Mom and Dad
This week has been a very long one but at the same time is has been a very good one too.
Right now the only person that we are teaching is Rashell. She is doing great and will be baptized this up coming weekend. She has such a great spirit to her. She is going to be such and amazing member of the church. I have really loved teaching her and her family.
We are doing a lot of tracting and its been really good. I have been thinking about how we can use our time more wisely and what we can do to help members invite their friends. We have a lot of really great ideas, including having a fireside about the restoration. So there is a lot going on even though it feels a little slow here in west linn.
I wish that i could say that there were some really funny stories this week but besides the getting yelled at by an angry Asian man its been good but not story reporting worthy.
I really loved Zone Conference this past week. there were a lot of things that i need to hear and to think about. I'm not going to lie growing on the mission is not my favorite thing. but i am ever so grateful that I get this chance to serve the lord and each day my testimony grows even stronger and i want to change and be a better person. one of the things i have been trying is read the whole ensign and i have really had my eyes open this month. Elder Nelson wrote about how we need not to worry about our jobs because one day they will be gone. but we need to develop into the person that the lord wants use to become and the attributes that he wants us to have. It really helped be a lot because the last few weeks i have been thinking about what i want to do after the mission. No i am not trunky but its in the back of my mind and this advice really helped me understand, once again, that the lord can make much more out of my life then i can do myself, I was reading in Alma and i can across a few verses that i need to hear. they come from Alma 34: 40-41. "An now my beloved brotheren, i would exhort you to have patience , and that ye bear with all manner of affliction; that ye do not revile against those who do cast you out because of your exceeding poverty, lest ye become sinners like unto them: but that ye have patience, and bear with those afflictions, with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest from all your afflictions" Man trying to become the person that the lord wants me to be has its up and downs but i would change a thing because i know that i truly growing into the person i can here to be.
Love sister goetz