Hahah this week was pretty much insane..... so this might be a long e-mail my friends!
Monday was an awesome p-day! We went thrift store shopping and found some super cute things. Then we hit up a few more stores and just had a super good time trying things on and getting to know each other better. Then we had dinner at the Clarks. The Clark family is so adorable. The have five little blond children with curly hair and I have decided that my future family is going to look exactly like them.
Tuesday we walked to Allison's house to see how she is doing. Well she is doing fantastic and loves her new job. Then, as we were walking back to our car, this lady leaned out of her window and invited us into her house to teach her a discussion!! We were surprised and happily went inside. Apparently Andrea remembered me from when I had knocked on her door months ago and when she saw us walking she felt this sudden urg to invite us in! We taught her the restoration and invited her to read from the Book of Mormon. She said she would love to and invited us to come back later and teach her more. She is cool because she asks super deep questions that are so fun getting to answer with scriptures.
We had a lesson with Liberty and we taught her the law of chastity. The whole lesson she was like dang it! why didn't I know this when I was younger?? It just makes so much sense!! She loved hearing about how our bodies are temples that house our spirits and how important it is to respect them. Then we helped her do some cleaning in her house. I love her so so much. She is hilarious, the whole time I was doing her dishes she was making comments about how this gospel is going to really help her naughty kids. It cracks me up! Logan is 10 and Brandon is 6.
We had dinner at the Smiths. They are the cutest couple ever! The made us fantastic tacos and had us laughing the whole meal. Graham and Alter, their cute little boys, love to talk to me about legos and super heros. We shared a video about Jesus with them and Graham made some of the cutest comments I have ever heard:) Nothing is sweeter then hearing a 5 year old talk about how much they love Jesus.
Wednesday we had Mission Leadership Council! I got to drive us 1hr and 1/2 to the meeting, The meeting was very spiritual and the trainings were great, but it was so weird not knowing any of the sisters there... after the meeting we drove all the way back and were just in time to go to dinner. We ate with the Wilsons! They are fantastic and we taught them the restoration. Then we invited them to share it with a friend! It is so cool to see how strong the spirit comes into a room when you testify of Joseph Smith! We stopped by the Kellys to read the scriptures with them and ended up holding their snake Allen... he is 6 feet long and very scary... but yeah I held him again... yay...
Thursday we had a ward correlation meeting with Brother Moultrie. We had the meeting at Dennys which was amazing! Yay for waffles! Then we came home, did some studies, and went out for lunch with Brother Marsh and his son Zander! Brother Marsh told us his cool mission stories and we got Zander to promise to read the Book of Mormon.
Then we had a lesson with Jennifer. Oh my gosh I love Jennifer. She is just so cute. We shared a video about God's love for us. Then we talked a lot about our personal testimonies and how we gained them. The spirit was so strong and I know that Jennifer is really starting to open up to us. She is just a sweetheart.
We had another lesson with cute Liberty and we taught her the word of wisdom. When we told her about coffee she was pretty sad because she loves her coffee but she got so excited when we told her there are substitutes that she can drink instead. She wrote them all down and happily said that she would no longer be drinking coffee!! She just amazes me!
Jennifer found out that we didn't have dinner and invited us to come back so she could feed us. She had some friends over and it was soo cool to see how much of an example she is to her friends. She is the driest Mormon I have ever meet in my life. After her friends left we had a very spiritual message about how sometime Heavenly Father asks us to do things that we don't fully understand. We had cool scriptures that we didn't plan for coming to mind and everything was completely guided by the spirit. It was just so amazing,
Friday we had district counsel which was awesome! I adore my district, Since it is four sisters and two elders, our district leader calls it Relief Society and we now meet in the Relief Society room. We had another lesson with Andrea which was cool because she read everything that we left and had some very deep things to talk about. She mostly did the talking, then said that she wasn't interested in changing her beliefs, which is just fine. On our way out she thanked us to much for coming over and asked us to please come back and talk to her some more! Then we had a lesson with Sister Valencia. We shared a video on repentance and talked a lot about personal testimonies and personally making it back home to Heavenly Father. Repentance is just such a special gift from Heavenly Father. Then we went to the Burgess's and read scriptures and shared the restoration with them. Brother Burgess gave us a load of advice on how to make our lessons better which was very helpful. We had dinner with the Lamersons and Aidon taught me all about dinsours and how much they weight. He is such a smart little guy.
After dinner we had a lesson with Jesse and we were running late and couldn't find parking.... we finally found a spot and started parallel parking when the front of our car rubbed against the back of someone else's car... uh oh... guess who was driving... me... well the owner's wife saw and was livid so she got her husband who came and yelled at us.. which makes sense because its a nice car... I couldn't see the damage... neither could he because the cars were still touching so he kept telling me I had completely ruined his car... so I ended up bawling my eyes out, finally got the car away from his and we both realized that there were only four tiny scratches... He felt bad that he made me cry and we easily got everything sorted out... needless to say we never got to Jesse's lesson... dang it dang it... We ended up going home and calling it a day.
Saturday was a day full of service. We got up and did all the paper work for the car scratches. Then did service for Brother Burgess. We got all of his food storage moved around and helped him organize his fridge. Then we went to Tina Householder's house and helped her pack her stuff away because she is moving. She was so sweet and wanted to give us all of her stuff. I ended up with a new hat and some cute pjs. It was so nice just being able to work hard physically and get my mind off of last night. We had dinner with Sister Rodriguez at the Habit which is the best burger place in town! We talked a lot about her daughter being on a mission and how much we love our mom's support while we are on our mission. Mom's are just the coolest! Then we went to Jake's Way because we had a lesson with Liberty and were opening to do some street contacting when we noticed this guy getting his mail... We were far away when we saw him and picked up our pace to try and talk to him. But the time we got to the mail box he was already way down the street so I got this random desire to yell at him. So I did. He turned around smiled and invited us to his house. Apparently all of the members in his family are Mormons and he is the only one who isn't. He is excited to learn more about the gospel and we were able to have the bishop come over and help us teach him about the restoration. The spirit was strong and we invited him to be baptized! He accepted for September 1! Ya ya!! He also promised to read from the Book of Mormon. Marion is way cool and prepared . We then took bishop to meet Liberty! Which was awesome and made Liberty so happy. Jake's Way is a little sketchy especially at night and we had all these guys hitting on us while we were walking around (bishop was not impressed) after the lesson bishop made us promise that we won't be going back their late at night... then he walked us to our car. We got a phone call from the Lamersons that Aidon had hit his head and was in the emergency room! Ahh my little boy... which was so sad.. but Sister Lamerson said that he was having a good time telling all the nurses about dinosaurs.
Sunday was amazing!! Myiluv, Liberty and Marion all came to church!!! Yay!!! Myiluv is doing wonderful with the ward and everyone just adores her. They found her some cute church clothes and are planning fun things for her birthday in October. We taught Liberty and Marion the 10 Commandments in church and had Sister De Jesus and Brother and Sister Smith come in and it was a super wonderful lesson. Oh my gosh ward members are my favorite people! Liberty just loved church so much and texted us all these thank yous for letting her come. Marion also loved church and ended up calling us and telling us how much she loves it as well. After church we went into the nursery and found all the dinosaurs and sent a funny video of us trying to guess their names to Aidon. He is doing so much better:) yay! We had dinner with the Taits and bishop. Brother Tait and bishop are both animators. So dinner was hilarious because they kept narrating all the things that were happening. Haha it was awesome.
Well I love you all and hope you have a great week!!
Love, Sister Howard
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