At The Weekend

At The Weekend

We have just spent a lovely few days at our Temple 

in Chorley England

We had a wonderful time.

We cannot photograph the inside of our Temples,

however you can see some photo's of a Temple before opening HERE

The Temple grounds and building itself are beautiful

and well worth photographing

Valerie

xxx

Craft Bombed Canal

An Amazing Guy !

Last year one of the missionaries who baptised me was sent to 

teach the Gospel in another area.

SEE HERE

I was extremely sad to see him go and shed a few tears.

A new missionary came in his place 

(Mormon missionaries are always in a companionship of 2 or 3).

I conceded that although I was sure 'the new guy' 

would be very nice, it just wouldn't be the same. 

Well my goodness, did the new guy not turn out to be 

one of the most amazing young men we have had the pleasure of meeting.

Elder Tinsley became very precious to us,

and in fact was the missionary my daughter asked to baptise her,

just a few months after I was baptised.

Inevitably Elder Tinsley went on to another area too, and we were very sad

to see him go.

In case you don't know, missionaries are just 'ordinary' young men and women

who volunteer themselves to serve on our Lords mission for 2 years.

I cannot imagine how hard it must be to be sent off to a new

country and try and share the Gospel with a somewhat unwilling audience.  

There are 3 missionaries who will forever be in my heart because 

they shared such an intimate part of my life, my journey into 

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS

Elder Craig Butikofer

Who taught me the Gospel and performed my baptism

Elder Spencer McCarthy

Who taught me the Gospel and performed my confirmation

And Elder Joshua Tinsley

Who taught me the Gospel and became such a wonderful and amazing friend to 

all of our family

Our trip to Edinburgh last week was to say goodbye to 

Elder Tinsley, as he is now finished his mission

and its time for him to get back in to normal life.

Thank you SO much for serving a mission Elder Tinsley

The Lord certainly knew what he was doing

when He sent you to teach us.

We will be forever indebted to you, please come back soon

xxx

(p.s. yes I did cry a lot, again! lol)

Valerie

xxx

Day Out

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND

Edinburgh