Hello my cute family and friends!! Sorry I didn't email last week!! I was on a bomb hike!! Don't worry though I will send two emails talking about both weeks... which will probably take forever to read but you don't have to read them if you don't want to haha! I seriously do love all of you so much!! Thank you for all of the letters, emails and packages!
October 1-7
Monday was p-day and because we are sister training leaders, we got to plan a sister activity. We felt inspired to ask Carmen if we could come over to her house and bake cookies. She was overjoyed and could not wait for Monday to come. When we got to Carmen's we instantly could tell that she had been having a bad day. Ever since her husband passed away she has been overwhelmed with sadness. Some days she even forgets to eat because she is so sad. We baked cookies (my Aunt Camellia's recipe) with her, talked to her, and comforted her. Then we all sat down and ate chocolate chip cookies and watched the New Testament movie. She loved the cookies so much that we even were able to convince her to eat multiple cookies and to keep some for later. I got to watch her feelings of sadness change into feelings of joy. What a huge blessing to be able to be a part of her life. She is such a doll. For dinner we went to the Pomazal's. They like to pick a scripture for us, then have us make a spiritual thought out of the scripture.
It was Haggi 2:12-13
12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
What a scripture! I was like how do I even make this spiritual... I ended up talking about keeping ourselves spiritually clean and keeping our covenants with Heavenly Father. I think I passed haha. Then we went around and took cookies to ward member and heart attacked their houses. We went to the Lucky's house to heart attack them. So I snuck up to the door put all the hearts on the door super fast then knocked the door and ran like the wind! A couple minutes later we get a text from sister Lucky! Apparently I was so ninja that the motion detector didn't realize that I was there so it didn't go off! (Sister Howard 1, Motion detector 0 ;) Then we went over to the sister's apartment and had story time. Sister Pankratz told her version of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". Which her opinion of things always just makes me laugh so so hard. Hahaha that movie will never be the same.
Tuesday We had interviews with President Layton. My interview went well and so did Sister Pankratz interview. Then we drove up to Kern Valley to have a lesson with Heather. Heather is doing wonderfully. She is very prepared for her baptism. We taught her the law of chastity which she just loves. That lesson is so much more fun to teach when you are teaching it to a married couple. After the lesson we drove back to Ridgecrest to have dinner with the Johnson family. We shared the "Dare to Stand Alone" video, and talked about building a stronger relationship with our Savior.
Wednesday We went to the mission leadership council in Tehachapi. It went very well!! The mission is doing so good and so is our zone! I am so proud of how much Ridgecrest has grown in the time that I have been here. MLC pretty much took all day so we drove back to Ridgecrest and had dinner at the McDonald's house. Sister McDonald has all boys so she just loves it when we come over. We always play a board game with her. Plus we get to play with her cute great dane puppies! After dinner we had ward correlation with our ward mission leader. He showed us all of his adorable wedding photos because they are still a newly wed couple, and we talked about all the people in the ward that we would like to help and what we can do to help the people that we are currently teaching.
Thursday we had apartment and car inspections. Brother and Sister Sturgeon are the cutest elderly couple ever!! They made me feel so good about myself just because I know how to clean my house and make my bed. Hahah I just love them. Then for lunch we made southern mac and cheese just like how Elder Peyson taught us to make it. Which I'll be honest it is so much better then kraft mac and cheese. Then we had a leadership meeting with Elder Peyson and Elder Maxwell to talk about how we can help our zone keep improving. Elder Peyson and Elder Maxwell always make me laugh so hard. I just adore both of them. We had dinner at Brother and Sister Hannah's house then we went to go visit Sister Calderon and take her some beans that Sister Hannah made for her. Sister Calderon is doing a lot better from her surgery. We went for a walk with her so she could stretch herself and she just had us laughing so hard. I really love the Calderons so much! While we were there Jose decided that he wanted to take us all on a hike for Columbus Day. So we are all way excited for that!
Friday We had district counsel and at the end we had a surprise party for Elder Visser and Caleb. Caleb has been coming to a all of our meetings because he is leaving to go on his mission to Mexico. I am excited for him, he will be a very good missionary. Then we went home and did some studies. We had dinner in Trona which is far away like Kern Valley. We had dinner with Rosie ( she is 22) and her little friend Gaythen. Gaythen is not a member so we had the opportunity to teach him more about the gospel of Jesus Christ and to invite him to read the Book of Mormon.
Saturday we watched conference at the stake center which was just so beautiful and so amazing. Then we went over to the Andrus house and picked up my picture book that has a lot of temple pictures for me. Then the elders made us all burgers. Which was pretty awesome. The just wanted to serve us and make conference special for us. It was so sweet. Then we went to the second session of conference which was also amazing. I just simply adored all of it. There were so many good things said and a lot of my prayers were answered.
Sunday we went to the stake center to watch the Sunday sessions of conference! In between we had a pot luck with some of the members of the stake. Nathan came and watched conference with us for the second session. Conference as a missionary is just a super special treat Then we went home because Sister Pankratz was feeling sick so she took a nap. We had dinner at the Shelbys then we had a lesson with Eli.
Love Sister Howard
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