How cool is that?

Hello from Newport Beach! As yesterday was Labor Day, all the libraries were closed so we get to write today. :)

This week we taught the Weig family on Monday and Tuesday. They are all set for their baptism on the 18th. Hailey is doing super well. We taught her the Gospel on Saturday and the Plan of Salvation on Sunday after church. She already knew like half the stuff we taught. She went on a trip to Utah a while ago and saw temple square and even went through a temple open house—I’m guessing the Draper temple. She is super smart and is super ready for her baptism. We were thinking of having it on the 13th, but her grandparents (who are her legal guardians) said no. We’ll probably do it the 19th or the 26th. Saturday she came to the temple tour we had and seemed to enjoy it. She is so excited about everything. She even bore her testimony in sacrament meeting. How cool is that? She is super solid.

Tuesday we taught Bro. and Sis. Moaddeli the Plan of Salvation. Both of their kids along with sister Moaddeli came to church this weekend, but Bro. Moaddeli still hasn’t.

Today I’m on exchanges with Elder Vaha in his area. I get to drive and they have a Mazda 3 as their car so it’s been pretty sweet. All I’ve ever driven are old Toyotas. It’s pretty funny because we both bought (at different times) the same green tie at the 99 cent store so today we are matching :)

Thursday we had zone conference and it was inspiring and enjoyable. We got to do the musical number as a district. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out since most of the guys didn’t know how to sing, but we arranged the song to sound pretty good. I really came to realize how natural singing comes for me. I was working with Elder Cunningham, the district leader, and he couldn’t even match his voice to a note, much less carry a melody. He has very limited range and I came to realize how much a blessing my ability to sing is. We all have our strengths and weaknesses I guess :)

Friday we had interviews with President Watrous and we tried to contact and teach some referrals we got. One of them has MS and avoided us when we went for the lesson. Hopefully we can teach her in the future. Maybe she really wasn’t feeling well, as her friend said.

Last P-day we just played basketball at the church, but yesterday we went to a park and played soccer AND basketball lol it was fun. It’s been really great having Elder Grange as my companion. He is really good for me to learn from and be with.

I was super excited to hear about BYU’s game from the BYU fans down here. That is so exciting. Don’t forget to send me the articles and info for the games like you did last year :D

Have a good week!
Love,
Elder Curtis