03.03.14

Bob Watfords actual house. He owns 12 acres up there.

Bob Watford & me. Queen's view.

Doin' a wee bit of scriptures study in his back garden.

Well everyone. See you on Wednesday. It feels very, very strange to be at the stage where I can type that. To be honest, I don't think any of it has hit me yet. I feel like I'm just about to get moved to a new area or something. It will probably hit me when I step on the plane.

 

The last week went very well. We had to spend a lot of time deep cleaning our flat and getting rid of all our old furniture cause there won't be missionaries in this flat anymore. I was pretty annoyed with that because it took up a lot of precious proselyting time. But, what can you do? We were still able to find 2 new investigators and see loads of miracles.

 

Yesterday was the first time I haven't been extremely nervous to get moves call. Cause I already know where I'm going. All the other missionaries were freaking out though and I made sure to give them a hard time. I would randomly make our ringer go off throughout the night and pretend like I was talking to President Brown. Then I would tell Elder Dickinson that President wanted to talk to him and his face would go all white, but then he would realize there wasn't anyone there when he tried to say hello. Hilarious! haha. Then when we finally did get the call, I told President Brown, "I need you to pray about who my future wife will be and then get back to me on Tuesday. Ok?" He just went quiet and then he started laughing a bunch and told me that it's not his job to do that. ha! It was pretty funny.

 

On Saturday, we went to the Watford's house. They live by this massive loch right by the Queens View. Which is the most famous view in Scotland. Their house is literally right next to the shore and it's beautiful. We put in massive gate posts for him because he is getting pigs there soon. So, I can now say that I've done manual labour in the Highlands of Scotland. I will send you some awesome pictures of that day.

 

Well, there is a member here who gets tartan ties for a discount and I had her order a few extra's for me, but she couldn't get them in time. So, I will go out today and see if I can't wrangle you up some tartan ties. By the way I have accumulated over 60 ties on my mission which is ridiculous.

 

It hasn't been too hard saying goodbye to people in this area to be honest. There is only a few families that I've gotten to know really well cause I've been here such a short period of time. I guess it was the Lord's way of making it easier for me to go home.

 

I presented my last District Meeting last week and it was strange. I tried my best to put the things into it that I felt those missionaries need to know for the rest of their missions. I wasn't emotional at all, but at the end I almost cried. Which is a very strange thing for me. I'm kind nervous to see what it will be like when I actually leave the mission. ha!

 

Well, thank you all for the loving support you've given me over the last 2 years. You've each helped me more than you know and I've thought and prayed about you each individually many, many times. And that means everyone, not just immediate family. I'm so glad to be a part of such a tight knit family who love and care about each. I'm excited to see you all again. Don't ever forget that the foundation of everything we do is Jesus Christ. Turn to him and let him make your burdens lighter. I love you!

 

Elder Goodwin

02.24.14

Comrie

Steak and egg dinner elder Merrill made me for my last exchange.

My extensive tartan tie collection. (Eleanor recently gave me 4 more as a present.)

 

This is officially my last week as a full time missionary for the Lord. So almost everything I do will be a last. The times they are a changing.

 

It's been another great week. I went two exchanges. One with Elder Boehme from Arizona and another with Elder Merril from Pleasant Grove. They were both pretty great. My main focus right now is to finish hard. I can honestly say that I've done my best out here and I don't want that to change the last week. My goal is to achieve all the goals we've set.

 

We have had many miracles happen recently. We are teaching a lady named Sandra - she's been getting taught by missionaries for about 2 years, but has never accepted a baptismal date. Anyway, we have been focusing on helping her feel the Spirit and not pushing her too much, and last week she finally told us a specific date she wants to be baptized. She chose the 15 March. We are so excited, even though we won't be here to witness it. It's the fact that she is making this decision that matters.

 

We had another Dundee Zone Fast on Sunday and it was amazing. We started the fast Saturday night and when we got to church we noticed a woman walking in who hasn't wanted anything to do with the church the past 5 weeks. She was very close to a baptismal date in the past, but her husband kept harassing her about it so she shut herself away from us. But, the Lord blessed us for our efforts and brought her back. We also had a less active lady text us that night and tell us that she would like us to come teach her. Good stuff.

 

We had a very simple spiritual experience that meant a lot to me last Monday. We went to see a Polish guy named Thomas we found and he seemed so sad when he answered the door. We could tell that he has a little family because we could see small shoes stacked up behind him. His flat is very small and humble. Anyway, he said he just barely lost his job and that he didn't know what to do. He had been drinking the day before and he felt bad about that too, cause he's a recovering alcoholic. Well, we went there planning to teach him the Restoration, but we knew that wasn't right. So, in very simple language (He can't understand English very well) we explained to him that we wanted to say a prayer for him. He agreed and we prayed on his doorstep that God would let his family be happy and that He would help Thomas find a new job. We looked up from they prayer and it was evident that his heart had been touched. We left and went back to our routine for the night, but we received a text a few hours later. All it said was, "thank you." It was such a great feeling.

 

Not much else. Rain. Wind. Snow. Clouds. No sun. Humour. Rain. Taught an awesome guy covered in tattoos. By the way, don't judge someone by the way they look cause this guy is super humble and prepared. I also gave a talk in church, but I don't think anyone paid attention cause there was a toddler running around on the stage by me screaming the whole time. It was pretty sucky. haha. Love you all! See you next week!

 

Elder Goodwin 

02.17.14

Elder Goodwin doing a bit of modeling.

This is the view we have every Thursday when we eat dinner with the Andersons.

I can't remember if this is me, or a storm trooper. Or me with a storm trooper helmet on. No one will ever know.

Hello this is a weekly email from Elder Goodwin. Unfortunately, I don't have much to report so this won't be too long. But, it's ok cause I sent some pictures and from what I hear, pictures are worth a thousand words. ha!

 

The spiritual highlight of the week for me happened at the District Leader council in Dundee. The leaders must have been very inspired cause the scriptures they shared with us were exactly what I needed, so I'm glad that they are in tune. I know that many times, the Lord places people in our paths to answer our prayers.

 

It's been raining a bunch as usual. haha. We had four seasons in a day last week, but that's not uncommon. The first bit of the day, the sun was out and it was really nice. Then, after dinner, we walked outside and it got cloudy. Within minutes it was pouring down rain. No joke, it felt like someone was standing above me pouring buckets of water on me all the time. After about an hour of that, it started to snow! Then, all the precipitation just stopped. The weather is so strange here sometimes. All of my clothes were soaked by the end of the day!

 

Sandra is still doing great, but our lesson with her wasn't what we expected last week. We were gonna talk to her about a specific baptismal date, but we got there just after a big family fight. So, she was pretty stressed out and nearly in tears. It was the 'ol "You all aren't doing enough! I've been working my butt off all day and you're all just sitting around watching Tv and playing xbox!" haha! She couldn't really focus on much else, so we just said a prayer with her and read some scriptures. She was very calm and felt much better after the lesson, so in my opinion, it was very successful. Hopefully we will get her with a baptismal date next week.

 

We were at the Johnstones house last night teaching their recent convert daughter, Tracy. Anyway, we were just having a laugh before the lesson and we came up with a genious idea that Elder Dickinson should try the cinnamon challenge. Where you try to eat a spoonfull of pure cinnamon powder. So, we talked him into it and it nearly killed him. haha! Everyone was in stitches laughing, but he ended up throwing up. He thought it was hilarious too though. Just thought I would share that. I would've sent the video, but I can't email things that take up so much space. Oh and I also got a video of Elder Dickinson saying the Pledge of Allegiance cause we talked him into it.

 

There is a member here named Eleanor and she feeds us a 4 - 5 course meal every sunday. She also invited different non member friends to come, so that we can teach them after we eat. This time she brought a 20ish year old girl named Jade, and we taught her the Plan of Salvation. We used little cut outs and walked her through the whole thing. She's never been too interested in the past, but we could all feel the Spirit very strong during the lesson and she listened very intently. She even started asking some good question. We feel like it might be a starting point to get her interested.

 

Well ladies, I've only got 2 more emailing sessions left. Time keeps on slippin, slippin, into the future. (quote from fly like an eagle song) But really, I'm so so grateful for the things I've been blessed to learn out here and for the people I've met. But, I'm especially grateful for the deepened testimony I've received. I believe there is nothing better than a mission for anyone who is 18 to 25. If we turn our will to God's will, He will take care of us and he will take care of our families and friends. We will never find true peace unless we can go to bed at night knowing that our Father in Heaven is proud of the decisions we made that day. And if we haven't made good decisions, then we can turn to the Saviour and repent. Love you all!

 

Elder Goodwin

02.10.14

Me in Dundee - This is where our ancestor Betsy Smith is from. She was one of the pioneers in the handcart company.

Me in Crieff - We also have ancestors from here.

Me and 2 of my sons. They are now serving together. Elders Wahlquist and Nordfors

Insane Cat - this thing nearly killed me. Apparently once it gets on your lap, if you try to take it off it attacks. It held true to expectations. Just look at the way it's got it's claws dug into the chair to make sure it can't be moved. Crazy devil cat.

Awesome picture of Crieff.

 

So here's the deal with the travel plans. You all do what you think is best and make an executive decision. ha!

 

This week's been pretty great. We have an investigator named Sandra and we invited her to get a calendar and pray about a specific date to be baptised. She's got it narrowed down to 3 days now, so hopefully when we see her this week, she will be able to tell us a specific date. She is such a kind and humble persona and she loves the Gospel. She's been investigating for about 2 years, so she knows everything. Her concern is that she wants to learn more before getting baptised, so most of our lessons have been focused on helping her overcome that concern.

 

I've been sick this week, so that has been annoying. I had a leg amputated, then sewed back on. Nah I just had a bad cold, but it's pretty much gone now so I'm happy about that. At least I didn't get it the day before coming home or something. That would be sucky. 

 

Yesterday, I was in Dundee for a Stake Leadership training. The Stake President requsted all the missionary leaders in the zone to be there. Anyway, we all got together with the leaders in the different auxilleries and brainstormed ways that we can all better work together to provide the missionaries with new investigators. It was pretty good and we got some actionable plans from it. Most of it was focused around service and getting the missionaries more opportunites to do service for non member friends. 

 

After the training in Dundee, we all stayed in the zone leader's flat, so there were about 6 of us there in total. One of my missionary friends out here is named Elder Sweat and he's a 2 time wrestling state champ from wasatch, so I talked him into wrestling one of our Zone Leaders, Elder Nielsen. Elder Sweat is less than 150 lbs and Elder Nielsen is about 210 and really athletic, but he's never wrestled, so I figured it would be funny to watch. They wrestled twice and both time Elder Sweat pinned him in less that 30 seconds. It was flippin hilarious and I took videos of both matches. Missionaries do some random things sometimes. Gotta stay sane somehow though. haha!

 

We've still been doing tons of finding to try and add to our teaching pool. Things are getting good slowly, but surely. This area has lots of potential and we're excited to help it grow. We are going to focus a lot more on getting members as involved as possible without nagging them or anything. We will have to think outside the box.

 

I got a chance to give an outgoing testimony to all of East Scotland. We had a big conference where a general authority, Elder Herbertson came and then we gave testimonies. It was pretty neat to give it, but I'm going to miss this. I'm ready to be home though.

 

I love you all so much! Have a great week!

 

Elder Goodwin

02.03.14

Well, the weather here has been pretty interesting lately. In fact, a better description would be pretty miserable lately. ha. The street contacting has been really rough cause it NEVER stopped raining the past 7 days. Seriously, it was insane how much it rained. And it was windy and cold. Luckily enough, we didn't have any appointments so we spent the whole week walking in this weather. I know we will be blessed for going out and working even though the weather was so bad. haha. I don't think you realize what I'm talking about when I say it rains all the time. It's very, very rare to see the blue sky for more than a few minutes because even if it's not raining, it's still very overcast.

 

We had an awesome zone (Dundee Zone) fast this week. We all fasted to have at least 13 prepared investigators with a baptismal date by the end of the month. There are 13 teams of missionaries in this zone so it works out to 1 prepared person with a baptismal date each. I've had zone fasts before on my mission, but this one was particularly good because we started it with a zone conference call. We managed to have all 26 missionaries on the phone at the same time. During the call, Elder Nordfors (my second born son) gave a spiritual thought and then we had a prayer. It was pretty spiritual and I really enjoyed it. Hopefully we will see much fruit from our labours now.

 

I have recently been trying to figure out how I'm going to get my stuff home and keep under the weight limit. I packed all my letters and study stuff into a box and I was planning on sending it home, but it's about 11kilos so it's gonna be pretty dang expensive. I thought it would be cheaper if I sent it through surface mail, but it will still cost £88 which converts to nearly $150 USD. That is completely absurd. I'm trying to cut down what I can, but many of those letters are pretty important to me. We will see how it goes this week.

 

District Meeting is very different in this district cause we only have 2 companionships. Us and the other perth team. So, there's not as much participation and input. haha. It's been weird for me cause the previous districts I've been in have always been massive, but I'm really enjoying instructing here. It's alot more personal and easy to see what's good and what needs to be improved.

 

The missionaries in this District are flippin hilarious. We've got Me and Elder Dickinson and then Elder Arvig and Elder Merrill. Elder Arvig is from Hurricane and he has a really southern accent and acts pretty redneck. Elder Merrill is from Pleasant Grove and is a gun lover and wants to be a Navy Seal. He's also a wrestler. I've never met anyone that knows more about guns than Elder Merrill. They've both already served in the military before they came on missions. So, basically, Elder Dickinson is trapped in this District surrounded by typical Americans. haha! Last District Meeting, I asked what they wanted to sing for the closing hymn and they both talked Elder Dickinson into singing "America the Beautiful" with us while I played the piano. Elder Merrill stood up on a chair with his hand over his heart while we were singing it. It was pretty hilarious. We all have good work ethics so I'm excited to see how it all plays out here.

 

So, I bought a suit right before I left Belfast for a pretty good deal, but I recently found a much better suit for an even better deal. I hope that the store I bought it from in Belfast is still in Edinburgh so that I can return it and get the better deal. You just can't beat a good European suit.

 

We're still teaching a man named David. I think I accidentally told you his name was Graham last week. Got him mixed up with someone else. Anyway, he's still the king of one word answers and actually requested us to stop asking him questions. haha. He told us he is too intelligent to answer "ridiculous Gospel questions." He has the most posh English accent ever so you can picture him saying that. ha! We figure he probably just doesn't like admitting that he doesn't know the answers. So, for the first time in my whole mission, we are teaching someone without asking questions. It's pretty strange. He obviously ilkes what he's learning though cause he keeps inviting us to come back. We also found out that he officiates in another church which is probably a reason why he won't talk to openly. The Spirit is touching him though.

 

Things are good in the hood here. I hope they are good there. Love you all!

 

Elder Goodwin

01.27.14

On the ferry almost in Scotland. It was way windy and cold.

Elder Dickinson and I

Last FHE with the motley crew in Belfast

 

Hey so I'm in Perth now and it's pretty great. I left Belfast on the ferry at 6:30am last Wednesday and finally arrived in Perth at 9:00pm. So, it was a long day of travel. And here is my new address. Feel free to send me all types of awesome stuff. Even though I will see you face to face in 5 weeks.

 

85 E. Dunkeld Road

Perth PH1 5RJ

SCT, UK

 

Perth is really pretty. There is a river that runs through it called the River Tay and it's beautiful. This is the furthest north I've been in Scotland, so I'm enjoying it. The branch has about 25 - 30 active members and almost all of them are old, which is fine with me cause I absolutely love old people. I think they are legends and they always have awesome experiences to share. Plus, they've been through so much that they have cool personalities. It's sad though, cause the branch is so old, that they might have to take out the extra set of missionaries in the next transfer or two if nothing happens. Yet another reason to try our very best to help this Branch. I haven't managed to take any pictures of the area yet, but i definitely will this week so you can all see.

 

One of the cool old guys here is named Tom R. He's 88 years old, but he only got baptised 2.5 years ago. He's so cool. He just speaks out loud during the church services- for example, if someone speaking says anything he likes, he says, "That's Good" out loud. He has a really cool accent as well cause he used to be a skipper on a fishing boat back in his day. He still struggles with swearing too much. ha! While we were at his house, he told us a bunch of epic fishing stories.

 

My companion is Elder Dickinson and he's from Nottingham in England. He's a hard worker and we're enjoying our time together so far. I'm glad that he works hard willingly cause that means we will be able to accomplish alot in my last five weeks. I will attach a picture of him in this emai. He looks very English.

 

We've been hitting the streets and trying to find a bunch of new investigators and we've had some fair success. Yesterday, we got a new investigator named Graham A. I've nicknamed him the king of one word answers cause he only answers with 1 words no matter what we ask him. Then he turns the tables and asks us a question. ha! He's a very clever English guy with a massive moustache and beard. We went in planning to teach him the Restoration, but we both felt it wasn't right, so we switched to the Plan of Salvation. It was obvious that he was looking for a bit of contention at first, but the Plan of Salvation completely blew his mind. It was really cool to see his reaction to this plan that he had never heard of and knew nothing about. We could feel the Spirit so we know he did as well. It was a great lesson. We're seeing him again this Friday.

 

There are no buses or bikes here so we walk everywhere we go. Everywhere. It's a good thing my legs have turned into finely tuned walking machines over the past couple years. It also helps that I like walking now. Actually, the only time I don't like walking is when it's raining. Which is unfortunate cause it rains about 80% of the time over here. ha! It's been interesting to see how much the weather affects peoples moods since I've been on a mission. If it's one of those rare sunny days, then everyone is really happy and willing to speak to us. But, if it's the usualy cloudy and rainy day, then lots of people avoid us and cross the street before we can even get near them. haha! Or one of my personal favourites - when they see us they pick up their phone and pretend like they are talking to someone, so they can't talk to us. People come up with some pretty absurd excuses it's hilarious.

 

It's very strange trying to get to know the people here. I think sometimes the members are a bit hesitant to form a good friendship cause they know I will be gone so soon. And it's also sad for me when I meet someone I really like, but I know I won't be seeing them anymore in a few weeks time. But, it's pretty awesome being in a 6 week area. I know my time is limited, so we go all out to accomplish as much as we can each day.

 

We celebrated something called Burns Night at the church on Saturday. It was in honor of Robert Burns and it was pretty fun. They made all types of Scottish food for us and we feasted. Then they read a bunch of Scottish poetry in thick highland accents and I couldn't understand a word they said. It sounded cool though. We ate tons of haggis, Scottish pancakes, scones, broths, stews, and other stuff that I can't remember the names of. We ate haggis 2 days in a row and it was delicious both times.

 

There is also a member here named Eleanor and she loves missionaries. She feeds us a five course meal every single Sunday and her food is flippin amazing. I don't think I've ever had a five course meal in my life.

 

Anyway, this email is getting pretty long. I love you all and hope you have a good week.

 

Elder Goodwin

 

01.20.14

Hey I have a ground breaking announcement to make. And it has nothing to do with the fact that I got stabbed again. Just kidding I've never been stabbed. . . on my mission. A few incidents from home come to mind though. One involves a butcher knife and a thumb.... ha! The news actually has to do with where I will be finishing the last 6 weeks of my mission. 

Sudden death moves call didn't disappoint. I thought for sure that I would  just finish my mission here cause this is my last transfer, but the Lord has other plans. I will be moving to Perth, Scotland on Wednesday morning. Elder Stringer is staying here and a new district leader is coming in to replace me. I will still be a District Leader and my companions name is Elder Dickison. He's English which is a bit concerning. haha! Anyway, from what President Brown and the Assistants said, they need some damage control done in Perth cause there is nothing happening with the work there. They asked me what I thought about the call and I was completely honest. ha! I said, "I'm unpleasantly surprised - it's going to be hard to stay motivated for 6 weeks in an area where I don't know anyone and probably won't see the fruit of a lot of my labours." Then, they sounded all nervous, but they were consoled when I told them I will still do my very best. So, that's the way the cookie crumbles with moves. I really liked this ward and I'm going to miss Elder Stringer, but look on the bright side. Now I can get a kilt if I want! ha. I will let you all know my new address as soon as possible. 

The family we were teaching found some anti-Mormon stuff somewhere so they canceled the appointment we had with them. We still have high hopes for them because we managed to text them a few scriptures and they told us we can come by this Friday. So, hopefully that goes somewhere. 

Neil is going through a really hard time in his life right now and probably won't be able to see the missionaries for at least a few weeks. So, that's what is going on with him. 

We have a legend of a member living here. Her name is Alison T. On Friday, she took us out to eat at a place called Franky and Benny's and the food was amazing. Then, she took us into this way expensive store and told us to choose some shirts. She insisted that we allow her to buy us new slim fit shirts and a new tie from this expensive place. All their clothes are made in London from the finest material possible. So, she bought us those and then she took us to another store and bought us some cuff links. I'm not even going to tell you how much she spent in total. It was pretty mind blowing and we had no idea what happened when we got onto the bus afterwards. Elder Stringer and I just looked at each other and started laughing cause it was so random and awesome. We keep trying to thank her all the time, but then she just turns the table on us and says things like, "You give up 2 years of your life to come to Ireland and tract in the rain - it's nothing for me to buy you a couple of shirts." She is so awesome. She's also the same one that threw a surprise birthday party for me. 

I'm going to miss all those I've taught here. In particular, I will miss a Less Active family named the Brysons. They are always so kind to us and they are SOO close to coming back to church. I'm sad I'm going to miss it. They made us a bunch of delicious soup to put in our fridge last week and I'm sure that thing of soup will keep the missionaries fed for weeks to come. 

Well, I love you all. Next email will be from Scotland. So far on my mission, I've been in every area for exactly 4.5 months. And everytime I've moved, I've gone to a different country and had to take the ferry. Every time. That's pretty crazy if I do say so myself. Pretty cool too. Have a great week!

Elder Goodwin

 

PS: By the way, Perth is where a couple of my ancestors are from, so that is another really neat thing about this call. Also, Sister Brown told us that Perth is the most beautiful place in Scotland. And she's lived in Scotland her whole life so she ought to know. Love ya all. 

01.13.14

Moldy soup. A member gave us some nice soup but the we accidentally left it out on the counter for about 3 weeks. It was nasty and really stinky and we didn't know what to do with it so we poured it down the gutter.

Preaching the Book of Mormon to all of Belfast. 

Absurd birthday pic.

Slim fit suit

 

Hey this Sunday will be the last moves call of my mission. I've named this moves call "sudden death" because it is the deciding factor in my place of death as a missionary. In other words, I am nearing my last transfer. 

Thank you for all the birthday wishes and packages, they were all awesome and loved. It did hinder my 6 months to sexy plan, but it's back in action now. ha! My birthday was definitely one to remember. It started out just like any other day. We went finding in the rain and what not and had some good lessons. But, then I decided to buy myself a birthday present. And by birthday present I mean a European slim fit suit. It's a pretty awesome suit and I will send a picture of it, but I still  might trade it in for a different one cause I suck at buying things and I always get buyers remorse no matter what I buy. Europeans know how to make sharp looking dress clothes though. Anyway, one of the members here - Alison Tracey - was having us over for the evening cause her husband is a non-member and she likes us to teach him. So, I thought nothing of it, but then we got there and there were a bunch of other people there and I started to get suspicious. Then, we went in the other room and they had some happy birthday banners on the wall and a bunch of food. So, I received my second ever surprise birthday party! It was amazing! Even though  I suck at handling surprises and gifts I tried my best and we all had a fun time. So I had as much fun as possible while still being a missionary.

In other news, we found a truly golden family. We were just chapping doors in the neighbourhood and they invited us to come back a different day. So, we went back not expecting too much, cause when someone says to come back a different day, they usually mean, "I'm not interested, but I'm too polite to tell you so I will dodge the appointment instead." Well, we went back and they immediately let us in and told us they had been expecting us and that they had read the whole pamphlet we gave them. Their parents names are Martin and Angela and they have 5 kids. 3 of them are over the age of 8. They have been looking for a church to go to because they have a very strong faith in Christ and they read the bible everyday, but they haven't found a church they feel it right. They are so spiritually in tune and they are very smart people. They even have pictures of Jesus hanging up all over the house. Their standards are already very similar to our teaching so we are very excited to teach them again this Friday. 

Still not too much word from Neil. He's been going through some hard things lately, so we only get a text from him once in awhile. We are hopeful that we will finally get to see him again tomorrow. 

Mark is still a champion. He's coming to institute this week because he wants to know more about the Book of Mormon and he's still planning on playing some snooker with us sometime. He's feeling the Spirit every time he reads and he's about half way through the book now.

Elder Stringer and I had the opportunity to give a baby a blessing yesterday, which was a pretty neat experience. He just had a wee cold and the blessing seemed to help. Little kids are so awesome. There is always such a strong spirit around them and they learn things so fast. We always play this game called chair football and it takes adults ages to learn it, but when we teach kids how to play they learn it the first time we explain it. Don't know why I added that. ha!

Oh and I've also had my last regular interview with President Brown. The next interview I have with him will be my exit interview. He said some really nice things to me and it meant a lot. I'm thankful for him and his loving leadership. 

P day will be fun today cause one of the members here is an amateur boxer and he's gonna teach Elder Stringer and I how to box. We aren't allowed to hit each other, only punching bags, but it will still be great. ha!

Well, that's about it for this past week. I love you all so much and hope you are having fun. Stay true!

Elder Goodwin