Tenth summary for President Carter: 3 weeks

This past 3 weeks we've seen a big change in our mission assignment--from MLS Spanish to Housing Coordinators.  we're still getting used to the new assignment, but we really miss the old one and the great opportunity to teach with the young missionaries.

We attended 2 baptisms (Hector Arciniega and Francisco)...we taught several Gospel lessons to Hector and Larry baptized him.

We taught 7 lessons with junior missionaries, much lower than normal as we wound down that area.

We did 1 airport run to Burbank to pick up Sis Stanger as she returned from a family funeral.

We did a lot of housing work and prepping for supplies prior to MLC to distribute to the Zone leaders.

We attended 2 late Sacrament meetings of the ECR ward and had 21 and 27 souls in attendance (the latter being a record, I believe).  it is such a sweet way to minister to the needs of our faithful Saints and friends who must work on Sundays to keep their jobs and provide the needs of their families.

We had a "killer" busy week of Zone Conferences, including both car inspections and housing training/awards.  We always love interacting with all the young missionaries!

I did a lot of translating in our Sacrament meetings.  We helped Rogelio Rivera complete his divorce papers and take them to the Ventura County Courthouse.

We organized and paid for a 50^th Anniversary celebration dinner for Elder/Sister Haslam at Stonefire Grill and it was a lot of fun!

We finished 2 different Temple Preparation seminars—one in Spanish for Everardo Corral (6 lessons) and another in English to 5 YSAs (2 lessons to Daniela Ramirez, Eric Terry, Sarah Surges, Kalixta Basua, and Lev Zurcher).  We really enjoyed teaching all of those classes.

I taught Everardo C. and Jose Rangel how to consecrate oil and give a priesthood blessing of health, along with other MP ordinances that don't need priesthood keys.

I did quite a bit of Ward Clerking for ECR ward.

We had to end several of our old activities in order to focus on Housing Coordinator duties—including piano lessons for 2 sisters, serving Coral Shapiro, end our English Connect supervision duties, etc.

All in all, it was a very busy 3 weeks!