Broken Foot!

Hey team, so this week was an interesting one, that's for sure. First of all, I low key broke my foot and I am sitting here typing with a bright blue cast on my foot up to my knee. Some of you are probably thinking *or laughing to yourself because this is a typical jazzie move* "How did this girl break her foot, AGAIN? and in Honduras"Well...I wish that I had a cool story that I was running down the mountains in the jungle, and a giant dog bit my leg or something...but nope. The truth is that I was just walking and singing down a hill, my foot got trapped and I fell right down. My whole district was arround me and I was singing, crying, screaming and laughing at the same time. Some elders got it on film, so stay tuned for the movie.

The important thing to know is that I'm still alive. Im on bed rest for the week and ohhh so bored. So if we're friends, there's a high chance that you might get a letter from me in the next month haha. I have read half of the New Testament and my goal is to finish it this week. Added prayers and love would be much appreciated though. I need Team Woods to help me get through this one.

But I was thinking this week, because I've had a lot of time to do such a thing but the scripture came into my mind. I know that I have to learn something and my cute comp as well, but we can get through this!

"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them." Ether 12:27

Oh my gosh, how could I forget...we had a baptism yesterday!! I had to bed for permission to leave my house (I seriously feel like Rapunzel trapped in her tower....just with the detail that my hairis not 1000 feet long, but a girl can dream) anyway I made it down my flight of 50 stairs in the rain..that was quite the adventure, but I made it into a car and off we went. His name is Carlos, he is my other bestfriend! And casually him and Enrique are both great friends, i love that!

Well, I gotta run. Not really.....I gotta lay down and rest til I feel better haha but I love you all. Thanks for the support and please send hugs and loves this way so I can get better and get back to work. Until next week my friends!

Hermana Woods!

Hermana Arango from Panama

Oct 6, 2013

hey team! How's it goin? This week seriously flew by I really don't even know what to say. First of all, I just love my little comp, she is so precious! I sent a pic of her, Hermana Arango from panama. We are such a great team and I am so happy to have the opportunity to train her. Really, she's been teaching me a lot, so it's great!

So we all loved conference didn't we? I think it was the 2nd time that I didnt fall asleep the whole time..cause I wasn't home in my Pjs watching it, we were at the stake center. it was sweet though because I watched half of it in Spanish and actually understood it! That was a miracle. I really felt the spirit so strongly and the love and support that I have from everyone. This really is the Church of our Heavenly Father and I seriously want to shout it from the mountaintops! Which I totally could do because I still live in the mountains...haha

So carlos didnt get baptized this week because he had to work on Sunday, but that's okay. It's all in the Lord's timing, right? Right. Thats one thing that Ive really learned here. We need to do everything we can, but everything will happen in the way that God wants. 

Okay, the ciber is closing so I gotta run, this week was great! The church is still so true and I love being a missionary :) Thanks for all the support, love you all!! 

Hermana Woods :)

Workin Livin Teachin Preachin

Sept 29, 2014

Hey team, hows it goin?? This week was a good one, and it went by so fast I don't really remember what went on! We are just workin, livin, teachin and preachin as missionaries do. I love being a misisonary and I love my cute little comp, she is literally 1/3 the size of me, but she's got a big heart and is already such a great missionary. Shes also sooo funny, so we make a good team. We decided to just be super bold when we teach so we don't waste any time and we teach with power and authority. Its fun! 

So this past Monday we had a sleepover with all of the hermanas that are here in the city, it was so much fun! We ate Cafe Rio chicken and learned all about motherhood and it was just the best. I wore my super man onsie and that was a hit! everyone was yelling superrrrrhermana!!! haha but my camera died so you'll have to wait for pics until next week :( I know that everyone thinks that their missions are the best, but I really think that this one is the best! 

We were with Enrique the other night and it started to rain, but we had to run to a meeting at the church...Enrique said a prayer to close that it wouldnt rain and that we wouldnt get wet at all...and it worked!!! It seriously stopped raining the second we left his house, til we walked into the church. That guy is the perfect example of faith, it was sweet! 

We have another baptism this week :) His name is Carlos and he's another Senor. He was golden and so ready for baptism and to change before we even taked to him. He is so excited and will be baptized inbetween conference sessions. So remember, to watch General Conference! And note to my family...stay awake because its not just a time to take naps ;) haha jk if i was home I would def be in my Pjs watching and napping...but conference here is like Christmas so we are so pumped!

Gotta run, we're out of money and cant afford more minutes on the computer haha  thats the mission life. Love you!

Be happy. Be fletch 

love, Hermana Woods 

ps fletch just means obedient haha that's my new motto! Ser fletch, ser feliz :)

I dont have pics with my new comp, but heres my old district ad the lady that cooks for us every Thursday a MOUNTAIN of food haha Mama Tomy

Newest Trainer In Town!

Announcement: You are reading a letter from the newest trainer in town wooh hoo!! It is such a responsibility and let me first say I feel like I grew up 5 years over night. Everyone says that when you are training you are like a mom or a dad, hence herMAMA woods haah I have a daughter!! and Hermana Rodriguez is a Grandma wooh hoo!! 

My new comp is from Panama and she's 21. I sorta feel like a baby, but at the same time I feel older because I am the one in charge! I am so thankful and humbled to be able to help teach her how to be a missionary, this is the greatest work in the world!

Saying goodbye to Hermana Rodriguez was really hard and all of our converts have been a mess this week. Marta didn't want to go to church this week without Rodriguez, so we made pancakes with them Sunday morning so they would go and it was really fun! Then yesterday we went over to have a family night and we played games and laughed our heads off for a while. I taught them how to play the cup song, and we were singing "Count your blessings" and playing with the cups, it was sweet! I also taught them English and we learned "heres the church, heres the steeple, open the doors and see all the people" with hand signs included, I just love this family! I also promised them a trip to disneyland one day...I need to get a job pronto when I get home haha. 

One funny thing that happened this week was that this lady said that she couldn't pray because she ate salt when she was little and it messed up her tongue...what an interesting excuse, that was a new one. Then one night we were walking home superrr tired one night and my comp is super serious and I wanted to make her laugh so I started singing "Dar nos fuerza...dar nos fuerza" y Jesus es mi luuuzzzz" Which are hymns that mean "Give us strength· and "Jesus is my light· Because we were tired and it was dark haha good times good times. We also don't have food so we've been eating oatmeal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Gotta love the missionary life!

Thanks for all the love and support and the prayers, they are working! I wouldn't be able to be as calm as I am without them. Love you all!!

Hermana Woods :)

4 Baptisms!

Yes, you read right...4 baptisms!!! We thought that just Marta was going to be baptized but all 3 of her kids were baptized and confirmed too!! They all decided that THIS was the time for them and they made it into the waters. It was so amazing to see all of the events and miracles adding up to this day and time, but to see them all dressed in white as a family made everything worth it. All of the hard days, tears, disappointments, bruised knees and failures make up for the ONE MIRACLE!! I am seriously sooooo happy I can't even describe it. Thank you for the added prayers, because with the Lord we really pulled off a miracle!! WOOH HOO!!

We also had Zone Conference this week and it was sweet! The area President Duncan came and trained us. He's over all of Central America and the spirit was so strong, we really learned a lot! The best part is that I got to see my CCM comp Hermana Johnson, after 4 months it was so great to be together again! I also got super pumped for General Conference coming up so soon, I can't believe it because the last conference I was in the CCM...time is flying!!

We have changes on Wednesday and I think Hermana Rodriguez and I will be getting changed and we are super sad because we make a good team! Bolivians are so sweet! We will see what happens...will I stay in this area, be a trainer...go 4 hours to the area in the south? who knows?! stay tuned...

Today is the day of independence in Honduras wooh hoo!! Its like the 4th of July only wayyy crazier! The streets are insane and there aren't busses working today so we had to walk in the middle of the parades the opposite way...talk about a fish swimming upstream! I took pics of all of my friends though and I felt like a crazy mom with a camera haha I LOVE HONDURAS!! 

I am seriously so happy here, time is flying and life is so so good!! I hope you are all doing well and know that I love you all. Thanks for the support, I have the best team behind my back!

Hermana Woods :)

pics: baptism!! (they didn't like to take pics so I literally only have 1...and I promise that they were actually really happy!! haha) oh yeah, they have Dia de Ninos here. Like mothers day but its for kids!! so we celebrated because of course I'm still a little girl :) and my little Hermana Johns!

Just the happiest little missionary girl

Hellooooo everyone!! Just the happiest little missionary girl here to tell you some awesome news. MARTA IS FOR SURE GETTING BAPTIZED SATURDAY!! We have everything planned and she is so so set on it. We had so many amazing experiences with her this week, it really is amazing to see how the Lord works in different ways. Also how he really prepares people. We are SO excited!!

So we heard some news in our town that this Senor (member named Virgilio) and this other local Elderly lady were going to get married and this is supposedly the wedding of the year!! The lady told us and we were't quick to believe so we went right to the source and asked our old pal Virgilio. He said "No way will I marry that crazy, she doesn't know how to do laundry and I deserve to marry a beautiful young, hard working lady like you Hermanita Woods"....so awkward, It was seriously so funny and Rodruguez and I busted up laughing and I explained why I couldn't marry him..because Im a missionary!! Perfect response haha. Then when I was leaving, he whispered to me "It's okay Hermana, I know the Lord will allow us to get married one day" hahaha gotta love Virgilio.

In other news, I ate about 30 tortillas this week...so many! My comp hates tortillas so I always eat hers and in trade make her eat my tomatoes and green things- haha its a good trade I tell ya. The other day we cooked empanadas with a lady in our ward and then we took some to-go. But she put them in a giant leaf! yes, a literal leaf from a tree to take for the road...who does that?! Honduras "No regrets, No limits"

Gotta run, we have things to do and Pday always flysss by. Love you all, thanks for the updates. Have a great week and please pray for Marta. Sorry I don't have pics this week, I will have a TON next week. Fin. Adios!!

hermana Woods!

Limes and Lizards

make lemonade!! This week again was sooo rainyyyy. Every single day. and we live in the mountains so we are always in the clouds. My comp thinks its fog..but I think that we are actually in the clouds..its more fun to think that way! The other day was pouring and literally no one wanted to let us in so we decided to pick limes off of someones tree. My comp goes "hermana we cant take that, its stealing." I said "hey, if they dont want to open the door for us, the least they can do is give us a lime..and even then its a tree that God made so its fine" We started cracking up, ate the limes and went on with the day. I tried to make lemonade with the rain water..but it just didnt work out too well haha. 

this week was good! We lost a lot of investigators so we're really back to square one. Marta didnt go to church this week because she didnt have shoes and her sisters needed her help. hopefully next time! I seriously love her and her family so much, they have such potential! 

So we made it a goal to stay out every day until 9 , even if its raining so we're more obedient and hopefully we'll find more people. The other day we were walking, and walking, and walking until we just about couldn't walk any more and we went to a house with these two girls, Cecelia and Celeste, they're 9 and 11 but so mature, so they're our investigators. Anyway, we were all super tired and slap happy so we decided to sing a christmas song as the opening hymn..later started sharing scripture but it turned out that the girl wanted to talk about Santa Clause instead because she said that she didnt believe..I thought "how could this be real..shes only 9..we haev got to fix this!" SO I started explaing how santa is real and she needs to have faith. Then I tried comparing faith in santa to God... and how he wants to bless us with spiritual gifts..and he brings happiness..but that didnt really go anywhere. Then my comp siad if santa is real, minions are too! and there went the lesson haha it was great. 

Hey, tomorrow I complete 5 months, and my comp 11! time is going by so fast. But I love the mission, its super great! thanks for all the love and support. Until next week!

con amor, Hermana Woods!

pics: my favorite little puppies and my lizard friend that I met today!