May 2, 2016

Hello Friends and Family,

This week, I was able to visit the beach and do a work visit in Pemintel. It was a really fun experience. I spent the day with Elder Lagrava from Bolivia. He is our district leader and an amazing missionary. I learned so much from him and I can't wait for the next work visit. He taught me about the importance of using scriptures in our lessons. He knows the scriptures really well and uses them to answer our investigators questions and concerns. It’s way more powerful than using our own words to describe or answer a question. It makes me a little angry that I never took seminary and the scripture masteries seriously. This week, I have been busy making flash cards of all the scriptures masteries to increase my knowledge of the scriptures. Also this week we had the baptism of Paola. President Williams told us that he was coming to our baptism, so I was a little stressed out. Especially because President Williams is very punctual and the Peruvian people have their own standard of time. To plan well, I told everyone that the baptism started "30" minutes earlier and I also went to their houses and talked to them about the importance of being on time. Sadly, I wasn't surprised when everyone still showed up 30 minutes late. On the bright side, I still love the people so much and of course we are still working to improve punctuality haha. President Williams never showed up at the baptism. Don't know if that was a blessing or a bad thing. The baptism did go very well after everything finally got started just 30 minutes late! Oh, gotta love Peruvian Standard Time. Paola is the first in her family to get baptized. We are now working with her husband. He works a lot and it’s really hard to get a hold of him. We are not giving up though. I would like to remind you all to read your scriptures with a purpose and memorize the parts you like. You never know when a scripture can help and bless the life of someone else.      

Love, Elder Goold