Lyttelton Harbor!

Hello hello! I hope this weeks email finds everyone happy and healthy :)
This week was a pretty good one! We actually ended up dropping 2 investigators and being dropped by 1 so that kinda sucked actually, but that's missionary life I guess!

Our remaining investigator that we see regularly is doing pretty well! His name is Sam and we have a lesson every week with him! We started the Plan of Salvation with him, I love teaching that one! HE had so many great questions! I really love teaching people who truly desire to understand and learn more:) I really hope he goes far in the gospel and finds his personal relationship with his Savior!

This week we also went on exchanges with our Sister Training leaders! I got to go to their area which
was awesome! We went into a market in Lyttelton Harbor and had a whiteboard with "How would you identify yourself" written on it and had everyone write their answers. Then we told them that they were children of God! It was really fun! We only got yelled at a couple of times:))))) When we were finished, a member in their ward took us to lunch. She took us to this cute cafe up in the hills on a mountain (the drive there was so pretty). So this place specialized in chocolate...
I have never eaten so much chocolate in my life! Hahahah it was so good though!

Last night the missionaries in our stake put on a “Come and See” Fireside all about coming closer to Christ! It was really good and TONS of people came! There were such good speakers and powerful musical items! Everyone really enjoyed it! It was so nice :) I love being a missionary and being commissioned to help others develop a personal relationship with their Savior, Jesus Christ. I love that I have the chance to do this, and I can't believe I only have 10 more months to do it!

Thank you so much for the continued support, love and encouragement! I love you all!

Love, Sister Golden

My Birthday ~ 20 years old!

SO SORRY EVERYONE! This one is gonna have to be so quick! I got signed off of my email and had to wait a certain amount of time to sign back in :( So now I ma out of time! this week was a good one though!

Here is a pic of my new hair, and me with my cute trainee, also a pic of us missionaries and a couple kids from the ward at the tree planting activity :)

Highlights: 2 New investigators, Zone Conference with President and Sister Hudson, going to a community event to plant some trees t the military camp and so so many awesome birthday wishes!!!! Thank you so much to everyone for all the love!

We were also able to attend a convert baptism for another ward and give a lesson. The baptism was for 2 kids who's grandpa is a less active and he was challenged to come back to church, get the priesthood and baptize his grandkids! HE DID IT! Honestly, he had to redo the prayers and dunk them each a few different times, but it was such a sweet experience! I love this gospel and that there is always the chance to progress in it and become better! 

I love you all so much!!!! 

Love, Sister Golden

GOOD Week:)

HELLO! Welcome to your favorite time of the week and thank you for tuning in this fine day! For real, shout out to all of you awesome people reading my boring letters these past few weeks! haha! Thank you also for all the love, support and encouragement :) #MuchAppreciated

So, to get this weeks news rolling: We spent the first 2 days of the week in the flat!!!!!!!!!!!

WHOOOOOOOO! My cute companion Sister Snow was really sick! She had a migraine, body aches, dizzy spells, nausea, and pretty much anything else you can think of! My days mostly consisted of flossing my teeth, cleaning the flat, writing letters, flossing again, making chicken noodle soup from scratch (which actually turned out really good), watching Legacy cause all sister missionaries know that's the closest thing you can get to a chick flick out here, and nursing my cute trainee back to health! Then, just when we thought it was safe to step outside the flat, Sister Snow realized she needed a new face wash and so she decided to try a new natural neutrogena one... mistake. The next morning she woke up with crazy hives on her face and hands!!!! What a trooper she is though! Her face was SO itchy, dry and inflamed but she kept working hard! She got a blessing from the Elders and we found her some fun things to try from the pharmacy so it has been getting much better :)

Besides those fun times... this week we found a new investigator!!!!! Her name is Jasmine and we are really excited about her! YAY! Also this coming week is pretty full of lessons for us which I am so happy about cause sometimes it is even hard to fill our days during planning each night!

This week was so crazy with the weather too...?! WHAT THE HECK! So the week started off sunny then all of a sudden it was pouring rain, super windy and hail balls the size of probably marbles started to rain! We had to run from our car to appointments which did not go well with an umbrella cause it kept turning inside out! I hope I am not the one making bad impressions on mormon missionaries when they see me...

Also fun events, my cute comp can't signal very well on the bike, she feels she is going to fall off so this morning for exercise we got our butts on our bikes and she was biking around the neighborhood as I was like "RIGHT" "LEFT" from behind hahahaha must have been quite the sight for these kiwis ;)

Other good news!!!!! : We got a flash, new car!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOO! The elders are all butt hurt cause they got our old gross one and we were upgraded ;) haha (Flash: fancy, new, nice, expensive). Also, I am turning 20 in 7 days (YUCK) but hey congrats to me for living through 2 decades I guess (*pat on the back*). Oooh and I also decided to chop all my hair off so it's short now, hahahaha!

Bad News: We have been showering in the dark for 3 weeks now... water started to drip INTO THE LIGHT BULB while it was raining so then it started to spark and smoke so we shut it off and we are still waiting for the repair people to come :-)

Also EVERYTHING in our flat leaks hahaha, so it is real fun running around in the rain with buckets trying to catch the water! HAHAHAH!

I love being a missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really do! and all the fun times on the side just give me more stories to add to my repertoire ;)

Lots of prayers for our coming lessons this week would be much appreciated, hopefully they will become new investigators!!!! Yay! Love you all REAL GOOD and I will chat with you next week when I AM 20 YEARS OLD AH!

Love, Sister Golden

Sunnier and Longer Days!

Well, spring is around the corner here in New Zealand! The weather was beautiful this week! It seems that people are more cheerful and willing to talk when the weather is nicer so it makes missionary work more fun!

This week wasn't very eventful in the ways of lessons, bet we had an amazing district meeting with President and Sister Hudson! We talked all about Revelation through the Book of Mormon and why it is so important to have a solid testimony of it. We watched a talk by Jeffrey R. Holland that he gave about the Book of Mormon and how it was safety for the soul (a talk I HIGHLY recommend). I was totally crying after watching it and wishing I had the words and passion that he has when he talks about the Book of Mormon!

President then challenged us to cover New Zealand with our testimonies of the Book of Mormon, which I am so excited about! I am so excited to keep reading it, getting familiar with it, and loving it even more than I do now! In the introduction it talks about the course we should take when reading the Book of Mormon: Read, Ponder and Pray, and that any who truly do this WILL gain a testimony of it by the power of the Holy Ghost. I know this is true and I invite all of you to do this and I know that we will all either gain a testimony of it, or our testimonies will be strengthened!

I am so grateful for this special witness of the Savior, the Book of Mormon. I am excited to cover New Zealand with my testimony of it!

I love you all!

Love, Sister Golden

7 Months Down...where has the time gone?!

So yesterday was my 7 month mark (but I guess it would be today in the states haha). I can't believe how fast the time really has gone! It's crazy!

This week went pretty good! We started off the week in a different proselyting area with another sister missionary as our companion because her companion had finished her mission and went home a couple days early! We had a good time together being in a trio for a few days! They have heaps of investigators in their area so it was really fun having our days packed with lessons :)

This week we decided to try and contact some of the former investigators that we had in our area book and found a couple names we thought would be good! When we went to contact one of them it turned out that the lady had moved away, but then we started talking to the guy who had answered the door and he said he was interested in learning more!!! We were so pumped! So we will be trying to see him soon!

We also found someone to teach when we started chatting with the guy who pumped our gas for us! So we are learning to talk to everyone no matter what and the Lord really does work in mysterious ways!

So, good news!!! An area further south closed down, so a car was made available and we will be getting that this week! YAY! That was truly a tender mercy from the Lord cause not having a car to get to our far away places was starting to stress us out!

As for other news, a while ago the church released new rules on sister missionaries and wearing pants in certain missions during mosquito season to protect them ... well guess what everybody!!!!!! THE NEW ZEALAND WELLINGTON MISSION APPLIES!!!! So, if our mission president researches and finds that it would be safer for us to wear pants, we will be wearing pants this summer... I am SO not excited, hahaha more sisters are going to be dying from heat stroke than mosquito borne illnesses... BUT I guess that means I would kinda be making history.. hahaha so we will see.

So, last week being a tougher week for me I went to the scriptures to help me. I was reading in 2 Nephi Chapter 4 of the Book of Mormon. For those of us who are familiar with Nephi, we know that he is THE MAN. He never murmurs and seems to only be able to know the Lord's will. Well, in this chapter, Nephi gets pretty hard on himself, he talks about how every time he wants to rejoice he remembers his weaknesses and iniquities, and his heart groans as he thinks of his sins and short comings. But then in verse 27 he asks himself why he is letting those things get to him, why is he letting his enemies have a place in his heart and bring him down. Then later he says that he will put his trust completely in the Lord, that no matter his sins, afflictions, short comings, and weaknesses, he will always trust the Lord. It really made me think to myself that even though I felt down, and like I was in a trial, it shouldn't matter if my trust was truly in the Lord. Each day I am trying harder, and learning more about completely trusting the Lord, especially in missionary work, and I hope to someday be at a point like Nephi when I can just shake off my negativity and press forward.

Anyway, thank you so much for the continued support, love and encouragement! I appreciate it so much!! Love you all! Have an amazing week :)
Love, Sister Golden

Staying in Christchurch!

Hello Everyone,
SOOOOO... this week is Transfers!!!!1 AAAAAND... I am staying in Christchurch. So by the end of this transfer I will have been here for 8 months hahaha. Time has gone really fast here! It is crazy!
One of the Sister Training Leaders left a few days early to get ready for school, so her companion is staying with us for the time being.

So this week wasn't too busy for us, in fact I am a bit down about the work here. It feels like we are hitting lots of dead ends, and there isn't anyone to teach and the people we are kind of teaching are not progressing. It's tough, but that happens on the mission I guess.
I'm also feeling sad because one of my favorite families, the TePuke's are moving to Australia. I hate saying goodbye!

Anyway! This week's highlight for me was being able to offer some service at a memorial service. A lady in our ward, her father passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack. They are a hard out Maori family so the memorial was very cultural! After the service as the body was being carried out of the chapel and put into the car, the grandsons and a few others did a haka. It was SO powerful and hakas always make me cry, which this one especially did because they did it with such heart and emotion, even as tears were rolling down their cheeks, they were able to channel their inner culture and do this amazing thing for someone they loved a lot. I love the culture here. As the body was being driven away, his wife, did a special goodbye haka for him which had me all emotional again. It was such a beautiful thing to witness.

I have to go now! Love you all! Have an amazing week!

Love, Sister Golden

Fast Week!

So the days and weeks keep going by faster and faster! Next week is transfer week and I can't even believe I have been training Sister Snow for almost a whole transfer! The time truly flies out here! I will be coming up on my 7 month mark pretty soon here and it feels like I just got out of the MTC! haha

This week went by so quickly! On Tuesday we had a Zone Training meeting! It was SO good! We talked a lot about talking with EVERYONE and asking for referrals. I always love coming together as a Zone and learning together! I feel so pumped up and excited about the work after them and it's fun to apply the new things you learn!

Also, recently we have been having a pretty gross mold situation in our bathroom ceiling, yes, IN it! So we can't get to it very well to do anything. But this week, thankfully, they sent a guy to come and clean the mold and kill it with some STRONG bleach so our flat smelled like a pool after that! Then we had to air it out by leaving the windows open all day so that was a cold night... But, we are very glad it got taken care of!

Lately the work has been a bit of a let down. The people we were so excited to teach have kinda let us know that they aren't very interested in learning about the gospel to be baptized, but just to learn more about religion and the world. It is hard. As a missionary you have the ability to love these people so quickly, and when you know you have something that can make their lives SO amazing and they reject it, it sucks! But, we can just pray for them and keep hoping that the spirit will be able to change their hearts!

The Elders had an awesome baptism this week! A Samoan family were all baptized together! They are so sweet, and faithful and they just glowed that day! I was so happy to be a part of it! I love convert baptisms! The spirit is always so strong!

Last night a family in our ward had a birthday dinner for our recent convert Sam! It was really fun and he totally had an awesome time! He has kind of been needing a pick me up so it was really good to see him smiling and having fun with everyone!

One thing I am grateful for is the chance I have to serve with Elders over here! They are such a blessing! When Sam was struggling we couldn't do a lot at the moment because we have to have a female with us so we called the Elders and they went straight over and were able to give him a blessing and now they have been taking him to lessons with them! He is loving it! The Elders also have a female recent convert who we have taken to a few lessons with us so it works out well :)

This week I began the Book of Mormon again and I am marking specific things about Jesus Christ in it and it is making me realize how blessed we are to have this book, another testament of Jesus Christ to read and ponder. I am so grateful to be able to have this way to feel closer to my Savior!

Love you all! Have a good week!
Love, Sister Golden

It's Really Cold!!

HI!
I hope everyone is doing well and had an awesome week! This week was good for the most part :)

Sweet Story: So, a lady in our ward, Sister Thompson, was in the hospital a bit ago and met another woman there named Kay. She talked to Kay a bit about the gospel but then got discharged and didn't get to say goodbye. So, she wrote a note to her and looked up her address and gave it to us and asked us to drop it off to Kay. We went to see her and she was pretty hesitant to talk to us at all, but finally opened the screen door when we told her we had a note from her, ha! She read the note and immediately started crying and goes "The Lord really does love me, sending you here to me. Will you girls come back to see me?" It was so tender and sweet! We are going back to see her tomorrow :)

We also found 2 new investigators to teach this week! Danny and Raoul! They are Indian and are here for work. We had an awesome lesson about the Restoration with them. Danny is Catholic so he has a strong understanding of Jesus Christ, but Raoul is of Hindu background so this has been a really good experience to try and really help him understand Jesus Christ. The elders are having a convert family baptism this Saturday and Danny and Raoul said they would come! I am way excited!

So the bummers of this week. My knee is going to be okay! But the doctor advised me to go really easy on it so it can heal, but right after the appointment the STL's called to tell us they decided we didn't need a car anymore and they were going to give it to the Elders. We explained that that wouldn't actually work since I need to heal my knee, so we are actually going to be using the STL's car for 6 weeks! haha I am stressed out about what we will do after that though because our area really does require a car...

Our flat has so many leaks, ugh. There is a hole in our bathroom ceiling that's filled with mold! They are thinking of moving us to a new flat. The flats across the street are really nice. Kind of remind me of houses in Germany.

Last night was fun! We got to go to a big park in Christchurch and walk around for a light festival! Our recent convert Sam invited us to go and a few other members came along! Sam has been really struggling lately so we wanted to be sure we could go to help him feel loved! It was really pretty, but SO cold! The days here have been anywhere from -3 to 5 degrees celsius! AH!

It was a good week though and we are really excited to have some new people to teach! Being a missionary is always more fun when you are teaching a lot!

This week I was reading the General Conference talk that President Nelson gave in the Priesthood session about the Priesthood. It really helped me grasp how lucky we are to have the power and authority to act in God's name within our church, to call upon the powers of heaven! I am so grateful for the priesthood and all it has done in my life and that we are promised that it will never again be taken from the earth!

I hope you all are well! Love you!

Love, Sister Golden

6 Months Down?!!?

Yep, that's right, I have been a missionary in New Zealand for 6 months! It is actually so weird to think that because the time has gone SO fast! I am still in Riccarton, Christchurch where I started, but I have had 4 companions here! haha

This week was a pretty busy one! Sister Snow and I went on exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders. I was with Sister Christensen here in Riccarton. We had a great exchange! But, we accidentally got separated for part of it which was probably the scariest part of my mission! Before the mission I used to love being alone or going places by myself, it is interesting how your mind changes when you know you are supposed to be with someone at all times!

                                                                                 Our Training Leaders

So we were biking down our busy Riccarton road stopping and talking to tons of people along the way. As we got on our bikes to head off again I checked the time and saw our appointment was in a few minutes, so I told her that and we decided to bike straight there. I was in the lead since it was my area, and going at a good pace and probably made it 2 K's down the road and turned onto the street of our appointment and then looked behind me and saw NO ONE! My heart started to race and I got off my bike and began to walk toward the main road, and suddenly I see Sister Christensen bike past the road and just keep going and I am thinking oh no I am never gonna get to her! I start thinking, she doesn't know where she is, we have 1 phone and it's in my pocket, how long do I go until I have to call President?!?!! I keep walking toward the main road and walk the direction she was going, slowly, hoping she would have stopped and turned around or something! I walked for about 10 minutes before the phone rings and it's her!!!!!!!!! She had asked to use someone's phone and had to call her companion to get my number! hahaha she had biked about another kilometer and a half down the road until she stopped and found someone to call me! AHHH! We found each other again and figured out that she had stopped to talk with someone else and I didn't know and she didn't yell or ring her bell so I kept going on my merry way! hahah SO SCARY! But it turned out alright :)

Sad story of the week: I was at sports night playing volleyball and got low for a dig with my right leg stuck out to my right and as I went down my knee buckled toward the ground and I heard a nice loud pop. YIKES! So I got off the court and felt all wobbly and dizzy and thought immediately of my mom in my head and went "oh great, I tore my ACL like my mom" it started to get stiff and all uncomfortable after that. We made it home alright and I iced it a lot that night and didn't sleep well that night cause if I moved at all it hurt SO bad! The next morning it was SO stiff and it took me a long time to be able to walk on it.

                                                                Sports night - right before by accident!

That day we had a meeting and the Elders gave me a blessing and I was promised that I would serve a full mission so I know I will be okay :) I may have to go get it checked out, so prayers would be very nice right now that it won't be anything serious :) Thank you!

On Sunday we got to do a member missionary work shop as the 3rd hour block for the 5th Sunday! It went so well and I think we got a lot of the members pumped up to invite their friends to learn more about the gospel! I am hoping they keep the fire and don't let it fade! It would be so cool to get to teach our members friends :) I am excited! 

Sister Snow is growing each day and I am so glad I have the chance to be her trainer and see her progress! I love it!

This week, actually Saturday morning I was reading the Book of Mormon and I was really bummed about my knee, and I was reading in Ether Chapter 12 about faith, this scripture really stood out to me in verse 6 and it says, "...I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith." Whoa. I was so blown away by how specifically this scripture was speaking to me! I realized that this is just a minor setback in the work and that it is a test of my faith. It isn't easy, and it's not fun to have test and trials, but they do make us stronger, and I know the Lord will help me through this one :)

I love you all! Have an amazing week!
Love, Sister Golden

This is my friend from the MTC; he is serving in Perth, Australia. He is standing in front of the Pink Lakes in Kalbarri.

Being a Trainer!

Hello everyone!
So sorry I didn't get a letter out last week! My email logged me off and wouldn't let me get back in! But now I will cover both weeks in this letter :)

So I am a trainer now! 2 weeks ago I went to the airport to pick up my greenie, Sister Snow. She is from Utah! I love her a ton! She is a lot quieter than me.. haha but so diligent, obedient and hard working! We have a lot of fun together! It is really fun to watch her grow each day! I feel like everyday she gets a little more comfortable teaching and talking to people! I really enjoy being able to study the gospel with her and help her learn how to teach it simply!

                                                                                         Sister Snow

                                                                           Our new Riccarton Ward missionaries!

We have found some new potentials to teach and have taught a few investigators but the work is still a bit slow. We are excited though to keep meeting people and teaching more! We are still working a lot with less active members which can be SO hard sometimes, but we love them :)

Being a trainer has really forced me to grow and rely on the spirit more! Sister Snow can be timid sometimes so I always have to be ready to have her back or add some stuff to her teaching so the spirit has really been helping me fill in and take more of the lead! I have definitely noticed growth in the both of us! I am so grateful for this experience!

This week I have been reading toward the end of the Book of Mormon, after Jesus Christ visits the Nephites. It constantly amazes me how quickly the people turn their backs on God and his teachings and His prophets. I am so grateful to live in this day when the gospel has been restored in it's fullness and we have a prophet to lead and guide the church the way the Lord wants it.

I love you all! Thank you for the prayers and kind thoughts! Have a wonderful week!

Love, Sister Golden

Transfers

These are the last pictures of my favorite group of missionaries. They are all such great people!

Interesting Week!

Well! This week was interesting to say the LEAST. It started off really fun with the 4th of July and our district got together for some nerf wars at the chapel. We finished off the night with a member lighting off some fireworks for us to watch :)

We are currently working with an awesome family that is a bit less active named the Bornillas. They are so awesome and love us a lot! They have been coming to church recently pretty regularly and staying for sacrament meeting! We talked with them about where they are and where they want to be and set some goals with them. I am so excited for them to be active again! The ward will be really blessed by them!

On Friday we had our volleyball night, LOVE IT! Lots of less actives and investigators come to that and members love to bring friends! It is such a great way to hang out in a non threatening environment! I love going!

Then Saturday rolled around... We were in a lesson with Ann our less active when we got a text from Sister Hudson, our mission President's wife asking us to call her when we had a chance. My heart started racing, knowing she calls to give leadership positions to sister missionaries so I got all nervous knowing something was happening! Once we finished the lesson we called her and she asked to speak to me, and told me that I was going to become a trainer. WHAT THE HECK?! I feel like I just finished training!!! I asked if that meant I would be staying here in Christchurch, and she said I would and that Sister Pulsipher would be leaving. So, this Wednesday I will be dropping Sister Pulsipher at the airport and picking up my baby, Sister Snow.

It is interesting to feel so many emotions about something like this. There is some excitement but also feelings of inadequacy and nerves! The Lord really likes to change things up when I get comfortable!
                        
This morning I was on a conference call with President Hudson, the Assistants and all other trainers and it was really nice. It helped to reassure me a lot and feel prepared somewhat for this next adventure.

A scripture that has really been helping me grasp my responsibility as a trainer is Doctrine and Covenants Section 105 verse 10. It says, "That they themselves may be prepared, and that my people may be taught more perfectly, and have experience, and know more perfectly concerning their duty, and the things which I require at their hands." This has brought me much peace and comfort knowing that ultimately all I need to do is align myself with the Lord and His work here and show my trainee what it is the Lord expects of us as missionaries in the New Zealand Wellington Mission.

I could really use some extra prayers this week as I begin to train a new missionary and set the pace for her whole mission. Thank you for all the love and support! Have a wonderful week :)

Love, Sister Golden

                                                         Elder Afoa took Bob from me! He loves Bob, haha!

4th of July in Winter?!

Hello Hello! Happy 4th of July!! It is so weird to think that it is July right now when I am freezing cold all the time! haha I think it is getting colder every day! The locals laugh at us seeing us all bundled and say "Oh sisters... it hasn't even started yet." YIKES!

                                                                    We decorated our flat for the 4th of July!

Good news for this week: OUR COLDS ARE GONE AND OUR CAR IS BACK!!! We were pretty pumped about that and we are excited to be healthy again!

Sad news of the week: We usually have District meeting on Wednesday. We didn't have our car back yet and we didn't want to bike, so we bundled all up, walked to the institute building on Wednesday, got there at 10:00 for our 10:30 meeting and waited in the cold. When 10:10 rolled around we called the Elders to see where the heck they were and Elder Dumbrell goes "SISTERS! I thought I told you District meeting was tomorrow!!!" We were pretty bummed and cold hahaha so we walked home.

                                                                         This is my street and apartment!

On Saturday the Elders had a convert baptism and we were asked to do the Wet to Dry lesson for it. It was a really nice baptism! The missionary work in our ward is going really well! We are pretty excited and I think the ward is getting excited too!

After the baptism another companionship of sisters from our Zone came over for dinner. We LOVE them! Sister Taylor and Sister Gala! Sister Gala is a brand new missionary and has recently received some sad news from her family and has been having a tough time with it. She told our mission president that she wanted to come visit the Riccarton sisters and he was all for it! So they called us up and we got together for dinner! It was a really nice evening and she said she felt a lot better just being able to spend some time with us. We were both really touched that she said she wanted to come be with us to help her through her trials!

This week we were able to see Ann, our less-active. She hasn't been to church for probably 20 years! We had such a nice lesson with her and she committed to come to church on Sunday! We were pumped!!! We were at church sitting in the chapel when 5 minutes to 9 we got a text from her daughter saying they really wanted to come but the lease on their rental car was expired and asked if we could come pick them up :(((( We aren't allowed to drive anyone else except missionaries in our car! We had to explain that, and we were so bummed! 20 YEARS and she was GONNA COME!! Hopefully she'll still want to next week :)

Yesterday at church was the first time all the new wards got together after the boundary changes! Although a lot of members will be missed I am excited about the families that are now in our ward! We had a very spiritual fast and testimony meeting and the feeling of love and unity was so strong for our first Sunday all together! I have really good feelings about these changes :)

This week we had a mission wide conference call and President Hudson shared a scripture with us, Alma 6:6- Nevertheless the children of God were commanded that they should gather themselves together oft, and join in fasting and mighty prayer in behalf of the welfare of the souls of those who knew not God.

I love this scripture! It meant a lot more to me to include this commandment in my fast this week. To think of those and pray for those who didn't know God to be able to have the opportunity to know Him. Especially as a missionary to have the ability to find those and teach those who don't know God. This week I hope all of you will remember to pray for those who don't know God, that they will have the opportunity to find Him, whether it is through you or the missionaries!

Love you all! Have an amazing week!

Love, Sister Golden