This transfer has been jam-packed with things so far. Plenty for me to do to keep my missionary spirit alive. There's just so much it's been making me put my emails on the back burner. This'll be yet another one covering two weeks.
My
first day in the area was pretty standard. We had our district council a day
early in the morning. In the afternoon Elder Mafi and I went to the Family
History Center to share a message with the people there and have some food. We
also had a dinner that evening with the Morrises in our ward.
My
second day in the area was really interesting. Elders Unga and Best came to my
area on exchanges since all our comps were away in leadership meetings. I
basically took us around to a few service referrals and helped them out with
some cleanup after our big storm. Elder Mafi and I got back together and
visited our weird convert friend Manny, who I'd met at the institute before
while I was in the YSA. He claims to have Satan, Angel, and Jesus powers, so
we're helping him through that.
Thursdays
we have a food truck service at another church, this time we go with our entire
district. It was a lot of fun getting to sort out and distribute food yet
again, and then be able to talk with the district at lunch afterward. We got to
stop by a few of our friends in the afternoon, and in the evening we knocked a
referrals door we had gotten in the morning, and met Lisa and Melinda who were
awesome and loved to see us since they had met with the Sisters in the past,
like when I had first gotten to Texas.
In
the morning on Friday, we picked up Elder Unga from the ZLs to
"babysit" him for a day. He just was butting heads with them in a
quad so we said we'd be happy to have him come with us. We took him out
knocking doors and stopping by referrals, and we also helped Brother Romero
move some stuff. We also went to the ward Family Home Evening/Game Night to
share a message and play games with some members and recent converts.
Saturday
was spent knocking lots of doors and contacting referrals. We did see some kids
playing basketball at an apartment complex, so we decided to join. We of course
destroyed them, even though they kept talking smack before and after. We also
got to give them each Book of Mormons and shared a quick message. That evening,
we had another really great lesson with Lisa and Melinda, and then we met the
ZLs at the Friendswood building to give them Unga back.
We
went to all of our missionary meetings and church on Sunday. I had the chance
to introduce myself and share my testimony over the pulpit as well since i'm
new to the area. We called and texted a bunch of friends in the afternoon
before Elder Mafi got tied up with stewardship calls.
Monday
was not our pday, since it got moved to Thursday. In the morning, we helped a
family move from their apartment in Alvin to a new one in Friendswood, we were
with the Sisters in our district and the Zone Leaders who are in the
Friendswood area. In the evening, we had a bizarre "lesson" with our
friend Stacey, her kids, and her friend. The lesson didn't really happen until
the end, and it was just the kids watching a Book of Mormon video. During our
time before that, she kept saying the whole time how much she just loved Elder
Mafi and everything about him, she even asked if he would take her 10 yr-old
daughter to a father-daughter dance. It was strange, and although I've been
around a lot more dangerous and wild people, places, and things on my mission,
that was the time I've felt the most scared, out of place, and awkward. After
that experience, I went with Elder Peterson on exchanges to the Alvin Spanish
area. We talked on and on about BYU football that night which was a very nice
change of pace.
In
the morning we went to help the Sisters teach English class, but sadly no one
showed up. We spent most of the day walking around trailer parks and taking
breaks to call a bunch of people. We did have one guy tell us he had a
"pistola", which is I guess a pistol in Spanish. I'm pretty sure it
was a threat to shoot us, but the way it came out was too funny so we just
walked away. We also went to Burger King, which was pretty funny because the
workers there all recognized our name tags when we walked in, and revealed to
us that the Sister missionaries go there all the time for dinner, so that was some
fun dirt to have on them. We exchanged back later that evening.
Wednesday
we had a solid district council in the morning. In the afternoon we were all
over the place grabbing stuff for our apartment. We had good lessons with our
friends Corinna and Andres in the evening. When we taught Andres, Brother Cain
was there to be a miracle worker, he shared really good testimony and related
well to our friend and his life experiences. It was an amazing time.
Pday
was on Thursday this week. We met as a zone in the morning for a quick
breakfast, then headed up together to go to the temple. That was an awesome
experience as the temple always is, and I can't wait to go again in the near
future. In the evening, we stopped by institute quickly, and I got to see all
my YSA friends again. That was pretty fun being around all of them.
Friday
we went to a stake missionary breakfast all the way at the Magnolia building,
which is way too far for us missionaries in Alvin to be driving at 6:30 in the
morning. In the afternoon we deep-cleaned our car since it was getting way too
messy and dirty. We taught our friend Ishea and then Sis. Slater took us to
Whataburger for dinner. We then went again to FHE. We also stopped by Christian
Correa's house to get some money from him.
The
next morning, we bought some food with the money and had lunch with Christian
at his place. It was fun catching up with him again and talking about the YSA,
and the Sacramento Stake. The rest of the day we continuously invited our
friends to church and were out finding new people to teach.
Sunday
we went to all our normal church and missionary meetings. We got fed by the
Arnolds later in the evening.
Monday
was pday again, and we spent a lot of time playing chair soccer and scatterball
with our district. In the evening, we scheduled a bunch of lessons with our
progressing friends.
There
was a lot of good that came from the work we put in the last couple weeks, and
I'm hoping to continue the great work and see more of the Lord's hand the rest
of the transfer.
-Elder
Thompson
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