Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Sister Goss---W60: Church inside, bone outside (Oct 12)

 

Heyo everybody!! 

We drove back to Corona this week to give a training! Hip hip hooray!! It was so great to go back and say hi again. I absolutely love visiting zones I've served in the mission, if you can't tell. ;) We also had interviews with our mission president and those went well! President Watson is the BEST and I love visiting with him and his family. They are so cool. :))

Guess who I met this week?? This new YSA ward move-in named Joshua Goss! :O Woah!! As soon as I saw his records we called and planned a time to visit haha! I've met some Gosses here and there, but they're pretty rare. I was the first Goss he's ever met outside of his family. It was way cool! ;) We're not immediately related as far as we can tell, but we'll have to check FamilySearch.org to be sure. 

We served at the bishop's storehouse again this week, attended institute in-person, filmed our quality post, had our social media meeting with Salt Lake City HQ, trained for our zone training meeting in Temecula, and ran our Murrieta stake youth social media devotional! It's been a great week! The stake devotional was really fun to be a part of because it was the first time I was there for the entire process: from the idea, creating the agenda, assigning speakers, creating the training slideshow, coordinating with the stake MCM, etc. It was a successful meeting and lots of youth participated, even though it was over Zoom! Woohoo!

AND WE HAD IN-PERSON CHURCH INSIDE THE CHURCH this week!!! Y'all - the last time I went to a ward sacrament meeting inside a church building was March 8th. March 8th to October 11th. That is absolutely insane. But it was SO GOOD! Sister Weston gave one of the talks and I said the closing prayer. We had to keep our masks on and we couldn't sing, so we just listened to music for the hymns. Despite the few differences, the Spirit was so strong! What a blessing!!!

Last story: we played this game called dynamite this morning as a zone which involved diving on the floor and throwing a kickball to get people out! We played it a couple pdays ago and it was super fun. :) When we finished the game today and got back in the car, I noticed my elbow was strangely bent and swollen. I asked my companion if she noticed anything different, and she said no. The other sisters that lived with us asked to see so I lifted it up at a different angle and they gasped; "oh my gosh your bone!!" I showed everyone and they all said "oh yeah that does not look good. I think it's dislocated." My elbow didn't hurt, with the exception of a major bruise, but I got pretty worried. My bone was not where it should've been and that's not usually a good thing. ;) So we spent the next two hours waiting at an urgent care after texting the zone chat, calling the nurse, calling my mom, and having the mission president's wife call us. After waiting in the waiting room for forever, they finally took me back and I was ready for the doctor to twist it painfully back in place. He looked at it, moved it around, and said, "are you in the mood to exercise? Can you do a pushup for me?" I said, "sure!" After actually successfully doing a pushup, the doctor said "your elbow is totally fine. It's just swollen. If it were dislocated, you wouldn't be able to do anything we just did. But thanks for getting it checked!" *smacks face in embarrassment 5 billion times* Oh my gosh. You're kidding. So now I have to go tell everyone that we just don't know what a dislocated elbow looks like and it was totally fine after all. Hahaha... Oh SO awkward.

Well there you have it! Another typical, wonderful week with an awkward story included. You're welcome. ;) Love you all lots! Have a great week!! 

Love, Sister Goss

1) Institute!! Check out our new institue FB video we'll post on Tuesday on the FB page called Disciples of Jesus Christ in Murrieta

2) Pday on the way to dynamite

3) An *apparently* very normal picture of my very normal elbow. I now have many pictures of an elbow with no problems on my phone. 🤦🏼‍♀ #elbowpicsforthewin #ifeelsoeducated #soproud 

 

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