{Letter #6} Some Cute Kittens, Exchanges, and General Conference!
Hey everyone!
So this week was actually pretty uneventful. I'm very scatterbrained today so sorry if this is hard to read.
We did have exchanges again which was pretty fun! This time I went with my district leader and got to ride a bike all day. We had a bunch of lessons with mostly members but had a couple with some friends who are interested in learning more! Those all went pretty well. Biking around was definitely a bit of an adjustment from normally sitting in the car.
An exciting missionary moment from the week is that we were able to get in contact with a referral from a few weeks ago finally! His name is Ricky. We've been texting him a bunch and he's been good about responding to texts, but super noncommittal to setting up a lesson with us. But a small miracle actually happened this Saturday! We decided to give Ricky a call to see if we could set up a lesson with us, he said he was busy and driving to work in Boring at the moment. We just happened to be in Boring though! So we met up on the street of Boring, Oregon right outside his work and we invited him to General Conference! He said he would try to watch some of it, so that's super exciting!
We also had Stake Conference this week. It was amazing to hear from some of our local church leaders right before hearing from the prophets and other general leaders!
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My spiritual thought from this week is going to come from Stake Conference. The theme of Stake conference was the Plan of Salvation. Something that really stood out to me was the scripture Matthew 11:28-30 in which Christ says:
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
This scripture was quoted 3 times by different people. We may be having trial after trial. We may be sick. We may feel imperfect. Christ has experienced all of that too. Christ knows exactly how you feel, and because of that He knows exactly how to help you too. Turn to Christ. Turn to Christ with any trial, sickness, sin, loss, imperfection, or anything and He will bless you and give you strength. He will take that burden from you and help you overcome it. We just need to turn to Him in prayer.
Some fun things from this week! My district leader Elder Strand decided that he wants to learn how to solve a rubiks cube. So I've been spending a lot of my free time teaching him how to do that.
We've come across a lot of cats in lessons this week. Here we're some that I took pictures of:
The kittens are Scottish Fold kittens that a member in my ward breeds. They have folded ears. Very cute.
We also just found a very friendly cat on the stairs that was playing with us.
We also got to go to the temple this morning! The Portland Temple is beautiful! I love the temple!
That's all for this week! I hope y'all are doing great! I'd love to hear from you!
Love,
Elder Goold
So this week was actually pretty uneventful. I'm very scatterbrained today so sorry if this is hard to read.
We did have exchanges again which was pretty fun! This time I went with my district leader and got to ride a bike all day. We had a bunch of lessons with mostly members but had a couple with some friends who are interested in learning more! Those all went pretty well. Biking around was definitely a bit of an adjustment from normally sitting in the car.
We also had Stake Conference this week. It was amazing to hear from some of our local church leaders right before hearing from the prophets and other general leaders!
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My spiritual thought from this week is going to come from Stake Conference. The theme of Stake conference was the Plan of Salvation. Something that really stood out to me was the scripture Matthew 11:28-30 in which Christ says:
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
This scripture was quoted 3 times by different people. We may be having trial after trial. We may be sick. We may feel imperfect. Christ has experienced all of that too. Christ knows exactly how you feel, and because of that He knows exactly how to help you too. Turn to Christ. Turn to Christ with any trial, sickness, sin, loss, imperfection, or anything and He will bless you and give you strength. He will take that burden from you and help you overcome it. We just need to turn to Him in prayer.
Some fun things from this week! My district leader Elder Strand decided that he wants to learn how to solve a rubiks cube. So I've been spending a lot of my free time teaching him how to do that.
We've come across a lot of cats in lessons this week. Here we're some that I took pictures of:
The kittens are Scottish Fold kittens that a member in my ward breeds. They have folded ears. Very cute.
That's all for this week! I hope y'all are doing great! I'd love to hear from you!
Love,
Elder Goold
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