Dive 10/8/2022

 Its been another interesting week, hence why my weekly covering the last week is so late. 

 

Tuesday we got to meet with our member Christian in the afternoon, and had our final meeting with our branch mission leader Mike at his house over dinner since he has just been released.

 

Wednesday was district council as always and afterward, we got to meet with our pretty awesome convert Richard. In the evening, we went with our member Moroni and his friend Jake to dinner and they showed us all their guitars, a couple of which I got to play.

 

We had lunch with our friend Julia who's on date for baptism and her sister Thursday at Joe's Crab Shack, which was pretty close to the Kemah boardwalk. There was some pretty nice ocean views over there. We did our weekly planning in the afternoon and had a great time with everyone at institute in the evening. 

 

Elders Van Wagoner and Rowley surprised us Friday afternoon with a pass off lesson. We met Patrick at Buc-ee's, who then led us to the nearby Buddhist temple. There we taught him about baptism and the gospel of Jesus Christ and put him on date for the 29th. He is super awesome and super excited to be born again and draw nearer to the Savior. That evening both the sets of Clear Lake missionaries joined us and the youth for volleyball again. I may or may not have gotten a little too into it and scraped up my elbow and knee pretty bad. It was kinda funny to see the youth and their leaders come up to me one by one came up to tell me I was bleeding like I didn't already know. I think they were more concerned for my mental health than my physical health through the way I was playing.

 

We watched the first two sessions of Saturday General Conference at the Alvin institute building, and had food and played games in between and after sessions. In the evening, we just watched the final session of the day at our apartment.

 

Sunday we watched the first session of General Conference at the church with Mike, and went to the Larsons for crepes and to join them for the last session. General Conference was amazing again as always and another cool opportunity to experience as a missionary.

 

Zone Pday was this week, and we had a pancake breakfast and played a ton of volleyball along with at some point a big game of clue. We make a really interesting craft at FHE in the evening which I have to say I'll probably end up burning mine.

 

This week was pretty awesome and was extra spiritual since we had General Conference and more importantly someone's desire to come closer to Jesus Christ through the covenant at baptism.

 

-Elder Thompson