{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 #43} SEE THAT WATER BOTTLE? THAT IS A WEAPON!

 GOOD MORNING!!!!
How are you doing??
This week was so good.

Slightly in context quotes of this week

"And we were literally busting" (Australian for we literally need to pee so bad)
Saw cute Lil lady blowing kisses- approached her to realize it was a man we preserved and invited him to church and he preceded to say
"I just want your number."

Friend-"Teach me something in English,"
Me- "uhhh hello."

Neighbor- See that water bottle that's a weapon
Some miracles 
Eliecer accepted a new baptismal date and he is so excited and prepared

We found Sergio who has referred himself like 3 times. He lives in a homeless shelter and we taught and found a few of his friends there as well. It was great fun. We got handed 3 cans of soda during the one lesson! And our friend Sergio put a blanket over us haha.

Our friend Ismael brought his whole crew to our lesson
Finding our friend Jorge who had just barely moved

Moroni 10 32
32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.

Something I saw a lot this week is that sometimes we need to act in Faith and then grace will make up the difference when our efforts inevitably fall short

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

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

Phone call this week:   Adam in Provo, Mom, Emma, and Cami in RI, Me in Ventura, Dad at home, Spence somewhere

{Letter #39} " I would only go to church to find a wife."

What a good week. Send me your updates
This week In a nutshell 

-We had zone conference 

I got to go on exchanges with Hermana Barton again and we had some wonderful lessons in her area

Neither of us can drive because she is from Australia and I have seizures(in case ya didn't know) so we did in fact walk all day which was so fun. 

Eliecer is on track to be baptized !!! We had a couple great lessons with him He came to church in a WHITE BUTTON UP SHIRT 😇

Had the craziest member meal of my life details for another time ( don't fret slightly more tears of laughter than tears of sorrow were shed )

Got bashed in like 3 lessons in one day 

Hermana Searle got sent veggie juice

We filmed a Facebook ad for the church look out for me on the church's website. 

Sorry for the crazy email but I LOVE Y'ALL 😁
A talk called "Through God's Eyes"  by Elder Renlund.
I now realize that in the Church, to effectively serve others we must see them through a parent’s eyes, through Heavenly Father’s eyes. Only then can we begin to comprehend the true worth of a soul. Only then can we sense the love that Heavenly Father has for all of His children. Only then can we sense the Savior’s caring concern for them. We cannot completely fulfill our covenant obligation to mourn with those who mourn and comfort those who stand in need of comfort unless we see them through God’s eyes. This expanded perspective will open our hearts to the disappointments, fears, and heartaches of eithers.


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

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

 A glimpse at our family phone call this week:  {Me in Ventura, Mom very late at night in Lisbon, Portugal, Spence at home, Adam on BYU campus}

 

{Letter #35} "Kachai? You know?"

hello hello!!
Ismael is progressing so well! But he didn't come to church which was super sad. We are going to try driving to remind him and see if that works.

We went to a really pretty site in Ventura called the Cross to do studies and saw a lovely view.
We have the coolest friend ever Eliecer. We met him at a gas station. He is so prepared. He already gave the prayer and we've only had two lessons 🫨

Got to practice spanish in setting besides lessons including- cashier at trader joes. The laundry lady at the temple and talking to president and Hermana. 

We spent some time in Ojai cute little town with lots of horses 

I got yelled at 3 times in one day on the Avenue. (Downtown Ventura)I love the Ave very much but for the next few days we took quite the break and tried some other parts of our very large area.

Mosiah 8:18 
Thus God has provided a means that man, through faith, might work mighty miracles; therefore he becometh a great benefit to his fellow beings

What do miracles mean to you? What miracles have you seen in your life? 

I love thinking of miracles. I often remember that God has all power I remember the stories of Moses parting the seas through the power of God or the dead being raised by the power of God. But I love this reminder God will provide a mean that YOU can apply and access that power in your life. He has power that is unchanged and unchanging and he is also your loving Heavenly father. Through faith you can open the door to see his miracles :)

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

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

A glimpse at our family phone call this week:   {Cam, Garrett, Lucie, Oliver, and Ems in RI, Dad in his home office, me in Ventura, Spence driving home from work, Mom driving somewhere, Adam at home in Alpine}
 

{Letter #32} "Usted es la señorita?"

Good week!

We were one of 6 companionships that  got emergency evacuated for a night for the Tsunami in Australia {it was actually an earthquake in Russia that triggered the tsunami warnings} and slept on the floor of other sisters apartment for a night. 

Went on trio splits for a day for MLC with Hermana McVey

Met some cool people

Here are some highlights-
Carlos! I saw him biking and yelled at him and had a quick super quick convo but then he had to go. I was sad because he was so cool but then later that night we got a random call answered it, guess who it was CARLOS (They'd stopped teaching him months ago with out much contact)
He called us and set up a time to meet :) insane I'm so excited 

-We had some good lessons with some cool friends! 

-VICTOR {from Oxnard} got in touch and is doing great😭🤍 

-Had a rando on the street ask us to read scriptures with them. SO COOL. 

-LESSON with Sergio HE'S #INCREDIBLE 

God's plan is better! He wants your joy and he really knows how to help to get there. I love this video because it reminds me that we can't always see the whole picture but God has a great plan for us and it includes joy that exceeds any amount of pain we've experience. It's about 3 mins I'd highly recommend!

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/video/inspirational-messages/2012-01-014-the-will-of-god?lang=eng

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

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

A glimpse at our family phone call this week:  me in Ventura, Mom at home, Emma at home in Provo, Dad out on a walk, Adam driving to pick up Emma, Spence driving home from work.