{Letter #16} "We're All Clouds"

Happy Monday everyone!! I hope you all had a great week and are staying warm!

Highlights:

-Spanish. Yep. I'm not lying! For the first time in the five months I've been a missionary, I've been loving the Spanish!! It might be because I actually understand a passable amount of what people say (most of the time haha), but I am sooo grateful for the opportunity I have to be learning a language!

-leaving messages! Thanks to my companion for making me do them, I can officially get through them without any awkward pauses or laughing the whole time. Improvement!!

-We had a few friends pick up this week who we haven't been able to talk to in a while and had some really good conversations (one from which the title of this email comes haha)...

-my comps and I all got some Christmas decorations from our families so our apartment is looking so good!! We're also going to make gingerbread houses today and I'm super excited for that...

-our little space heater! The heating in our apartment broke and we're waiting for it to get fixed so in the meantime we've been huddling around our little baby one :)


Thought:
This week I was reading a talk by Elder Uchtdorf called "The Love of God." I highly recommend the whole talk but here's a section that stuck out to me:
"He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our résumé but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God’s love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

What this means is that, regardless of our current state, there is hope for us. No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so that He can draw near to us."

There are so many hard things in the world right now, not even considering every person's own individual struggles! But through it ALL God loves us. No exceptions. I know, through many of my own experiences, that if we truly open our eyes, we can see the love of God manifested in all the things around us.

Have an incredible week! I'm praying for all you guys who are taking finals this week... you got this!!

Love you!!!
Hermana Goold


Pics:


1. Decorations!!!



2. Heart attacking a friend's house



3. Our setup every night for videocalls!









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