Our investigators are Nate - baptism March 26 -- Family (Tasha, Uquoysia (U-quay-z-a) "Coy", Trevian, and Ashantay - Baptism April 9 -- Troy and Sadasia (Tasha's nieces who we hope to set a date with for baptism tonight -- Ann investigator who says she wants to come to church next week before we talk about baptism -- Carl.
This week the youth had a service project where they cut down a couple trees
then had a Bon fire with them. We had the privilege to help out with this. It
was so much fun! All the youth here had the opportunity to learn how to use a
chainsaw (not sure if that was a good idea or not because they were all in
shorts and didn't have gloves) but luckily nobody got hurt. The trees were in
the neighbors to a members yard. The nonmember neighbor came out and loved us!
We had a great gospel discussion with him and hopefully we get to meet with him
sometime. There was also a less active youth and a nonmember youth that came to
it. The fire was right on the lake with the sunset in the background. It really
doesn't get too much better than that. It reminds me of all the great youth
activities we had back home. Anyways so that's the fun highlight of the week.An embarrassing highlight of the week happened yesterday after church. Elder Rowley and I we driving to check up on some people and decided to try a shortcut. Well this shortcut is not a paved road...and we have a little Ford Fusion car. If you don't know, Florida is all sand. Any rocks you see here are hauled in from somewhere else. Driving in the sand is a lot like driving in the snow, and cars and snow don't get along well. Anyways so we were going down this Sandy road and we came to this point in the road where you could tell is was SUPER soft sand. I had a split second to make a decision. I either had to stop and risk losing my momentum which would make me get stuck, or try to get off to the side of the road in the grass. I went with the second option and tried to make it to the edge of the sandy road. I got to the side but couldn't quite make it onto the grass. I hurried and tried to go back and rock the car a bit to get it moving but it was no use. I was stuck! The front bumper was high centered and if we tried to drive out anymore we would just dig the wheels deeper. We got out of the car just as these 2 girls pulled up on a 4 wheeler. They laughed at us because they saw a shiny car and 2 kids in nice shirt and ties. They called us "Yankee's" because we don't know what country life is like. I wanted to try to explain my background but I figured that I got myself into this mess so I would just take the consequences. Long story short, it took a jeep and a 4 wheeler to pull us out. I guess that whats you get when you put a couple of country boys in a car with a dirt road haha.
In church they have been focusing a lot on the Plan of Salvation. It's amazing how such a simple plan can bring us such great happiness. The funny part is that people simple just don't want to do the simple things because they think it's too hard. It reminds me of something President Harris said from one of our youth stake activities. He asked us if it is hard to live the gospel. Most of us nodded our heads yes. He answered and said that its not because if you look at those who don't live the gospel they have such a harder life than us. Sometimes it may seem that we have trials that we don't understand, but they are for our benefit. Mosiah 23:21 says, "21 Nevertheless the Lord seeth fit to chasten his people; yea, he trieth their patience and their faith." One thing that I have been doing this week is thanking God for the trials I have been given. Once we take a step back and see the full picture, everything makes so much more sense. Well I love y'all and hope you have a great week!
Elder Goff
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