Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Over the Hump week 40

Well...this transfer is half way done...i can not believe that we are already in week 4!!! It seriously is so crazy! The fact that it's may this week is even crazier! I remember when it was January! it feels like it was just yesterday! Time is going by so fast!

Going to the temple was so great! We went to an English session and it was really good. Going to the temple was definitely needed for all of us. It's always really nice to be able to go to the temple. I wish we could go more often but...it tis what it tis.

Yes i got the package Thank you so much! When we are at the house i literally don't let go of the camel. haha i constantly have it with me and i sleep with it at night...i feel like such a little kid but i love it so much! and i love the shirt too! Yeah the camel analogy is really great! I have it on the wall next to my desk. I loved the necklace that Coley gave to me. I made it into a bracelet and i don't take it off :) Haha the other day one of the elders asked me why i had a broken heart on my bracelet and before i could explain one of the elders said "she got dear john'ed and she's so sad she wears a broken heart on her wrist." haha he's such a goof ball. I explained that it was a gift from my little brother.

That's so awesome that Ava invited her friend! What did her friend think? That is so good that she wants to help her friend learn more!

This week was pretty good. Some of the highlights were

we taught the restoration to three of our investigators and they really liked it. They are really catholic but slowly their hearts are softening and we are hoping to extend a baptismal invitation this week. They have a family member who is a member and she comes with us to ever lesson. The next thing we have to teach them es el evangelio de jesucristo. We are hoping to really focus on the way Christ was baptized. 1. old enough to make the decision 2. went to john the baptist who had the authority 3. he was fully immersed. We are really excited and we know good things are going to happen with them!

One of our investigators who is related the the ones above got told that she might only have a month or two left to live. she has cancer and the doctor has taken her off chemotherapy we are hoping to be able to help keep her spirits up. but it's going to be really sad if she passes away soon.

We had a really good lesson with a former investigator who Rupp and i could never get a hold of but we've recently started visiting them again and are really excited to start teaching them.

We found this really cute family tracking, the first lesson we taught was the plan of salvation and we completely bombed it. They even told us at the end that they were confused. So a few days later when i was on the exchange with carbajal we retaught the plan of salvation and they were asking amazing questions like "is the book of mormon like the bible?" "at what age should you be baptized?" they accepted to be baptized but we have not put a date on it. We are seeing them in a few days and we are hoping for good things with this family!

We had interviews on Thursday. on my nine months! and they went really well. The sisters all got our own special training on weekly planning. Haha the elders weren't invited. Interviews were really good i was able to ask for some advice on how to be a better missionary/trainer. \

So also on my 9 months besides sending a balloon up i also burned a skirt...haha i have a skirt and the zipper broke and the elders gave me one of their lighters and so we went out on our porch and i burned my skirt and then ripped it! It was pretty funny! I have a video of it! Can't wait to send it to you!

Went on a exchange this week and it really was inspired. I went with Hermana Carbajal who originally was planning on going with Bohn and i would go with gayler but then she decided that she needed to go with me. It will be the last exchange i go on with carbajal. It made me a little sad but it will be ok. But she was able to talk to me a lot about things that were going on and i was able to seek advice since this is my first time training. The one thing that has been hard is just when it seems that everything has to be done perfectly and so I've just been stressed out a little bit and we haven't had that good of communicating with each other. But Sunday night we were talking and the spirit guided it into a conversation where i was able to express my concerns and tell her the things i needed to say. Some missionaries just come out here and think they know how to do everything and don't need to be trained and that was starting the happen. but we've talked about it and have worked things out. and i felt so much better. Like a load was lifted off my shoulders. We had ward conference on Sunday and that was really good. We had 2 less actives come! One stayed just for sacrament and then the other one came to all 3 hours for the first time in a long time!

Last night we were talking and just laughing sitting on our beds before we went to sleep and i told her that it was her fault that i was in a trio in the ccm. we could have been companions if she had come out when she was supposed to. And then after talking and just laughing about it we both agreed that we were supposed to be companions now in this time and that this time will benefit the two of us more here than it would have if we had been companions in the ccm.

How are your investigators? They are good. we lost 2 of our 5 bap dates. 1 told us she would never be Mormon because she has a ton of hard feelings towards people in the church and then the second person moved last weekend. And then the other family with bap dates are avoiding us but we are going to go try to see them tonight and see whats up. But we have some really great people that we are working with. Every Saturday night to Sunday after church we fast and we've seen so many miracles from it. Every night we write a miracle and put it up on our wall. We've made our own little miracle wall.

Tell me about when you felt the spirit the strongest this week. When we were teaching three of our investigators about the restoration. It went really good and the spirit was definitely there. We hope that they could feel it too. It was just a good feeling in my heart that i can't explain. but i know that it was the spirit.

What made you laugh this week? haha last night we were both really tired but also not tired and so we moved our beds out to the living room and sat on them and just talked and laughed. I don't even remember what we talked about.

How were your dinner appointments? They were pretty good...we didn't have too many this week but we didn't eat any weird food thank goodness. haha

Did anything totally random happen to you this week? hmmm....i really can't think of any. The whole week was really good though!

Tell me about when you felt Heavenly Father’s love this week. Last night after we got done talking i just felt that i had done what was right and that things were going to be a lot better. I felt so much better mentally, spiritually and emotionally. After we finished talking and we prayed it was all good.

Seriously Carbajal reminds me of you. when we were waiting at the gas station for the other hermanas to come i laid my head on her stomach and she played with my hair and we just talked until they showed up. reminded me of all the times you and i talk and you play with my hair :)

I really love being a trainer and being a missionary! Seriously being on this mission has changed my life and has blessed me in so many ways that i couldn't have ever imagined. My testimony has grown so much and i am so grateful for all the experiences good and bad that i have had. From every experience i have learned something and i have grown from it. I can never thank God enough or serve him enough to repay him for all that he has done for me and my family since i have been here on my mission. I know that this church is true and i know that i am meant to be here at this time in my life. I am so excited to see what more awaits me here on this mission and i hope to be able to help other people as i continue through this mission. I've met so many people who have changed my life and i am forever grateful for everyone i have met. My heart is just so full of gratitude and i can't even begin to express the way i feel.

i love you!! I hope you have a great week!!!