July 7, 2014

Hi everyone! I hope you all had an awesome 4th of July...I was feeling a little homesick. But I'll be there next year :)

This week has been alright. We got a ton of rain this week and because of the rain these weird bugs came out and they were EVERYWHERE. It was weird.

There is a talk that Elder Holland gave to missionaries where he talks about how missions aren't easy for us because it was never easy for Christ. As missionaries, we are getting a little taste of what Christ went through...joy of teaching and bringing people to the gospel, but also pain when people have problems or when they don't want to listen to us. As I have been working with the less actives here in this area, I feel like I have felt that a lot, and even more this week. They are starting to have trust in us, and they have told us about the hard things that have happened to them and the problems they are going through and why it is hard for them to go to church...and it hurts me! All I want to do is help them and sometimes there is nothing I can do...but I am trying! And I know that Christ is there waiting to be able to help them in their lives. He is ready to help all of us :)

We found out this week that our mission has had problems with baptisms recently...we are the lowest baptizing mission in Central America. So this weekend we had a mission wide fast to know how we can have more baptisms. So my companion and I are working on getting ideas. 

On the bright side, our investigator, Carol, came to church for the first time this week! She has been wanting to come for a while but was having problems. She loved it and she is excited to return!

Have a great week!

Hermana Whittle