HOLY MOLEY hey everyone!! :D How's it going?? Life is absolutely phenomenal right now for me!!! This week has been amazing!!
We've been totally packed with doubling in two
areas, working on the social media team, and learning a new language haha!! :))
Our week was full of lessons, home visits with members, meetings, studies,
service, and more.
Language: ASL my friends! It's coming along!! I'm
still very new, but I'm understanding (usually) more than I think I would've.
On Tuesday we had about 5 straight hours of ASL, including district council,
ASL class, an ASL Zoom social, and my first ASL lesson! Later on this week we
had another ASL lesson with Ricardo that went for an entire hour and get this:
I understood!! And communicated with him for an hour!! *yeeeeessss* I'm making
it a priority each day to watch some sort of ASL video to understand comprehension
better, and Sister Noall and I have a goal to use sim com
(simultaneous communication: you speak and sign at the same time) from
8:30am-9pm unless we're 1) driving, 2) in a different room, or 3) planning an
English lesson. It's NOT easy but I'm going to be so much better by the end of
this haha. Huzzah for ASL!
Service: we went to my favorite service place EVER
this week, and it may sound a little familiar... Remember Soles 4 Souls?? Yes!!
We unloaded this massive semi-truck for several hours and it was so much fun!!
I have about 10 bruises on my arms still, but 100% worth it. No biggie. :) We
also served at Salvation Army, Billion Graves, etc. Sadly Valencia and Feeding
America are closed for service because of covid, but maybe I'll see if I can
visit. :)
Meetings: I gave my last trainer/trainee training on
Tuesday! It was bittersweet. :) I tag-teamed the training with some other
wonderful sisters so they can do it in the future. I have loved having the
privilege of consistently sharing my testimony of the power of this work,
especially through social media, to new missionaries and their trainers. I have
felt so much power doing so. :)) <3 We also had zone accountability, social
media council, and 5 straight hours of Zoom church on Sunday morning (that's
what happens when you cover both a ward and a branch). But relatively less
meetings than usual for me haha! More language study time ;)
Fun: some big time fun things this week included a
birthday party for Elder Wolfert (the missionaries in our complex went to a
central picnic table and ate cake together), working on ASL translations for
songs on the ASL page with our district, making an Instagram reel that hit 5k
people in about 0.2 seconds (go check it out!!! @findjesus.inlandempire),
and enjoying some bee-au-tiful weather ;)) Woooowooo!!
People: We're actually teaching several people and
I've already come to love them so much! Gabriel Roa is a father who has wanted
to be baptized for a couple years now and is waiting for his wife. We met them
yesterday and their whole family is so cute. :)) Ricardo is our ASL friend we
have lessons with and he's so funny! And patient with me haha... Brooke is a
sweet 11 year old who was recently baptized and she wants to introduce her
other friend to the church! Let's gooooo Brooke!! <3 And there are several
others too. Keep praying people's hearts will be open and they will be led to
the church! There are so many miracles left and right - God really is involved
in the details. :) We gave out four copies of the Book of Mormon and a Bible
this week! Already!!
Miracles: 1) Albert, our apartment maintenance
friend, fixed our heating and said as he was leaving, "can I have one of
those books?" pointing to our bookshelf with the Book of Mormon copies! He
said he wanted to read it with his daughter. 2) We were leaving a certain
service that "happened" to cancel and ran into a man outside who
waved us down named Romero. He said, "what's your tag mean?" After
some discussion, he said "do you have a Spanish copy of the Book of Mormon
I can read?" We just "happened" to have a Spanish copy in our
trunk and swapped numbers. 3) Every person we tried to contact last night
answered or allowed us to share more and introduce the Book of Mormon to them.
This is AMAZING!! Oh and 4) our reel went crazy for a second!! Hooray for
Instagram!!
Okay I know this email is super long already. Thanks
for reading :)) and supporting :)) y'all are so so so awesome!! Keep shining
Christ's light and be willing to ask the hard questions. Ask them and find
answers through His Spirit; life is so much better that way! Have a FANTASTIC
week!!!
Love, Sister Goss
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