Transfer 9 Week 4

Hello Everyone, I am currently writing you from my seat in the nail salon. Me and my companion, Elder Kimball and Elder Barker are all getting pedicures and it's so great. 

So this week has been quite exciting. We had some great teaching opportunities with our friends. We shared some messages and got to know them better.

 

 

We also went on exchanges with some of our District Leaders in the Zone this week. I even left the mission with one of them. Don't worry, it was approved. Let me explain. They are Marshallese speaking missionaries; they serve with people from the Marshall Islands and their boundaries have been extended up to Ogden which is technically another mission. So we went up there and it was so weird being somewhere else. It was really impressive seeing him teach in a totally different language and with this group of people. That was a lot of fun. We also went with another one of the District Leaders who is going to fly out to his original mission in Mozambique which is in Africa but they speak Portuguese there. He's excited but we're sad he's going to leave. 

 

 

It also started snowing super hard on Thursday and it dropped like 4 inches in the first couple hours. And it just kept dumping all day and through that night. They plowed the roads and kept plowing all day so that they stayed clear and safe. Then it stopped snowing partway through Friday. Some of it has started melting away but it's still up on the mountains so it looks really pretty. 

We also had this really cool service project where we took 5 companionships to this special needs organization and we helped them in their classes to make Christmas ornaments. It was so much fun. They even opened with a prayer and hymns which was so fun. Then we went to hang all of the ornaments they made on these little trees and then they turned around and gave us the trees to keep for Christmas. It was the sweetest thing. 

We also had a Christmas Devotional and Elder Quentin L. Cook from the Quorum of the 12 apostles came and visited our mission. We heard from him and his wife. They shared about Christ and the importance of Christmas and how important it is that we're representing Christ at this time. 

He then bore his testimony of the Savior and I have never heard a testimony quite like it. I felt the spirit so strongly and I was so incredibly touched. 

I want to let you all know about the love that the Savior has for each and every one of you. I love you all and remember Christ during this Christmas season. 

Have a great week

-Elder Golden