want us to visit them anymore. It was really hard because we had felt the spirit really strongly with them and they were really progressing and my companion and I were trying so hard to have faith and put goals and work hard...but after all this happened I realized that I couldn't just stop now. That was just a trial of my faith and I have to keep moving forward and working hard or I will never get anywhere...

So that is my message for all of you this week :) No matter how many times you think you have failed, you have to keep going or you will never get anywhere...its true that we have to have faith to see miracles, but we have to keep strong even when it seems our faith has been in vain :)

Have a great week!

Hermana Whittle

A cold and windy day in Santa Rosa de Copan!

Happy March!!

Hi everyone!

I can't believe that its already march...it makes me so sad!! I am enjoying being here sooo much and I don't want it to end...

This week was good! On Thursday we had a Multizone conference with Elder Ochoa of the 70 and it was soooo good! He talked a lot about faith. He told us about how our purpose as missionaries is to help people to have faith in Christ unto repentance, baptism and that they can endure to the end...and he talked a lot about the authority we have to do it. It was really inspiring and it motivated us to work harder with our investigators and how we can know which ones are the ones we should be working with. The next day my comp and I were super motivated to put everything that he taught us in practice, and it has been going well :)

This weekend two twins that we have been teaching FINALLY got baptized! They are 8 so its not our baptism, but we have been preparing them and it was sooo great watching them get baptized :) They remind me of Sam(which is hard sometimes) and I love them so much!

Everything is going super well here and I am happy!!

Have a great week!

Hermana Whittle