WOW what an incredible week!! I saw so many miracles and had so much fun, you wouldn't believe it! ;)
This week started off with a bang at zone conference on Tuesday! We still can't meet in large groups for meetings, so zone conference was still just two zones: Murrieta and Temecula. However, we had lunch right before with the Hemet and Ramona zones so I got to see a lot of familiar faces. :) I got to meet Sister Malm and Sister Kelly, my granddaughter and great granddaughter in the mission! That was super fun. :) Zone conference was amazing as always; I feel the Spirit so strongly everytime in those meetings. President taught us about how to "answer the question they should've asked," and how to really bring the Spirit into any conversation through testimony. <3
As I'm sure you're experiencing in your various locations, fall is coming on nicely here (as nicely as it can in SoCal) and I have stuck my head out of the car window like a dog more times than I can count now. ;) The weather has been so so so so so nice!! You really can't get much better than a sunny, slightly windy, 75 degree (dry heat haha) kind of a day... Ahhhh... It even rained a little bit during outside church yesterday! Speaking of which, Riverside County has moved back into the purple tier of COVID restrictions, so our church meetings can't be held indoors anymore. I'm grateful we can still meet outside though! Nothing else has changed COVID-wise. We're still allowed to do pretty much everything except go to homes uninvited (knock on doors), meet in large groups, and take our masks off in visits. We are definitely blessed.
Saturday was an especially miracle-filled day. :D Sister Weston and I started off by giving a mission training about social media (we rotate with the social media council every couple weeks) via Zoom, and it was a little awkward. At one point, one elder forgot to mute himself and in the middle of Sister Weston's comments he said "yeah you have to massage the lower back..." We invited everyone to mute their mics and failed at holding back laughter. Whoops... Right after our training we went boothing/tabling for the first time! We went to a park with a few other missionaries and tabled about family history! I haven't park-contacted people since February, so BOY was I rusty. Haha! No one we talked to was interested, so that was a bummer. However, we saw this one man looking over frequently at our table and the elders went to go talk to him. A couple minutes later he was at our table learning more about family history and gaining interest in filling out his chart. The elders swapped numbers with him and you could tell that he, James, was the reason we went there that day. It was definitely a miracle to watch. Right after tabling, we helped a woman move in from Corona! She was being taught by the missionaries there and we were able to unload her two trucks, build a connection, and will continue to teach her the restored gospel. Yay!! We worked hard that night and had lots of online contacts and lessons. Finally the day ended with Sister Watson sharing a miracle from an elder from Lake Elsinore that said he was super inspired by our training. After weeks of no Facebook miracles, he finally started teaching someone who wanted to learn and was super excited to keep working on Facebook. That was a huge miracle for me; even though things go wrong, and it often seems like the little things we do/trainings we give don't matter, they are making a difference. Despite the awkward. ;)
God is good, y'all! Thanks for reading my longer-than-normal email. No hard feelings if you didn't. :) The short and sweet message of it is that missionary work is awesome and there is so much joy to be found in doing the work of the Lord. Make a little time for that this week! Reach out and share your testimony, your service, your witness, your favorite scripture/quote/talk, etc. I, along with ancient and modern prophets, promise you will be happier! Love you all lots; keep on keepin' on!
Love, Sister Goss
1) giant cookies
2) outside church
3) tablingggggg
4) moving service
5) exchanges with Hermana Allen
6) spooky Halloween (sitting in our trunk for trunk or treat) ;)
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