{Update #50} January 2026

 No letters.  Pictures from January 2026. 

 Started January in Ventura with Hermana Barton and ended the month in Lompoc with Hermana Bradway.  

Family call 1/5/26:   Us in the car, me in Ventura

Family call 1/12/26:  Me in Lompoc, Mom and Dad at home, Emma, Lucie, and Cam in RI, Spence at home, Adam walking in Provo

Family call 1/19/26: Me in Lompoc, Mom and Dad at home, Emma in RI, Spence at home

Family call 1/26/26:  Adam in Provo, Mom in RI, me in Lompoc, Dad in RI, Cam and Garrett in RI, Emma in RI 

{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 #25} "Happy, Happy Father's Day"

 Hola!   
Sooo after a couple restless nights anticipating transfers Thursday hit and I'm officially out of Oxnard 🤯

I love and miss Oxnard but I was pretty confident I was leaving so I got to say goodbye to our friends and members 

Said goodbye to Hermana Crawford as well which was so sad 

We find out about transfers in an email at 6:30am on Thursdays

    -it tells us to pack or not and what your assignment is Jr or Sr comp and everything


Then if you're leaving, you pack and meet at the mission office at 2. Then they'll tell you where you're going and who your comp is. Then you leave.

Me and Sister Hatch were comps for about 1-2 hours and had a lovely road trip....

A protest we saw along the way...

 to SANTA BARBARA!!

 It is beautiful!    I've only been here a couple days but the ward is so precious and I am with Hermana Olaveson who I lived with in a four man apartment my first my 1st transfer and she's the cutest literally so excited!!! 

We have some really really cool friends and members that have been so fun to meet.

Santa Barbara is this super pretty beach town. It's kind of unreal. There are so many flowers and palm trees and it's super hilly. 

We do a lot more english finding here which is an adjustment but can also be fun!! 

Highlights-
-I got to call my dad!!
-SANTA BARBARA 

-Two very cool female friends!!!!!
-Got apples :) 

:And again, I exhort you, my brethren, that ye deny not the gifts of God, for they are many; and they come from the same God. And there are different ways that these gifts are administered; but it is the same God who worketh all in all; and they are given by the manifestations of the Spirit of God unto men, to profit them."

We talked all about gifts from god the past couple of weeks in church! Something I was thinking of is that sometimes we tend to compare our gifts to others and become discouraged or embarrassed to share them. But I'm learning that each of us have enough. We have many gifts that are from God and he's asking you not to deny them and share them. Give what you have and God will give you far more than you could imagine!! 

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

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

{Letter #19} "God Loves You"

 I get to stay in Oxnard!!!🐂

With the Hermana Crawford!!

I'm very excited about it!

This week was so good president came to our district council on Monday and I almost passed out I was so nervous because it's all in Spanish and I had to talk and do a lesson in front of him-- worst lesson of my mission but he was nice about it.

Everything is pretty much the same this transfer
EXCEPT I'M NOT IN A FOUR MAN ANYMORE
and we are so sad about it 

We have a few new friends we're working with and they're so cool
There are so many miracles in missionary work
We had a meeting with Elder Bednar

It was so spiritually uplifting

It was just him members of the seventy and our mission and he gave us like 3-4 hours to talk and ask questions it was a very cool opportunity
I think that is all for this week it was a good one!! :)
Spiritual thought this week

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."

I love this reminder to ask your questions. Questions are not a bad thing they actually help us learn.
Elder Bednar teaches by questions. A question found is much more helpful than a question given. God wants to hear our questions when we ask him he can help us grow

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

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

On a hike with Hermana Powell

I got to see Hermana Dick! 

Family phone call this week:  Me in Oxnard; Mom and Lucie in Alabama; Adam in Provo; Spence at home in Alpine; Dad at the Denver airport during a long flight delay as he was flying to Alabama