Adam Serving in Portland

 I have very little time this week! We got to go to the temple earlier today! It is the House of the Lord! A place to feel peace. (Haggai 2:9) A quick summary of this week: -Set off a fire alarm at a church - fire department had to come to turn it off -everything was fine though -Had a great zone council -Ward Halloween party that our friend Joao came to I hope you all are doing well! Here's a verse from my studies! "Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."  (Acts 2, 37-38) When we come to Christ we are able to have the Spirit more in our lives! Love you all! Let me know if I can do anything for you! Love, Elder Goold

Hi everyone! I'm going to be completely honest. I feel like not much happened this week. I'll just write a short spiritual thought. This week I finished The Book of Mormon-Another Testament of Jesus Christ. In one of the last chapters the prophet-historian Mormon taught: "Wherefore, by the ministering of angels, and by every word which proceeded forth out of the mouth of God, men began to exercise faith in Christ; and thus by faith, they did lay hold upon every good thing; and thus it was until the coming of Christ. And after that he came men also were saved by faith in his name; and by faith, they become the sons [and daughters] of God. And as surely as Christ liveth he spake these words unto our fathers, saying: Whatsoever thing ye shall ask the Father in my name, which is good, in faith believing that ye shall receive, behold, it shall be done unto you." When we exercise faith in Christ and act on that, there will be miracles! It is through Christ that we are able ...

 Hi everyone! I hope this past week has been good! This last week was really good-- between President Bragg (our area President for all of Oregon, Washington, California, Hawaii, and Alaska) visiting our mission and my birthday (as I'm sure you're all aware thanks to my mom)! Thank you for all who sent birthday wishes! It is greatly appreciated!  I had cheesecake leftover from MLC and some other good food.  With Elder Bragg visiting we had a special mission leadership conference and zone conference (which was actually the entire mission). Those were seriously so awesome! I'm pretty short on time today so I'll just say a couple things that really stood out to me. -my call as a missionary is of God and from a living prophet! -is true of any calling in the church that we are called of God -spiritual power will come as we are obedient to covenants, commandments, and mission standards -once again applies to all people! -love God and love people My spiritual thought...

 Hi everyone! I hope you all are doing great! This week's email is going to be pretty short. I don't feel like a ton happened. Here's a few things that did happen though: exchanges, lots of finding, fall festival, and sick days. Most of our days here in this area are spent trying to find new people. It's kinda long tiring days, but it's good! We have a few good potentially interested people that were working with and hopefully bringing members to also. On Friday there was a little fall festival at a local elementary school. It was super cool. They specifically asked for the missionaries to help out with it. It was awesome. Lots of little kids and families running around. We just kinda helped out where needed, it was fun. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures though. After that I got sick for a few days. I did not enjoy that. It's actually the first time my whole mission. We had to take things super slowly. It was kinda awful. But I was mostly better by th...

Hi everyone! I hope you're doing well! It's been a crazy week. Here's what happened: zone conference (+ training), zone council, general conference 🥳, and interviews! First off, we had zone conference on Thursday! It was awesome. We talked about a lot of different things. But due to time and to keep it brief, President Botchway talked to us a lot about consecration. One thing he said that he also said last zone conference was "repent, reset, and refocus". I love that idea. And I’ll talk more about it later. At zone conference we got to give a training! It was on chapter 2 of Preach My Gospel which is titled "Search the Scriptures and Put on the Armor of God" It's a fun topic! I'll put one of my favorite quotes from the chapter. " Prayerfully studying the scriptures will open a window of revelation for the Spirit to speak to your mind and heart. He will bless you with guidance, inspiration, and answers to your questions. Through your study...