First let me apologize for not blogging sooner.  And, Happy Birthday Andy.  We also had Emma's birthday in the month of November.  She and Rich went to India for two weeks and it is great to see her pictures.

This has been a very busy month - in fact, the time in the mission is going really fast.  We found the "rhythm of the mission".  It is two transfers (which are every 6 weeks) and then a zone conference; two transfers and then a zone conference.  We have transfers tomorrow, Monday December 2, 2013, and therefore, spent the day yesterday getting 7 new cars washed and ready for the missionaries to use.  They are Chevy cruises.  I have to admit that one of my favorite parts is being able to drive the new cars.  Friday we picked up 5 new Ford.  I like how they drove.  However, Elder Ruse didn't like them.  Here is a picture of what our parking lot looked like yesterday.  In the background you can see all of the cars along the bushes.  The ones closer are the ones we had to wash and get ready.  Luckily, the High School across the street was having a car wash and so Elder Ruse and I drove them one at a time across the street for them to wash.  The kids thought that was great - because, they refer to us as the "Church will all of the cars".  In the beginning, they thought we were bringing 32 - but we just took them 7!

The holiday mail has begun.  There is a picture of what one day looked like when the mail before thanksgiving came and the missionary supplies came.  It was crazy:

Here are pictures from our first zone conference.  The mission is divided into 4 conferences and they were on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  You won't see pictures of many missionaries, because I took one and then they caught me and told me that I am not to take pictures at zone conferences.  We were outside inspecting all of the cars until lunch - so here are the cars:

This is the picture I took of the missionaries and then I was told that I can't take pictures.  OOPS!

 

 

Our Stake, the Camarillo Stake was having Temple day - which isn't associated with Stake Conference and we were given permission to go to the LA Temple.  We were married in this Temple 42 1/2 years ago and we don't think we have been back to this Temple since 35 years ago.  It was great to be in the Temple.  A little bit awkward because we aren't used to the way this Temple does the logistics.  It was beautiful!

 

Here is Elder Ruse again by the boats.  Wanting a boat will be his "thing to deal with".

 

A picture of our favorite walk at sunset: