I teach the gospel to a goat (not clickbait!!!)

Hey y’all I hope everyone is doing well. This week has been a little different once again. (Pictures from Tuesday:)
To be honest, not much happened on Wednesday, but we did a lot of tracting because we didn't have a lot of lessons planned and we found 8 new people and had a great dinner. Then we came back to our house to clean because we had apartment inspections the next day. We wanted to make sure everything was clean before they came.
Not much happened on Thursday, but Friday was my first ever exchange with the zone leaders. I had a really good time learning new things from them because they're really good missionaries. I got to meet a lot of new interesting people, including someone who tried to use star trek to disprove Jesus Christ. I learned a lot from the ZL'S. They taught me great ways to connect with people when you first meet them and how to be more confident in doing the work.
Saturday, we had an amazing lesson where we got to teach about the history and the importance of the Book of Mormon and got to teach more about the restoration of the gospel. Elder Sterner let me teach a lot of the lesson so I could get experience. I think it went really well, and he said I did a good job. Then we spent the afternoon knocking on doors and asking people if they wanted to join us for church the next day.
For Sunday there's not a lot too to report but a lot of our friends came to church with us which was awesome and we had some spent the day trying to invite people to come to church with us next week, but I found joy in the work and I was more confident in doing it which I am so happy about. Monday was a pretty special day. To start our day off right, we were able to go clean the Casper Wyoming temple. Which was a super amazing experience to serve in the house of the Lord and to be able to serve the Lord directly by cleaning His temple. I am so happy I was able to have that experience and to be able to feel the spirit and do service. After cleaning the temple, we went to Buffalo Wild Wings and Elder Sterner and I got the all you can eat boneless wings deal. We got a lot of wings and felt sick the rest of the day which wasn't great for missionary work. Monday night though was probably the coolest thing that happened to me all week. We went out to this family who lives about 20 miles outside of Casper to their little Homestead farm and we knocked on the front door and the husband came out and told us his wife wanted to have our meeting tonight in 100 BC. Which weant having it out in the goat barn because they were birthing goats at the time and were spending a lot of time out there. So we had our lesson with them out in a go barn While the goats tried to eat my camping chair which was funny.
I'm going to keep my spiritual thought short and sweet because it's getting late here and I should've wrote in my email earlier. Jesus Christ offers the peace that He had when he slept through the storm on the ship. He offers this peace to us willingly in our storms of life. We may feel that there is nowhere we can turn, but Jesus Christ offers us that peace.The storm may not fade, but we can have peace and confidence in Christ. He will wrap us up in his loving arms and comfort us in our moments of trial.It may not get easier, but God will strengthen us so our burdens may be light.
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