Missionary opportunities are where you find them

One day week before last, a woman came to the door and talked to President M.  She lives in the neighborhood, and she has a 14-year old daughter who is a nationally ranked tennis player.  With the COVID restrictions, the tennis courts where she practices were shut down.  She had noticed the tennis court at the mission home and she wanted to know if her daughter and her professional coach could come do workouts here.  Well, President M. is a gracious man and he gave his assent.   It has been fun to see her working with her parents and the coach in the afternoons.
  A few days later, it happened again, but with a nationally-ranked 15 year old boy.  So we've had the boy here early afternoons, and the girl in the evenings.
  This is a missionary opportunity, and while we haven't done any lessons or church discussions, we are planting seeds of friendship and cooperation that may (or may not) bear fruit at some future day.
   Meanwhile, we have a missionary who is a power tennis player.  The missionaries come here for P-Day almost every week to use the court.  He is fairly good, and he spends his time on the court smashing balls back at the other missionaries who unintentionally send him lob after lob.  Well, today he got a real game.  The 14-year old girl agreed to play a practice match with him.  She plays in perfect balance at all times, and while she doesn't have his power, she puts the ball where she wants it.  He weaves and bobs and makes athletic moves to get in position to power the ball, although it might not be exactly where he intended.  He won some of the time, but she absolutely crushed him in the match.  It was a fun thing to watch.
  A note on the 14-year old: like many of the people here, she is powerfully built.  The young women are generally slender and beautiful like most young women, but they are also on the muscular side.  At the end the missionary was chatting with the girl's father and Dad asked what he thought.  The missionary said the girls he played before don't hit the ball so hard.  The Dad laughed and said, "She plays to win!"
  It was all very friendly.