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

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