If your wondering why I moved P-Day, it's because of the ridiculous Houston weather. I'm sure you've heard a little about the flooding going on because of the torrential rain. And have y'all heard about the tornado? Yeah, lots of work and service!
So for starters, we went to the temple last week. SO AWESOME! Oh man, it was such an amazing and crazy experience. So from the beginning... we got up at 4:00 with plans to leave around 4:45 because the session started at 6:30, and we had a longish drive to Houston. Elder Holderness was in shotgun with Elder Huaraca and Mehew in back. At first, the gps was taking us a weird, fewest-miles rout, so we switched it to fastest time. After a little while, we took a wrong turn, on the freeway I'd never driven. After the 15 minute correction, we got back on, and I was stressing. I'd probably never live in Houston at least because the freeway systems are ridiculous.
After driving for about half the trip, it started to rain. Hard. I'm talking rain like I'd never driven in before, or quite possibly, seen before. I could barely see the car in front of me, and we were going about 35 on a 55. I was SO stressed out! At about 6:20, we got to the neighborhood street that leads to the temple in about 3 miles. The street's called Cypresswood, and it was flooding. I drove through some pretty deep water. We had texted President telling hem we'd be cutting it close. We got to a half-mile from the temple and saw a missionary car stuck in a puddle in front of us. Right then, President called us and told us to turn back and go home. He said he didn't want us driving on Cypresswood.
After obeying the Spirit, we decided we couldn't turn back because the road had gotten worse. We took a neighborhood street and ended up there at the temple at 6:45. We missed the session, and were bummed, but were stoked to see the majestic temple. We had a training/class discussion with President that was awesome, and the best session afterwards that he let us go to. It was the best thing ever. I love the temple! And after we were so happy there in the temple, we walked out to a beautiful day, and you could barely tell it was ever raining!
However, others were seriously affected by all the flooding this week. This Thursday, we spent the day helping herd kids in this rescue center. We definitely were forced to brake the rule of no holding/tickling kids.
Friday, the mission helped the city with removing people's carpets that were destroyed. That and furniture. So sad. So much destruction. But man, you feel good doing what Jesus would do. This week, we did about 24 hours of service each, and I felt like it was more missionary work than I'd done in a long time.
Saturday, we had stake conferences, in which we were out of the rain in a building. They were all really great conferences! Great speakers. I heard L. Tom Perry passed away. So sad! He'll be greatly missed.
On Sunday, and Yesterday, we translated for Red Cross at a tornado site. People's apartments were destroyed, and we helped them to get financial support they needed. It was so fun, very humbling, and a wonderful experience talking to so many amazing people. I love this mission. I ask for your prayers on behalf of all those who are suffering the effects of the weather. Thank you all. I love you, and have a great week!
-Elder Spjute
Isn't she the cutest thing? Her name's Leti (Leticia). She's one of our investigators' daughters.
Me and Elder Holderness at the thrift store
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