Elder Medeiros: Cold…or hot….haha who knows but BAPTISM!

Hey!! So sorry im late this week!! We have zone conferencesagain today and we are in Casas Grandes so we couldnt write until now....and i dont have to much time and the key boards are really sticky....:( groosss but ill do my best with what i got!! Anyways packages! Awesome!! Cant wait! Sounds perfect!! And my comps name is Pablo! But yea all is going well...still really hard but im trying and im super obedient and i study like a beast. ahaha. But all the food sounds geat!! haha I love nutella and its really expensive here so thats perfect. haha. And dont worry im being safe and what not haha. But I love hearing abut all the stuff from home! I cant believe a year ago was ragnar! Wow!! And yea i have had the chance to annoint a couple times..haha just the first easy pat hahaha nothingtoo cool. But this week was our first baptism!!!!!!! ill tell mre later :) anyways sounds like the Steelers are beasting!! 12 in two games?? WOW hahaa. Haha go bron bron...no one like Gordon Hayward. Thats awesome whenever i think of te celtics i think of the trip to boston this summer!! Haha anyways here is a day by day of my week!!

Monday- after writing you guys we went as a district to lunch and it was k hahaha i had a burger and it was k. It was calleed Chicken Country and it definitely wasnt realy sooo...that was weird haha. But that night we had a cool FHE with the Relief Society President!! We had a really profound discussion on the Second Coming and The Millenium. I wasnt able to understand so much and contribute all the knowledge i could on the subject but it was still way awesome!! In Daniel 7:9-10 13-14 it talks about the gathering of the saints in Adam Ondi Ahman with Jesus and all the leaders of every dispensation!! Pretty cool!!

Tuesday- IT WAS ACTUALLY REALLY COOLD. Haha it came out of nowhere too. But i had my coat so its all good. Haha but we had divisions that day so i was able to go to Buenaventura and chill with Elder Rodriguez for a day. He is also in my district. We watched the restoration movie in his house and hahhaha everytime i watch that i get chills. Ive seen it 10s of times but i will NEVER get tired of the beauty of the Restoration. Awesome. Haha at the end me and him were crying like grown men watching a chick flick hahhahahahaha. It definitely inspired me. I know im not perfect (especially with spanish) but i really want to teach, exhort, help, heal, etc.

Wednesday- We finished off divisions! Elder Rodriguez is really funny hahaha we shared "planchadore" scriptures which are like scrips that are really blunt and too the point about repentance. like he was laughing at Helaman 7:17 which basically says " Repent repent why do you desire to die?" hahahah repentance is his fav word in english haha. But we taught one of their investigators lesson 1 and it went really well!! I was able to share alot! When i returned with Elder Mora we ate dinner with a family they are bosses. Give me the goods please nd thank you

Thursday- Thursday was super super cold too haha. But we are teaching the Dominguez family and they are awesome. The dad used to be a drinker but we challenged him and he hasnt taken for like 3 weeks!! And we committed the whole family to baptism!! AWESOME. Also they gave us coke so that was good haha.

We also taught Esmeralda who is the investigator with her whole family is of the church of Lebaron so she is having a hard time knowing which church is true and what not. So we met with her and we are trying to help her progress.

Friday- Today Elder Mora was sick all day so werent able to do to much. I had awesome enchiladas for lunch so thats awesome..duh..haha. But we went to Casas Grandes because we had training with the president on saturday so we had to sleep on the floor in another companionships house and that was teh worst night of sleep every. haha

Saturday- We had training!! It was hard because again its really hard for my mind to keep up but after the training and talking to the other elders i was able to have my personal interview with Pres Derbez!! He is so cool. I did part of the interview in spanish and he says im doing great and invited me to Juarez in December to play piano in the Christmas concert!!! I also let him know that im doing my best and am willing to do what ever it takes to be a great missionary. It was a good visit. WE also had our baptismal interview with Alma back in Lebaron and it went well! And we taught esmeralda again and read Ether 12 with her. POWER CHAPTER. Totally about faith. Funny thing is that i needed to hear that chapter too. In verse 6 it says "we receive no testimony until after the trial of our faith." Nothing in this life is easy but NOTHING is more rewarding than the blessing of the gospel. During the end of the lesson i testified and promised that she would receive an answer before the 23rd of November and that if she does she will be baptized on that day....gulp. Praying to the Lord to Justify my words!! So cool.

Sunday- FIRST BAPTISM!!!!!! SO AWESOME! Alma was able to do it! Thanks for the prayers!!!! But really i was so happy and as Joseph Smith said " oh waht rapture filled my bosom" hahahah. SO amazing. And his little grandpa came who NEVER comes to church or even is religious. So cool. I cant even begin how amazing the feeling is. Im struggling and growing and its still hard to understand and speak but when you see the fruits of your labors in the form of A CHILD OF GOD returning to the truth and love of our Savior..undescriable. The final hymn was How Great Thou Art. Too cool. Also I was asked to play piano for the primary program next week! Cool! hahahah and also funny story this morning we were waiting for the bus and these girls were selling banana bread and we said "No probar no comprar" which means haha we dont try it we dont buy it hahahahahah so they gave us bread hahahahahhaaha. Too awesome.

BUT CRAZY WEEK. thanks for the prayers!!!! :) Here are the pics!! TEAM MEDEIROS

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros