Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Week 73

This week was so good! We really had a great week! I'm sad because my companion is getting transferred. We've only had six weeks together and we had a great time together. We saw so many miracles.

Last week when i wrote we were kind of struggling to have people to teach. Well we have two baptismal dates!! We have a part member family who just never baptized their son when he was 8 and he just turned nine a couple months ago. When i first got here it was so hard to work with them. They would cancel every appointment but now we have been able to see him and on our first lesson we taught the restoration and then played a matching game with all the commandments. We have to have all the lessons done this week. His baptismal date is on the 26th of this month. Then our other investigator who has been doing pretty good, we set a baptismal date with him as well for the 26th. He has a situation that he has to deal with and that has been what has stopped him from getting baptized before, we are just praying that he can make the decision now and do what he needs to do so he can be baptized on the 26th. We are still working with a couple other people but so far no one is to the point of baptism yet.

we will see what God has in store for this transfer. So there are 3 sets of missionaries in this ward and they are taking the other set of sisters out. The one thing i really don't understand is why i'm staying. I barely know the area and the people. I've only been here for six weeks. I would think that president would keep someone in the area who knows more than i do. i mean i know God has a plan, i just hope that i can do what i'm meant to do in these last six weeks. I know that it will be good and that good things will happen here. Not by me or because of me but because of the spirit.

One of the days this week we took our car in to get an oil change and they said that the wait would be about 3 hours so we walked back to our apartment which was like a block away, we worked on some things around the apartment and then they called us saying that we could come get it, but like 10 minutes later the car coordinator of the mission called us asking if we could wait another 2 hours so they could put on all new tires. So we deep cleaned our apartment. We didn't have a lot of time that night to do things but it was still good.

Wednesday was our temple trip and it was soooo good! I just love the temple so much. It's always nice and refreshing to go. After the temple we went on an exchange and i got to go with hna marlowe. She dies this week. I went on an exchange with her and provost when they were in a trio at the beginning of our missions and so we talked a lot about that and then we both just talk about how we can't believe that we are going home. It was a really good exchange, that is when we got the baptismal date with Martin.

The young women in H10 are so cute! they gave us stockings filled with treats :)

We had zone meeting and it was really good, i realized i only have one zone meeting left and i think that that is crazy! We talked a lot about having charity. We got to have a mission wide conference call as well. President called all of us to talk to us about the Christmas video and how much success it is having. it's so cool what one small video can do!

I really haven't thought that much about school and where i'll go mainly because i don't know anything about any schools other than snow. The thing i'm trying to figure out right now is finding a job when i get home. Is there a temp agency in Iowa? I need something that will pay good but isn't permanent so i can come spend time in Utah and then the cruise and coming to Texas and all the other things we do. Because i'm going to need a job but normal places i don't think would hire me if i'm going to be gone so much. I wouldn't hire myself ha-ha.

Yeah if you could send me my info for Skype either this week or before Christmas that would be great. I really don't know anything yet, we don't know who we will be going over to that day to Skype, we will have to see. By Monday next week I will know!

Yesterday we had temple tours and seriously every time we have temple tours, that morning it is the ugliest weather, yesterday it was down pouring rain and dark skies and it was cold. But every time right before temple tours start the sky clears up it stops raining and it's perfect for the tours. It's such a testimony builder. God wants his children to see the temple and to learn more about it and he won't let it get cancelled. It always happens. It's so amazing.

I love being a missionary so much. It is hard, it's so hard sometimes, i'm not going to lie, but i love it so much. I'll never get tired of saying that this was the best decision of my life!