Monday, March 9, 2020 12:01 PM MST
This past week it rained for the first time in about 4 months, and then rained like 3 more times during the week. It's a blessing because it's really hot if it's not raining. But during the worst rain this week, me and Elder Culotta went out and played in the rain, and I was cold for the first time in 8 months. It was amazing, I actually had goosebumps. It's too bad it was 95 degrees the next day, but we'll take what we can get.
This week was pretty successful! We found quite a few new amis who we think can progress well. It felt like I taught like 50 first lessons. But it was nice, because it seemed like every time, they were engaged in the lesson and interested. That doesn't always happen so it was nice. Then we had 7 amis at church, and 4 for the first time, so we really do have people who are interested, now it's just up to us to get them to the point where they can make covenants with their Heavenly Father. And we should be doing that this Saturday because we should have 2 baptisms for our amis, Clementine and Pelagi. We're helping a lot of people out here and we're excited about it!
Despite having a successful week, it was a rougher week for me. I'm doing well, just the ups and downs of the mission. But being down a little kind of made me reflect on something important. I hit my 8 month mark tomorrow, but I remember thinking at the beginning of my mission when I was struggling that I just needed to get to 6 months or 8 months or whatever and then I'd be happy. But here I am 8 months later still having rough weeks. Why is this important? Because we need to not push our happiness off until a future date. It's real easy to say things like "I'll be happy when I finish high school" or "I'll be happy when I have a girlfriend" or things like that. But if we do that, we're just going to get to that point in the future and realize we'll still have rough days and not everything will be perfect. So we need to not push off our happiness, and just realize that we can be happy now. We need to choose to be happy and find the good in each day. And we can, especially if we focus on what is important. Because as President Nelson said, "The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives. When the focus of our lives is on God's plan of salvation and Jesus Christ and His gospel, we can feel joy regardless of what is happening-or not happening-in our lives."
I love you all, hope you are all doing well. Have a great week!
Elder Goddard
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