Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Week 71 Thanksgiving

This week was really awesome! It was filled with so many miracles!

Monday we went to this cute little old ladies house, she is in the English ward but speaks Spanish so we always speak in Spanish to her. we were helping her with family history and we were fixing some things on her page and adding some people in and she almost started crying it was so sweet! She was so happy! It was really humbling. I love this lady so much. We have it set to see her every Monday and so we get to see her today :)

On Wednesday we went to a less actives house and we barely got a word in. we were there for about 2 or 3 hours. It was so long, but it was really good because she is going through a lot right now and just wanted someone to talk to. she also talked a ton about politics and other stuff.

Thursday was the crazy day!

We had our first lunch at 1230, there were a lot of members there and one member when he shook my hand he said "man and i thought i was white" but i'm pretty sure he is still whiter than me. haha anyways, we had a really good meal and then we quickly ran and went to the church where we ate with a family in the ward that is huge. It was fun, we grabbed what we wanted ate and then left to go to our next one. We stayed there for a long time. they have a pet duck and so we were playing with it. He was so cute! We fed it watermelon and it nibbled on our fingers. We took so many pictures. We spent two hours there and then we slowly made our way over to our last appointment. We got there and when we sat down to eat i could barely finish it. I got so full after i ate the turkey and i still had everthing else to eat. Lets' just say on Friday what i had to eat was crackers, some marshmallows. green beans and half a can of soup. I was so full on Friday.

On Friday i got to go on an exchange to Jersey Village with Hermana Parslow. It was pretty fun. We got to see a recent convert who has gone in active. She is so awesome but it just struggling with some things right now. it's really sad because she was super strong and now she doesn't have the desire to do anything. We also got to see one of my old investigators. she was surprised to see me, i was happy to see her. We had a pretty good lesson.

Saturday was so special. It was so cold that day and we already had a dinner appointment and one of our investigators wanted to take us to dinner, we asked if we could get some hot chocolate instead and so we met at panera bread. For a while we were just talking and then we felt that we should share a video so we did. We shared he is the gift from last year and afterwards we asked if there was anything that caught his attention and he told us so much. He told us that we are the first friends he has had in a really long time and now because of the video he knows he doesn't have to spend another Christmas alone. It was so special. Hna and I were talking in the car on the way home and we both felt so strongly that he is ready to receive the lessons again and that he is ready to accept it. We had so many of the same feelings it was ridiculous. But so cool. It was definitely the spirit.

On Sunday we had 2 investigators come to church! One of us told us a week ago that if she came to church she wouldn't come in a skirt but when we went with the member to pick her up she came out in a skirt and she said "i'm cheating" she lifted up her skirt and she had on thick leggings underneath it. It was so sweet. Then that night we took one of our investigators to see the Messiah. It was super awesome. It was two stakes that put it together. Yesterday was just so amazing!!!!!!

It was super sad this week. We visited so many members from the english ward, just trying to get to know them and so many of them told us they had no interest in coming back. They had had some experiences and they do not want missionaries or anything to do with the church. Hopefully one day they will have the desire to come back!!!!!

We are so excited for the people we are meeting, things are going so great!