Hello hello!! I hope everyone has had two wonderful weeks. Things have been so busy and so good here!
December 3-9
Monday we emailed and then were going to play basketball with our zone, but Sister Williams was really not feeling good so we went home and I just read my scriptures while she slept. Sister Hobs brought us some amazing chicken noodle soup.
Tuesday we drove up to Kern Valley and we had a lesson with Jenna and Heather. They are both doing fantastic! Things have just been really really working out for them and they are just so happy. We had dinner at a cool pizza place then grabbed some hot chocolate and headed home.
Wednesday we had MLC in Tehacapi. We first had breakfast with sisters Hart and Parcel. The meeting was awesome and the spirit was strong. Then we drove up to Trona and had an awesome lesson with Jasmine! Her job is starting to settle down and her testimony has really started to grown. We headed home and Sister Williams still was really really not feeling good so we called the elders over to give her a blessing. Elder Hovendan and Elder Riser. They came and gave her a beautiful blessing. On their way out the door though.. they stole our Christmas wreath!! So naturally I chased after them to get it back and I managed to trip on the sidewalk and really skinned my knee. I didn't even get the wreath back!
Thursday we had our zone Christmas morningside. Sister Williams and I sang for the special musical number. Then we had a beautiful lesson and the nativity was done by President Layton. We watched It's a Wonderful Life" then played a white elephant game. We all ate lunch together at a place called Kristy's then had our interviews with the mission president. While we were waiting, we all stood by the piano and sang Christmas carols together. My interview with president was awesome. Then we had a planning session with our zone leader Elder Kay and his companion Elder Maxwell. We planned out some of the future district councils. Then we went home and finished doing our weekly planning.
Friday we had district counsel and I wasn't feeling good either so I really did not get much out of it. We had a lesson with Alisha and she asked us some really good questions but we just aren't sure if she really was interested or not. After I that ended up getting a blessing from Elder Visser and Elder Chandler. It was a great blessing. That night we had our ward Christmas party and it was so much fun. Jasmine came and it was fantastic. She really had a good time.
Saturday we were going to head up to Kern Valley for the Christmas party there but then some crazy stuff happened so we just ended up staying inside together.
Sunday church was awesome and we were able to have Nathan at church. I really love church. It is so nice to be able to just sit and enjoy the spirit.
December 10-16
Monday we had exchanges with Sister Albertson and Sister Sandall. I got to go with Sister Sandall and it was fantastic. We got to have dinner with Sister Meyer. Then we knocked doors and found a few people to talk to. Then we had a fantastic lesson with Sean. He's doing fantastic and simply loves us coming. Sister Hobbs came with us. Then some crazy stuff happened with the other set of sisters so they ended up calling us in a panic and we thought something really bad had happened because they asked us to pray for the elders because they were in a very dangerous house. So Sister Sandall and I were stressing and pacing around the house and the sisters get home. Apparently there were some drugs at the house while they were teaching the lesson and they didnt feel safe so they hurried and left, which makes perfect sense, but they left their purse in the house so the elders had to go back to the house and get the purse. Well no one was hurt and everything was just fine. Praise the Lord.... I honestly was kinda annoyed because I thought something super bad had happened to the elders... but I panicked for no reason.
Tuesday morning we ended exchanges and went and had service with Brother and Sister Andrus. We got 10 trash bags of leaves off their lawn then we went inside and decorated for Christmas. It was pretty awesome! Then we had dinner at the Calderons and Sister Calderon asked Brother Martin to come over and give us both blessing because of all the stress that we had currently been having.
Wednesday we got up at 3:30 am and drove to the temple! Oh my heavens I love the temple. We got to do a couple names for initiatory then we did a session with our cute zone family. The whole session my skinned knee was hurting so so bad. So I honestly was struggling. And I was like are you kidding me? This much pain for a skinned knee? Juliet Guzman drove us to the temple. Then we all went to Cafe Rio for dinner. After the temple we taught the young women how to speak in public and feel confident with themselves. Then we had our ward correlation meeting.
Thursday we were going to go up to Kern Valley but we had a weird feeling not to go so we cancelled our appointments. Turns out that Elder Riser was in the emergency room because he really wasn't feeling good. They were there for 2 hours and the doctor told him nothing was wrong and gave him a paper about the flu. We took them some saltine crackers and paper towels. Then we were going to our dinner appointment and my knee was hurting super bad so I told Sister Johnson about it. And she gave me some amazing things to put on it because it was swollen, inflamed and very infected. Goodness. Then we ended up telling her about Elder Riser and she was able to get him a doctor's appointment. So he's doing way better now. So apparently I was suppose to be in pain so we could get him a doctor's appointment because now my knee no longer hurts. Sister Johnson also has a trailer that she is refurbishing for a mother and five year old son who lost their house in the Paradise fire. When she was showing it to us we asked if we could bring our zone over to help and with tears in her eyes she said yes.
Friday we had district counsel and Elder Kay shared a beautiful testimony that made me tear up, then we all went home, got in our service clothes, and went to the Johnsons. They gave the whole zone lunch which was amazing biscuits and gravy then we all got to work on the trailer. Sister Williams and I ended up staying all day. By the end of the night our hands were so sore but I was so happy. It was just so cool to be a part of that.
Saturday we went over and helped some more with the trailer. Then we went to Sister Shelby's and helped her paint Christmas tree ornaments for her to take around to her friends. Then we had an amazing dinner with Brother and Sister Sisco. After dinner we had a powerful lesson with Nathan Gaceta and his friend Sebastian. We were able to set Nathan on date and get not only a return appointment with him, but also a return appointment with Sebastian.
Sunday Nathan Mcarthur, Nathan Gaceta and Sebastian all came to church. It was so awesome to see them all there. After church we were able to have a wonderful lesson with Nathan Mcarthur then we went hiking, made lunch, did some planning, and then went and helped Sister Shelby finish some more of the ornaments. After that we had a pass-off lesson with Elder kay and Elder Maxwell. We were teaching Tabatha. The lesson was amazing. And we now get to teach Tabitha!
I love you all so much! Love Sister Howard!
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