Hello family! Some guy just asked me if we believe in evolution. Thanks to some of Ross’ comments in a previous newsletter I told him we believe God created everything, we just don’t know how.
I had a pretty good week. It wasn’t packed full of interesting things, but it was good. One cool thing we did was do a little presentation for the young women. For mutual we went and talked to them about missionary work and how they can share their testimonies with their friends. Then they wrote their testimonies in Books of Mormon and gave them to us. Some even kept them to hand out. They combine all the YW classes for their activities and there were still less than 10 girls there. Most of the members are going to college and only have young kids, or they are older and their kids are out of YW. We do have five nurseries though :P
Wednesday we went to the mission home for the district leader meeting since E. Grange is the new district leader. He gave a nice lesson for district meeting on Thursday. I think he’ll do a great job. Thursday night we went to a little emergency preparation meeting one of the members was doing for her apartment complex. It wasn’t anything fancy and only a few people came, but it was still fun and a good missionary opportunity.
Friday we taught Hailey the Restoration again and even though it was all review, the spirit was strong and we were all uplifted and edified. We had two return missionaries helping with the lesson—one of each gender. Elder Grange even learned that he has a heavenly mother. Funny kid. I guess he knows the important stuff and that’s good enough.
Saturday we spent all day helping a lady move from an apartment to one down the road. She thought it would only take two hours lol. It’s someone the Newport Beach 1st Elders are teaching so they invited us to come help. It took about six hours, but we got everything in the new place so it was good. She fed us pizza and even gave us each a gift card to Burger King before we left so that was neat.
Yesterday was a great day of fasting and spiritual feasting. Bro. Wieg got the Aaronic Priesthood in Elders’ quorum and we had a great ward council meeting after church. Bishop Nelson is really getting the ward mission plan going so it was neat to be there. Speaking of which, we got a new ward mission leader yesterday. It’s now Bro. Lewis and he is almost as good as Bro. Loveridge. He’s super excited about the work and has great enthusiasm and ideas about what we can do. We’re excited to work with him.
We had a little FHE with the Wiegs after dinner and taught them the basics of how to do it. That was lots of fun, especially with all four kids awake and running around. Our lesson on Wednesday with them was a lot calmer :D
We also taught a part member family the first lesson after church. Sister Sneary was baptized last year and now we are teaching her husband and son (named Chance).
So yeah, it was a good week. The members here are great. The Bishop is stellar and our new ward mission leader very supportive. No, I never saw any of the BYU Chorus concerts, but I hope to be in them when I get back. Have a good week everyone.
Love ya,
Elder Curtis
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