Temple Trip

Hey everyone!

This week was awesome! We got to go to the Seattle Temple and it was just the best. Since I'm still an office elder we got to go twice and we didn't have to ride the bus, we just drove with the APs. We spent the nights of with them and the other elders in the mansion so that was way fun! On the way back one of the days, we took a quick detour to Cafe Rio. We wanted to be fast so we could get back to work so we ordered over the phone. When we pulled up we saw President Leishman there and we all got kinda scared because he didn't exactly know we would go there so we contemplated just leaving. But we faced our fear and went in, and he saw us and just laughed and even paid for our food! He's the best!!

I urge you all to attend the Temple as soon and as often as you can! It is the house of the Lord and a place we can all receive revelation and feel the Spirit very strongly. Plus, we get work done for those on the other side of the veil!

It was so cool to see all of my mission friends in the celestial room, I love them all and it was so peaceful. I can't wait to see them in the celestial kingdom!! :)

We had a way cool experience where we saw a lady on the street and called out to her, she said "Don't talk to me I'm mad at everyone, even God" I continued to bear testimony of times I've felt that way and how I got out of it, then we showed her the video "The Will of God" by D Todd Christopherson. She felt the spirit and cried and asked for our number. It was way powerful. All of you need to go watch that video, it's so good!

I love you all!!

Our wonderful Tacoma North zone at the Temple

Safeco field (Where we will be seeing President Russell M Nelson next month!)

Smiley faces, even though their bikes got stolen that day 

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2012-01-014-the-will-of-god?lang=eng

Elder Christopherson's Talk

Great Week & Bucketmobile

Hey everyone!

This week was awesome!! Yesterday we got to see our investigator S enter the waters of baptism and boy, was it a miracle!! She was the one who came to church when she was intoxicated, and look at her now! She is completely sober and ready for this huge step! She had to be interviewed by our mission president and we couldn't find her until 20 minutes before her interview, so that was scary. The same thing happened with her baptism! We had our whole zone praying we could find her and get her baptized. Our ward mission leader doubted us the whole way, and even laughed when I said I was filling the font when we still hadn't found her. We ended up finding her about an hour and a half before the baptism. Our ward mission leader told the ward the baptism wasn't happening so there wasn't a huge turnout. Our mission president, his wife, and 2 senior couples from the office came though! It was a tender baptism!

Other than that we had zone conferences this week and had to get up early most of the days. We got Krispy Kreme one of the days and that was sooo good!

Baptisms just make me love my mission so much more!!! I love my mission so much!!

I love you all! 

Elder Goldsberry

So this week was pretty crazy. We went over to S's house (the lady we baptized last Sunday) and she wasn't there. But our good buddy was! He makes all sorts of weird contraptions and we didn't have anything else to do, so I asked what contraption he had to show us today and he pulled out "the bucketmobile." It's essentially a wheel barrel nailed on to one of those little green machine bikes. Needless to say he's a genius. He has a friends who also lives there and he's someone we are teaching. He's very interested in the Spirit World as that's something that came up in his bible study and he didn't find answers. But when we told him he was way interested and told us we are the only people that could ever answer his question. 

His friend told us the other day he was just kinda outside chillin and then he heard some cop cars and saw a naked dude running. Just one of the wonders of Tacoma. A few days later we were talking to him and this African American fellow came up looking kinda mad so we were a little worried, because he was a BIG dude. He said "Don't you remember me? Remember the black guy running nude from the cops?" And our friends just said "Oh yeah! I didn't recognize you." and the dude talked to us for a bit and gave us one of those handshakes where you come in for a half hug, and told us to keep doin what we're doin. So we may have shaken hands with a dude who ran naked from the cops, but I'm not jumping to any conclusions. 

We had a ward dinner Saturday and S came. She brought a friend and introduced herself to everyone. She even helped clean! It was way cool! We already see a huge change in her and so does T. He couldn't make it to the dinner so we wrapped up some plates and walked them to him, they live right by the church. His friend was there and it was perfect because we brought two plates! 

We went on exchanges with our ZLs and the next day with our DL. It was a lot of fun, it always changes things up. We get transfer calls this Saturday, transfers just keep getting faster I don't like it one bit. 

I love you all!!

Elder Goldsberry

1. The Jesus bus 

2. The bucketmobile

3. The pipes for the organ in our chapel