Hey hey hey!! How's it going y'all? :)
I
miss you tons! Guess what's crazy---I go home in one year today!! WHAT?
Only 365 days left! I'm going to make everyday count, you can count on
that. :) #9March2021
This week I've missed the
little things (and big things, of course...) like music, games, social
events, school, traveling, etc. Just remember at any given second how
blessed you are! I mean, you can listen to whatever you music you want!
Or play a game! Haha appreciate the little things. :) Likewise, I'm
going to miss so many things on my mission... But while I'm here I'm
living life to the fullest and appreciating the little things. Like
testifying every single night to everyone I meet! How AMAZING is that?
Or meeting new people everyday? Or making new missionary friends? Or
living in beautiful California weather? SO many blessings. God has so
many blessings for us.
This week went by SUPER
fast because for a solid three days I didn't work in my area haha!
Tuesday was Missionary Leadership Council, or MLC. All the zone leaders
and sister training leaders in the mission have a meeting once a month
where we discuss goals, trainings, etc. It was SO GOOD. I loved almost
every second of it!!!! I felt SO inspired and was able to see many of my
old friends! (Like Hermanas Thompson and Longshore!!!) I already can't
wait for next MLC in April. MLC is the best!! :))
Tuesday
night we started an exchange with sisters in Menifee! As STLs, part of
our responsibility is to spend the day with another companionship and
split up for the day. So for Tuesday I went with Sister Anderson in
Menifee and Sister Sands stayed with Sister Freeman in our area
(Ortega). We had a great time, including finding a 20 foot pencil
sticking out of the ground. Don't ask me why it's there.... But it was
cool!! ;) We had district council that day and it was the funniest
district council I've ever had. Part of district council is role
playing, were we practice our teaching skills with the other
missionaries. But this district leader decided that the district needed
to practice companionship inventories instead (where you have a PPI with
your companion and how to improve your goals together). I was cool with
it and assumed we'd practice with our companions (Sister Anderson and
I). BUT he then paired elders and sisters together, so for the next 6
minutes, I had a companion inventory with him. THAT was super awkward.
Don't recommend it. I couldn't stop laughing after district council for a
little while because of how uncomfy it was hahaha!!! Ooof. Awkward.
That
night, we ended exchanges and then drove to the other hermana's
apartment and started exchanges again!! So I stayed one more day in
Menifee with Hermana Cardiel! It was also fun; they were temporarily on
bike because their car was in the shop. I didn't know and didn't prepare
for this, so unfortunately I didn't have my bike shorts. Whoops. I also
bloodied up my leg a little bit with this screw sticking out of the
side that my knee kept hitting, but it made a cool scar so that's
awesome! :) We left the apartment at 4:15 and didn't get to our first
contact until 5:45, and he wasn't there. We tried by two more people for
the next hour and no one answered. So we biked for a solid 2.5 hours
before we finally had a lesson with someone. MAN I was exhausted!! I
think we biked more than 10 miles that night. Woohoo! It was an
adventure. :)) I'm glad I had a little bike experience with Sister
Gugelman before because otherwise... LOL
We
started teaching some amazing people this week!!! Greg and his 10 year
old son Bryce, were super interested and couldn't wait to start reading
the Book of Mormon! They had been contacted before but lost contact with
the missionaries. He had a lot of questions and we had to leave him on a
cliff-hanger, which he didn't love too much. ;) He really wanted to
know!! It was such a miracle to find them again and help answer their
questions. Questions like "what is heaven and hell like? Do we
immediately go there after death? Are there stages?" I'm so excited to
keep working with them and answer their questions!! They are so
awesome!!! I'm so grateful I have those answers. :) We also started
teaching a man named Kevin, and a mother (Jeanneth) and her son
(Christopher). We have definitely seen many miracles this week. :)) It's
been great! There is so much potential in this area!
Thank
you all for your support; I hope your week went well! I MISS YOU!!!
Keep on keepin' on and finding time to thank God for the little things!
He has blessed you so much!! :))
Lots of love,
Sister Mary Goss
1) Riverside flashback--I spy Sister Goss! ;)
2) Lake Elsinore flashback
3) That giant pencil and Sister Anderson
4) Giant pencil again :)
5) The MLC group!!!
6) Quality lunch with these cuties at MLC
7) Sister Sands and I
8) Planting trees in Menifee for service
9)
Your typical roadside attraction here; burned-out cars :) (well, we
don't see a lot of burned-out cars... my point is that we see a lot of
strange things LIKE burned-out cars) hahaha!
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