November 30, 2015

So, this week was awesome! We have a fecha for baptism on the 19 of December but in the excitement of the moment my companion and I realized that Eduardo is not married with his wife. So that date will fall through. Eduardo really wants to be baptized; it’s just a matter of when he can get married legally to his wife. We are also teaching a man named Victor. He wasn't interested in our message at first but than I realized how much he likes guns. So, my Spanish gun vocabulary has gotten suddenly pretty good over this past week, haha. He has shown me all of his guns, even the guns he made himself. Scary, I know, but he was definitely impressed with my gun knowledge. He is awesome! We are just waiting for his answer to see if the Libro de Mormon is true. I also had lots of chances to serve this week. Cutting wood, building houses and even helping a paralyzed man take a bath and go to the bathroom. Let me tell you, that was an experience I will never forget! Peruvians are definitely shocked that white Americans can work hard. I'm so grateful for you mom and dad for teaching me how to work hard. This skill I have developed at home of working hard has helped me to bring more people to Christ. My companion was sick one day, so we didn't get much done that day. Also the Peruvian food has been working me up some magic! I found myself running all week at top speed through the Peruvian streets to get back to the porta-pot toilet behind our room in time. I had to buy a case of TP on p-day. (see attached pic) Never thought I would be sooo grateful for TP. My poor companion has definitely been getting his work outs in this week as we run at top speed to and from the porta-pot. haha. Gotta love this work. What else can I say?

Elder Goold 

November 23, 2015

Hello Friends and Family,

So this week we have been teaching Lucy and Jorge. They live in separate homes but they both are in wheelchairs. They have both been prepared from the Lord to listen to us. They listen with true intention to understand what we are saying. They both are a little timid to make the big commitments like baptism. We serve them often through out the week because they can't do a lot of things on their own. I hope with all my heart that they will listen to the spirit and commit to be baptized this week. Speaking about baptism, we were informed Sunday morning that we have a talk in sacrament. I spoke on baptism because frankly that is the only thing I can talk about for 10 min without having time to prepare. I have learned that Heavenly Father doesn't ask much of us. If we just do the little things and perseverar hasta al fin, we can have eternal life segundo nefi. I would like you all to keep doing the little things and never forget a servir su proximo. 

Hasta luego,

Elder Goold

November 16, 2015

Hello Friends and Family,

This week we had interviews with the mission president and his wife. It was really fun to get to know them on a personal level. Well, I have another change in Tuman, six more weeks. It’s funny because all the other missionaries from my group have left to other areas and I'm the only one that has stayed in this area. Today for p-day we went running because frankly their is nothing else we can do. It was fun and really hot. I need to run a lot more because I'm getting really fat from all this rice. Romario and Gustavo haven't been keeping their compromisos. We have been working with them really hard but if they don't progress this week we might have to dejarles. That will be really sad because we have come to really care for those guys. On the bright side, we have found some really good new investigators. One of our new investigators is named Lucy. She has had many things that have happened to her recently that has prepared her to meet us. In her words, I feel like God has sent you two jovenes to me for a reason. ¨ I know the lord prepares people for us to teach and you can tell that they have been waiting to hear from us. It’s a very humbling and amazing experience. Thank you so much for all your prayers. They have definitely been helping us this week to find more investigators.  

Love Elder Goold

November 9, 2015

Hello Friends and Family,

This week as we were teaching one of our investigators, he mentioned to us a dream that he had. He told us that it was night or he was in the dark, and he could see my companion and I. He said that everywhere was dark except for where we were standing. He said that he could see us talking and really wanted to know what we were saying. In his dream, he tried to reach us in the light to hear what we were talking about. It was a really amazing dream. I know that we have the Light of Christ with us and we need to share it with everyone. Gustabo loves listening to us and right now we are waiting for him to get an answer to see if the Libro de Mormon is true. I'm a little sad because I might be transferred this next week and I don't want to leave until he gets his answer. I encourage all of you to show the light of Christ this week in your own way.

Love, Elder Goold

Thought for the week. "Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously." 
Elder Richard G.Scott      This is a picture of the sugar cane factory here in Tuman that we look out of our apartment at everyday :)                                                                                    

November 2, 2015

Hello Friends and Family,

Not to much happened this week. We have been teaching Romario and Gustabo. They are really smart guys. Right now, we are just waiting for them to recieve an answer about the book of Mormon. They are progressing really well. Other than that, we don't have any more progressing investigators. We watched a baptism in our ward this week. I loaned my pants to the father who was baptizing his son. Perks of being short. His son was deathly afraid of the water, so the dad physically pushed his son under the water. Not really a peaceful baptism, but it was so funny to watch the son try to get away from the dad. Little Fernando was baptized in the secia.( Secia is a little retention pond dammed up from the canal going through Tuman. There are several of them) Absolutely everything here is done in the secia. Lavanderia,laundry, bathing, and baptisms :) and everything. Time is starting to fly. I love this gospel so much. It’s so simple and it just makes sense. It’s so cool to see our investigators progress and understand that God has a plan for them.

Love,

Elder Goold