Back in January, the Kingsport Stake invited us to join them at a youth activity they had at Bristol Motor Speedway.
We’ve never been to a NASCAR race track, and just rolling up to the race track was impressing. This place is huge! It seats 146,000 people for NASCAR races. In the middle of the track is a massive 30 foot X 63 foot Jumbotron that hangs over the middle of the track.
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Brother Ford does with security for the Speedway so he was able to take us down to drive on the track which was a fun experience.
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A main focus of the youth activity was a service project of tying blankets for a local hospital. We had all 28 missionaries from the Kingsport Zone there and they did a great job of spreading out and interacting with the youth while we worked on these blankets. We then closed out the activity with talking about ways the youth could share the gospel with their friends and steps they could take to prepare to serve a mission.
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While we there, we ran into one of our best friends from Fidelity Investments, Chris Millburn. Chris and I worked together in SLC for many, many years on multiple different teams. He moved out to Johnson City a few years ago to lead the Fidelity Investor Center there and has loved Tennessee. It wasn’t surprising that he now has a role at our church in leading and mentoring the youth in this area.
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