{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 #33} "You're Taller than that Palm Tree. Congratulations."

This week was awesome, but this will be a fast email. 

Highlights
-I crushed everyone in card games today at our activity I won 2-3 

-The cute Hermana that gave me candy during church because I had cold hands 

-The 2 pound dog at Isabella's

Zone conference !!!!
We won gold plates for clean car and I saw 4 of my comps forgot to get a pic though 

Met some awesome members 

Cynthia is one of my favorites ever she's a new member here and she is so cute 

We had a lesson with this guy named Bruno who is actually insanely cool

And we did some finding in Ojai!
Ojai is a weird little town that is pretty far away from the rest of our area but I love it 

HNA Vanderbilt y HNA Crawford!!!!!

-Lessons with Alma! She fed us very spicy tacos.

-We got locked out of our apartment for about an hour until the glades saved us

-Got called Ellie 🥲

Jacob 2:8

And it supposeth me that they have come up hither to hear the pleasing word of God, yea, the word which healeth the wounded soul.

I love this scripture and I know that the word of God has the power to heal :)
That is all for this week 

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, Ems, Luce, and Ollie in RI, Mom and Adam in Portland visiting his mission, Spence at home, Me in Ventura) 

{Letter #13} What Park?

Hollaaa!

What isn't there to say about this week?

Tuesday
my district got me a cake a sang to me

Wednesday
felt like a whole week
We took a new sister around on splits she was so cool and is now in oxnard as well
Then later we with juanito and got ice cream (again)

Thursday
Transfers
I'm staying in Oxnard which is great because I LOVE Oxnard 🐂
Hermana Vanderbilt is off to Lompoc and guess who her new comp is, my mtc comp,
Hermana Dick!!! Crazy

And so now I'm in Oxnard with Hermana Crawford!
It feels like I'm whitewash leading an area
We have gone out of area on accident more times than I'd like to admit....
Oops

Friday
Crazy because I had no clue what I was doing

Saturday
Taught english class

Had a BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR VICTOR! we scared him half to death with a popper and gave him cake!🎉
And then we had a great lesson with him

Sunday
Figured out Hermana Wimmer lives like right next to my family Alpine (like my family can actually see her house from their back porch)

Night church for the win

This week was INSANE

But my spiritual thought is John 14 27
Life can be hard and crazy and sometimes we don't know what to do or where to look in those moments.
" Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Not as the world giveth give I unto you." 

There is one person who gets it. There is one person who understands what you're going through. Jesus Christ understands every thought and every pain. Look to him he knows, he gets it, and he can bring peace.

I LOVE YOU ALL THANK YOU FOR THE BIRTHDAY WISHES
GOD LOVES YOU
Until next week 🫶
Hermana Goold

 

 

Family phone call on my birthday this week:   (me-Oxnard, Mom, Dad, Spence at home in Alpine, Adam in Provo, Cam and Garrett at home in Alabama, Emma at home in Provo)

{Letter #12} "They Brang the Cake and I Eated it"

 Hola! 
This week was busy, a wee bit chaotic AND maravilloso

Monday
Hna Olaveson got impacted by an emergency transfers  and moved to santa barbara
so now I'm in a trio with hermanas van and powell! I love love love the trio
I've been in a car, I miss biking. And we're covering two areas which is an adventure!

Tuesday
Weekly planning at red Robin's and it took FOREVER because we are merging the two areas

Thursday
Tried to film a video for zone but we were laughing too much

Friday
Cut hair

Saturday
Had Ice cream with Edwardo and explained my epilepsy to him in spanish
como se dice fluent ?
Taught english class and forgot a lot of English but learned a lot of spanish
Our dinner got stolen

Sunday
Went to church ☀️☀️
Hna Vanderbilt got peed on by a dog during a lesson

Spiritual thought
3 nephi 12 2-3
And again, more blessed are they who shall believe in your words because that ye shall testify that ye have seen me, and that ye know that I am. Yea, blessed are they who shall believe in your words, and come down into the depths of humility and be baptized, for they shall be visited with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and shall receive a remission of their sins.
3 Yea, blessed are the poor in spirit who come unto me, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
I love how it speaks of humility

I have no clue who said it but I remember in a lesson someone wrote a quote that said, "humility is not thinking less of yourself;  It's thinking of yourself less."
Humility really is how we can come unto christ thinking of our own flaws and abilities less and trusting in his abilities more.

I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE THE MOST FANTASTIC WEEK EVER

I love you all! God loves you!

Hermana Ellie Goold

Luna -- she's definitely related to Nali (my dog)

the tri

10:30 activities

My mail haul this week:

{Letter #11} "I Even Read Those Books of Mormons"

Hola!!!! 

Happy Monday ♡

Tuesday
I almost got killed by a white board on a FB live in front on 24.K people you can watch it happen because ITS STILL THERE 😭

Wednesday
We had a great lesson with a guy a basically bashed us the first time we met but we met again and he had read the BOM and asked a lot of great questions
Super weird because my companion told him our names because we dint think we'd see him again and now he calls me Ellie...

Thursday
Had a lesson with Luis!!!
Got yelled at at a door knocking for the first time haha
Knocked on a guys door and he had baby cats!!! And 5 giant adult cats

Friday
So many zooms 🫠

Elders got stuck on porch trying to climb back into their apartment after they got locked out

Saturday
Had really good exchanges with hermana olaveson again she's my favorite literally precious
Then after me and hermana van were back together we met with our friend who was having a pretty bad day

Sunday
We were really worried about our friend and he didn't come to church, but night church happened for the 1st time in months and he was able to come!! During the service he leaned over and told us "I'm happy." It was a miracle and there was so much peace even though he's still has unbelievably happening. Miracles happen

Spiritual thought
When we speak of those who are instruments in the hand of God, we are reminded that not all angels are from the other side of the veil. Some of them we walk with and talk with—here, now, every day. Some of them reside in our own neighborhoods. … Indeed heaven never seems closer than when we see the love of God manifested in the kindness and devotion of people so good and so pure that angelic is the only word that comes to mind

God hears EVERY prayer. He does have the power to send help in every moment when humbly seek his assistance

I love you! God loves you! Have the best week ⛷️

Hermana Ellie Goold

A gift from Victor

Berries from Juan V., a friend who works in the berry fields