Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Week 41

Well well well this is already another week gone...that is crazy!! Time is going by so fast!!! This week was pretty good, it was a little slow because i got a really bad cold which sucked because it was the first time i have gotten sick on my mission. I'm still recovering a little bit but I'm definitely a lot better than i was. because i actually have a voice again! And I'm not having to take an hour nap once or twice during the day like i did for 3 days. We still went out every day and did stuff but the mornings were a little slow because i literally couldn't do anything. I'm just glad that it's passed.

Well as of right now we have no baptismal dates. We dropped the 5 investigators who had baptismal dates. It really sucks but oh well. it just means that there are other people who are ready and who need us to see them.

We had a lesson this week that I really liked. We are more sharing it right now with less actives and it's where we share the story of lehi's dream of the tree of life. We talk about the 3 different types of group who are in his dream. It's a really good lesson and we taught it for the first time this week. I can't wait to study it more and learning different ways to present it to the people we are teaching.

We've really been trying to focus on figuring out who of our investigators is ready and who really isn't and so we've been giving a ton of investigators a break. It really sucks sometimes but if it's what we have to do then that's what we will do so that we can really help the people who are actually ready. We've been giving a lot of people a break but we've also been blessed because we have been finding like crazy. We are just praying that some of these people will work out and they will really want to

listen to the message that we have to share.

Becoming a trainer was definitely something God wanted me to do at this time to help me develop certain things in my life so that i can become better. I hate being bold and I've had to be really bold and really stand up and be the trainer. it's been hard and i hate it but i mean the ccm is so different from real mission life and sometimes missionaries think what you learn from the ccm is all you need to know but really it's like a different world. So we've had to work on a lot of things but i know that God has given me this opportunity to let me grow and become even better in everything i do. I'm really hoping to keep growing from these experiences and to become the missionary that God would have me become. Because that is my goal to make the changes i need to in my life to become better and become the missionary i need to be.

A lot of our appointments cancelled this week but we were able to use that time to go contacting and knock some doors. We've had some miracles that have happened. yesterday (Sunday) was pretty interesting with contacting, we had a lot of people when we started a street who either weren't home, shut the door after opening, or told us they didn't want to hear anything that we had to say but as we kept going we found people who would be golden if they will just listen. We just need to go and see them again and really teach them the first lesson and then we will be able to see. But miracles really are happening in this area and i love it so much. I am so grateful for all the things that are happening right now. Yeah sometimes the situation sucks but that just gives time to grow and time to become better.

We had zone meeting on Friday and it was really good, we learned new ways to contact and new ways to start teaching people to really get to know them and to teach to their needs. It was really good and really insightful. I'm really looking forward to using the new tools that we learned and applying them into our daily teaching.

Most days we have food appointments, if someone doesn't sign up we call people and if not, yeah we will just eat something at home. but a lot of the time I'm not really hungry so I'll just eat something small. once in a while we go out but i hate eating out ever since i was with coronado so i try to avoid it as much as we can.

I will be mailing you something today for mothers day! I just have to finish putting it together! I can't wait to talk to you on Sunday! i can't believe it's already may it is so crazy!! We will be going over to the persons house around 7 my time and hopefully they will find a way to have 2 tablets or something but i will let you know what is going on when we get there. I'm so excited and i can't wait!!! It's going to be so great! Hopefully we'll have like an hour to talk :)

Yesterday at church we didn't have any investigators but we had 3 less active families show up...well now 2 because 1 of them is reactivated! Hopefully they will all continue to come back to church! We are so excited!!

I love you all so much! i hope you have a great week!!

XOXOXOXOXOXO