As I Do

Well, guess what? It’s week six again so send all letters to 2500 N Bristol St Santa Ana, CA 92706. This has been a great transfer and it’s amazing it’s almost over. I have no idea what is going to happen this weekend so we’ll see if I stay and if E. Grange stays. I don’t have any guesses because anything could happen.

I can’t wait for Conference this weekend! I’ve been reading the talks from the last two conferences lately and they are so good that they make me super excited to hear more! Remember to pray for the general authorities this Thursday as they meet at the temple and prepare spiritually for this weekend. I’m so excited for my recent converts and investigators to hear the words of the prophets. I want them to have the love and appreciation for their teachings and who they are as I do.

This week we started to have trouble with the Moaddeli family. The father thinks his wife is the reason for the children’s desire to be baptized and that they are being pushed too much. The truth is they are the ones who’ve been asking their mom to be baptized and how they can do it. It’s been tough and I guess it’s causing contention in the home. I guess one of the concerns Bro. Moaddeli has about our faith is all the opposition and persecution. Hopefully we will be able to resolve that soon. It’s also tough because of his radically different background. Pray for them this week! As of now we are at least pretty sure Sister Moaddeli will be baptized this Friday and even if the kids don’t, I think it’ll happen eventually, but three more baptisms would be really nice!

Wednesday we had our oil changed so that took a while in the morning. We also taught a man named Bob who’s had the discussions for a while but is pretty simple minded and still isn’t sure if there is a God, but he has a desire to know. The hard part is getting him to pray and read. He has lots of silly questions that a teen or child would ask, but it’s fun to try and help him. We also taught a less-active member and her non-member daughter. They are Spanish so it was another great opportunity to practice teaching and talking in Spanish. Luckily we also had a member from our ward that grew up in Uruguay come so he filled in the holes of our lesson. They are the De La Cruz family.

We taught the Weig family on Friday and it was so fun to talk to them now that they are members (half members on Friday) and just on fire. They also had their confirmation on Sunday so that was really neat. They are really cool people. They are still looking for a job.

Saturday we ate with the only member family that lives in the same complex as us so that was fun. The wife cooked all the food (yummy bbq meatballs) then went to the broadcast so us men had a great meal and talked about life and a spiritual message about trials and the ensign article “lessons learned from liberty jail” (a must read).

Yesterday we also found out that our investigator Michelle Christian was in the hospital most of the week. She’s the one with the medical problems such as MS. We finally talked to her though and she is still really interested in learning more. We’ll also hopefully be able to do some service for her since her helper just quit without notice this week. Keep her in your prayers as well.

Anyway, guess that’s about it. Have a super duper week everyone!

Love,
Elder Curtis