Hermana White

Greetings!

This week really flew by! I can't believe it's already Monday again.

My companion had changes this week so Wednesday I got Hermana Garcia, she's from Guatemala and she's great! She's in her last change of the mission, and I've already learned a lot from her. I'm lucky because she's not baggy yet (ready to go home) and she is gung ho for working hard here in our area.

Saturday we had a conference in Teguc with Elder Nelson and Elder Duncan, our area authority. It was super cool, and we learned a lot. We had to be at the chapel at 5 AM to catch the bus that was taking all the missionaries in the south. Our alarm didn't go off and so we got up at 5! It was crazy, we prayed a lot and grabbed our things and luckily made it to the bus. Hermana Garcia directed the music and so us both sat up on the stand. We had all the Tegucigalpa and Comayaguela missionaries there and also it was broadcast to the other Honduras missions and some other missions across Central America.

It was really neat the specific direction that we were given, and how we can be better missionaries and really help the people here. We were taught to choose to have joy in our work, work with ward leaders, and Elder Nelson gave us specific topics from the Guide to Study the Scriptures (Kind of like the topical guide and bible dictionary, its included in all the Libros de Mormon) to study and teach to strengthen less active and investigator families to get to the temple. He stressed the importance of having the goal of temple covenants, not only getting people baptized. We all got to shake his hand and he read our names and looked into our eyes and thanked us for our decision to serve and it was so special. I could really feel the love of the Savior in his presence.

Also I spoke in Sacrament meeting yesterday. That was interesting, I was worried I wouldn't have enough Spanish words for a 15 minute talk. But I made it through! I only hope they were able to understand me and learn a little about the Sacrament, which I spoke on. I used a lot of Sister Esplin's talk from November 2014 conference, which I highly recommend reading!

This week we have a baptism scheduled for Saturday! Our joven [young man], Jose, is 18 and is really cool. It's been fun to see how the youth in our branch have befriended him and made him feel part of it all. He always has super good questions about what we can teach him more and he's expressed a desire to serve a mission! It took him a while to make a decision to be baptized but ever since he has been really anxious to learn more.

Well, that's pretty much it. I shall now send un monton de fotos [lots of pictures].

Have a lovely week!