Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Amazing Week---Week 47

How do you like having an i-pad? It's been really great. It's a great tool when we are contacting to be able to share a quick video, or if the investigator or member doesn't have that much time we can just pull up a video that talks about what we were going to talk about. It's also fun because when we e

Where do you go to find wi-fi? So it's mainly when we are at the church that i see your emails. It's fun to get them. :) What other rules are there with your iPad? Pretty much the basic, if we get any apps we have to call president and ask him, we only use them if we have a purpose to use them, there are a ton of rules haha

This week was seriously so great! we had so many lessons and talked to so many people! We almost reached our goals so many times. So because we are the only Spanish sisters up in this area for at least an hour I got to go to Houston with Hermana McOmber for a Spanish Leadership training :) It was sooo good, i would love to be an STL one day just to go to those types of meetings. I learned so much and it seriously was the best. District meeting was pretty fun this week. Before hand we all got together and did language study together. There is a fun app on the iPad that we are allowed to get that is a good way for us to study Spanish. Thing that sucks is that it only works with internet :P But I've learned so many new words from it! Simple words that i never thought i should know!

So the story of Alex, the guy in the picture he was a really cool miracle. Our appointments cancelled and we were walking around this apartment complex and she asked me if we should knock for a half hour or go visit someone and i felt that we should knock and she asked me where and i pointed to the apartments that we were about to pass and so we went upstairs and found this guy. We taught him the entire restoration and it was such a good lesson. He loved it and he agreed with everything that we said. Hopefully we will see him again.

Saturday we had a really interesting lesson with someone we contacted in to. She lives with her sister and her parents are visiting from Mexico, first we thought "oh great more people to know and to teach!" boy were we wrong...The dad is deaf and because he is deaf he doesn't stop talking. And he talks so loud. He basically yells. We tried to just teach about faith and it didn't work, it got to the point where i was paying attention to the dad and McOmber was trying to teach the three others. The other three wouldn't help us at all they would ignore us and the dad and just do their own things. We were like "really! we've been trying to teach you something and your not paying attention" The dad is so catholic and started singing his songs and asking us all these questions about the mass and the prayers and got mad when we didn't know. Her kids were screaming and throwing themselves on the floor and it was crazy. Overall we learned that next time we go to teach her we are teaching her outside away from the rest of them so that we can actually share something. So that was really stressful, i had a headache afterwards and so we went to this really good salad places called Salata and we ate salad. Then we weekly planned and it was super good and we bought shakes afterwards from dairy queen.

We had temple tours on Sunday and it was amazing! We were walking to the back and i saw Monica and her family! and then i saw Manuel! and then i saw Hugo and Edilma! I almost had a heart attack! I found people from my ward from oakcrest, remember the investigator from oakcrest who gave me her shirt? she came! It was so great seeing so many people.

I got sad news this week Irma, my investigator from oakcrest the one who had cancer? she died last weekend. At the temple tours i saw her niece who is a member and would always come with us to the lessons and so i was able to talk with her a little bit.

We have a lot of cool plans for this week and one of them is that we are going to the temple as a district!! We are stoked! And we might be planning a wedding for the elders investigators. They are getting their marriage license today and they want to be married soon.

How is Texas? Texas is hot haha i have so many tan lines that i never thought i would have haha. It's so green up where i am, i can't get over it. The nights are so great you can literally see every star, even Jupiter and Saturn. I love it!! How is your stretching going? it's going good, i stretch and also do some small exercises. And yeah i liked your email it was fun to read how you compared it to life.

How is your ward? Church yesterday was 2000% times better than it was last week. We had teachers in every class room and everything went so much smoother. I love this ward and i'm sorry for the negative comment i made about it next week. There is nothing negative about this ward. It seriously is the greatest!

Did you have any investigators or in-actives come? Yeah! We called one of our investigators bosses because he is LDS and he got her Sundays off and so she came to church yesterday and it was really good! Also there were a ton of less actives and in-actives who i have never met who showed up.

Do you play the piano in Sacrament meeting? Yup...before i got here they used to use an iPad and use the music off of there so i play for everything :)

Are any investigators progressing? The one that came to church is the closest to progressing. We are going to extend a bap date tonight when we see her.

What specific thing would you like me to pray for this week? hmmm...that we will continue to be able to weed out our teaching pool and teach the people who are prepared at this time.

Any requests for your birthday? hmm...scripture cases? For Spanish set? The ones that look like they are Hispanic :) chocolate covered almonds? hehe I don't know anything would be great!

Do you think you'll be in Bryan for several transfers? hopefully a while! At least 2 more transfers. But i'm sure i'll be here a little longer.

How is the heat and humidity? Do you love it? man it's so hot...i'm constantly sweating and someways i want to cut my hair, but then i remember how much i love long hair and so i just put it up in a bun or something. But oh my it gets so hot but luckily we aren't outside all that much.

Have you been running lately? we run every couple of days, sometimes we do stairs which is really fun, we run up 3 stories and then walk across to the other stairs and run down them and walk and run and walk and run. My favorite day is Thursday when we go to boot camp it is seriously so much fun.

I love this area so much! There is so much potential and everyone is just so great! i love my ward and the investigators here! I can't believe it's already the 15th of June! it's so crazy! only 2 more weeks of this transfer! I wonder whats going to happen! I can't believe i'm almost at 11 months!! That is just so crazy too!!! less than 10 days! Next Tuesday! Anyways I love you all!!!!

Never lose hope! Always hope for the best and know that everything will happen in Gods time. God sends people into our lives for a reason and he is always looking out for us. We never need to wonder if God really loves us because he does. He knows what we need. He sees the bigger picture. Even when we don't understand. I've really learned to trust in God these past 10.5 months. I am so grateful for all the experiences i have had and for all the people i have met and taught. Everything will happen in Gods way in his own timing.

I love you mommy! I hope you have a great week! we are going to go get lunch! Hope work is goign good today and that Ava starts feeling better. I love you lots! Hope everything goes well this week with work, and with the kids and if you go on any dates! Thanks for all of your support and for all you do for me! I really appreciate alll you do!! Have a wonderful week mommy! Give all the kids a big hug and kiss for me and tickle the boys for me :) I'm so glad all has been going well. HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!!! Say hi to the ward for me and to bishop for me! Let everyone know that i love them!