I’ll be the first to attest to that

Erasmo got baptized! He decided to move his date to this weekend so we were finally able to do it. We’ve been waiting for so long for him to feel ready so we were super excited when he finally set a date with us, then when he moved it closer we were even more happy. After five months of teaching him he finally took that step and is now going to be an amazing member of the church. Thank you guys SO much for praying for him and having faith that he could eventually accept.

The gospel changes lives, I’ll be the first to attest to that. It helps people realize the truth and how much their heavenly father has in store for them. Thank you for your continued support of me in this important work. I know someday I will have “great joy with them in the kingdom of my Father.” I can not take credit for his change—you guys helped so much as did God.

He asked Elder Zelnick to do the baptism since he’s the tallest of us three. Then we filled up the font really high to make sure it would be as easy as possible. Erasmo had been to lots of baptisms and had seen how many times some of them had to be baptized so he didn’t want that to happen to him. :)

We’re still struggling to get Michelle and Rigo to make and keep their commitments. They struggle getting to church and reading/praying which are some of the most important things for them to do. We also had a big lesson (again) on the law of Chastity and tried to get them to stop living together. In the end it’s their decision, but we are doing all we can to help.

Our investigator Silvia is also doing really well. She lives right next to the Pantojas in the ward so it’s easy to teach member lessons—especially since we are there a lot to talk to Erasmo. She and her three little kids came to church yesterday and even came to the temple tour we had yesterday. We all went down to Newport again and had a nice walk around the temple explaining what temples are for etc. We also watched a 10 minute video about temples and finished with lemonade and cookies. That’s the program every time. We usually have them about once a transfer.

Anyway, there was a cool experience we had while we were there. Silvia told about a dream she had when we were first teaching her. Her children got taken away and she was trying to pray to the saints and ask forgiveness, but they refused and she couldn’t wake up from her dream…until we knocked on her door. We didn’t know that had happened and we taught her a lesson that day. It was neat to hear about that.

This morning we were going to go on a hike with the Martinez family who we eat with on Mondays. They are less actives, but really nice. So we started following them in the car to get there…until we realized they were going to drive way out of the mission. So we had to call them and say we had changed our minds lol (of course we also told them why). We went and washed our car instead. It looks a lot better. I like p-days—getting everything done you have to put off during the week.

Thanks for sending the blessing of Miyah. That was a nice surprise. Also thanks for the pictures. I can tell that Reesah is a really cute girl—especially from all the funny stories. Thanks for sharing fun things like that.

No, my allergies actually haven’t been bothering me. I can only think of one time when we visited someone with cats two transfers ago that my allergies bothered me. Thanks for reminding me of that great blessing.

Good job helping the work over there in Pitt, ART. Sounds like you sure do have lots of less-actives. We have a lot, but I’m glad we don’t have that many. Sometimes less-actives frustrate me because I know they know what to do to be happy…but they don’t do it.

Did Reesah and Dad get their packages/letters? Just wanted to make sure b/c I haven’t heard anything yet. Anyway, thanks again for all the prayers and support for me. I know it is helping! I’d better go so have a good week!

Love,
Elder Curtis

P.S. Did people really used to call me Shane? What a weird name…