Glendale, California: Week 94

Վերադարձել եմ։ I'm back! And being back in Glendale and in Armenian work has already been super eventful! 

My new companion is Elder Stephens, who just got out of training. He's from Billings Montana and he's pretty cool! We're covering the Glendale 1st english ward as well as Armenian group, and there is so much work going on in the english ward that President put another companionship here to help out. However, the next day we got a call from President saying that due to some missionaries leaving the mission, the other companionship will actually cover a different ward. Also, we are in a trio for the week! Elder Spens, who was going to be a ZL, will be going to his original assignment in Cape Verde Africa next Thursday, so he's chilling with us until then. 

Seriously, we've been so busy every day. We have tons of lessons and it's hard to even find time to go finding. The only downside is most of our solid friends are English, and the Armenian work is still a big struggle. But we are teaching a really cool Thai guy named Don, and we set a baptismal date for him in our last lesson! We're also teaching multiple other promising people, several of which have been coming to church regularly! I'm very excited for the next couple months. 

Armenian church group is now back in person, with about 6-7 people coming each week (about the same as before). But here's the crazy part: There's a guy named Arayik who moved here from Utah for the purpose of helping to grow the Armenian group! And he is amazing! He used to be an area 70, he's Armenian, and totally willing to go on lessons with us and teach the group in church. That's a massive blessing!!! Also at church, there was a recently-returned missionary who served in Armenia. He brought his wife and stopped by in Glendale so that he could check out the group. 

Oh, another miracle from church! There was a random Armenian lady named Lida that showed up, and we've literally never seen or heard of her before. She had to leave before sacrament meeting started, but she wants to meet with us so we can "show her how to be a member" 

Also yesterday we visited a cool Armenian guy named Vahe and he had a beautiful house with some really neat pictures.

As always, have a good week!

Elder Clayton

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One of Vahe's pictures: