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

Weird week...ha ha

Wow haha yea mom you're right the yea sure is flying!!! haha it's crazy but it certainly is the experience of a life time. Anyways haha i loved hearing about all the experiences of this week haha. I love the photos haha i was definitely laughing super hard. Classic. But i love hearing about all the kids experiences sounds like they are all still killing it!! Makes me happy! Haha i loved jennas póker face by the way.

Anyways so this week was super super crazy. So i'll just say it but Elder Romero is going to have to go home because of his leg.... we actually had to stay in the house for two days this week and then we went to the doctor on friday and yea so after this cycle he has to go home... its really sad he's a good Elder and really has a desire to serve. So yea the last couple of days i have been in a trio with Elder Arlington and Elder Seguel the other elders of my district!!! I'm just running everywhere and there's so much to do and like bills to pay for the wáter for the house and its like booooom there goes my mind haha.

But yea we couldn't do much work this week so we have to postpone the baptism because we still need to teach more. BUT i was able to do some splits with other missionaries and teach and we put another baptismal date for the 23rd!! and we found a cool family. I'll have to tell some cool stories.

So on monday after district meeting we were walking back to the house and we were tired. We were supposed to visit Irving but we were like naaaahhh its super far on the other side of our área so we were going back but suddenly we got a feeling and both stopped walking at the same time and looked at each other and we knew what we needed to do. We walked across the área and met with him and taught him the first lesson and yea now he is going to get baptized!! super cool. haha also we contacted another reference this week. It started off as a terrible day and we were searching for this reference and couldn't find it and like after two hours we were done but we knew that the Lord would help us find it.. so ten minutes later we found it and this guy has already had a book of mormon for 15 years and has never gone to the church but he says he HAS to read it everyday before going to work and knows its the Word of God. WHATD AHREOAHEA FHDSAOI FHEQO hahaha we freaked out but yea it was cool so we are starting to teach him too.

I feel good like physically but i do feel really run down and tired after this week and bleh. Hoping i get kind of a reboot this week and i feel bad for Elder Romero and yea. Just trying to stay focused and get this work rollin haha.

Also i'm doing good though and plugging along. I have found that faith is just SOSOSOSOSO key out here and imloving using the priesthood whenever i can do give blessings or anything.

LETS GOOO plug along plug along haha

TEAM MEDEIROS I LOVE YOU GUYS SO M UCH!!

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros

Hey guys whats up!!!

SARCH
Whats up bay? well the misión is pretty good haha im loving it!! Just helping people out and just killin it ya know? He's pretty clean haha his name is Elder Romero i love you sarch!!!

Andrew!!

Whats up bro!! I love you! Sounds like it was an interesting week. haha i always hated arena scheduling. Bleh good luck!! But hey thats my boy! Gettin the babes with the dance!! ahha i hope it was fun and you enjoyed it!! And awesome with the lesson on Joseph Smith. I encourage you to keep it up with the góspel stuff itll help you so much. Try and memorize the First Vision in spanish ;) "Vi una columna de luz mas brillante que el sol..." haha youre awesome love you man!!

Hey jenna!!!
Im good! :) how are you? Tell me about your piano song?Is it hard or easy? Do you like it? I hope i get to talk to you soon love you sweetie!

Hey guys whats up!! Sounds like it was a good week for ya all. Keep it up. Im just plugging along and i'm not gonna lie this week i grew a lot!! Our numbers definitely dont show it but im more diligent and obedient tan ever and im just doing all i can to follow dat spirit and just kill it.
So anyways my new companion is Elder Romero from Reinosa. Its right next to McCallin Texas and he's pretty cool!! He's super excited to get out there and he's obedient and curious. He's a convert of one year and three months and he's a natural!! He has a leg problema but he's just pushing it everyday and doing awesome!
As soon as we got to the house after picking him up we set our goal for baptisms for our time together... we prayed and the Lord gave us a super high goal of 10 baptisms and one family of gold every week... man and we are working hard for it!!
Alejandro and Blanca are still doing great! They should still get baptized the 2nd of May and its looking good. We should have a couple others in may as well!! We ' have a chance to go with Blanca until wednesday and she was so happy to see us cause she thought that we were only there to make her go to church. We actually had something else planned to teach but the spirit completely destroyed it and we let her know we love her and we are here to stay and help! They came yesterday to church as well!
Another cool thing happened. So we had the food with an older lady and she lives with her son. She is alone   and i shared with her as a spiritual thought John. 16:33 and expressed our gratitude for everything. She started to cry and then asked for a blessing and i immediately volunteered and gave it and when we were walking away another missionary told me "wow idk why but that was cool you are like an actual minister of Christ and that was sick" ahhaha you're a missionary to buddy haha that was cool.
But we have been doing lots of contacting for this new initiative and we have found some REALLY cool people. People who are just curious to listen to us. Im not gonna lie i get stressed out alot  but I LOVE teaching. My mind is so clear and i always know exactly what to say. haha I know my spanish sucks and it isn't the best but its cool how during lessons i feel like i own spanish and then when there are times when i don't need it as much i suck haha its funny and cool.
The food was good and thats always good of course. Haha THANKS FOR THE CEREAL i rejoiced at the fact that i know have Reeses and Cookie Krisp. Oh baby i'm seeett.
Haha but yea me and my companion watch the District nightly and make fun of some of the people and yea its funny haha. Im just pushing hard. Im so exhausted but its all good!!!

TEAM MEDEIROS

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros

April 13

QUE TAL MI FAMILIA COMO LES VA QUE ONDA

Haha well yea it was a interesting week... well the last few days for sure. Hahahaha anyways ill explain in a Little bit. Well yea i'm glad the trip ended well for you guys!! Arizona is always sick. And congratulate Andrew for me with the federation!! I always remember that was way tough. Out here i still play all the time. about 1 or 2 times a week and i've been making a few more arrangements of hymns so i'm still honing my God given gift ;) hahahaha jk. Im sure Andrew and Sarah AND jenna are better than me haha. Anyways keep it up guys! I love getting photos from home to just so you know haha :) But yea mom you're right the tim does pass really really fast.. it will be weird coming home.. but i still have a little bit over a year haha.

Also sports for a sec GO SOX. I hope they kill it. And thatd be sick if the C´s made the playoffs haha ok.

ANYWAYS. So we had a transfers and the whole week everyone was like Medeiros is gone he's leaving!! He has the most time! So i was preparing myself and coping that it would be the last time i see my converts. I realized how much i love these people and i wasn't sure if i would see them again. SO we got the transfers last night AND IM STAYING. AGAIN. AND......IM TRAINING AGAIN. hahahahhaa so if i stay for the full 3 month training program then ill have 7 and a half months here in Tierra Nueva. Oh well. Im kind of excited because this week we set 3 MORE baptismal dates!! A cool experience this week. Well the neighbor of our converts is named Mayra. And we started teaching her this week and started with the Restoration. We found out that she has some what of a religious background and they just moved from a ranch so she doesn't know what to do. We taught her the whole lesson and i thought it went well and then we were about to close then i felt like my own voice in my head say " INVITE HER TO BAPTISM" and then i was like wait..uhh before we close.. one way you can get closer to Christ is through baptism and she accepted! Then we taught her how to pray and she cried and stuff and told us its true and our converts testified and i just loved everyone! haha it was way cool. It made me so grateful that i just have a strong testimony of the Rest. JOSEPH WAS A PROPHET IM TELLING YOU. CHRIST RESTORED HIS CHURCH. hahaha.

anyways so thats cool.

The food was actually subpar this week.. but i'm grateful the members give us their food. Its super nice that they do it. I actually had a super super good enchilada this week that about put me on my knees it was so darn good. But yea tomorrow i say bye to Quiñones. He was awesome. Defs had the most success with him and i wish him the best. Ill take a picture with him ;) I should be getting my package this week though just so you know. Also i had Little caesars this week and it made me really hapy haha

THAT IS ALL I LOVE YOU SOO MUCH!!! THANKS for all and prayers and yes. TEAM MEDEIROS

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros

CONFERENCE BEAST MODE GOODS

Hey all!! Hows Arizona!? I hope its all good! Im so jealous again for the millionth time i always loved Arizona. Cant wait to go again one day! But i want pics next week! I hope it is fun!! Im glad you all didnt die on the hike haha.  But anyways no i haven't gotten your package yet...hmm..son maybe? haha. Anyways yes 6 weeks until the mothers day call!! im so excited!! I still havent Heard anything about it yet... so im sure they will say something soon cause i still have no idea whats gonna happen.

But it was cool we were able to watch part of conference this week in english!! All of us were like what the heck when they screamed opposed but we were pleased cause Ucthdorf took it like a boss and i loved the talks!! lots of talks on the family!! hahahaha must be important. But Im sure you can guess it...i REALLY liked Hollands talk.. It was so powerful! Ill talk more about that later but it was really nice haha. I liked Bednar's and Ballard's... OF course Uchtdorfs in priesthood as well as Monson!! I just loved the general authorities!! I felt like they were family members and i felt happy when they were talking. They are just beast mode. hence the title beast mode goods conference haha.

Anyways this week was prettttyyyy hot. Haha but eh its ok. This is the last week of the cycle...its posible i go...but who knows. I wouldn't mind seeing other áreas.. i just hate packing so much haha but ill know this week. We found a lot of cool people to teach this week. We didn't set any baptism dates but we found a lot of people who are really interested in listening to us. This week was a big reflection week for me. Just looking back and seeing what i've done these past 8 months and it just amazes me what i've been able to do thanks to this góspel. Sometimes i feel so imperfect and unworthy but when i study or teach..especially when i teach i feel so good and my mind is so clear. Its really cool hahaha. This week we contacted a woman on the Street and asked her if we could come by this week. We go to her house on thursday and we find out she's the neighbor of one of our recent converts!! WHAT hahaha cool stuff so we showed the easter video of Jesús and we just bearing testimony of the Resurrection and what not. Then i felt the impression to just touch on the importance of Christ in our church and not just our lives in general. I read in 2 Nephi 25 how we preach of Christ we talk of Him and we rejoice in Him and we do these things so that our kids may know how to live and be happy. I could tell it touched her and she's gonna start talking the lessons from us! so cool!!

Anyways I just wanted to bear my testimony of the importance of this weekend. I echo the words of the apostles and prophets that He does live!! He is not some grand Deity that chills in the heavens and waits for our lives to pass so we are judged. He is ACTIVELY involved in our lives. He loves us. He wants us to return to Him and The Father. There is no such thing as lost causes or "exceptions" or "ive sinned to much" hes here in every momento and every place. The tomb is empty!! Que guardemos los mandamientos de Dios para que tengamos la felicidad no sólo en esta vida sino la vida venidera.

One funny thing. Our second counselor came to conference with sunglasses and i was like hey hermano those are tight super cool my brother and i guess he really liked that compliment cause he got really friendly with me and just gave me another pair he had. Hes older so i think he felt good that a Young (good looking handsome funny) missionary said that to him hahaha. So i watched the last sesión with sick sunglasses but i got back to the house and i realized i left them at the church...haha its ok i dont think i can tract with those on hahaha

I LOVE AND MISS YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!!! TEAM MEDEIROS

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros

Conference this week!!

WEll happy day my family!!! Guess what on wednesday i complete 8 months!! WHAT haha crazy!

ANDREW

WOOOO!! Get the driving goods my friend!! Love to here you doing good haha i remember Gross he was always there early when i did track practices. Haha hes a beast my friend. Anyways good to hear about the piano though!! Im gonna get back and youll be better than i am! say waht haha. Anyways good job on the grades too!! AND YOUR TESTIMONY. Good job my brother. Keep it up and stay strong in the church. Its amazing man. Keep it up!! i love you!

Sarah!!

My dear Sarah Elizabeth Medeiros. It is my pleasure to have the privilege in this hermoso March day to advise you that i have indeed to read your formal letter. Hahahaha im doing good!! Its crazy out here! Keep up the personal progress i love to see you doing that!! Its such a blessing as well as your amazing art skill. You have such a talent! I love you Sarah!!

Jenna!!

Im glad to hear your are doing great!! :) and Piano and you can already play a song?? WOWO haha thats so awesome i'm so proud of you!!! Im eating lots of beans out here too ;)

Well yeap and other week done hahaha its crazy. Well so sad that the trees died... :( haha its ok sounds like it was necessary but hey lucky you guys get to Arizona this week and partake of the heat that i'm walking in haha i'm gonna die its so hot. I have sunscreen but its SOOO expensive here and my headaches are starting to come back again and i've been drinking so much wáter so who knows but yea.

Anyways i'm gonna start off by saying the baptism didn't happen :( she passed the interview but she told us at the very end that she's not married and lives with her bf so she cant get baptized till they get married or separate...so that sucked really bad but we expressed our love to her and we are going to continue teaching her and working with her. Mari is awesome!!

Anyways so yea this week was really hard for that point but i had a couple really cool experiences.

One i was Reading in personal study time and i came across Luke 1:37 that just simply says for God everything is possible and i felt really good about that. ITs so true. Also We had a super fun FHE last night with our RC. We played some games and what not and then we talked about the resurrection and what not with Easter coming and we showed the video for the new initiative by the church and whatnot. Its so cool. You guys have got to see the video and do some FHE with it. Its so powerful. One thing that i love is that it mentions how universal Christ is. Lots of people here come up to us and are like OH you guys are walking in the góspel everyday thats not for me i'm a sinner and what not but really IT DOESNT MATTER who you are or where you have been BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH THING as lost causes or any pain or suffering that he cant touch and repair and comfort. He lives! Also i cant definitely say i'm at the point where i'm sufficient with the language! So thats really cool Still have my crappy days and still have a lot to learn but its cool! The gift of tongues is so really!! I always thought i was to dumb to learn another language or not worthy or good enough!! but hey have practicing my butt of everyday its getting there! Thats kinda cool to be able to express myself better haha.

also funny so we had a rat in our house and yea so we set the trap one night and we came back and the cheese was gone and the trap wasn't activated..so what...and then we did it again and the same thing happened so we freaked cause we are like NOOO ITS NOT A RAT WAHT IS IT. but then the 3rd time i received personal revelation from the heavens to set it one more time and IT WORKED and i had to dispose of it and it was so gross but hey we are the masters of this house lol.

Anyways conference this week and im so excited!!!! Enjoy it and take advantage of all the teachings!!! LOVE YOU GUYS!! TEAM MEDEIROS

Elder Joshua Chad Medeiros