I certainly have been doing all those things (except staying cool) this past week. It has been HOT. Like super super super HOT. You walk outside and you can literally feel your skin burning. I'm not kidding. Hahaha it's been an adventure! Apparently we're hitting record heat waves here for SoCal, which makes sense. The other day, when our car said 122 degrees, we tried frying an egg on the asphalt and it didn't work. ?? Hmmm. Well, if the egg didn't get fried, at least we did!
We also moved this week! AGAIN. Man, I'm so tempted to live out of my suitcase (I'm not, don't worry) because I've moved so much!! The first half of my mission I moved once to Riverside. The second half of my mission I moved 5 times: Lake Elsinore, switch apartments in Lake Elsinore, Corona, Murrieta, switch apartments in Murrieta. ;) Woohoo! But the new apartment we moved into is literally the biggest apartment I've ever seen in my life. It's HUGE! We're obviously a 4-man (which I love), and there's still room for more people. We could even fit 8 here if we really wanted to. No joke. In fact, we planned it out so that our entire zone could live here if needed! Haha it's super nice. At the same time, it's really taught me this important lesson: expensive things don't equal happiness. I am just as happy here as I was in any other apartment, including the more dingy one in Riverside. You could give me the nicest apartment in the mission or you could give me the smallest and I can be just as happy in either one.
This week we had MLC (mission leadership council), more social media meetings and training, and lots of lessons/member visits! Yay!! We're teaching some really wonderful people, especially Sarah and Marina. They are both very interested in learning more and starting their "spiritual journey" to God. It's so fun to teach them and to invite the Spirit into our meetings and into their life. Keep them in your prayers! :) Oh also MIRACLE: this woman named Ann in Lake Elsinore was baptized this weekend! I never got to teach her, but I was actually the missionary that called her for the first time. It was a wrong number but before I could apologize she asked more about ourselves and our church and we set up a time to teach her. I left Lake Elsinore a couple days later and she just got baptized on Saturday. I'm SO HAPPY for her and for my wonderful companion/friends that have taught her since!!
That's it for my week; looking forward to the next one! It's going to be great! I love and miss you all so much. Keep on keepin' on!! :))
Love, Sister Mary Goss
1) secret service from the lovely sisters
2) okay okay back story: we're in a social media council meeting and President was talking about page merges and how it might be impacted by future transfer stuff. He kept trying to half-explain it and finally just said "you know what?", got up, turned the camera around, and showed us the transfer board with what's going to happen. Hahaha believe me: that's a real treat!! I've got some other nice screenshots of some shocked faces. ;)
3) there she be. 122.
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