Letter #97 . . . Christmas call, Baptism, Peanuts and Moana!

Merry Christmas!

Short email today, I'll talk to you soon on FaceTime! 

Darcio and Ryella

Highlight of the week, Darcio and his daughter Ryella were baptized on Saturday! It was such an awesome day. It was Booth's first baptism, so it was a special time!! Booth's such an awesome dude. 

We had a talent show on Christmas Eve at this member's house! It was awesome cause Booth and I both have that Christmas Eve tradition at home, and we were pumped to be able to join y'all in doing that tradition!! Just 1100 miles away! :) 

Christmas FaceTime!!

Also we got to watch Moana!! Our mission President authorized us to watch a Disney movie! All I could think about the whole time was Claire!! I now can come home and have the perfect way to relate to her! ;) She's so squishy! Send some more vids of her getting big. 

- Elder Townsend 

 

PS.  Tanner and missionaries re-enacted the PEANUTS Christmas . . .haha! Click here to watch the PEANUTS in action . . . and then Click here to watch the missionaries in action! :)

 

December, 2017

New Christmas sweater!

 

Letter #96 . . . mission is awesome, I tell ya!

Hey family and everybody! 

Elder Booth and Elder Townsend

Twas a great week! Christmas is in a week, oh meh goodness. Time really is flying by here. Weeks go by so fast. The mission is awesome I tell ya. 

This week we had the opportunity to go to the temple after Zone conference. It was my first time going in a while. I'm loving it more and more the more I go. I got so much out of it this time, and I feel like I learned a ton. I want to be sure to keep up my temple attendance when I'm home. Because it makes me so happy!

Zone Conference at the temple

Our investigator Darcio is super excited to be baptized on the 23rd still! Al, who I was teaching in my last ward, got baptized on the 16th, and the Hills from my last ward, are getting baptized on the 6th of January! Exciting stuff! 

 

We can FaceTime around 4-4:30 our time, 3-3:30 your time!  

 

That's cool you saw a bunch of my pals at Jenna's homecoming!  Miss them all.

I love and miss you all. I will see you pretty soon. :)

 

Elder Townsend

Letter #95 . . . Darcio, Dallin, Liberty Jail and Llamas!

Familia and Friends!

At Liberty Jail with Darcio and his family!

Hope all is well! This week has been a fun one! Highlights... We got to go to Liberty Jail with Darcio and his family! It was such a sweet experience. I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to finish teaching him and being a part of his conversion! He has three little kids and a wife who is a member. We watched the Joseph Smith Restoration movie. There is such a cool Spirit felt there! He's still looking solid for his date on the 23rd.

We were on walk week this week. Although it was flippen cold, we still had a grand ol' time walkin everywhere! We performed at the Ward Christmas party which was awesome.

We weren't able to meet with Jennifer this week, she has a crazy work schedule. We have an appointment with her on Wednesday!

Elder Booth and Elder Tan Man!

Dallin Bytheway, Brenden Bytheway's little brother is serving in my district and we've became buds. It's pretty awesome he's just a mini Brenden hahahah!

Britt and Spencer's perms, oh my goodness!! Hahah who did those, why did they do those? And why did Spence have to sit in the art case all day?!

I am so happy that Claire knows who I am!! Wahooo I woulda thought she didn't know who I was! :)

Love you, till next week! :)

- Elder Townsend

Purty!

Tree huggin!

Letter #94 . . . transferred and fancy music night!

Hola familia and friends!  

"Fancy Music Night"

Sad news! I was transferred from Lauritsen and NKC Ward! I'm now with Elder Booth in the Lee Summit 3rd Ward, serving in Kansas City Stake! We whitewashed in. It's been awesome so far. The Ward has been super nice to us! We have been able to play lots of music for the ward which has been sweet! The first night we got to play at a little fancy music night like Leon Peterson does. It brought me back to old times. We played a bunch of numbers! 

 

Tanner and Elder Booth

The coolest part the week was these 2 investigators that members referred to us, that are mega solid and ready to be taught. We taught them both, one named Darcio is the coolest dude ever, and is now on date for the 23rd of December! The other's name is Jennifer and we are starting to teach her the lessons. She is looking for some peace in her life. She definitely is seeking the right place for it. :)  

 

He found a street named after his Mom! :)

Been reading the BOM over and over, and am loving it more and more. I'm so grateful for it. Hope all is well. 

 

See you soon. :)

Tan

PS.  Here are a couple of links to watch from the "Fancy Music night" . . . 
Be Still My Soul  
Come Thou Fount  

 

Letter #93 . . LightTheWorld vid and transfers!

Hey familia! 

Sorry I didn't write yesterday! We got busy editing that LightTheWorld video! Click here to watch! It's been cool to see it's already been viewed 12k times!! (4 days later it's at 34,000 views!) Cool way to spread the message for sure! It's fun to do things a little differently sometimes! 

This week we got to meet with our investigator Al a bunch to read the Book of Mormon. We are doing little marathons with him because he is DEAD SET on having to finish the Book of Mormon before he gets baptized. We set him on date for December 16th, he has 55 chapters left. So we're helping him finish, and it's been awesome! :)

We have transfers this week, we have no idea what's going to happen! We hope we stay together! I'll let you know what happens. Mission is good, I'm sorry I don't have much to say, thanks for the email mama, and keeping me updated. I'm doing well! 

Till next week, much love!

Elder Townsend