A Letter from Hot Rod Country

A Letter from Hot Rod Country

Dear Family, We are so excited for this upcoming weekend. The Weigs are getting baptized on Friday and Hailey on Sunday. Things are turning out really well. I’m excited as well because the Weigs asked us to baptize them so Elder Grange is Baptizing Hans and I’m baptizing Rozlynn. They have four kids, but they are all under the age of 6.

As I said, we went on exchanges on Tuesday so I missed the lesson with the Moaddeli family, but they are doing well. I don’t think the father is too interested still, but she and both their children can’t wait to be baptized. We will probably do it on October second or third. We will start teaching the children (who are 8 and 10) this week.

The day after 9/9/09 we tried a new tracting method that President did on his mission. It is a method of following the spirit. Instead of knocking on every house on a street, you just knock on the ones you feel inspired to. It’s pretty cool and President Watrous said that one time on his mission when he used that method they taught a lesson at every single house they knocked on for three days straight. Of course that was in Argentina…but still it’s a cool story and we’ve enjoyed trying it out.

Lately we’ve been visiting members and getting to know the new ones or less-actives. We usually see one or two families after dinner.

Sunday was really neat because the ward had an “open house.” All the meetings were geared towards non-members and less-actives. The new bishopric is super excited to get involved in missionary work and they’ve been great. In sacrament meeting they explained all that was going on and were really simple. There were like 4 or five talks on Christ and even a musical number by the choir and primary. After church there was a “linger longer” with lots of food and a chance to meet the bishop.

The Weigs had their interview after church and then we went back to the church and taught Hailey the last lesson about all the commandments. It’s been great to have members at all the lessons and even members of the young women. I think there are going to be tons of people there on Sunday.

This morning we went on a super cool hike right by the beach. Not on the beach (“where the sand begins, the mission ends”), but super close and I got some really cool pictures. I even got to see the little place called Treasure Cove which is what they did a painting of in the creation room of the NB temple.

I heard someone got murdered in the university last night and made national headlines. It’s also strange because Irvine is supposed to be one of the safest cities in the world. Someone asked if I’d want to live here someday. It’s not bad, but there are probably lots of places I would pick before this one and yes I think I will settle in one place someday and not move a lot.

Anyway, guess that’s about it for this time. Have a good one, everyone.
Love,
Elder Curtis