Glendale, California: Week 96

The mission got to go through the LA temple this week, and it was such an amazing experience! 3 zones met up at the mission office, then we rode on a giant bus through LA and eventually got there. As with most people, it's been so long since I've gotten to go through the temple. It was so peaceful and the spirit was super strong. I've never gotten to go through with such a large group of my friends, so that made it an even more special experience. 

So, we continue to be super busy each week (Which is awesome, not complaining about that at all!) Which makes sense because this area used to be covered by 8 missionaries! A year ago, there were 2 companionships of Armenian and 2 companionships of English in this area, but now it's just the 2 of us. But! There's actually a senior missionary couple from Idaho that just got here, and they are assigned to this ward for the next couple years. So they will be a huge help with doing member work, meeting with less actives, and also they can help us find and teach people. Their name is the Womacks and they are awesome. They kind of just got thrown in without much direction, so we've been meeting with them a lot and showing them how to do stuff.

We've also continued meeting with Don (the guy from Thailand that we're teaching), and this week we gave him a little tour of the baptismal font in the church building and talked about the specifics of his upcoming baptism. I'm so excited for him! In just the past couple months that missionaries have been meeting with him, he learned so much about Jesus Christ, who he previously had never really even heard about. He also hardly spoke English a few months back but his English is actually shockingly good now, he understands almost everything we say, except for some of the weird churchy words, which we explain to him. 

Love you all, have a good one

Elder Clayton

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