Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Texas A&M Week 44

I have been isolated! haha i am in Bryan which is about 2 hours away from the rest of the mission. It's so pretty over here. And there are hills while driving! I was so happy when we were driving up here. It's so green and so pretty! I'm sad that most of the wild flowers have died...about a month ago they found a field of blue bonnets but they are all gone now :( sad day. Anyways I am trying to learn 100 new names and 100 new stories and I have to learn a whole new area in 6 weeks...that will be fun. I know that as long as i try my best everything will be ok.

My companion is on her last transfer and she is STL so we will get to go on exchanges a couple times this transfers, I think there is only 1 other set of sisters in our zone. We have a really cute apartment and it's sweet and it's by a swamp and we found fireflies the other night! It was the coolest thing ever! We ran into the apartment and grabbed a jar but when we came back out they were on the other side of the swamp.

We go walking or we stretch most of the mornings, but on Thursdays there is a lady in the English ward who basically does a boot camp and oh my, it is so crazy! I was so sore the next day. But it was a ton of fun.

We had a missionary farewell on Tuesday night and we had English class. So on Thursday we had to save the elders because they went with a member to a lesson but the member accidentally locked the keys in his car so we were going to drive the 3 of them to the elders car and then have them wait for the member's friend to help out but then she was on her way when we got there we tried to help them unlock the door but we did not win.

We met 2 baptist who were super nice on Thursday night and they had had some bad impressions from missionaries before but they said that we helped clear up those impressions. Friday we had district meeting and i made crepes for my district, it was super fun. I'm back with the same district leader I had for my first transfer in oakcrest and I have my same zone leader that i had for a little while when i was in my last zone. So it's pretty fun. I'm pretty sure we hit a bird the other day while driving. It was super sad. It might have barely missed our car but I'm pretty sure that we hit it.

Also on Saturday we had an open house, we had a couple non members show up and we did a tour of the church and then we ate dinner. There was a lot of support from the members. It was really great. We went into the relief society room, the primary room and then by the baptismal font and we ended in the chapel. I played a hymn and everyone sang a song. It was so good. So i guess our ward is doing an integration thing and we are combining with the English ward slowly. They are going to start by combining primary and Sunday school/ ym, yw, relief society and priesthood with the English and then we will still have our separate sacrament meetings. It's really cool because we get to teach the people who speak English! we don't' have to give them to the English missionaries. That makes me super happy because we found a really great person the other day but he speaks more English than Spanish. But anyways it will be interesting to see how this all goes down. They are announcing it on Sunday during ward conference.

Our bishop looks like voldemort with a nose haha, he is this old white man and he made a face the other day that reminding me of voldemort haha. anyways he tells me I'm an answer to fasting and many prayers because they haven't had anyone to play the piano for a long time and now they have me to play for them. So I'll be playing almost every Sunday in sacrament meeting and in primary. It's really fun. We had the most other lessons that I've ever had in one week. We had 20 other lessons! I'm learning a lot on how to be better at contacting and stuff like that. it's really neat. Anyways i have to write the mission president and we have a lesson in about 25 minutes so I'll just wrap this up. It's going to be a good transfer. I'm super excited! We have made a promise to have 1 baptism for McOmbers last transfer! I'll take more fun pictures this week!

If we lose power I'm sorry! Some elders just came and told us it looks super nasty. I guess there are flood and tornado warnings in our area.

So i just wanted to share a quick little miracle with you guys that happened to me this week. It happened on Saturday. It had been a little bit of a rough day and i was just getting frustrated because there is so much that i want to do and i just feel that when i feel lower that i can't do it. So as i was backing up our car and i thought in my head "god if you're really there let me find a penny on the ground." (little side note. I have started a collection of coins that i find on the street. You find so many. I at least get 1 once a day and it's always been just a little "keep on going" sign for me) but anyways i backed up the car and i looked over my right shoulder and there half buried in the dirt was a penny. the edges were broken off a little bit so it was a broken penny but it was still a penny. It literally took my breath away. I'm going to keep that penny for ever. God is always looking out for us. Even though a penny really isn't a big deal it made a difference for me. I will always be grateful for that penny that i found.

and just to let y'all know my address has changed and i love letters ;) so i mean if you want to write here it is 4475 Carter Creek Parkway #714 Bryan, Tx 77802

I love you all and i hope ya'll have a great week!