The Refiner's Fire

Well folks, I am being put through the phase of my mission known as "the refiner's fire." Essentially that means I started off in a great, baptizing area and now I'm in a less baptizing area. 

Members of my new ward, the Cowlitz Falls ward, tell me "You're this early in the mission and they already sent you to outer darkness??" It really is out in the middle of nowhere, the nearest Walmart is 45 minutes away! There's no streetlights out here so I'm getting a lot of good use out of my flashlight!

In an average 5-7 knocking sessions we will knock a good 6 houses. We can't really knock after 7 like we could in the city, people will get real mad so we work with members a lot. Our area consists of a bunch of small towns and our ward building is located in Morton. My companion, Elder M, is a great guy, he's actually a Spanish Elder. 

We live in a members basement on a chicken farm! The member's wife doesn't speak English so we teach her every now and then, more like Elder M teaches and I watch haha. 

We have cows living on the property with us so that's pretty cool haha! 

I love you guys!!!

-Elder Goldsberry