{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.  

{Letter #16} De-Epic, She's an Epileptic

 Good morning!!!
This week was good.   We're starting to see more than one progressing friend in the area, which is so exciting. 

Contacted many people working on their cars in alleyways.

Our friend thought I was 16😑

Lamb of God didn't workout because our ride canceled,
So we got to a baptism with our friend!!

We had interviews with President, which was pretty cool.

I played baseball for the 1st time.

Got handed a lot of chocolate and lemons
I love my four man SO much
Also I'm coming around to being in cars because I LOVE the car heater!!

Had a friend bike an hour to Stake conference

English contacted in a very spanish format..(estaba un poco embarrassed)

Saw the beach from our friend's apartment

Hermana Wimmer is so cool she gave me protein and also made a rap about epilepsy {hence the title of this email}

Love Hermana Crawford shes the sweetest her spanish is insane and I'm learning so much from her 🏋‍♂️

Trying to be better at speaking spanish with district

Spiritual thought
2 nephi 35
It's a good one
35 Yea, I know that God will give liberally to him that asketh. Yea, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss; therefore I will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God, the rock of my righteousness. Behold, my voice shall forever ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God. Amen.

I invite you to pray today. Praying used to not be my favorite because I didn't feel like my prayers were being answered. On my mission I've learned to love prayer!! God has a plan for each of us and that plan is for us to have joy!! He listens. God also cares about our desires and hopes and when we take them to him he will help us! It might now look the way we expected but I promise each prayer will be answered in God's way and timing :)♡

I LOVE YOU
GOD LOVES YOU
👋
-Hermana Goold
Email me I love hearing from y'all HAVE THE BEST WEEK.

Family call:   Me in Oxnard, Mom, Dad, & Spence at home in Alpine, Adam walking home from BYU.   (Cam was entertaining guests, Emma was working)