Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Week 58

Haha well right before I started writing this I caught a gecko! It somehow found its way into our computer room at our office. My companion was taking pictures of me while I was trying to catch it. The only awkward thing is that there is another person in here....maybe not the best thing for a missionary to do...crawls on the ground catching a gecko...oops oh well. Anyways here are some highlights of this week!

1. My companion and I learned how to cut hair. She cut about four inches off of mine because it was all dead. Haven't cut my hair in over a year besides the time my trainer Carbajal gave ,e side bangs. But McNabb has never cut girls hair so that was an adventure. I've never cut hair period and I gave her a little trim. It was a really fun experience.

2. We had a really fun FHE with one of our less active families. We did the game that you play in primary and you have one person go out and you hide an object and then you have them come back in and you have the kids sing softer or louder depending on if the person is far or close to the object. We did that but we just did it with clapping. It was so much fun and then we applied it to how the Holy Ghost works. There was a sweet spirit there and sometimes the sweet spirit is the best.

3. My companion and I are learning how to Crochet! It's super hard but it's super fun. We have a member who is teaching us how to do it.

4. We had a pretty good lesson with two new investigators. It was a little hard because we had a member with us and so she talked a lot. But other than that it went good.

5. went on exchanges this week. I stayed here and had sister Oats come with me. She actually knows a lot of Spanish! She helped me teach the book of Mormon class that we recently just started up. It was kind of a stressful exchange because then on Saturday i was trying to make calls but also trying to visit people. We had sports night start on Saturday and we had no idea if anyone was coming or if anyone was bringing any balls and stuff and so i was trying to do that and it was just stressful. Poor sister oats on Friday night she put her water bottle in her bag to carry it into the house and the lid wasn't on all the way and so it spilled all inside her bag. We had to blow dry her planner. It was fun because we were able to spend some time talking.

6. Sports night turned out pretty awesome! we played volley ball and it was super fun! We are excited to have it started up!

7. We had about 81 people at church. But those 81 people don't like to sing and so when i was playing the piano I kept thinking i was playing the wrong song because i could barely hear them singing! I could pick out people's voices!

8. We had 4 investigators at church! two were from an inactive family that we just found. and the other 2 are from another inactive family that comes once in a while.

9. Oh during the book of Mormon class i felt prompted to share a video but i was thinking in my head "where will that fit it? That would have better before i started talking? I don't know if i should." But after thinking about it i decided to do it at the end of the lesson. I cut the lesson short and shared it. When we got back to our apartment sister Oates told me that it was the thing that she needed and that it really helped her. It made me feel super good!

10. It's just been a pretty good week! I'm so happy to be a missionary! it's seriously so amazing! I can't believe that I've been serving for 13 months now. This week i hit my 1 year in the actually mission field. 1 year since i first got my fabulous trainer (who is now home) Former Hermana Carbajal.

Man This office has no AC and it's super hot!

Hey just a side note....i hear you'll receive more blessings if you write a missionary...if you know what i mean ;)

anyways i love you all!!! Have a great week!