Chino, California: Week 52

This week has been really eventful! And I love this new area! 

My new companion is Elder Bastian, who was reassigned here from Argentina about 6 months ago. Everyone is jealous that I get to be his companion because he is literally a professional cook. He worked as a chef and has even won cooking tournaments and stuff! So yeah, he's super cool. A great missionary too, he's a hard worker and I can tell this will be a great transfer. 

Also, this ward is amazing! They're so nice, and so willing to meet. Yesterday, we had 5 lessons back to back, 2 with investigators and 3 with member families. It is exhausting but so nice to have stuff to do! They also feed us. In Armenian work we would get fed like once a week, and here it's like 1-2 times per day haha! I'm probably going to get fat over here. 

It definitely feels weird not speaking any Armenian. I've almost let a couple Armenian words slip when talking to people or praying or things like that. It's also weird teaching families with kids. That's insanely rare in Armenian work for some reason. Kids are awesome though, we were teaching a lesson about spiritual light, and asked what would it be like to drive a car without headlights. And the 8 year old kid said "Well, if you're driving in the desert you might run into a cactus." Love that answer :)

The one thing that's not my favorite is that this is one of the few bike areas in the mission, so we have no car. I guess it's good for me though, I could use the exercise. 

Finally, I can't believe I have been out for almost a year now. That is crazy. 

As always, I love you all, and have a great week!

Elder Clayton

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A pic of my previous zone

An Argentine dish my companion made for breakfast