Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Week 60-Roller Coaster

Well to be honest this week has kind of been an emotional roller coaster ride but i'm so grateful for the priesthood. both my companion and i were able to receive a blessing and it was so comforting.

This week other than the craziness has been really good. We had an awesome lesson with Lesly on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Friday and Saturday haha we saw her almost every day this week so that we can get her all the lessons taught by tomorrow. She is so amazing. She came to church yesterday and she went to mutual on Wednesday. Everyone loves her and she is really opening up to a lot of people. We have her interview tomorrow and we are so excited for her! Now we just have to get the program set up and get everything ready for it!

We also had some really great FHE lessons this week. On Monday we had one with about 5 different families in the ward and it went sooo good! But haha we had tacos and they were so good! But i decided to be a big girl and put salsa on it. But apparently they made a type of tacos that didn't need anymore salsa on it and i bit into it and thought i was going to die. That would have been a great picture, a white girl in a crowd of Hispanics dying because something was so spicy. Haha they all teased me but at the end they even said it was really spicy. Our lesson was super fun we had them break into groups and we gave each of them a question and they had to look up scriptures in the book of Mormon to get the answer. Everyone loved it! We are doing these FHE's every Monday night now and we are super excited!

Another FHE we had was with one of my favorite in active families in the whole ward. She has been wanting us to show her how to make cookies and so we went with a lesson plan on cookies. We did an activity where we brought a ton of random ingredients and asked the kids what we had to put in to make cookies. (without using a recipe) and if we didn't have what they said we substituted it for something else. We had vinegar, almond extract, backing powder, salt, brown sugar, agave nectar, cinnamon, flour, maple brown sugar oatmeal...haha you can imagine how that turned out. And then after doing that we made the cookies the right way. Then while they were baking we called the rest of the family in and we asked what they thought and what they learned. We talked about how there is a recipe to have a happy family and we have to follow the recipe and we can't just do what ever we think is good. So we made them a recipe for a happy family and then also put the recipe for the cookies on it. Everyone loved it. We then got to spend a lot of time with the hermana and i love her so much, she opened up to us a lot about some stuff in her life. we talked forever but it was so good.

We had a member come out with us on Tuesday and she ended up buying us lunch too. We went to burger king because she had coupons for there an we were just going to get one of them that was a 2 person meal. but haha she decided to get us 2 different things, so we both had a medium size drink, a hamburger, 2 things of fries and a chicken sandwich. I made it through the sandwich, and 1 1/2 things of fries and then luckily she let us take the rest home haha.

We went on an exchange on Wednesday. I went to huntsville with sister Broadus. It was super awesome. We did some tracting on campus and for them when they are on campus they don't approach it from a gospel view but they just talk about the club that they have for the institute. I turned into the most awkward contacter ever. Here is one of the lines that I said "The club helps fill the spiritual needs that everyone needs" oh my gosh i just about died after we walked away. We got to teach someone that i contacted into the last time i was in huntsville it was super cool! I had a guy at a restaurant hit on me...awkward but anyways haha.

I think those are the biggest things that happened this week. I can't believe that this is the last week of this transfer! It's so crazy to me! i feel like just yesterday it was the beginning of this year right before i left woodlands. Time seriously goes by so fast.

Being on the mission has been the best thing ever. i'm so grateful that i decided to serve a mission. It has changed my life forever. I've learned so much and i hope i can continue to learn through out these next couple months. I'm so excited to see what is going to happen through these next couple transfers and i'm excited to see what's going to happen in the future.

I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!