Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Meet the Mormons! Week 10

This week has been pretty good! We got to watch the movie Meet the Mormons it is coming out into theaters on October 11th. It was so good!! You should all definitely go and see it! I would tell you what it is about but I will make you go and see it yourself :) haha. I got to see Hermana Woodard twice this week! Once during the movie and the second time on Saturday at the women's conference. I loved women's conference, we got to the church at 430 and practiced our song. (the 22 hermanas in our stake put together the Efy medley in Spanish and we sang it) the first hour was eating dinner and the members worked on service..I had two dinners that night...Pork chops at a members house and then lasagna at the church. Then at 6 we had our own women's conference where we had people talk and share their testimony and we sang. Almost everyone in the room started crying. I have a video of it but I don't know if it will let me send it...it might be too big but i will try!! We got to watch conference in English which was awesome! During the last prayer the tv stopped working so we all just said amen. It was really funny. I loved how they said a lot on the temple but it's so sad because we can't go very often. I want to go to the temple so bad!! but we have to wait :( I loved president Uchtdorfs talk...like always. when they announced he was going to speaking everyone got so excited! I loved the little primary kids from Korea that sang. Oh so precious! Even the musical numbers from the choir were really good. I remembered last women's conference where we went to Chocolate moose after and got that really good dessert :) That was pretty awesome! Sorry you guys couldn't go to the church I hope the boys were good while you watched it! Did Avery like it?

I can't wait to see pictures of them in their costumes!!! that is so cute!!! Yeah on Halloween we have to be in our apartments by 6 so we will probably play some games and decorate the inside of our apartment, hang out with the other hermanas and make treats and watch church movies :D and hang out in our onesies ;)

Oh I hardly ever eat lunch. sometimes my breakfast is just a piece of toast, but I try not to really eat in the morning, 1. I'm never really hungry 2. if I eat I won't be hungry later. But, I know it's not good to miss a meal so I try to eat a little something when I first get up.

I am so excited to watch conference!! Yeah it will be at the church not sure which one will show it in English. I am so glad that i can watch it in English. As much as i love Spanish i am not ready to watch general conference or anything int hat matter in Spanish. i would probably only get a few words here and there, maybe next fall conference haha :)

In your letter last week, I got a little confused—you talked about H*** and E***, Are they investigators or inactives? If they’re investigators, how did you find them? They are investigators. We found them at the English class. We showed them the restoration dvd the other day and they loved it!! They are so awesome! We had tried calling them about an hour before our lesson and they didn't answer the phone. About ten minutes later they called us back and said they didn't answer because they were reading the Book of Mormon! that was so awesome! they always have so many wonderful questions. I can't wait till I can actual help answer questions instead of just teaching some principles. :D Later you talked about E***, are both of his parents members? Yes they have become reactivated in the time that I have been here. His baptism is coming up! Must be exciting? we are so excited! And so happy that we have them as our people to teach. The family is really awesome. E*** is so funny, we just need him to read his Book of Mormon! He is the silliest boy.

I liked your answers last week to the questions I wrote you so you get the same questions this week:

What was the funniest thing that happened this week?Hermana Carbajal was really worried about our miles this week and we were trying to figure out where the church building was we were meeting at for the movie and we were asking our district leader who then forwarded the text from the zone leader with the address and the city on the text as Sandy, Utah. Hermana Carbajal thought he had just sent it because he knew she was stressing about the miles, as a joke and so she wrote saying something along the lines of "Well I definitely don't have that many miles so looks like we can't go." and he replied "have faith, faith moves mountains" Then after laughing we replied with "well Texas Doesn't have any mountains so we can't have faith." and then the last thing he said was "looked like someone already used all the faith in Texas to move all the mountains" It was really funny but basically the zone leader had just for some reason put the wrong address on it.

What was the most random thing that happened? um....a drunk guy we contacted kissed our hand. We shake peoples hand when we meet them (if they are guys, if they are women we do the hug and kiss on the cheek thing) It was awkward. After that we quickly said goodbye and left.

What was the most spiritual thing that happened?.When we sang The efy medley in Spanish on Saturday. It was so amazing and the spirit was there. So many people came up to us and said it sounded like angels were singing with us.

What was your happiest moment this week? When we met G*** who is J*** wife (who is a less active who wants to become active and get sealed in the temple) and we taught her for the first time this week and the whole lesson was really good and when we gave her a Book of Mormon she was really happy and gave us both a big hug. :D

Tell me about the divisions (or whatever the heck they’re called) Where did you go, who were you with, what did you do?etc. know me..tell me everything :) We call them exchanges. So far I really am not a big fan of them because I would rather be in my own area and I almost had to miss teaching H*** and E*** but we met early since Hermana C and Koch were in the area and so I got to go. And they really are just kind of a pain. Yeah it's fun to get to know the other sisters but I'm still trying to get used to our area and the only reason we went on one is because we had gone to the mission office and had picked up the letters for that companionship and Hermana Koch really wanted her letters. If I have any funner exchanges I will let you know :)

On Thursday I had to teach a lesson by myself. We went out with one of the members and earlier that day while planning we had decided to share a scripture on faith and Hermana C had me choose the scripture and then I had to present it to the Hermana. Hermana C hardly said anything at all. The hermana was so proud of me with my Spanish and when we were asking who would say the closing prayer she told Hermana Carbajal to since she had made me teach the lesson by myself.

So guess what?? I am going to start teaching piano to one of the hermanas in our ward. I love her kids so much. She has four kids and they remind me of my siblings. They are so crazy! One of them is a month older than Cole. She has a son named L*** and i love him so much, he always comes up and hugs us and the other day he came up and hugged me and said "thank you so much for being willing to teach us the piano I'm so grateful!" aww!! He is the sweetest most loving boy. They are probably my favorite family so far in the ward.

It's really fun meeting people from all of the world. i have met people from Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and so many other places. It's so much fun to find out where people are from!

Love you!!!!

We found a big chair at the mall last Monday :D it is huge!!

These are the two other Hermanas in our district. The reddish hair is Hermana Hill and the dark hair is Hermana Fitzgerald

After we were done with our district meeting we made lunch. Hermana Hill's mom went to France and sent her this sauce stuff and so we made pasta! It was really good :)