Tastes Like Chicken

Well hi everyone! I found out Saturday that I’ll be with my Chilango, Elder Fraga for another transfer in this area. So my address is still the same. Seems weird how fast time is going. Once you get into the swing of things, time really goes by fast. Life is really good though and I’m happy to be a part of this work.

How’s the baby doing? And how are you doing Stormie? I was talking to the lady we visit every Thursday night, Merylnn, and she said that she thinks it’s easier to give birth the natural way. She said you kind of forget the pain and then the recovery is really fast so hopefully your future babies will be easier :)

I had a good Easter Sunday. The ward choir sang in sacrament meeting. They wanted a soloist so I decided to volunteer so I sang a verse by myself (with a microphone). It was a good sacrament meeting. I also had fun coloring Easter eggs by myself. I did about 10. Elder Fraga didn’t want to do any. I’ll take a picture of them. Too bad the paint was dried out. Someone should complain about that.

I’m glad to have Elder Fraga for another transfer. I’ll be able to keep learning lots from him and hopefully set a good example for him too. He joined the church when he was 11 when the rest of his family was converted. I’m not sure if any of his extended family are members. He has a brother going to BYU and the rest are in Mexico. He loved BYU Hawaii and is constantly raving about it and even half convinced Elder Keeler to go there after his mission. He says the people are really laid back (“chill”) and he went to the beach all the time. He wasn’t really by any cities so that’s all there really was to do anyway lol He went to English school in Provo to learn enough English to go to school in the USA then went to BYUH.

The last couple days have been really hot! Yesterday it got up into the 100’s! It’s about that hot today too. Man, I get so much hotter when I have to wear a tight collar, tie, and warm long pants. Yesterday I almost died—especially since the place we were teaching didn’t have air conditioning—most probably don’t though. Just small little apartments with poor Mexicans living in them. It was the member’s house where we teach Erasmo. Luckily we/they decided to have dinner out back in the shade of the building. The lesson went well and he understands everything just fine, he just says he isn’t ready to drop everything and do what God asks. He needs that strong confirmation from God so keep him in your prayers.

Julia is doing really well and is super ready for baptism. We still aren’t sure what to do about her guy friend who is married though. I don’t know if he wants to go to the trouble of getting a divorce and getting married. She accepted the word of wisdom really well though—even though she has multiple issues with it. She is determined to change so I think it’ll happen. I’m not sure if she’ll be ready by her date on the 10th, but she has a testimony. Like I said Erasmo probably isn’t going to be ready by this Sunday so we’ll have to set a new date and wait till he’s gotten an answer.

We had another temple tour on Saturday so that was good. Erasmo was the only one that came (of our investigators) just like last time but I liked it. Right before we went down, we ate lunch with Elder Keeler and Gillespie. It was at a Mexican place and I was looking at the menu and saw this appetizer that was a bowl of crickets. It looked really gross. Anyway, when I was ordering I asked for soup and the waitress said it was really small so I was deciding what to do when all of a sudden Elder Keeler finished my order for me. I knew what was coming so when the cheese and cricket quesadilla was put in front of me I wasn’t too surprised. The elders didn’t make me pay for it, but I did end up taking one bite. Tastes like chicken. Lol just kidding. It’s not that yummy, but it didn’t have too strong a taste. I don’t really have a stomach for any more though haha. Especially after I could feel the little hard legs in my mouth. We all tried some, but none of us liked it enough to finish it lol so Elder Keeler and Gillespie took half to a member or something.

That’s crazy about Trevor. I have no idea if he had a girlfriend before his mission. I never heard anything. Not that I knew everything about him though. Thanks for the funny stories about Tereesah. That is SO funny that she uses the word “pretty.” It makes me think of when Julian was here and wanted to know why we use that word. Sounds like she’s making progress towards being potty trained. She’s a smart girl :) There’s this one little girl in our ward—she’s the granddaughter of Obispo Cerda and we were eating dinner with them one night and she was being so silly. She likes Pinocchio and she said “Pinonio has a long nose like Him (in Spanish)” referring to me of course. It was really funny.

Anyway, I love you all. Hope your week goes well!

Love,
Elder Curtis