Elder Medeiros: Happy rainy Monday!

JENNANANANA!

Im fantastic? How are you? Im glad youre doing good. Its raining alot right now. haha. Im glad school is good and soccer too! I saw your photo and you look awesome!! Youre a warrior jenna! A champion! Keep playing hard. Champion in spanish is campeóna! I cant wait to play smash and wind waker with you!! less than 10 months!

Sarah my main whats up!! Im so glad you could have that experience in the special efy! Never forget how you felt! Thats the holy ghost that testifies that this is the truth. Always be worthy of that spirit like you already are and paths will be opened for you that you never thought were available! Also take advantage of seminary!! Youre the best sarch!!!! Love you :)

Andrew my main man!!! Sounds like its been going crazy for you. Im so happy to hear you are getting alot of stuff done. I cant believe youre a junior either!!! Wow haha time flies my man. How the youth council going? I remember that haha those were some fun times bro haha. I love hearing that youre doing your snap as well. That must be an amazing experience. Take advantage of that as well and you truly can do some amazing things in the hands of the Lord. AND WOOO! HOCO! ;) I remember my first hoco. Its fun to go to the dances and just hang out with a bunch of people. Take advantage of those. I love you man! Keep the faith!! Stand in holy places!!

Well happy monday family!!! haha

First off im glad everyone has been working to support the crowleys and ive been praying for them as well. Just keep helping them out. Sounds like stake conference went well. Keep it up with your calling mom!! Youre a beast!! haha thats awesome!! and dad going beast mode as well with all the candidates!! Thats awesome. Keep it up as well...sometimes i get tired of talking too but hey thats my job right now... hahahaa

Anyways speaking of the temple today me and my companion and Isaías are gonna go visit the one in Colonia juarez... just outside... but we are gonna go to take some pictures!! (despite the rain) and as for the apostles and the confirmation it was more like i love hearing them speak and how inspired they are so any chance i have now to listen to them testify and speak i just search for the confirmation that its true. Thats it haha. And yea Eyring doesnt speak spanish... haha but it was awesome!

But yea this past week i read my patriarchal blessing as well. there is some crazy stuff in there and some stuff is already being fufilled!! Its so cool and doing all i can to get all those promises!!

And by the way i am sharing with my companion ahha dont worry ;)

Anyways well heres some stuff from this week

Wednesday was independence day here in Mexico and of course everyone went crazy haha. Theres a shout thing at midnight and there was screaming and music and yea hahaha we couldnt sleep but it was cool. Everyone gets real excited here but its basically jsut an excuse to party and drink hahaha. But i woke up that morning with a fever of 102 and yea wednesday was terrible and the mission doctor wouldnt answer me all day so i had to go out and work anyways and it was hard. but by friday i was better and now i feeel perfectly fine :D would ya look at that haha.

But this week we taught the christian family and we were teaching the plan of salvation and as we were going about teaching we realize that they dont have the right concept of God or like..they think the Father and the Son are the same and that they dont have bodies so we were like uhm uhm uhm yea no lets back up to level 1 again and we taught them using scriptures and how it all makes more sense with tthem as they are and how important it is that Joseph Smith had that vision.

Also the Martinez family is getting baptized this week!!!! They are 4! Mari carmen, maryanna, evelyn and Laura!! We are super excited! Pray alot because they are going through alot. Half of the family doesnt want to go to church but they do and Lauras husband was taken away like 7 months ago by bad people...so yea its hard. But we are excited.

Also we had to drop the Figueroa family because they got lazy and put up pure excuses and dont realize how amazing and true the gospel is. They were THIS THIS close to getting baptized... it was hard but i think we are going to leave them for sometime. As Alma in chapter 37 to Helaman we see people who fall away because they become slothful in the small things such as excercising faith and diligence. They become blinded by the easiness of the path. Really when we have and eternal perspective and understand the blessings taht ALWAYS come through obedience the gospel becomes easy to live.

This week i have absolutely loved my studies and been studying more deeper in the Book of Mormon and the New testament and reading all the references and i have just truly realized how amazing and TRUE this gospel is. This church. Its perfect. Yes we are imperfect but Christ and the gospel is. We may be latter day saints but we arent saints or perfect. We are latter day saints because we are "sinners who keep on trying" :D

This week i came across my favorite scripture again in Romans 8

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us allthings?

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

HAVE A GOOD WEEK!!!!

EXPECT GREAT PHOTOS NEXT WEEK! TEAM MEDEIROS!!!

Elder Go hard in the paint Joshua Chad Medeiros