Elder Jonathan Fraley: Life in Summerwood

Hey y’all!

Another week down! This one was a good one! It went by pretty quick, except for Wednesday and Sunday. Those went by really slow. Elder Stringfellow is awesome! We are like best buds already! He is from Bountiful! President Eyring is in his ward... lucky. Yes my neighborhood is one to send packages to! Our apartment is in Summerwood mom.... Summerwood... let’s just say we are in one of the nicest parts of the mission, surrounded by million dollar homes. Our apartment is soooo nice by the way. Nicest Spanish apartment in the mission. Blessed. The mission home is still wrecked from what I know. There’s like no supplies right now. We might go to President Rascon’s house. He lives here in Summerwood. He’s a news anchor for abc13 here in Houston. He’s famous. He has like a billion emmys. He’s the first counselor in the mission presidency. Such an inspired man too. To answer your question about weather... Houston has one season. Summer. Besides the week in January that can hit 40s. Other than that it’s blazing hot. Last Christmas it was like 80 degrees!

Monday was good! We had a good day and had lots of fun. For lunch we went to this buffet place because we were craving sushi. We ate a lot of it haha. We played basketball and volleyball. A lot of missionaries go to the pine trails building and serve in this area, so on pday there are lots of people there. It is fun.

Tuesday I was on exchanges with Elder Aybar in my area. He is a greenie, it’s his second transfer. He is originally from the Dominican Republic, so he’s fluent in Spanish, but moved to Utah three years ago. He’s so funny. We had a fun day! We taught an awesome lesson to a lady we magically found. I even gave her a blessing because she was having bad migraines. Her name is Lupe. English missionaries have taught her in the past but dropped her because she had so many questions.. which I thought was weird because she’s awesome! And prepared! We tried lots of other people and had a few good lessons here and there. Tuesday night we played soccer again. It was so fun! I wish I played and stuck with it, I’m better than I give myself credit. I do good against these Mexicans haha. It would be nice to have cleats though. All the Mexicans have them on but I’m just in some running shoes haha.

Wednesday was lame. It was a boring day. On paper we planned a really awesome day but it didn’t turn out. So that’s too bad. Oh well. Maybe next time haha. All of our appointments fell through and nothing happened. Luckily Stringfellow and I were able to make the bad day fun. We are too funny! We went to this pizza place called Persona that a member owns and he gave us free pizza. It’s super good. It’s like a subway for pizza! It’s Neapolitan pizza, like Settebellos in SLC. They say we can just go in whenever for pizza!

Thursday was good. We had weekly planning and we did it in our apartment complex office. They always have free cookies and it’s super nice. There’s also a hot chocolate maker in there for residents so we have the hookups. For lunch we went to Persona again. It was yummy! I had a bbq bacon ranch chicken pizza that was so good. For dinner we tried this new sushi place that just opened up. I had been eyeing it for a while, but it was still being finished. We finally were able to try it though. It was super yummy, and they have good deals. For their basic rolls you can mix and match any three for 9.95. So that’s 24 pieces of sushi. Pretty good deal I think. Then their specialty rolls look so good but those are more expensive for less. We love sushi too much I think this is where are money will be going to for a while haha.

Friday we had district meeting which was good. We helped the hermanas give a chapel tour too which was cool. Really interesting because he was being pretty stubborn but I gave him a really powerful promise and left him to be an agent to act. The spirit was super strong. We had ward correlation too. That wasn’t too bad.

Saturday we went to Persona again. Tasty as usual. I did something super embarrassing too... I ran a red light... haha!! I was talking to Elder Stringfellow about something that happened earlier that day and we were laughing super hard and I guess I just didn’t notice... luckily there was no one there.

Sunday was ehh. We had church, which was back to normal. Had a full three hours for the first time in awhile and it wasn’t combined anymore. We taught gospel principles about eternal families last minute. It went well. After church however the day went so slow. No one was home, and we just tried a bunch of people and no success... didn’t have a dinner appointment either so that was sad. We are all out of MSF too and out of food so we were stuck scavenging. Idk how we will make it through this next week! Wish us luck! Hopefully someone will feed us haha.

I hope everyone is doing okay! I’d love to hear from my siblings btw. please tell me all about your weeks!! Love you guys! Have a good week mom!