Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Week 14--She ate pig skin!

Well first of all yesterday was the worst with food! We didn't really eat breakfast before our 8 week training (tell you more on Monday) and then we got home a little after 2 and we were hungry so we heated up so left overs and then we called to confirm our dinner appointment and she asked if we could come at three so we went and we ate sandwiches with her and then we went to our next appointment at 430 and these investigators ended up feeding us too and hermana C told me at the end that the rubbery stuff was pig skin. I didn't eat all of what ever it was but I ate probably half of it. We were so full last night and felt awful ugh eating three times in three hours was awful. But yeah no I wouldn't eat pig skin voluntarily but half the time i don't even know what I am eating because the name is in Spanish and I don't find out till after we leave and she tells me.

We had the primary program in our ward on Sunday too! It was so weird because they didn't even take up all the choir seats. It made me miss my ward where the kids fill up all the choir seats and then a couple rows in the benches! Hermana C and I were asked to sit up with the kids. She was able to sit with some but there wasn't enough for me to sit on a row with so I sat behind the bishop on a row with no kids. It was kind of funny. Primary programs are the best!

H*** AND E*** CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!! They came to church last Sunday and they loved it so much! They stayed for all the classes! And Hugo participated a TON in Sunday school! We were so happy when they walked into the chapel. They even sent us a text after church later in the day telling us how much they loved it!

Oh so tonight we are kind of doing something a little scary.

We are teaching H*** y E*** about chastity and basically telling them they need to get married so they can be baptized. Hermana is really worried that they will get offended but at this point if they have no desire to get married ever then there really isn't much we can do with them. It's the only way we can help them progress. So hopefully we can meet with them tonight they weren't sure if they would be home and we can't call them till six...hopefully we can!

On Friday we had a Halloween party and we had SOOO many investigators show up! I think we might of had more investigators than members! The investigators brought their kids and their friends and man it was just so awesome! We made the cutest cupcakes in the world! We cut the marshmallows in half and then put frosting and made little ghost on top of the cup cakes! Everyone had a great time! and H*** y E*** came and they loved it and all the investigators that came loved it to! It was really awesome to see all those people and all of us missionaries dressed up and everyone loved it! (pictures to come)

How is the new Hermana in your district? Are the other hermanas in your district serving in your same ward? She is really good, this is her last transfer and so she goes home in December. Yeah all six of us serve in the same ward, but our district also grew and so we have two other hermanas and two other elders but no they don't serve in our ward they serve in a Conroe ward. But it's really good! it's kind of harder having a bigger district but oh well we will work with it!

This week you're going to reach a milestone of being out 100 days! On Halloween you'll hit 100 days!!! In some ways this is going really fast for me, in other ways it's slow! Wow...100 days that's crazy!! It's been really fast for me I think, some days are really slow but the weeks go by really fast. I mean I can't believe that tomorrow is Friday!

What is going on with your investigators? Are you teaching anyone new? Any word on how J** is doing? Well G*** has a baptism date for the 22 of November but we aren't sure about that right now because we cant even get them to come to church! Well we just got a ton of new area with investigators from the other missionaries in our district and so now we are teaching them and we've only met three of them so far and they weren't really lessons they were mainly just us getting to know them and figuring out where they are at. The Sisters that we gave J*** to told us about a week ago that he has canceled all their appointments so far...it really sucks but maybe it's just not his time or maybe he does have a lot of stuff going on in his life and he doesn't have time. But it's really sad but there's really not much we can do about it.

The past week was pretty great. On Saturday we did a service project. We went with the red cross and installed smoke/fire detectors in people's houses. They had a Spanish missionary in each group and I was the Spanish one for my group. Luckily we didn't meet anyone that didn't speak English. But it was really fun and then we got stuck in traffic for like 3 hours when we were heading back to the Woodlands! We had the elders in the car with us and so we were able to talk with them. And man our elders are so funny we love them so much! Elder Perez loves to be sarcastic and Elder Christensen is funny too!

I have the best district in all the districts! Anyways that was all last week! and I'll wait till Monday to tell you about this week! :D