Feliz Año Nuevo!!!!

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

Hermana Whittle with her companion, Hermana Joaquin, and the baby of a new member.  

Hermana Whittle loves this little guy! 

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Hermana Joaquin, Hermana Whittle with President and Sister Dester for their Christmas zone meeting.

Hermana Whittle with her zone.

Hermana Whittle with her district.

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 24, 2014

Hey everyone! So transfers are this week...I'm nervous but excited! I am pretty sure either my companion or I will have transfers, most likely my companion, but we aren't going to know until tonight. So I will let you know next week!

I really can't believe that this transfer has already ended...this transfer has honestly been one of the hardest of my mission for many reasons. Heavenly Father has been trying me a lot, but I have felt His love and His help as well...I have no doubt that He knows what he's doing and that everything happens for a reason!

This week we found a family of 5...the parents are less active members but the kids aren't baptized(and they are all 8 or older). The mom and 2 of the kids went to church yesterday and they LOVED it :) This family has a ton of problems...but I am super excited to work with them and to help them come back to the church :)

I almost forgot that this week is Thanksgiving...Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all remember that there is so much to be grateful for, like Josh Groban says :) I don't know how I will be spending thanksgiving since its the day after transfers, but I hope you all enjoy thanksgiving dinner for me.

Have a great week!

Hermana Whittle

Hermana Whittle with an investigator-- her son, who is  a member,  is currently serving a mission. 

Hermana Whittle with a less active family they are working with. 

Hermana Whittle with a member from her ward, who just left on her mission to Mexico! Hermana Whittle is going to miss her! 

Making baleadas.

Hi Everyone!

Hi everyone!

This week was pretty normal...not many changes here. We haven't been having much success in our area but we have been searching for ways that we can find more people and work better here...this is the last week before transfers so hopefully we can do that!

Rosa and her dad Carlos decided this week that they want to go to the temple! Next week our ward is going to have a trip and they have been working this week to raise money to go! I am so excited for them and I hope they have an awesome experience! I was also super happy that Rosa received a calling yesterday as the young womens secretary! I think she was a little overwhelmed with that and her two kids but she is happy!

So on Sundays we eat with a member in our ward who is older and spends a lot of time alone since his wife works. I love being there with him because he is super funny and nice...but sometimes he cooks super weird things. Last week we ate cow tongue...it wasnt that bad but I would prefer not to eat it again haha. And guess what he gave us yesterday....cow udder. Yeah....it was super weird. Gotta love other countries...

Just one last thing...this morning I was reading in D&C 136 and I found a verse that I loved:

 31 My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them, even the glory of Zion; and he that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom.

We all have to pass through trials and hard times...but because of those things we grow and learn and we are constantly preparing ourselves to live with God again. If we can't endure, we aren't worthy of the glory and blessings that God has for us. So always remember that whatever happens, it is for a reason!

Have a great week!

Hermana Whittle

Eating with some members. 

Hi everyone!!

Well this week was pretty normal...I don't really have much to say! We had divisions with the sister training leaders this week and it went well! The hermana that was with me has been in my zone and we had already done divisions...she is awesome :) So it was good.

Rosa is doing super awesome...she is always happy and excited to go to church and activities and she really wants to go to the temple. Yesterday in church we had a lesson about missionary work and she told us that she wanted to serve a mission when her kids were older :) We also had an awesome lesson with her and her dad...her dad always goes to church and he likes it. We taught about the gospel of christ and the spirit was super strong...we were able to put a baptismal date with him for december! Hopefully everything works out well with that :)

We also had a mission activity this week in the church, but it didn't turn out so well haha...we were going to have an open house and all of the organizations were going to talk about what they do so that people could get an idea about the church....BUT nobody came haha. Only two of our investigators...we were a little bugged that nobody invited anyone, but it was still fun.

Well thats about all Ive got...I hope you are all doing well and that you have a good week!

Hermana Whittle

Happy Halloween!

Hi guys!

This week was a little weird because almost the whole week it was rainy and overcast and I was actually a little cold...it was awesome :) But despite the weather it was still a good week!

On Tuesday our mission president came to visit us in our district meeting and he talked to us about love and kindness. He asked us how the people would know that we are true disciples of Christ...like it says in the primary song ¨By this shall men know ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another¨. He just encouraged us to think about how Christ would treat people and how we should follow his example. It was good.

On Thursday we had a ward activity about family history and it was super great! They talked about what it was and then they had decorated three different rooms like the three kingdoms of glory and we got to go in and learn about and experience each one. Our recent convert Rosa went and she loved it...now she is super excited to go to the temple :)

So nobody here celebrates Halloween so we didn't do anything...but my comp and I wore orange and black. We were hoping someone would give us candy but no haha...

Well I just want to testify to you all real quick of the power of the Book of Mormon...I know that it is true and that it has the power to change lives! We taught about the BoM a lot last week and every time I could feel that it was true...I hope the people did too! But I know that if we read even just a little bit every day it can help us so much. So I hope you are all doing that!

Have a great week!

Hermana Whittle

Hermana Whittle with the son of one of their investigators and the stuffed animal they gave him for his birthday. 

Hermana Whittle and her companion went to help a less active member who just had a baby.  How sweet is that? 

Hermana Whittle, Hermana Rodriguez, their DL and his new  companion. 

Hey everyone!!!

So for starters, it has been SO hot here lately. There was one night where I couldn't even sleep because it was so hot...oh Honduras...

I hope you all enjoyed conference as much as I did! I LOVED that they had people speak in their native languages...it was awesome to hear the speaker themself speak spanish and not the translator :) I hope they keep doing that!

I feel like I learned so much this conference and that the speakers were super inspired. I love how we can go to conference with a few questions and always find the answers...that is what I was able to do and I was able to receive the answers I needed :) I hope you all felt the same!

Its super weird having more than a year in the mission...on Thursday when I completed a year my district surprised me and sang to me and my DL made us lunch. It was fun :)

I also feel like the Lord has been helping us out a lot lately. This week we were able to receive a lot of references and find some less actives that we didn't know about. I am excited to see how things go with them!

I am super excited for this week because one of our investigators that we have been working with is going to get married and baptized and two more are going to get baptized as well. Please pray that everything goes well for them!

I love you all! Have a great week :)

Hna. Whittle

Hermana Whittle, Hermana Rodriguez, two other sister missionaries and a member. 

Una semana llena de adventura.....

August 18, 2014

Hey everyone!

SO this week was a little crazy. Last Monday night I was in my bed writing in my journal and I saw something leave our room into the kitchen so I got up to see what it was....it was a rat. Yeah, we totes had rats in our house. We knew that there were some living above us in the roof because we always heard them but this week was the first time they entered the house. So that night when I was trying to sleep I heard another one that knocked something over and then I saw it leave the bedroom...and I couldn't sleep. And then a few nights later my companion woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and she saw one crawling down the wall...and after that we couldn't sleep at all. And so we started sleeping with the lights on to keep them from entering. Needless to say I did not sleep all week. But the fumegator finally came on Saturday and put rat poison in our house and got rid of the ones that we had trapped under the sink...it was the worst. I couldn't stop thinking about the movie ratatouille all week....but everything is good now :)

Also this week was the fair here in Puerto Cortes! They did mini fairs in all the different communities. It was cool to see the street in front of our house full of little kiosks and stages and stuff. It also rained a TON this week and I think a lot of the activities were ruined because of it. But it was fun to have something different going on here.

So our investigator Maribel isn't going to be getting baptized soon :( She didn't go to church last Sunday because her husband didn't want her to. It makes me so sad when someone has the desire to accept the gospel and change and other people keep them from doing it...I know she will get baptized someday.

But on the other hand la familia Moncada is doing AWESOME! And we talked to them about their baptism and they wanted to change it to the 27th so that more of their family can come. They are so excited and so are we! Please pray that everything goes well with their baptism!!

Anyways, things are awesome here :) I love being a missionary here in Puerto Cortes, Honduras!! It is the best! I hope you are all doing well and that you have a great week!

Hermana Whittle