This week was incredibly crazy and super wild and overall insanely awesome.
Tuesday
we had the opportunity to teach our member friend Josh, and I got super close
to beating him in chess afterward. He makes his own wooden sets and practices
a lot so the fact I got as close as I did to winning is a miracle. That evening
our branch missionary Jacob took us to a really upscale Korean BBQ place for
dinner.
Wednesday
we didn't have district council, but we still decided to go to Fruity Party
Island. The Torres actually let us learn how to make our own food in the
restaurant's kitchen and then eat afterward. We did weekly planning a day early as
well since our next day would be busy.
We
had a pretty awesome zone conference on Thursday as well. We got there early so
I got to sing in the missionary choir which I haven't done in forever and loved
doing. We learned a lot about strengthening our own relationship with Christ and
discovering who we are, which was a nice change since zone conferences usually
focus on how we can help those we teach. We of course had to stop at Montag's
on the way home as well. We had dinner with the Larsons and went to institute
that evening.
We
went all the way out to Friendswood on Friday to teach a friend, but he
canceled on us, so we taught a member of ours over zoom at the Friendswood
building and then came back to our church building to teach our member friend
Christian and give him a blessing as well. We also tried to get pizza with gift
cards a member had given me a while ago, but for some reason, it took like an
hour for the people at Domino's to figure out the system, so that was basically
the rest of our evening.
Saturday,
we played basketball as always. We also wasted so many of our allotted miles. I
wanna say for 3 or 4 hours we were driving around to teach different scheduled
lessons all over our area, and every single one of them canceled last minute.
Our member friend Joel was at least nice enough that night to give us all the
leftover food from his event and chat with us.
Sunday
was really our only "normal" day. We went to church and met some new
members and nonmembers that came. That afternoon we tried contacting people
before joining our ward for come follow me.
We
woke up Monday at 4 am then took a 5-minute drive down to NASA. We were with
missionaries from League City and Friendswood zones trying to be some of the
first people into the space center for the launch party for Artemis 1. We got
there early enough that we got a lot of cool free stuff and got to walk around
NASA with other missionaries for a couple hours before the scheduled launch
window. It was a blast, but sadly the launch ended up getting delayed. We went
out with our district to breakfast, then spent the day with the Clear Lake
district playing volleyball and card games at our church building. That evening
we also got to join or branch at FHE for trivia.
It
was an amazing week and I've been so grateful for all experiences and
opportunities, good or bad, Heavenly Father has given us.
-Elder
Thompson
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