Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Week 56 Surprise!

This week was definitely a week of surprises!!!

The second surprise i had was definitely the best surprise ever! My aunt, uncle, and little cousin flew into Dallas and made a detour and came to the last hour of sacrament meeting. I was up playing the piano and i just sat down when i saw her come in and apparently my expression was priceless! According to hermano and hermana Morgan haha. It was so awesome to get to see them and talk with them. It was a really great surprise. About a year ago my uncle came and tried to see me but we had been at a fireside and so we didn't home till a little later so i completely missed him! So it was amazing to get to see them. I think the ward really liked her. I was able to introduce her to a few people. haha all of them knew English. The Morgans loved them and they loved squishy. Squishy hung out with sister Morgan for a little bit.

The first surprise i got was on Thursday. The oakcrest hermanas texted us asking if i was still in this area, we told them yes and then they said that hermano puente from oakcrest was going to be at the Bryan building. I got so excited. Before we went to help saquic with her class room we ran to the church building and i got to see him. We talked for a few minutes and then we left. But then we came back and he had bought us lunch and i got a couple pictures with him. i was super super happy to see him. He is the one that always called me his hija. Haha I've missed him and his family!

So we have been trying to clean out our phone and organize it and so to do so we are calling all the people we don't know and seeing who they are and if they aren't members we are asking if they want to learn more again, anyways the other day i was making the calls and i randomly clicked on a name and the person answered and i asked if it was so and so and they said yes and asked who we were and I said "we're the missionaries" and then she screamed and was like "hermanas! I thought you had forgotten about me! When are you going to come visit me!?" we were literally in shock and we set up an appointment and we went over and the daughter answered the door and was like "It's the hermanas! IT's the missionaries! They are back!" I guess they were former investigators but then with all the changes that have been made up here they were lost in the jumble. We are starting to work on them, they seem pretty open to what we have to share.

We got to help saquic twice this week. The first time was helping her organize her cupboards. She ended up buying us one of her school shirts and when we went into the office everyone was just staring at us (like always) and then the second time, if you see the picture where it's the three of us standing with a blue and black board behind us (it looks like buildings?) well we did that. We did the outline of the buildings in chalk and then put in windows and then cut it out and hung it up on the wall. It was super fun.

So On Saturday we were talking about getting ice cream but we wanted to visit and give an invitation to a couple more less actives and so after we finished our last one we were going to go get ice cream but we saw this man who was selling ice cream bars and we decided to go contact him and i didn't have any cash on me. mcnabb had just enough to buy one for her and then the guy asked if i wanted one and i told him that i didn't have any money, but he gave one to me anyways. It was so sweet. Seriously sometimes Hispanics are the most humble people you can ever meet!

What miracles did you witness this week? Our activity went so well. At first it was rough but we got it figured out. The lap top we brought didn't match any of the cords of the projector, and we tried something else but we couldn't get sound that way and we don't have the remote to just do it from the tv so we had to hook up the laptop to the tv and show it that way. No one could decide on when we let them get treats and there were 2 hermanas that brought food like stuff instead of treats and were freaking out that people were going to eat too much sugar and not eat any of the food and there was a point when we had 3 hermanas basically fighting in the kitchen trying to figure out where to put the pupusas and how to have people come and get them, (do we pause the movie and let them get them or do we pass them out or do we wait until the movie is over?) and then the hermana that brought them asked us to stop popping popcorn in the microwave so she could heat them up and then get mad and said that the microwave doesn't work because it didn't heat them up enough. aye aye aye. it was crazy but it was the best activity this ward has had in a while. and then one of the hermanos got them excited for another activity.

What made you laugh? so yesterday (on Sunday) we were eating lunch and doing a little bit of a puzzle and we were just talking and somehow within like 2 minutes we said the same word about 3 times at the same time and we ended up on the floor laughing. And also last night we were trying to move the podium but we had to lift it and so we did it one time and then had to set it down and the elders started running in saying "hey hey let us do that" and us being tough girls said "no! we can do it!" and we lifted again but it got caught on the step or something so it jerked or something, yeah it ended with us on the floor laughing really hard.

How are your investigators? Are any progressing? So you know how i said that last week was Karime's last week? Well she decided that she is staying one more week. And so technically she is progressing but we can't do anything with her because she is returning to Mexico soon! And so all we can do is share messages with her.

What are you most excited about with the new week? Some of the lessons we have. We have a couple FHE's planned and then we will be visiting some new people that we found this week.

Anyways! I hope you have a great week!!! I love Ya'll!!!!

The sabbath day or Sunday is the Lords day. It is the day where we can rest and find ways to come closer to God. It is the day that we get to partake of the sacrament. There are so many distractions in today's world, take some time to remember and do the small things because it's normally those that grow to be the big things.

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I know that when we pay attention and do the small things such as pray, read the scriptures and go to church then our lives will be fuller, and richer. We will have more happiness and have more opportunities. I have a testimony of that and each one of you can gain one to. But the only way to gain it is to make sure you are doing it.