Hey hey!
How's life treating errrrybody?! I miss my amazing family and friends
back in the 801. What's new?! Life is good out here. I feel grateful
to have the opportunity to be a missionary, and bring the peace this
gospel brings so immensely to my life, to others.
I started reading this book called "The Book of Mormon" again for the
third time. Not sure if you've heard of it. Great read, four stars,
highly recommend it. If I were to try and describe it, I would say
it's almost like weirdly, strangely identical to that action thriller,
"hunger gamez, by Jennifer Aniston" except for just the characters and
story are pretty different at parts and you know when u really start to
think about it, the plots are not alike in the slightest way, shape, or form.
So nevermind.
(Take notes kids, that was a prime example of an #EffectiveMetaphor) 👆
... sorry I just felt this urge to say somethin stupid real quick. My
humor is just getting dryer and dryer out here. Hahahaha nah for reals
tho, I read from the introduction all the way to Enos in two days. I'm
highlighting it like crazayyy. Speaking of crazy, It's crazy how
confused this world is. People have no flippin idea how incredible
that little $2 book is... That's a heck of a deal you're getting for 2
measly little dollar bills, or not even that, for free most of the
time!! What does it include you ask? Oh nothin too big, just the tools
for eternal salvation, the formula for peace and lasting happiness in
this life, and the path we can follow to be able to live with, and
become like our Savior. That book is priceless, and it only costs a
few quarters. Meanwhile, I'm chillin at McDonald's, glance up at the TV,
and a flippin plastic mop cost $49.99. 🤔👏👏 Then i looked at the tv again
and Fox News was on. Watched for a solid 20 seconds and wanted to go
live under a rock for eternity. Hahaha the Media is so dramatic about
the dumbest things. Glad to be away from all that great stuff. I do
miss Trump tho. Classy guy, four stars, highly recommend him.
#Trump2016
We have an awesome teaching pool right now. We met with the Clardys,
and she was super excited to tell me about her convo with Al Van Der
Beek of ThePianoGuys. (He's an old friend of hers) She had written him
tellin him they were being taught by me and stuff, Al wrote back and
said that she should check out my YouTube vids! Which they did, He
then wrote this amazing, super long message about his conversion and
testimony, inviting her to truly put our message to the test with full
purpose of heart. She read it out loud and we were all tearing up.
It was amazing. Thank you Al, for following the spirit!! They are loving
the lessons, loving the Book of Mormon. Such great people. Can
someone find his email I want to write him. That man is a spiritual legend.
(The genius behind ThePianoGuys as well) #idol 🙏 It really was a miracle.
How random is that? God works in the coolest ways!
Our other investigator, Christian Salazar, is amazing. He and Madison
aren't married, and have a cute little boy. We talked about the atonement
and the commandments today. Taught about chastity, which we were
dreading. But oh man! He ate it all up! He was all for it, and was
even testifying of its importance back to us. He loves the church, the
gospel, everything we teach him, you can just see the spirit enlighten
his mind. They came to the first two hours of church, they've been at
sacrament the last four weeks! They're not married and have a kid, but
they will be in August. They asked if we would set up a time they
could meet with the Bishop ASAP! Madison wants to meet one on one with
the bishop first, and then they want to both meet with him. Ahhhh
That's good news... :)
We teach the gospel principles class because the assigned teacher is inactive,
and usually it's just us teaching this one sweet 70 year old recent convert ..
but since Madison and Christian were coming today, we hurried and texted
a bunch of people in sacrament and had like 15 awesome members come to
the class and the spirit was super strong. We talked about obedience. It was
awesome. Both The Clardys and Christian will be baptized soon. I know it.
Life is good. The mission is tough. There are ups and downs, but I'm
learning how to get through anxiety by praying for help. It works. I
promise you.
Turns out the Moores are having family move in, so we are finding
another place to live.
A thought that's been on my mind from my favorite song Saturn by
Sleeping At Last:
"How rare, and beautiful it truly is that we exist." - Ryan O'Neal
Love you all
Elder Townsend
Sent from Zion
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