Hello ;] I am on a library laptop this week. The rule is you have to be next to your companion when you are on the computer, so when there aren’t two open computers next to each other, sometimes we have to check out laptops. It’s kind of fun, but a little slower.
Today was a really fun day—so far at least. We had our activity first this time. We went and played Ultimate Frisbee with the district and James Hawkins (the 19 year old we are trying to get on a mission) and two of his friends came to play with us as well. It was like the best day of Ultimate ever :-) Afterwards we went back to the apartment to relax a little, shower, and I cut the hair of Elder Olsen and Elder Cromarty. Now there are only two people out of eight in the district that don’t have a haircut from me. I owe my skills and knowledge of the art of mowing hair to mom, even though dad taught me to mow grass, it’s a little different with hair because you do the edging last instead of first.
Anyway, now we are at the library and we will finish up and go do our grocery shopping last. There are only two cars in the district, so we get to drag another companionship around with us. I really like the people in my district—they are all really cool.
Tuesday we helped the Weigs put some stuff in their trailer and then later that day we taught them one last lesson. Hans’ mom has really warmed up to us and I think she is a very good potential investigator. Friday for Christmas we are going to go caroling in the evening and we’re thinking of going by her house for sure. We took James Hawkins to our lesson Wednesday night to teach Lori Wenzel who got baptized in July. We also had him come to a lesson Saturday with Michelle.
We taught Michelle Thursday as well and had Bro. Biesinger come with us. He is an amazing teacher and the perfect ward missionary. Michelle is doing really well and finally came to church yesterday. I think she enjoyed it and she even came to a baptism yesterday evening. It was especially meaningful for her because the man being baptized could barely walk—in fact he couldn’t walk at all until the missionaries started teaching him. I think he’s blind too.
Friday we had a really cool lesson with a Hungarian family. They were referred to us by sister Emrich and they are super nice. It’s fun to get a taste of the people Elder Nichols teaches. Too bad he’s not here to help with them haha. They are the Varga family and have two young kids. Saturday we ate dinner with the Hawkins and taught them about missionary work. They invited us to come over on Christmas so I might be calling from their house.
Yesterday night we had a fun time at the Emrich’s. We had a good lesson about scripture study and challenged them to read the Book of Mormon before their son Danny gets home from his mission next November. It’s not very fast, but they haven’t really done it before to it’ll be good for them. Bro. Emrich wants to do it twice before he gets home. He’s working to get back to the temple and he’s overcome so much. Having his son on a mission has really blessed their family.
It was really cool to have 5 people at church yesterday. Hailey sang a solo in the choir so her grandparents came. We also had Michelle and Oscar there, plus John Geyer so it was a good day—especially since sacrament meeting was all music, and a few remarks by bishop at the end.
I hope this holiday season finds all of you warm and cozy in the love of Jesus Christ. He is truly the reason for the season and we would do good to remember that. I love you all as much as all the pine needles on the Christmas trees and I will talk to you in a few days.
Love, Elder Curtis
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