The Lord is pouring out his blessings upon the CAM (California Anaheim Mission). Yesterday brother W got baptized and entered into a covenant with God. It was a really neat experience and the service was sweet and short. Elder L played a musical number on the piano--a medley of Come Thou Fount and If You Could High to Kolob. It was beautiful--I'm always jealous of people with perfect pitch. A former bishop of the ward (Bro. N) baptized him and Brother C, who found him, gave the talk. He'll be confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints next Sunday during sacrament meeting.
Wednesday we had a lesson with S. He's been taught by missionaries for a while, but we haven't been in contact with him for a while, so it was good to finally teach him. Brother C in the ward is the perfect person to fellowship him and help us teach so we had the lesson at his house and he did a lot to help S. They are pretty close in age (30's) and even work together sometimes for their jobs. S didn't make it to church on Sunday, but we hope to be able to help him progress.
Thursday was fun because we had dinner with the T family. The dad, I. T., was a second string running back for BYU football. It was super fun to talk and discuss that with him. I think he was there my freshman year, but I don't remember him (Ross probably does though). Now he's about to have his second boy. He gave us some information that hadn't (hasn't?) been publicly announced yet. He said BYU is leaving the mountain west conference and going independent (after first presidency approval). I thought that was really interesting. Only three other teams are independent--Notre Dame, Army, and Navy. I'm actually happy for them--especially since Utah joined the PAC-10. Now that we are free, we can have more challenging games and maybe be better recognized. I heard we even got HD TV cameras.
Friday was not such a fun day. Mi. called and asked us to come over so she could talk to us. She told us she no longer wants to take the lessons and that she doesn't feel the Gospel is right for her and her family at this time. She was really polite though and thanked us and still wants to be friends. Sounded a lot like a GF/BF break-up to me. It makes me really sad, but I think at some future day she'll accept it into her life--perhaps when circumstances have more sufficiently humbled her.
After the Baptism yesterday we got to go to the bishop's fireside for the youth and be the teachers. It was pretty fun. We talked about missionary work, the Book of Mormon, Preach My Gospel, and how to prepare for a mission by being a missionary now. We even had them do a little activity where they studied a principle in chapter three of Preach My Gospel and practiced teaching it to another person. It was a fun time I thought.
Love you as much as all the drops of water needed to fill the font (and the drops wasted by our leaky sink).
Elder Curtis
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