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We had an extremely busy week this week, even more so than every other week when I say it was busy.  We had zone conference on Thursday, and the way they stuctured it this time had us teaching a workshop about sharing scriptures and teaching simply so that people understand. We were really busy with meetings and teaching people for the first week and a half, so we did most of our preparation for the workshop Wednesday. We got a lot done in the afternoon, but we had to go out before we finished, so we went to the Fullerton Junior college and talked to some people on the sidewalks by the college, then went to an institute class at a different college. After the class we had a coordination meeting with our ward mission leader, so we got back from all that at a little after 9 and kept working on our zone conference planning. It was like all of the projects I did last minute in high school, except this time around we were actually busy with a bunch of stuff, I wasn't just lazy. The training went really well though, aside from the slideshow we made not working for the first group that went through our workshop.

Then after zone conference on Thursday we went on an exchange on Friday and an exchange on Saturday, so those were both really good. We met quite a few really awesome people this week who we sent off to family wards, so that was neat. One in particular was a really neat experience. We were driving and Elder Del'Pontone pointed down a road and said there was someone down there who we should visit. So we turned around and parked the car to follow up on the spiritual prompting. The person he had thought of wasn't home, but we stayed in the area and knocked on a few doors, and we met a woman who had recently moved to the area. She's met with missionaries before and liked it, so we asked if we could come by and she said she'd like that a lot!

Other than that, the really neat person we met last week was in New York all week, so we called him once, but that's about it. He's excited to meet with us this week though, so that should be really good!

A little thought before I go. In the institute class we went to we talked about the signs of the second coming of the Savior. One person made a very profound comment that I thought I would share. We were talking about what it means when Christ tells the apostles to "Stand in the Holy Place" when they see the signs of His coming, and somebody said that we'll never have to get ready for Him to come if we always stay ready for him to come. We can't be hanging out in Babylon until we see him on his way and hurry and try to clean everything up. We need to have a repentance attitude and seek the Lord's forgiveness and mercy every single day. Don't ever forget to repent!

Love you guys!

Elder Clark