This week was pretty average, but as a missionary that means my week was great! Every week in the mission field is a great one! Not a whole lot went on, we did have zone conference and that was a lot of fun! It was the first zone conference I haven't had to set up for in 6 months since I'm not an Office Elder anymore! Of course I helped take all the tables down because I know how much that sucks lol.
We met a way cool part member family where the husband and the son are not members. We helped them clean their house after a big smoke accident and we connected with them really well! The husband wants to play basketball with us so hopefully we can get that going with him. I have a really good feeling about them. We also have a bunch of other pretty solid people, unfortunately only one of them came to church yesterday but we just gotta be patient!
Conference last week was so amazing! And not just because church is shortened haha, I do have to say 6 hours of church every week isn't exactly the funnest experience. There were so many good talks, and watching with the perspective of also having investigators watching changes everything! It was so rooted in the doctrine of Christ and it was just awesome!! We are reading the Book of Mormon cover to cover and highlighting references to Christ just as President Nelson advised the sisters to do! It's so cool!
Nothing else to report on really, we have interviews with President on Tuesday then Elder Whiting will be visiting the mission on Saturday so that will be way cool!
I love you all!
Elder Goldsberry
Respect my general authoriteh
The subject for this week's email is for my south park fans out there.
Hey everyone!
This week was a great one! We had interviews with President Leishman and those are always super fun and uplifting! He's a great guy. Word on the street is we Elder Rose and I will be getting another brand new missionary to train! Hopefully we get to keep Elder M, Elder W visa is here so he'll be flying to Zimbabwe here on Sunday. If not President said we would be getting 2 new ones.
We had Elder Whiting of the 70 and the area presidency come visit the mission on Saturday! He is way cool and funny, he roasted a few people including president and it was way funny. He had a lot of great things to say and it really inspired me to push myself harder. He talked a lot about the Holy Ghost which was pretty awesome, it's sometimes hard to discern between promptings and my own thoughts and he give some pretty sick wisdom for that in specific. He's a very charismatic and funny guy.
Also on Saturday we had an ex missionary Elder Jenks with his family and his girlfriend, also an ex missionary from this mission Sister Skinner, come and visit us for a quick second. It was way cool to see him again, he's a really good guy. He's Elder Rose's trainer so that was pretty dope.
The work still moves forward here in Gig Harbor. We got good things going and we are really excited!
I love you all!
Elder Goldsberry
Urgency
Hello everyone!!
First off, this week was great! We had a really good week and found some people to teach and just working with the same people. We dropped off Elder W on Saturday and he is now on his way to Zimbabwe! We are excited for him. We got our transfer calls and the 3 of us will be staying and getting another new missionary to train! We are very excited!
There's a subject that has been pressing on my mind lately and I just wanted to talk about it and that is urgency. Yesterday we had a member of one of our wards who was baptized 2 years ago telling us how lucky we are to be born into the gospel and how she could've used it 50 years ago. We ARE so lucky to have the gospel and because of that we have the responsibility to share it with our spirit brothers and sisters. I have noticed an attitude of urgency with our Prophet, President Nelson. There is NOTHING more important we can take part in than the gathering of Israel!
Alma 13:24 says 24 For behold, aangels are declaring it unto many at this time in our land; and this is for the purpose of preparing the hearts of the children of men to receive his word at the time of his coming in his glory.
People all around us are constantly being prepared! Let's not be afraid to share the gospel with those around us! Let's pray for opportunities to share the gospel and for the spiritual sensitivity to recognize those opportunities! I would hate for someone to come up to me in the next life and say "You were right there, and you had what I needed. Why did you not try to share it with me?" Whether or not they know it now, EVERYONE needs the gospel!
I love you all!
Elder Goldsberry
