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