{Letter #54} "You do 300 situps everyday?! You know what that reminds me of, baptism."

March 16, 2026

Hi.
Highlights from the past little bit
-the sun! 🌅

- Interviews!!

-Zone conference

-Exchanges with Sister Hopkins and Sister Memea!!

-Stake Conference saw all of my Santa Barbara friends!

-We are teaching our LOVELY friend Elvia and her family and they have been progressing quickly and came to Stake Conference on Sunday

-I love Lompoc with all my heart

- We haven't died yet😄

- Hugs from Hermana Cortorreal

-Hermana Cortorreal is an angel and made plantains

- We taught 3 sisters with the English sisters so we had 7 of us in the lesson :)

Low lights-
-we got bashed by a man named the Grinch ( I wish I was creative enough to make that up)

- switched the truck for a normal Tiguan

-Our friend said he accepted a Baptismal date because he #stops thinking when girls look at him 🫠

IM SORRY I'VE BEEN SO BAD AT EMAILING I love you all lots 🫶

Mosiah 3: 4 in the Book of Mormon:

For the Lord hath heard thy prayers, and hath judged of thy righteousness, and hath sent me to declare unto thee that thou mayest rejoice; and that thou mayest declare unto thy people, that they may also be filled with joy.

I love this scripture! This scripture helps me to feel a lot of peace and I know it to be true. I invite YOU to say a prayer and have confidence that whatever you say from your heart God has heard it.
Being a missionary brings me joy because I get to rely a lot on prayer and pray with a lot of different people. I have confidence you can be filled with that same peace and joy.

Email me I love hearing from y'all HAVE THE BEST WEEK.

I love you! God loves you! 🫶🫵
-Hermana Goold

A long lost friend from our homeschool co-op in Virginia:  Sadie A. 

Family Call 3/2/26:  Adam in Provo, Mom and Heather in a hospital room in Dallas, TX, Ems and Cam in RI, me in Lompoc

Family call 3/9/26:  Me in Lompoc, Mom, Kristina, Praia, Jen at home just before hosting 30 YSAs for dinner, Cam and Ems in RI, Adam in Provo. 

Family call 3/16/26:  Adam in Provo, Mom at home, Me in Lompoc, Ems and Cam in RI, Dad at home

{Letter #51} YELLOW CAR!!!

February 9, 2026

Hello!
Since I've last written....(sorry)
I have left Ventura (after 6 lovely months)
I LOVE Ventura a whole lot.
Now I'm in Lompoc!!!!

Lompoc is incredible for many different reasons

Here are some highlights
-we have a truck
-we cover Solvang (a weird little Danish town 30 mins away from the rest of our area)
- 🦅I LIVE IN AN APARTMENT WITH ANOTHER SET OF SISTERS 🦅
-The Ostrich farm!!! (100% I would win)

-It's colder here so I get to wear my sweaters

- On occasion there is a big boom and everything shakes ( it feel like a bomb/ earthquake) don't fret it is just a sonic boom, we live like 10ish mins from a rocket launch place.

-Hermana Bradway who is from Texas and is an Icon!

A brief story to explain how cool she is

We're at the church after Sacrament meeting, the Elders' friend comes up to us shakes our hands and says "Guapa como siempre!"  {translation:  "Handsome as always"} 

I was getting ready to awkwardly say thank you and walk away then laugh.
What happened instead is Hermana Bradway pointed at him and yelled "Period" in a lovely Texas accent and preceded to run down the hall! Icon.

-There are lots of cats and weird little dogs that wear jackets and will attack your ankles!

-Members here are so sweet.

-I got to go into a barber shop and we were asked to pray over all the people there!!

-We had a couple slow weeks but we now have so many cool friends that I'm so excited to keep meeting with

Spiritual thought:
This is a quote from a BYU speech I loved this week :)

"To Act in Holiness Before the Lord." By Brad Neiger

Someday, when we look back on mortality, we will see that so many of the things that seemed to matter so much at the moment will be seen not to have mattered at all. And the eternal things will be seen to have mattered even more than the most faithful of the Saints imagined.

Remember the things that really matter

Email me I love hearing from y'all HAVE THE BEST WEEK.

I love you! God loves you! 🫶🫵
-Hermana Goold

Family call 2/2/26:  Adam in Provo, Mom and Dad at home, me in Lompoc, Cam, Garrett, and Ems in RI

Family call 2/9/26:  Me in Lompoc, Adam in Provo, Ems in RI, Mom and Dad about to host a big YSA dinner at their house

{Letter #28} "Don't Look. Temptation!"

 Monday- multi zone pday activity!! Was reunited with Hermana Crawford and Wimmer!!! Also our district got switched around a bit and now it's doubled in size so we have other sisters yay!!

Wednesday-met Josefina, quote of the week was from her "no mírates tentacion!"
That was after her 30 minute story about how God is real because someone gave her a truck.
 
Thursday- Went on exchanges for MLC (meeting my comp went to) with sister Anderson we double covered our areas so I went out to YSA land and also lead out my area. It was great. Had 4 conversations in spanish all by myself and they understood me 🤯

Friday- 🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸🎆 we ate watermelon but it kind of went bad :,(
Saw fireworks!!

Saturday-Best member meal ever. At the house of Francisco!! Some very lovely Spanish music playing in the background.
We ate mole while everyone watched us eat it was wonderful

Sunday- Member meal I held a baby turtle 🐢 

We also gave our new member a giant texted quad so she can read it and she was really excited!
And we had a new friend at church HE IS SO COOL! super busy but he said he'd move his schedule around to meet 

🌄🤍
Jacob 7: 25
"Wherefore, the people of Nephi did fortify against them with their arms and with all their might, trusting in the God and rock of theor salvation; wherefore, they became as yet, conquerors of their enemies."

When we trust in God he can help us become conquerors of our enemies. No matter who or what they are! He'll be there always to help us.
Email me I love hearing from y'all HAVE THE BEST WEEK.

I love you! God loves you! 🫶🫵
-Hermana Goold

{Letter #24} "Change is good" 🍀☹️

 Hello hello!

How are you??This Thursday we have transfers
I'm probably leaving which is pretty sad so this week felt like a lot of goodbyes here in Oxnard but updates next week:

Miracles!
-we have this friend he's pretty cool. but we just had to move his Baptismal date back a little and they (him and his wife) were pretty nervous about going to church. But they decided to come even though they were super nervous!

Break in their story for a moment ✋️

There is a returning member who the elders have been working with this whole transfer. He had not been to church in months. This Sunday was his first Sunday back in many months and guess what happened??
Our friend the one who was nervous about going to church and making some changes was his good friend from work. The returning member was so excited and just kept saying "this is my first week back, we worked together!!"
He's now going to be helping us in lessons with him which is super exciting

-Panda Friday (all the missionaries go to panda the week before transfers to get a fortune)

-Eduardo the coolest member ever opened his mission call to Las Vegas Nevada! He leaves in about a month

-I remembered a couple of words in mixteco during a lesson with a new friend 

-We went to a baptism with our friend Antony!!

I'm reading in Genesis right now! I have a goal to finish the whole Bible on my mission (hold me to it)
I was reading the story of Joseph this week 
Please listen to the soundtrack for me :(
This was a verse that really stood out to me

"Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life."

I think of Jesus when I read this verse.
He suffered for your greatest pains, sins, and afflictions. And he did so willingly because he loves you. He doesn't want you to beat yourself up about something that hes covered.

Email me I love hearing from y'all.  HAVE THE BEST WEEK.

📷📸
I love you! God loves you! 🫶🫵
-Hermana Goold

Our family phone call today:  Me in Oxnard, Mom at home, Adam in Provo on his way home from work, Spence and Dad at home, Cami on her way back from teaching a yoga class, and Emma at home in Provo.