Mexico is really hot...ha ha ha!

Wow!!! Sounds like quite the crazy week!! Lots of stuff happened. IM GONNA EMAIL PARKER!! WOO! Congrats! Thats super super cool!! Wow he leaves pretty son! September! Thats crazy. AND SARAH HAPPY BIRTHDAY. She looks so old!! She is very pretty and i'm glad it was good! Im so jealous of her imagine dragons!! How cool!! And how is your calling mom? Im sure you are killing it!!! And Andrew i wanna hear some spanish from you ;) hehehehe and also YES THAT IS JUMEX ITS SO GOOD!! BUt the best are mango, manzana and durazno. yumyum.

anyways. Crazy week. Tuesday Elder Christensen came and he taught and talked for a while. It was sups sups cool. But this week we have been getting ready to teach and get to know a lot of our new investigators. Mayra is one of the investigators who wants to get baptized.. but her husband is kind of against it.. but i whipped out D and C 97 and told her that any sacrifice is acceptable for the Lord and that she could be an example and we promised her that her spouse would change if she would continue. That was powerful. We found some other new investigators this week. We have some cool people falling into our laps and there's lot of potential. Im definitely doing all i can to help and love these people but it sucks when they use their free agency dumbly and don't go to church.... hahaha

anyways we got the transfers and i'm staying here again for another cycle hahahahhaa. but hey IF YOU CAN this week watch a video called Missionary Work and The Atonement its one of the most powerful videos i have ever seen. Just wow i feel rejuvenated. When i'm rejected or teased or made fun of or spit upon im standing shoulder to shoulder with the best life this world has ever seen, the only pure and perfect missionary. Jesús Christ. LOVE YOU ALL!!!! HAVE A GREAT WEEK TEAM MEDEIROS!!

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros

TIRED out of my MIND

Wow haha cant believe i talked to you guys a week ago time passed so sosososoos fast!!!! Well first of all yes i got your package and thanks so much!! I was acutally about to buy alot of that stuff today but now i dont have too ;D so thanks for that hahahaha. Also YES this week we got our pizza mom so thank you for the idea ;) haha hey tell ANDREW ATTA BOY WENT HARD IN THE PAINT! Im so proud of him thats awesome!!! I love hearing abut it from home and from you guys. Keep it up . I know it sounded busy but i hope you get some time to rest soon.

Anyways im not gonna lie this week i pushed it so hard and just tried to do sososososo much. Like i kind of collapsed on saturday haha i defs went to hard this week and we just dont have time at all to rest here... and alot of people didnt go to church this past week so that was really frustrating. I feel like the best missionary ive been on my misión and the most diligent but not as much is happening. BUT BUT BUT im not losing faith!!! You dont count me out that easily. This week i still had some good experiences.  of course haha.

This week we were talking to an old investigator that we are bringing back into the ring and went to her house.She studies ALOT ALOT and studies science stuff and philosphy and stuff and she was asking us some redicuolous questions and wanted super intricate answers and it was awesome all the answers that were popping in my head i could back up with book of mormon scriptures. It was super amazing and then at the end she just looked at us and was like WHY WHY i just want a reasonable explanation for everything and i pulled out Alma 32:21 which says that faith isnt to have a perfect knowledge of all things but its a hope of things that arent seen but are true. BOOOM TERMINATED. It was sick. I would say my favorite scripture is Alma 7:11-12.. actually i have no idea... there's so many!! But dad tell the youth do just go and serve a misión and that they wont regret it. If teres something preventing them fix it. Tell them the Atonement is infinte and nothing can seperate you from your eternal potential. They may not care now (like i didn't care as much back then) but the time will come when it will be ALL they want to do. Its amazing!

Anyways me and Arlington are pumped that the Cavs are in the east finals and we are gonna keep working hard. Just gonna try to rest if i can and get recharged. Its also hard not to compare yourslef out here too with others.

Also tomorrow Craig C Christensen of the 70 comes to talk to us!! so thats awesome.

Lvoe you guys TEAM MEDEIROS!!!

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros

HAPPY SUNDAYYYY THAT WAS SICK!

 Hey guys!! Well i just wanted to say i love you guys so much!! I know we talked alot yesterday but here i am and i wanted to tell you guys how much i love you guys!! That was so great and i was so happy to be able to talk for a while. Defnitely rejuvenated me and im ready for the week.  Well ill just send a spiritual thought for this week. It was so awesome to see the kids and talk to them. They've really grown so much since i left its crazy. Haha they have changed but are still the same.

Anyways this week was pretty hard just trying to stay balanced with all the investigators and some just aren't progressing and its kind of frustrating but the past couple nights have been better for sure. Gaspar and his family are progressing really really well. We really killed it yesterday with him in the church he loved it and the members went hard in the paint. It was awesome. He has a great family and its obvious that he has a great love for his family. And talking last night made me realize how much you guys love me. haha idk just talking in person made it more obvious.

It also helps me to recognize the love Heavenly Father and Jesús Christ have for me. If this is how you guys feel about me then imagine how HE feels. It helps me to put this love into perspective with my investigators also.

"Heavenly Father and family are inseparably connected. When we understand the many dimensions of this connection, we can begin to comprehend more completely how personal and individual are Heavenly Father’s love for and relationship to each of us. “ Quentin L cook.

“Let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. … For God is love" 1John 4:7-8.

I hope you had a good week and a good mothers day and im planning to just cotinue working hard and just loving and doing my best to make these baptisms happen whereever i go!!!

ps I enjoyed a Jumex last night and cocoa krispies after the Skype call. :D

Love you all so much TEAM MEDEIROS!!!

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros

9 months wudddupppp ha ha!

Hey guys!! Wow sounds like  crazy week. A lot of stuff has been going on. It really just dawned on me how old everyone is getting. I cant believe it all the licenses and what not and everything!! ahahh what the heck is happening. So crazy. But hey sounds like it was a pretty good week. Love hearing everything. I hope everything goes well in moab!!! Tell Andrew thats too bad with Elder Christofferson!! What  bummer Elder Christy is a beast. hahaha . Anyways with the Skype call i'm sure we will figure out more information tonight because we have a zone meeting. So ill probably email you again sometime this week to let you know the plan. SO EXCITED TO TALK TO YOU. hahaha i'm just gonna talk in spanish to you guys hhahha just kidding... BUT JENNA HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY WOOO!!! I cant believe shes 10!! I always carry around a couple potos to show to investigators and members and its my baptism, jennas and then our family one haha. So cool.

Anyways. Yea so another super super crazy week and i guarantee this week is going to be the same. Got alot of stuff to do haha. Well first of all i got a new companion on thursday!! His name is Elder Fabian! He has 17 months in the misión and is from Oaxaca. Hes super cool actually hahahah but i miss the trio a Little bit. Hha no but its been good. Today we had a Deep cleaning and we found a bunch of clothes that missionaries just left and i guess they were a little chubby because the clothes were huge so we washed them and tried them on hahaha and we found some interesting stuff haha you'll see in the photos.

But yea this week was crazy just going from a trio and figuring everything out with the new companion. Something else funny is that the Jehovahs Witnesses always pass by our house and i just destroy them whenever they try to planch us haha. anyways our investigators our good. If everything goes well this week we should have 4 baptisms before this cycle is over. Alejandro and Blanca are kind of struggling we are trying to help them recognize the answer that WE KNOW they have received. We resolved lots of doubts. She asked me a question this week about baptisms and i helped clear her doubt up and we totally discerned her hidden doubt. One of her kids was born out of wedlock and she felt bad about that so we told her that this is a góspel of forgiveness. We hope they get baptized this week. Also Mayra is going to get baptized the 23rd and she is going along well. She loves that we pass and she says she doesn't want us to go. hahaha and Irving is on track for the 23rd. He went to church this week with Roy (my first convert here in tierra Nueva) and it was so powerful. Roy went up and bore his testimony for the first time!!! It was awesome and it just made me so happy to see his change and now he's the example for his friend. He thanked me and Elder Quiñones for showing him the góspel and taking him by the hand.

I love you guys so much!!! this góspel is true. I know it and i cant express how awesome you guys here. It finally started dawning on me this week that even though its crazy stressful and hot and crazy out here...i'm gonna miss the misión. Thanks goodness i still have 14 months! hahaha

I LOVE YOU GUYS! TEAM MEDEIROS

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros