11 big ones this week!

ANDREW AND SARAH....CONGRATS WITH TREK!!!!! Thats so cool!! Im so happy you guys could do it! thats awesome. Itssuch an amazing experience and im happy you got so much out of it. Never forget that there really are angels all around you. Never frget it and just because you guys left trek doesnt mean that theyre not there anymore. they always are. Look up D&C 84 88. Keep it up!!! :) Andrew have fun and be safe in Peru and Sarah kill it tonight with your play!! :)

Also to mom and dad good job as well!!! Im happy for all of you! I hope things start to slow down a Little bit so you guys can relax. Thats so cool about the RM that came back!!. You all deserve it! I love the potos of Sarah and Andrew!!! Are there any of you guys? But hey keep it up and of course ill keep praying for you guys as normal!!

anyways ill tell ya alittle more about what i do! Well I mean i do lots of reporting and lots of stuff over the phone and i work alot with the zone leaders. It doesnt effect my tracting but its all good. haha Just really busy alot. Ive really been pushing it much harder these days to be an example to my district in faith and obedience. Its been crazy. haha Things are good with my companion. Hes still pretty new in the misión but hes not afraid to talkand yea haha its really good.

Well investigators are improving. This week we found alot of new people to teach but idk if they will progress. Wedensday started of terrible like people rejecting us and appts not being there and the normal not fun stuff. I was a Little frustrated but ive been trying to do better with patience and postitive thinking and sure enough the Lord answered my Little prayer and that night we found 4 new people in 2 hours. We found a guy named Cesar and he just talked to us in the Street because he saw i was White and he knows a Little english. He wanted to know about us and we talked a Little and i mentioned the BoM and hes like I WANT TO READ IT GIVE IT TO ME. hahaha but he wants us to learn more about his studies and iw as like ok whatever haha but hes gonna read the BoM to see if it came from God.

Also MAYRA CAME TO CHURCH!!! prayers answered!! We talked with her spouse this week to let him know we dont want to offend him or cause problems and she came. We are gona keep preparing her for baptism. That was for sure a miracle. Everyone NEVER EVER forget the power of prayer. This week i stumbled across the words of one of my favorite primary songs and they hit me. Its a Childs Prayer and the best parts say

Heavenly Father, are you really there?

And do you hear and answer every child’s prayer?

Pray, He is there;

Speak, He is listening.

You are His child;

Its true. He listens and is always there without fail. When you pray just pretend He is sitting there at your side. He will answer and He talks. I hope this baptism holds!!

But weirdest thing i ate this week was like a lukewarm macaroni tuna salad ting and man it made me sick and put me on my knees. But its all good!!! ANIMO!! Go hard in the paint!! LOVE YOU ALL!!!! TEAM MEDEIROS!!!

CRAZY WEEEEKK!!

Haha well i will explain my crazy week in just a quick momento. haha

ANYWAYS wow sounds like things are crazy there as well!! dats good dats good. Haha stay busy but not to busy. Ill be praying for you all. I honestly hope it all goes good. Especially with TREK THIS WEEK!!!! To the kids DRINK WATEER WATER WATER and take advantge of the great spirit! Youll all love it. It really is a great experience. The key is to be positive and happy and then youll have a spiritual exp that you wont forget.  I wish i could see Sarah´s play!! Im sure it was great. Darn i loved going to your plays hahahha. wow and Andrew atta boy with the Eagle Project!!! Haha i took a while to get it done...heh... but thats awesome!! keep it up. And jenna keep it up with school!!! hahaha :) JLY 2. Keep it up!! Dad I hope everything good goes with the new job as well. Ill be praying for you.

well first of all its SO HT ITS SO HOT. like its been 100 all week. anyways...

 i guess i should satart by saying we had emergency changes!! and....im still here in tierra Nueva... bahahahaha its going good. But yea Elder Fabian is gone and Elder Martínez came!! Also our district Split...and im now the District Leader of Tierra Nueva!! Ahhhh its been so crazy and i just do a lot of reporting and leading an dmeetings and just being a good example and yea. haha its been interesting for sure. But so far i really like my comp. Hes from Veracruz and he has 4 months in hte misión and we are working hard hard. We had a bunch of lessons this week. Alot of people didnt go to church again but i know for sure that im doing all i can to spread this góspel and the godos to all the land. lol.

One tough thing is we have an investigator who would have been baptized in may but her husband doesn't let her go to the church and we had a lesson with her and she was emotional because she cant progress and its tough to see and i shared with her a part from the Saviors discourse to the Nephites in 3 Nephi 12

 4 And again, blessed are all they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

THE SAVIOR IS THE COMFORTER.

Saturday we helped a less active family move in. They moved into an abandoned house with garbage and no Windows or doors. so we spent 4 hours clearing out dirt and garbage and it was really fun!!! got to hang with the other elders and yea but i didnt put on sunscreen..the one day i forgot..because it was early...and it was the first time my neck has seen the sun in a year....so im burnt rn.. whatever. also there are lots of weird drunks...one told me i had a devil because i have blue eyes...haha we are keeping our distance...

anyways  its crazy but im doing all i can rn!! KEEP THE FAITH

TEAM MEDEIROS!!

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros

Sweaty and hot so yea, it's normal

SARCHA DEL MUNDO

Hey listen..(sly zelda reference)

Whats good ma shizzle ma nizzle? Mexico is good ya know. Beans, tortilas, heat, yea so ya know. hahhaa and sick!! Im so excted for you tarzan! Ya gonna kill it bae ;D keep it up with the personal progress sarch!! I love yout! Youre awesome.

ANDOO

haha thats good its summer! Finally it has gotten here. As im sure you can tell its really really hot soyea.  Sounds like youre livin up summer though!!! keep it up! haha enjoy it! I always loved to do stuff with Friends. I love the Eagle Project idea!!! Lemme know more about Peru and good luck with Trek!!! I loved it. Really take advantage and get yourself intune with the spirit, Reading and praying and all that juicy stuff. Love you man!!! Keep it up!!

Jenna putty putty

Whats up sweetie?? Love you! Im eating lots of beans for you. How was walking in daybreak with everyone? Also good job on your piano recital!! your first!! thats awesome. Im sure you can play better tan me now ;) love you!!!

Well good monday morning family!!! Im tiredout of my mind but hey thats normal now haha so no worries.  Sounds like its beeen a good week for you guys. Ive been praying for you guys alot!! Sounds like its going well with the new job!! I ope it continues to go well and mom good luck with Trek!! I promise youre going to love it hahaha. Misery is worth it ;)

Anyways well this week wasnt very succesful either...haha... but this week it looks to turn around. We have been fileding a nice Little pool of investigators and im hoping this is a breakout week. Ive relied alot on prayer this week and just being sups obedient and diligent.

Best/Worst thing we ate: Well worst was for sure these things called torchitas or something i cant remember but i totally thought it was chicken and nope it was fried oatmeal with onions and other stuff and my companion gave me his when the person wasnt looking and i had to eat it...IT WAS NICE THOUGH we appreciated that the family gave us food haha. Best was yesterday we had these tacos of carne res marinated in soya and it was sososososo good.

Funniest thing: last night we spent lke 2 hours fixing our fan air condish thing and it took forever and its the kind where you have to put in wáter and we hoisted it so it would reach our window and i guess my comp wasnt strong enough lol but it spilled the wáter all over me and i just got soaked and he laughed and i didnt haha

Scariest: nothin....hahhaha its always super sketch when cars slow down next to you and are all " hey what church are ya guys" and us " the church of Jesús Christ".... and them "oh..." and drive off hahahaha

Most spiritually rewarding and something new i learned...Idk just that numbers dont matter and i gotta have patience and just do what i can. We had a super cool lesson with a new investigator named Leticia and her daugther Dianna. Tey asked a lot of weird things and they have listened to the JW`s before haha so yea but they are really interested so thats good. Again we will see what happenes this week.

Right now in the book of mormon im Reading in Helaman and this week i found a scripture that really impacted me and made me realize how powerful and infinte the Atonement of Jesús Christ is. its Helaman 3:28-30

 28 Yea, thus we see that the gate‍ of heaven is open unto all, even to those who will believe on the name of Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God.

 29 Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the word‍ of God, which is quick‍ and powerful, which shall...lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow‍ course across that everlasting gulf‍ of misery...

 30 And land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at the right hand‍ of God in the kingdom of heaven, to sit down ...with all our holy fathers, to go no more out.

Idk but thats really powerful that really glory and happiness and eternity is open TO ALL all we must do is believe in the Son of God and his name. Doesnt matter what you have done in this life or where you are now. The gates of haven are open. He is the Bridge Builder who will lead us across the gulf of our sorrows and trials and tests and afflictions and sins so that we canbe with Him and God and our families and "to go no more out"

Im pushing forward!!! Yeeee goods goods

TEAM MEDEIROS!!!!LOVE YOU ALL!!

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros

I'm pooped hahahha

Well hello!!! haha Just want to say i love you guys and thanks so much for the fasting and prayers i can feel them and htey help so much. But hey i'll be praying for you guys (i already do anyways haha) for this month especially with all the stuff thats happening!! I hope you are all able to get everything done!!  Tell Andrew and Sarah i'm proud of them and all they're doing!!!! Keep it up with all the stuff and good job to Jenna for bearing her testimony!!! :) thats awesome!!  and lol with the thunderstorm hahaha thats funny. ANd dad i hope everything is going good with work. I will for sure be praying for you to. Im sure its tough but i got ya ;) dont worry  itll all go well. Did ya read that scripture i gave ya?

Anyways well this week was more of the same. It always starts of promising and then no one goes to church hahaha. And its still really hot. Havent gotten super used to that. hahaha but itll come. We did a lot of contacting this week. On saturday we had 5 appts that fell and 2 of our references rejected us and said they didnt want to listen to us hahaha so we were bummed and we just started to contact and talk to everyone everyone and we did that for maybe 2 hours and we found some cool new people to teach. I was fasting then and im sure the Lord gave me strength to keep going on and then we got to the house and it was hot inside and we didnt sleep at all because two days earlier my comp put the fan in the doorway in the middle of the night and then i went to the bathroom and it scared the bejeebies out of me when i jsut ran into something inthe dark but it was the fan and it broke haha but we got a new one. but yea. Its been tough not seeing the results of the labors and efforts im putting in especially when missionaries and wardmemebers want immediate results. I was thinking about that alot this week and ive been doing alot of study of the Atonement and what not and i reread the letter you gave me mom about obedience months and how the Lord is trying and at least im planting seeds for the future!!

Another thing that happened this week was i did divisions with Elder Jesperson!! Haha one of my best Friends of the misión from Orem. He had to go to the border to fix his visa so we went and i actually left Mexcio for 30 minutes and was like 20 feet from the USA!!! WHATT haha it was cool and it was really hot when we slept so we took cold showers at 12 30 in the morning and yea haha love that guy. .

anyways as i gear up for the summer i came across the words of Joseph Smith in D&C 128:22 22 

Brethren, shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory! Let your hearts rejoice, and be exceedingly glad. Let the earth break forth into singing. Let the dead‍ speak forth anthems of eternal praise to the King‍ Immanuel, who hath ordained, before the world was, that which would enable us to redeem‍ them out of their prison; for the prisoners shall go free.

onward ill go!! hahaha love you guys!!!

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros

Cool rainbow outside of the church.

Drinking lots of water. Wearing a funny bracelet someone gave me.

We found a lake and park thing...it isn't exactly Daybreak....

but hey its something... and i look really confused as well hahaha

Boom 10 months!!

Wow there i got 10 months in the misión now... I honestly cant believe it!!! Time is flying by really really fast im not gonna lie. I still feel like a new kid but the year mark is creeping up real soon. Wow. for the shirts...idk long and short sleeve would be good. as for pants i like the tan ones for sure!!  But hey sounds like things really are starting to get busy for you guys there. HAha i want pictures and updates and all that kind of stuff on the things that are coming up for you guys!!! IM excited!!!

But yea it's getting ridiculously hot... like 90ish in our room every night...like i cant sleep hahah kind of nervous for the summer but we will see what happens. But its all good!!!  Ill live for sure. But hey im glad your are liking the pictures now!! haha my companion takes good pictures.

Well i'm not gonna lie this week was a Little tough. I'm exerting myself really hard and just  but as much as i would like and thats really hard and its hard not to compare between missionaries when i'm sure i'm doing just as much or more tan them... but its ok. I think the heat just gets to me sometimes but its all good. We did a lot alot alot alot alot of contacting this week like pure just walking up to people and trying to solicit a visit haha and we got rejected a lot and that wasnt to fun but hey it happens ya know. Not a big deal. We need to drop alot of investigators this week because they dont go to church even though we offered rides and brought members so we are figuring out what to. But something really cool did happen this week!!

We found a new investigator named Diego Ramos and he's 19 and he is SICK. We found him this past week and he already has a book of mormon and we came to his house and he sat us down and just started asking us questions and we resolved them all and in his pray to close he was super grateful that we answered all the doubts hes had for months and he is gonna get baptized the 20th of june!! I hope this date actually holds..ive been working hard for it but we will see what happens. I feel is one of those obedience months where not much is happening but God is trying me... i hope so becuase im doing my best for sure. When ever im tired or discouraged or sad or anything i just say REMEMBER HIM and yes then im pumped up again. Theres a scripture i read this week in Alma 30:34 that i really like. It says what more reward to i need out here...im already declaring the truth and rejoicing in the happiness of others!!

what more do i need?

LOVE YOU ALL TEAM MEDEIROS!!!!!

:)

Elder Medeiros