{Letter #95} Church is Awesome!

Hi everyone! How has your week been? Anything fun happen? Anything you're looking forward to? How have you felt God's love in your life this week?

This week has been busy. Very very busy. We've had a lot of meetings, some good lessons, and some service. Busy is good.

In this area we usually have anywhere from 1-6 hours of just meetings every day. One of the longest days of meetings is Sundays (since we attend 2 wards + meetings). Church is awesome!

In a meeting with the Stake President here in Oregon City we talked a lot about the sacrament and why it is so important in our personal conversion. It is the only time that we have to renew all our covenants that we have made with God!

Now what does that really mean? It means re-committing to keep our end of the covenants with our current experience that we have gained each week. And in addition to that, God re-commits His promises to us.

The best way that we can continually feel close to God is regularly partaking of the sacrament.

We also had Mission Leadership Council and Zone Council this past week. We talked a lot about goals. When we set goals we are preparing for the future and thinking how we can be better covenant keepers. Regularly reviewing and following up will help us to learn and improve from past failures or successes!

We had a few fun service opportunities this week. Mostly just helping people move. It was fun. We got to work with some missionaries from other areas on those!

My spiritual thought for this week is going to be the blessing on the sacrament! It has been revealed by Christ, who said:

"O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it, that they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given them; that they may always have his Spirit to be with them. Amen."

The sacrament is an opportunity to review and follow up on each week. But it is not meant to be a time that we beat ourselves up for everything we did wrong! It is meant to be a time to look forward to how we can deepen our commitment to follow Christ!

I'd love to hear how you have made the sacrament more meaningful to you!

I love you all! I hope you are doing great! I am praying for you!

Love,
Elder Goold