{Letter #105} Rejoice in Christ

 Hi everyone! This has been another amazing week! Miracles come when we continue faithful!

I head home on Wednesday, so this will be the last email of my mission, as such  I will keep it short and sweet this week!

It is my testimony that Christ is the source of all lasting joy! Like Moroni said, I know that "every good gift cometh of Christ".

Christ lives and speaks today. He has once again restored His gospel to the earth, or in other words the good news of Christ is on the earth again!

Joseph Smith was called of God to be the first prophet of the Restoration and to translate The Book of Mormon-Another Testament of Jesus Christ.

The Book of Mormon combined with the Spirit will help any person who sincerely studies it to see God's power in their life!

Nephi taught:

"We talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins" (2 Nephi, 25:26)

Look to Christ and find that joy!

If you have any questions about my mission or the church please reach out to me and tune in to my homecoming talk this Sunday (see details in attachement)! I'd love to talk to any and all of you!

Love,
Elder Goold

{letter #87} The Week of Exchanges

Hi everyone! This email is going to be short due to a bit of a lack of time. I hope everything has been going well for you! What is one thing you are looking forward to this week?

This week flew by so fast. We went on 3 exchanges, had some great lessons, and had some fun!

On one of these exchanges I got to go be in a Spanish area for the first time on my mission.  Yo no hablo español, so it was crazy. We had a couple lessons and I got very little of what was going on! It was great though! The Holy Spirit was still present and I got to share some scriptures!

The other 2 were English exchanges, which meant that I at least understood what was happening in those ones. They were all pretty great though! A bunch of good Elders.

One awesome miracle we saw this week:

We had been going by people with almost nobody answering the door. It happens some days. At around 8pm we decided to knock a random door that was close to one of our friends.

A dad answers the door and let us in! He has 4 little kids and they all were so excited to come to church! We got to talk a little bit about the restoration of the gospel and about baptism. They were all just super excited about all of it!

Keep putting that effort forwards all the way until the end! It's worth it!

Our friend Mary got approved to be baptized this weekend! Some prayers for her would be awesome! She is loving diving into the Book of Mormon and getting as much from that as possible!

My spiritual thought this week is going to be from Moroni's words at the end of the Book of Mormon. Moroni said:

"Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God." (Moroni 10:32)

"Although we are imperfect and may fall short again, there is more grace, love, and mercy in Jesus Christ than there is failure, flaw, or sin in us" (Preach My Gospel, ch.3, lesson 2)

I love this! It is through Christ that our weakness can be made into strength! It is through Christ that we can be made clean from all imperfections. Come unto Him! He will lift and strengthen in a way nobody or nothing else can!

I love you all! I am praying for you! I hope you have a great week!

Love,
Elder Goold

Here are my pictures from this week:  

A gorgeous sunrise with Mount Hood in the distance

Some ice cream we got

P-day fun

 

A glimpse at our family phone call this week.  Mom, Dad, and Ellie were in the car on their way to Logan to give a presentation to the accounting department up at USU.