{Letter #38} "What did you say?? " 🥲

 This week was lovely a wee but chaotic pero se la vie (such is life, make it french idk how to spell)

Some quick highlights cause I once again have failed to have the desire to write an email BUT
THIS WEEK WHEEEEE-
-Had exchanges with hermana Barton [from Australia] She taught us some cool sayings and did agree to say "no" for us. She is the CUTEST ever.
 
-Eliecer accepted a Baptismal date!!!!!we are sups excited for him
 
-had interviews woot woot 

-have zone conference tomorrow 

- getting better at basketball:) 

-lunch with Cinthia again 

-Incredible lessons with friends new and more progressing
 
-Sat in sap almost ruined pants did ruin a libro (🫠)

- had a lesson/dinner at an english members home and realized it was my friend's grandparents (shoutout Hermana Brown) 

God's love is unchanging. We can not earn his love or dismiss it. But. Is there something you could do today feel that love he has for you? 

Here are some ideas that help me to feel more of my Heavenly fathers love for me

-Prayer
-the scriptures
- nature
-good music
- the temple
-the church
- exercise
-painting

I want to invite you to make some time for him today and I promise you'll hear him. 

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 call this week:  {Me in Ventura, Mom getting ready to feed 50 YSAs for dinner, Ems in RI, Dad helping Mom get ready for dinner, Adam in Provo, Cam in RI}

{Letter #37} "I like your tree!!" 😁

This week we had transfers,
Nothing changed 🥳🤳

Two friends at church!
New friend who was a Facebook referral!! He said he recognizes me from the video kinda cool kinda scary. 

Taught a fuego english class. 

Had a passoff lesson (where for some reason or another a friend needs to be taught by another set of missionaries) with the elders. This ended in chaos, we were gifted jello, and the friend did not come to church :( 

Had a pre transfer "goodbye" lunch with member Cinthia!! I love her. She got us stuffed animals of what animal we remind her of. She got me a cat 😻

Weekly embarazada moment

I was in a member meal and I asked to use the restroom. Their toilet was a little weird. I saw a little twist knob and twisted it. Long story short I accidentally turned on a bidet, it started spraying water at me. Exactly like mator from cars. And I spent the next 30 seconds trying to figure out how to make it stop. I now know what a fancy bidet looks like 👍 

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

PS  I forgot to put my spiritual thought:   

And it came to pass that as I was thus racked with torment, while I was harrowed up by the memory of my many sins, behold, I remembered also to have heard my father prophesy unto the people concerning the coming of one Jesus Christ, a Son of God, to atone for the sins of the world.

18 Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death. 

19 And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more.

20 And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain!


I love that it said he caught upon that thought. After he caught upon the thought of Jesus he could remember his pains no more and he felt Joy. I invite you to catch upon the smallest thought and let Christ save you. I promise you will feel joy.

 A glimpse at our family phone call this week {Cam in RI, Mom driving somewhere, Ems in RI, Dad driving somewhere, Spence at home, Adam in Provo, Me in Ventura}

{Letter #36} "Y soy la Hermana Goold!" 👩🏼‍🎤

 Supa fun week

Exchange day in Santa Paula

Spoke on a live radio in spanish. Tears of laughter were shead after

Got asked if we were married no less than 5 times in one day.

Taught the Hermana's friend and he gave us this ice juice mango thing from his cart it tasted like a snow cone, but good. 

Last Sunday of the transfer. 

Eliecer and the ward loves him like crazy. Alma and Talina are my favorite ever. Tried ketchup on pizza (ew) 

Cinthia (the best new member ever) is my favorite. She had us out for lunch and did calls with us in her house. I LOVE her. 

Got bible bashed!
Went on a hike burned my legs (yay) 

Spiritual thought 
Find rest from the intensity, uncertainty, and anguish of this world by overcoming the world through your covenants with God.

Have you thought to use atonement to overcome hard situations or weakness not just to repent when you fail? 

Something I'm learning this week is to turn to God in weakness not just after I fail. What a cool promise that as we turn to god in moments of intensity, uncertainty or anguish we can over come the world and find rest.

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, Adam at home, Cam and Ems in RI, Spence somewhere dark -- maybe in Virginia visiting his friend} 

{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 #34} "I'm going to marry one of you ladies." 👸

Good week!  Had some fun random things.

We had interviews and also apparently we're going to do service in the temple this week which I'm so excited about :)

Wednesday
Ismeal is going to be baptized!
Talked with these two Muslim men Abdul and Mohamad about god, outside of a Barbershop, and it ended in them handing us 50 dollars.

Went to dinner :) 

Thursday
Went to ojai!!
Our friend Eliecer is INCREDIBLE!! 
Had some awesome lessons with some very cool friends 

Friday
Exchanges with Hermana Mcvey
Found a new friend while backing the car
Alan is the best member as well as Cinthia
Our neighbor Cliff told us he loved us and he was going to marry us, again.

Saturday 
Had a lesson with Alma and she literally would not let us leave with out food

Sunday
Had stake conference
Eliecer came to Stake conference!!!
Had interviews
Watched Alan and Julio get roasted by Hermana Balboa for an hour straight during a member meal.

Spiritual thought 
This week our mission has been talking about faith! Something that I loved is that we each have so many blessings promised to us and that by exercising just a bit of faith ,we don't earn those blessing, but we open the door to them. 

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 Adam just arrived back home from Portland, Dad on the deck, Cam and Ems in RI, Spence driving home from work) 

{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 #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.