Ellie Serving in Ventura: {Letter #8} Estoy Freddy Krueger

HOLA!!!🤸‍♀️

This week was so good
Our areas still slow but we had some great lessons this week
We went in to share a little doorstop message and we were gone from our locked up bikes for probably 10-15 mins
We went back to where we locked them and my front tire is gone. Me and Hermana Van immediately started dying because for some reason it was the funniest thing ever.
I have a new bike until Polly {the bike I mistakenly called Holly last week} can be fixed and we don't have name for it yet, so email suggestions! ♧

Polly minus a wheel

Then we had a lesson with Lucia ( I called her Rosa in my email last week which was incorrect) Lucia is the coolest
We had such a good lesson with her and her family. They really love the idea of eternal families :)
🎸The spirit was so strong that the guitar in the corner of the room started playing itself for a full 30 seconds. Which was the first time I ever saw Lucia laugh and she could not stop laughing which made us laugh too.

Then Friday was so weird
We met a lot of interesting people some of which looked like Santa Claus and others who thought they were Freddy Krueger.

Then my borrowed bike fell and broke for like half a second but some random guy named Jose fixed it for me which was actually a miracle because I never would have been on bikes again if I'd had two bike malfunctions in the space of 24 hrs.

I love Saturdays and Sundays here
On Saturday we get to bike a lot
We had English class
I tried to explain the phrase, "Hey y'all" which apparently was really funny to our friends because there was a moment of silence and then everyone started laughing

At church we had our friend Victor come and we ended up sitting out on the curb of church for the whole second hour with him
He said he felt a lot of peace in the church and he is such a cool person and we have a lesson scheduled this week with him so I'm so excited about that!

I had my first member meal at someone's house and it was so fun
They had this weird little wiener dog who I'm now best friends with, who they informed us is "Mormon sometimes" we didn't ask what that meant.
They fed us a lot of yummy food and I got to practice my Spanish
Which is getting a lot easier to speak even just this week!!
I love Hermana Vanderbilt she is so funny and she's SUCH A GOOD missionary!

We have fun together
I LOVE OXNARD!
It's so pretty, people are either the nicest or the weirdest or both, THE SUNSETS ✋️, the food is insane, and there is always music from cars houses! LOVE

Simple spiritual thought this week
John 1:4
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

We can have the light of Christ with us in EVERY moment in ANY place. Through prayer the scriptures we can access his love and peace even through the hardest days!

Email me I love hearing from y'all HAVE THE BEST WEEK.
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Hermana Ellie Goold
California Ventura Mission
3301 West Gonzales Road
Oxnard, CA 93036

I love you! God loves you! 🫶🫵
-Hermana Goold
Google photos ♡
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pnaL9NdPSCvxkv9j8

Me and Hermana Moon at the library one day