Letter #78 . . . dodgeball with the youth and darts with the old folks!

Hey fam! 

Miss ya. Thinks are good out here! Shout out to Parker for
killin it with Full time filmmaker. Word around town is that things
are growing like crazy! He's at over 100k YouTube subscribers, and is
shooting to have 250k by the time I'm home!! Shoutout to Lex for being
the mama to the cutest little baby Kirt. (Kira) :) Also, I heard
Parker Thompson and Jaydra got engaged!! That's so awesome. I love
both of them!

Some highlights of the week: we had a lesson with Cheyenne and Nic! Nic is a less active member, Cheyenne is not a member, and we've been teaching her! Normally it's super chaotic with the kids in their house, but this time, the kids were just calm enough to have the parents focus on us the whole time. We taught the simplest restoration lesson I've ever taught. The spirit was very strong. We're going to the Visitor Center with them tomorrow.

We've been reading the Book of Mormon with Barbie a few times a week with her at her work. Her family is super against her joining the church. It's been hard for her, but her faith is amazing, she's pushing through all the persecution she's facing. We're going to go to the temple Wednesday with Barbie! That'll be super cool. Ryan, the other guy who was just baptized is ready to go to the temple as well.

We are working with this girl named Jessica, her husband is a member, they both have a smoking problem. Jessica has just recently quit smoking, and has been cigarette free for a month!! She's been coming to church, and asked if we could teach her the lessons so she could be baptized in the next month or two!! happy happy happy!

We threw darts with the residents at Barbies work! :) Haha flippen
awesome huh? We also had our Missionary youth activity, which was
awesome this week. We had like 30 people show up to play dodgeball. We
had a few non members there as well. Good times!

Arthur Embry is living in Orem now!! I told him to go visit you guys. I think he'd like to come to the MTC!! I'll tell him! You should call him.
 
Love you all,
- Elder Townsend