Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: 8 Months! Week 35

I'm so glad that you guys got my package!! And i'm glad that you guys liked it all! I was thinking about you guys and wanted to send you a little surprise! and i'm glad you liked my videos! I already have some funny ones to send to you next time. If you want with the videos you can delete them or you can just put them onto your computer that way we never run out of room! I enjoy sending the videos!!

Sounds like a really great week! I am so happy that everything is going well!! I hope things continue to go well!

This week was pretty good, the weather got really crazy, it rained really really hard one day. we were outside for like two minutes because we had to run into a store and we were soaked! i'll send a picture of it! Driving was a joke haha.

On monday after we emailed we went to the church and played sports with our district. Some how i managed to beat everyone in speed during one of the games. It had to have been luck because i was the second one out the next round. We played kickball and soccer. I tripped haha and i have a really nice bruise on my knee. It used to hurt to just kneel down which is hard because we are on our knees a lot but now it doesn't hurt anymore.

On tuesday, We finally taught the restoration to one of our investigators. We bascially skimmed a lot of it and then just watched the restoration video. if we had tried to teach it any more we never would have taught it. SHE LIKES TO TALK!! we went to the store and bought things to make crepes and then we found a place that sells pupusas and we each bought one. They were so good!

Correlation ended up getting cancelled and so we just took pictures of all the st. patrick day stuff. Then rupp and i went and got little ceasers pizza and then we took our mattresses outside and we slept on our balcony! It was probably the best i had slept in a long time haha we both were out. Which is crazy because we live in front of a really busy road and a fire station.

On wednesday about 5 minutes after we took our stuff inside it started raining. Good thing we moved our stuff! We will have to sleep outside again sometime! That was so much fun! Nothing else big happened on wednesday. it was a chill day. we did a lot of contacting. It was hermana Rupp's nine months!

Thursday we just visited a lot of people, most of our appointments cancelled. And we ate twice in a row which was fun. Luckily the second house we went to both of them are returned missionaries so they told us if we were full and didn't want to eat more then we didn't have to. They told us about mexico and how the place they used to live turned really dangerous. Made me really grateful to live in the united states.

On friday we had district meeting and then after that we went to one of our investigators house with the elders and the elders gave the two of them a blessing. (they both have cancer) and it was a really good expiernece. We then saw one of our less actives and this less active just always seems mad and upset about something and it's always really awkward to go to her house but with this visit we felt that it was really good. She was asking us about our families and asking us what we like and by the time we left we both felt really good.

On Saturday we spent basically all day at hermano morales house. We went to see how he was and then after a couple hours we had to go run and do something, he told us to come back and we could eat with him so we did and we basically spent until 930 there. He is the sweetest old man! I love him so much!

Church was pretty good, no one ended up being home and so we didn't have any appointments. It was a pretty good day though. We tried to visit a less active and she told us to not come back...hopefully one day she'll open her heart again.

Today as a district we were going to go miniature golf but we realized it was farther than we thought, then we were going to go bowling but they didn't have any lanes open until later because they had something going on, so we just went to the park and hung out and played some games, then we went to chick fil a and we ate then these two girls came up to us and said "i bought you all shakes!" she had just gotten back from her mission two weeks ago from Brazil and bought us all shakes :) it was so nice

We received some really great referrals this week and some of them seem really promising! So we hopefully will pick us some more people to teach!

Oh this week hermana Rupp and I (on different nights) both had dreams where we went to visit the same investigator and it ended with us yelling at each other and fighting with each other. Haha hopefully that doesn't happen...who knows when we will see them next. they haven't been answering our texts so we will see!

I can't believe this transfer is almost over! I swear it just started! March is almost over! My 8 months is today! I'm almost at 9 months! Half way through my mission! That is so crazy to me! I love being a missionary!!

I love this gospel with all my heart and i know that this church is the true church of Jesus Christ. That Joseph smith was called as a prophet by God to restore his church. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that he died for each and every one of us. He didn't just die for our sins but he died for everything that we will ever feel. All the sadness, trials, temptations, the happiness, the stressfulness of life. Everything. That paper cut you got the other day or that time you stubbed your toe into the wall. The heart break of saying goodbye. Everything. Christ felt it all when he suffered in Gethsemane and on the cross. I know that he died for us. But it doesn't end at his death. He rose, and he still lives. After three days of being in the tomb he arose and walked again. He loves each and everyone of us more than we can ever imagine.