{Letter #47} "Duo Dinámico" 🧏🏼‍♀️💁🏽‍♀️

 December 8, 2025

HACE TANTO TIEMPO LO SIENTO

I hope you are doing well and enjoying the holidays!

Some recent updates!
I'm staying my 4th transfers here in the city of Ventura (AND I'M SO HAPPY ABOUT IT)
Eliecer is doing well and is about to receive the priesthood (ahhhhhh)
He told us we would both stay because we were a dynamic duo
I love Hermana Barton and I'm learning a lot about Australia. 

Fun stats!
-11x times we've been asked if we were sisters 

- 4x rats we've seen
-3x passoff lessons to the elders

-10x Hermana Shafer look a likes
- 5x me being told I look like I'm under the age of 15 

Highlights of the week
Service with President and Hermana Rodriguez!! 🎄
Service building canned Christmas trees

MLC meaning - I SAW HERMANA DICK AND VANDERBILT !!!! 

We decorated for Christmas
Man selling skin product saying he would bring me back to Israel
We re-found our friend Jorge

Merry Christmas.  God loves you.  

Scripture of the day
ether 12 41
And now, I would commend you to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written, that the grace of God the Father, and also the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, which beareth record of them, may be and abide in you forever. Amen.

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 and Dad at a ward party in Provo, Emma and Cam in RI, Adam in Provo, Spence in the car) 

{Letter #3} Con Dios Usted Puede

Hello hello!!

This week was so lovely! Spanish can be challenging at times, the days are getting a bit repetitive, the food is still questionable but, the spirit is so strong here! I see miracles literally every single day.

My district is so funny we have nicknames for everyone haha. Mine are Hermana Gooldilocks and Hermana Polama (dont ask) 🐦‍⬛




Our district is all over when it comes to Spanish abilities, we have 3 who are fluent, 3 who have never taken any Spanish, and the rest of us who know Spanish pretty well! I think our teachers our struggling with how to teach to all the different levels, but everyone is making progress!

I get so discouraged about my own inadequacies sometimes. The main lesson I've learned since being here at the MTC is that when we stop looking around or down at the world in embarrassment or shame and we start looking up to God for guidance, miracles do happen. As I have spent less time pondering my weaknesses I've been able to see God work through me more!

A quote I love!
"This young man finally stopped looking down in shame or looking sideways for excuses and rationalizations. He looked up for divine help, and he found it. Damon said: “ These days I spend a lot less time hating myself for what I have done and a lot more time loving Jesus for what He has done.”

God has a plan for you! He will keep each of his promises! Ask him for help and trust his answers:)

I love you all! I'm grateful for you prayers and emails! Email me about something that made you smile this week!
Love, Hermana Gooldilocks 🫶






it is so cold.
I keep forgetting my jacket




The most ready for Cali atm🤸‍♀️







Kitchen duty with the district






Temple tripssss




A concert by Nashville Tribute Band!!! So good love love 🤌





Our family phone call this week. Ellie  at the MTC, Mom, Dad, and Spencer (stepped away for a moment) at home, and Cam and Oliver in Alabama.  It was a late and somewhat short phone call this week.   Ellie mentioned that one of the worst parts about her week was running out of gum and not being able to get any at the MTC.  😂










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{Letter #2} Esta bien en Dios!!

 "It is good in God!"

Every day me and my companions think of a word and a phrase of the day.   One of the days Hermana Dick suggested the  phrase "esta bien en Dios!" and it has stuck.  It feels so fitting for the MTC.  There is a lot of chaos and it can be overwhelming at times, but it is good in God, and there is peace in God!!

This week went by fast but here are some highlights:
 

Today we went to the temple which is always so lovely ! 

We start Spanish immersion tomorrow so all our classes will be only Spanish now 🫣

Hermana Clegg did our nails 💅

Hermana Dick and I sang in the choir for Tuesday devotional and we ended up on the big screens the entire time. It was so hard not to look or laugh, because we could see when we ended up on screen. After the musical number we got recognized as the Hermanas in the choir 3 separate times

We got to do service and I got to wear jeans!!!!

I'm meeting so many new people and it is so fun!

My companions and district are seriously incredible. So many different personalities but everyone brings such a fun dynamic to the group.

My teachers are amazing as well. Their names are Hermana Nase, Hermana Mcmurray and Hermana Baugh.  

Our nicknames for them are:

Hermana mcflurry

Hermana nasequick (like the chocolate milk)

Hermana baja blast

This week an elder in my district  said, "God has a lot to say," 

I love love that. I realized I'm always talking to God but I'm not always the best at listening. He has a lot to say to us when we're open to listen! Because he loves us ! 

I love you all! Have a lovely week!! Send updates I love to hear from you 🫶🫶

Te amo,

Hermana Goold 

 

Our phone call today:  Me (MTC), Mom (home), Adam (BYU), Cam & Lucie (Alabama), Spence (home), Emma (BYU), and Dad (home).