August 11, 2014

Hey everyone!

This week was good :) We were able to challenge some of our investigators to baptism, and now we have 3 that have a date this month! My companion and I are so excited!

Maribel is doing awesome. She is having so many problems with her family(dang Satan) but she knows that she wants to be a member of the church and she is staying strong! However, she didn't come to church yesterday and we don't know why...we will find out tomorrow.

We had our first appointment with the familia Moncada(the husband is a member but his wife and daughter aren't) and it went really well! And we challenged them to be baptized the 30th of this month and they accepted :) WHOOOOOOOO!

As far as investigators, we had to drop a ton this week, but we will keep searching. And we are still working a ton with less actives.

I'm just happy to be here :) This area has been really rough, but I was thinking about it the other day and even though its been hard(and way too hot), I love it so much here in Puerto Cortes and I don't want to leave!

I hope everyone is doing well! Have a great week!

Hermana Whittle

August 4, 2014

Hi everyone!

So I don't know if you have noticed, but for the past few weeks my companion and I have been a little discouraged in our area because our investigators have been having problems and we have felt a lot of pressure from the ward(and without any help from them). But this week has been great! We had a multi zone conference with other missionaries and President and it was super good :) And President took the time to talk to my companion and I because of the problems we were having. I love talking to him...he always encourages me and is so positive. So after talking to him we felt a lot better :) I am so lucky to have a mission president that is so awesome and Christlike!

My companion and I decided to fast for our area this week and to be able to have baptisms this month, and we have already been able to see the results! One of our investigators, Maribel, has been progressing SO much and she told us that she wanted to stay in this church and be baptized!!! We were SO happy! And despite having family members that are giving her problems, she feels strongly about the church and knows she wants to stay there :) We also have a less active and is wife, who isn't a member, who have been coming to church for about a month. Before she wasn't sure about taking the lessons and she wanted to talk to her husband about it. But yesterday we talked to them and we have an appointment with them this week to start teaching! My testimony of fasting has definitely grown this week!

One thing that was sad this week is that we went to go visit Carol, who is our investigator that was progressing a TON. But she told us that she didn't want us to visit her anymore and that she wants to stay in her church....I was so bummed. It hurts when someone is so close to accepting the gospel and others influence them and the reject it...

I hope you are all doing well! Remember that when we are discouraged, it weakens our faith. So always have faith in the Lord and don't be discouraged! I love you all!

Hermana Whittle