At one point, we had about about 27 cars in the parking lot.  We transferred 9 old cars to the Fresno Mission, 4 to the Anaheim Mission, and sold the rest.  Our parking lot now only has 3 new cars that will probably be deployed in the next transfer.  Here is a picture of Elder Ruse looking at the empty parking lot and a picture of the truck which came twice to pick up the cars and take them to the other missions:

This is the first time that we haven't had a parking lot of many, many cars since we started in the mission 6 months ago.  It has made it a very busy 6 months.  Now our focus will be on making sure that the TIWI's all work in every car!

Spring is here in California, although it looks about the same as the rest of the time of year.  Flowers are blooming, birds singing and a beautiful sky.  We really are fortunate to be living in a beautiful place - expensive, but beautiful.  We try to walk along the beach a couple of times a week.  Last week we saw a women sweeping the sand off around her beach house and we asked her if that was an ever-ending job and she said she has been doing it for 43 years!  She said summer is crazy and she can never get out of her driveway.  I guess living on the beach does have it's "down side". 

We still need more rain.  They need about another 6 inches to make up for the lack of water in previous years.

Next week we will have zone conferences for 4 days.  That will be fun to go to each one and see the missionaries.  We now have 10 zones.  They took zone 4 and split it making zone 4s for the Spanish speaking missionaries; and zone 5 and spit it making zone 5s for the Spanish speaking missionaries.  They think this will make it more manageable since those were large zones.