So this week has been full of cool miracles and a million times ten mistakes......
Monday, our zone leaders texted us and said that there wouldn't be a zone activity, so we got together with Sister Keller and Sister Reynolds and had a sisters' zone activity! We went to Yo Crazy and thrift shopping. We actually found some really cute cheap clothes and maybe a had a little bit too much fun without the elders 
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After that Sister Smullin and I went grocery shopping and we got this text for our district leader. Apparently they were having a zone activity without us and everyone was at the church playing soccer!! I have never seen my wonderful companion get so mad..... being left-out is seriously no fun! We had dinner that night at a beautiful house in the Solemint Ward (the Cawlies) they were just the sweetest family. They bought me my favorite ice-cream and bought Sister Smullin cheese cake! During the dinner one of the ward members started choking and it was just so scary. Then I got strawberry juice all over my new dress! After everything calmed down they gave us a tour of their house.... they have a water slide and basketball courts. Sister Smullin and I are already planning to come see them after the mission. I had a special skype call with Sister Pinter to go over all of the baptismal dates in the Valencia Zone and the Santa Clarita Zone and to see how all of my beautiful sisters are doing. Then Sister Smullin and I went to my zone leadership meeting.
Tuesday was weekly planning day, (which is always a very tiring event), two hours of studies and three hours of planning makes me so sleepy! We were knocking doors and we found Joe! Joe is a really cool guy who loves learning more about Jesus Christ, and learning about basically any religion! He has a huge knowledge of church history and we had a super cool conversation with him! We gave him a Book of Mormon and he promised to read it! Then we got a return appointment! We had accidentally scheduled two dinner appointments so we just decided to go to both of them. The first dinner we had was with the Smiths. They have two adorable boys. Graham and Alter. Graham is four, he walked up to me asked me what my name was then asked me if I would please sit by him during dinner. Then he taught me how to properly play with legos! We were having a great time when he informed me that he doesn't like girls.... except his mom. He's a smart boy for sure!
Our second dinner was with Jennifer!! We shared our testimonies with her and are just really hoping to build a good relationship with her! We had an appointment with Clarissa who is a pass-off from the elders. We've never actually meet her yet. Anyway we couldn't find parking and she lives in a gated community so we made a blonde decision and parked by the gate... well we couldn't get in and cars started parking behind us so we were literally stuck!!! Then our zone leaders saw us and started texting us roasts about causing traffic jams!!
Finally the gate opened and we just went home...... when we got home our house smelt weird... we walked into the kitchen and our kitchen sink was full of disgusting grey water. We called the district leader to see what we should do and they said to leave it and call maintenance in the morning...... so we got ready for bed and at 10:24pm I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and I could hear this sound of water trickling in the kitchen... I walk in and our floor was covered in inches of water and our sink was just over flowing!!!! I screamed to Sister Smullin and... panicking we both called the zone leaders for help. They didn't pick up the phone!!! We called the district leaders and they gave us the number for maintenance. Then we called maintenance and they didn't answer!! We ended up just filling our mop buckets with water and dumping them in our tub because we realized the our kitchen floor was wood! Elder Brown and Elder Miskin, our district leaders came over and helped us clean up the water. Needless to say we didn't get it all cleaned up till 1:00am, which for a missionary is so late. Before Elders Brown and Miskin left they gave us a dozen chocolate chips cookies... they are my heros.
Wednesday I had a mission leadership conference so we didn't have a chance to catch up on our sleep. We met Sister Pinter in Saugus and our companions went to work in Mint Canyon while we were gone. I just love being Sister Pinter's Sister Training Leader companion!! It is just like the good old days in the MTC. Well because I was so sleepy I ended up offending a few people because I kept losing focus in the conversations we were having. It was so stressful! But good news...maintenance finally came and fixed our sink while we were gone. We had dinner at the Spencers and they are so cool!! They have ten kids who all have hilarious personalities. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a dinner. After dinner we went to the Kellys to read the Book of Mormon. Brother Kelly loves to tease us, and we love to tease him back. It is a miracle that we can even feel the spirit I swear.
Today we found two people! Jimmy and Dorsely. Jimmy was found during knock-out. He had friends who were Mormon growing up and they would take him to stake dances! We gave him a Book of Mormon, got a return appointment, and he promised to come to church with us in a few weeks. Dorsely is the son of our investigator Lavonia. Sisters Burns and Smullin found him while I was at Mission Leadership Council. He's a very cool kid who wants to learn more about the church with his mom.
Thursday we had a lesson with Lori; she is so cool! She understands the gospel so well and she has been reading the Book of Mormon for years!! She use to investigate the church, but her husband asked her to stop. Well she wants to start up again and she just loves talking about anything gospel related! We had district meeting and Sister Smullin and I got to do a training on using baptismal calendars! The training went well! Then we had exchanges. I got to go with Sister Keller to Saugus! I love Saugus! We taught a lesson to their recent convert Ron! He is in his 90's and it the cutest man alive! Then we were knocking doors and found Derick! He invited us to come back and teach him more! After knock out I realized that I had left the Saugus phone at the apartment... go me. We had dinner at a really cool less active family's home! The wife is a member, but the husband is not. It was so cool to see how much they love missionaries. Meanwhile in Mint Canyon and Solemint, Sisters Smullin and Reynolds found Sabrina while they were out knocking doors!!
Friday we exchanged back and Sister Smullin and I had a Ward Correlation with our ward mission leader Brother Motrie! He is so cool!! He's a fantastic ward mission leader and I can't wait to work with him. His daughter Olivia is a world famous soccer player and she is only 12.....super cool family. He bought us pizza for lunch then he got us 14 donuts for the week. He says he know he's our favorite ward mission leader so we don't have to thank him because he already knows...... what a tease LoL. We went to the Todd's for dinner and got to teach Jack his last baptismal lesson. His baptism is going to be on the 19th!! we are so excited!!
Saturday all of our lessons canceled on us!!! So we just did stop-bys and had a slow day.... I put an address in the GPS to go stop-by a member in Solemint and ended up putting the wrong address in.... we were on the free-way and by the time we figured it out... we had already left our zone and were heading to another one!! Oh my gosh!! We ended up missing an hour of knock-out and had to text President Henrie to tell him what had happened.... go me .....We got to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by going to get sushi with Brother Kelly!! He also bought us muscles to try!! Best Cinco de Mayo ever!!
Sunday was crazy!! I managed to leave my name tag home and had to go to 6 hours of church with out it!! The wards had a great time teasing me about it!!
Well this week was nuts, but I did learn a lot. I love you all!! Have a great week!
Love, Sister Howard 
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