Monday was p-day! Yay! We went to the Valencia mall and visited the cute Disney store. Then for zone activity we played chair soccer,,, which honestly is really starting to get boring... 
Tuesday we had a special counsel meeting with all of the mission leadership who were involved with the one week exchange to see how we can best bring the two missions together. It was cool to see how many good things both missions had and to make a plan how we can best learn from each other. Then we had our interviews with President Layton. The interview went well and he gave me advice on how I can make my prayers more meaningful and personal. The scripture he shared with me is Enos 2:5. It is so cool to see how the scriptures can really answer all of the questions that we have. We had dinner with Sister Valencia, She is just the coolest person ever! We have been trying to get her to come back to church and she has come once which is really an improvement! It has been so cool to see her faith grow! We started an exchange with Sister Keller and Sister Reynolds that night at 8:30. It was interesting because Bakersfeilds does exchanges differently. They have both sets of missionaries working in one area instead of one set in each area. So we got to have a sleepover with our cute sisters which was super fun!!!
Wednesday we started the exchange and I got to be comps with Sister Reynolds. I simple adore her!! We also has a few really cool miracles. We got Myilove on date for August 25th!! She is a 13 year old African american girl who had a load of questions about her purpose here on earth. Sister Thongrit and I found her while we were knocking doors! She loves to read the Book of Mormon and is so excited about the young womens' program. The best part is her dad is all for it, and loves it when we come over! We also had a lesson with Rickey!! Rickey is a pass-off that we got from the Spanish elders! We got him on date for August 18th and he is doing really good! He is always in great contact with us and loves to learn more.
We had a visit with Sister Sheils and she has asked if we will start teaching her the lessons again. She really misses church and wants to come back, but is a little nervous about it. It has been so fun to see all of her personal growth in the time that we have been able to teach her. We exchanged back and went to visit the Lauracella family. They have a bunch of baby chicks and I got to watch Sister Thongrit catch her first chicken which was pretty hilarious. Then we had dinner at the Todds house! Jack is doing very good and so is the Todd family. It was awesome because when we were looking through Brother Todd's mission photos I recognized my high school tennis coach! Brother Todd's trainer is Jeff Erickson. How cool is that?? It is seriously a small world. Then we went over to the Kellys for our weekly scripture reading. Brother Todd came with us and we had a wonderful time reading the Book of Mormon. I love getting to spend time with that family. We have gotten so close.
Thursday was weekly planning. Then we got to visit with Liberty and Logan! We taught Liberty the gospel of Jesus Christ and it was just so cool!!! She asked so many questions and even took notes as we were teaching her! We even read some chapters in the Book of Mormon with her. She seriously loves to read from it.The best part is that she is reading it on her own. Then because she is 7 months pregnant, we always help her clean after the lesson. So we tidied her house and did her dishes! I love being able to serve her. She is just so cute!
Friday we had district counsel and Sister Thongrit and I got to go give training's in each of the zones. We trained on being a more consecrated missionary. We got the training from a MTC training by Tad R Callister. It is an amazing talk and the spirit was there so strong in each of the trainings, I love being a sister training leader. It is so fun getting to serve the missionaries around me and getting to watch them all grow. We had the coolest lesson with our friend Jesse. Jesse is a single father of four kids, whom we found while we were knocking doors. He wants his kids to be raised in a religious environment and is really interested in the message we have to share. We brought Sister Zigler with us and Jesse and his kids just adored her!. They promised to come to church with us Sunday and we got them a ride!
Sunday was one of my favorite days on my mission. Brother Kelly finally came back to church!! The whole ward was so happy to see him come back and he was trying to hide his tears from us!! Myilove came to church and loved all of it!! She can't wait to come back next week and just adored all of the young women. Jesse and his cute four kids all came to church and Brother Bench gave them a ride. It was so cool to see all the love and support from the ward and the kids just loved primary so much!!
I love you all!
Love, Sister Howard
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