Letter #79 . . . ECLIPSE and 18 months!

Familia and friends!

Things are good here in the Whitmer Ward with Elder Fallon! I really
love this Ward, and don't want to leave! Transfers are on the 7th of
September, hopefully I stay!

Eclipse, 2017

That's awesome that Luke's home! Miss all those guys. Can't wait to see em. Thanks for the update mama with everyone! 

August 21st . . . Eclipse watching party

Some highlights of the week: We went to the temple with Barbie and did baptisms for her first time! She said she liked it. There was a cool Spirit there. There always is! We were able to be witnesses and do the 
confirmations for her too. I love Barbie so much. Pray for her, she's going through some challenges with the family...
Went to the Temple later in the week and did a session with the Bridges, I hadn't done a session for months!

Brought Cheyanne and Nicolas Gunn to the Visitors Center! They are the cutest little family. Their two kids are adorable. The VC sisters took us through the "God's Plan" tour with them. They're solid! I feel she will be baptized soon.

Hit my 18 month mark... that's equivalent to having two babies FYI :)

Bob Gordon is currently on date for the 9th of September! Sheri wants to continue reading and praying before she decides to be baptized. We had an awesome lesson with Bob and Sheri! They told us about a phone call they just had with Bob's sister, who happens to be active in the LDS faith, and lives out of state. She told the Gordon's she has been praying for them to be able to have some help in their lives to get through the burden of possibly losing  Bob to cancer. As Bob's sister told the Sheri Gordon's about that prayer,  Sheri started to cry, and let her know, "You'll never believe this, but a few weeks back, some MORMON missionaries showed up and gave us a blessing of healing, andcame back a couple times with their Ward to help out on the farm...and Bob is almost cancer free!!" They both cried and cried on the phone she said, God answered her prayer through other people!! Just so happens that 'those people' were the Mormons who just so happened to have the fullness of the gospel, to bring the fullness of happiness
and truth into their life. God loves his children ladies and gents. ;)

ECLIPSE NEWS. Haha this Eclipse has brought so much madness to Missouri. It was awesome, don't get me wrong. The whole sky turning dark for two minutes and all.. super beautiful. It's just sad how overhyped it was. We went and helped out a person who was expecting thousands of people to show up to watch on their property because they were in the prime spot of Lathrop Missouri... NASA was even in Lathrop!! They bought PALETTES AND PALLETES OF soda, chips, and just about everything else. They were expecting it to be a huge success. But only like 200 people came, and they ended up 100,000 dollars in the hole. :/ Here are a few videos that Tanner sent from watching the eclipse . . . #1 "Take a little gander up there!", 
#2 Sped up version of the eclipse! 
 
President and Sister Love gave their first Zone conference! It was one of my faves of my whole mission. They focused on using our talents to make creative ways to find new investigators. A quote that they said, that I think applies to everything in life. It's been on my mind all day. "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." If you're not getting the result you want in your life, CHANGE THINGS UP, do something different than you have in the past! :)

First zone conference with President and Sister Love

Love y'all.

- Elder Townsend
 
PS.  Here is one more video Tanner sent of him driving . . . probably right after a big storm.  Driving after a storm  , , , , hope he didn't ruin the car.  :)