Maybe he'll even read the BOM and feel the spirit :) (Mar 15)

Hello to all...Elder Curtis speaking here, how are you?


Things are moving right along here in the Costa Mesa 2nd ward. On Wednesday we taught Jazmyn Bower. She's an investigator that's been around for a while and she has a hard time coming to church at 1 o'clock so this week we invited her to the Costa Mesa first ward, which meets at nine o'clock. She didn't make it to sacrament meeting, but she did come for Sunday school so that was exciting for us. I think she will be baptized as long as her family gives her support and she doesn't have more health problems. We are going to try and set a date this week.

We taught four lessons on Wednesday actually--it was sweet. We taught a guy (Chris) who's been Muslim for only about a month, but he's already pretty strongly converted. He wants to know why he even needs to consider joining, when Islam, according to him, is the most strict religion in conduct. It does have some intricate and specific rules, but the dedication you have to put into it isn't any greater that our church I think. Anyway, he likes talking about religion so he doesn't mind discussing it with us. Maybe he'll even read the BOM and feel the spirit. :)

Another person we taught Wednesday was Sasha who works for Sister Anderson-Davis. He got baptized in December so we are teaching the recent convert discussions. He's actually moving with the family to Utah though, contrary to what I said in a previous email, so we have to teach him three more lessons before he leaves at the end of the month.

The last lesson we taught Wednesday was Carl Makror. He is the one with the member wife who wants him to be the one to set the baptismal date. We are going to have to get over that though, because I talked to President about it and he said we are Christ's representatives so the baptismal date has to come from Him, not from us or them.

Something we've been doing lately is going through the ward list and visiting the people who haven't been marked as active or less-active. We found some really nice people from it so far. We taught a less-active family (couple) on Friday and found another cool family on Saturday so it's going pretty well. Once we visit someone we knock the doors around them. It's the better way to tract because you are being led to areas instead of trying to pick a neighborhood to tract.

Last night we taught the Collins family. The father has been less-active so he got put on the ward mission process and we've been teaching the whole family (the missionaries have anyway, it was my first lesson with them). It was a good discussion last night and we'll teach them one more time next Sunday.

I better be done so I'll let you know if I get transferred this weekend or not next week. :) We'll see if it was a temporary fill in, or an assignment that will take a while. Either way, I'll go where I'm called because I am learning from every experience that I encounter. Thank you all so much for your prayers, your love, and your letters. Lately I've been dumbfounded at how little time I have left, time flies and it amazes me every time, even though I've come to expect it. Have a good week. I love you as much as all the nifty new technology in this crazy store :)

Elder Curtis