My New Address in Idaho Falls

Elder James Curtis

1460 East Benton

Apt #4

Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401

12/02/2013

Well hello all this has been a really really slow week this week because of the holidays and almost everyone being out of town. I missed not being able to go out and do the crazy black friday this year but I still had a really fun thanksgiving. So this email will prob just be about thanksgiving and thanksgiving was an all day pday for us. So all of the zones in Idaho Falls started out thanksgiving with doing service from6:50am till noon helping with a turkey run marathon food donation thingy to help the less fortunate during the holidays. It was really cold but really fun mainly because the radio station was out there and we got to listen to popular songs that are currently on the radio. So we helped set everything up and got to stand near the finish line and cheer everyone on to the finish. We got to meet a lot really cool and crazy people (they were crazy because it was really cold and some people were not wearing thermals to run in) but we had a lot of fun. Then Elder Badoni (my companion and I) then went home and took a nap then showered and then the turkey feasts began. We originally had 5 dinners that wanted to feed us but we our investigators had priority and so we ended up only eating 2 thanksgiving dinners and at these dinners we were able to watch a couple football games on thanksgiving (cowboys vs raiders and ravens vs steelers). Those were fun games too and were being played at our dinners so we accidentally watched them with the families ;) And that was basically the summary of the wonderful thanksgiving that we had here in Idaho Falls. I hope that everyone else great one too in California. I better go do some shopping now so that I can have some food for this week. I love and miss y'all very much!!

11/25/2013

Well my new companion is pretty awesome! His name is Elder Badoni and he is from Albuquerque, New Mexico and he has a cousin that lives in the Klein Stake and she is currently serving a mission in Las Vegas West. Elder Badoni has come to visit his cousin a couple times and one of the times he came there was a stake dance and he believes that he has seen me there before. So that was really cool to find out but back to information about the area. I am currently serving in the Idaho Falls Central Stake covering the 3rd, 11th, and 26th wards and so far right now the area is very slow and has not had a baptism in almost 5 months but I am determined to get at least one this transfer. We do not have the biggest teaching pool currently but that will be changing soon. I have high hopes for this transfer and believe that it is going to be the best one yet! I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and I look forward to what the Lord has in store us this next week. I love y'all very much and hope y'all have a great Thanksgiving week!!!

11/18/2013

Well hello hello another week has zoomed on by and so has another transfer. Unfortunately I will be leaving on Wednesday to go to the next zone north. So I get to stay in Idaho Falls another transfer but it will be in a new area for the holidays which sucks but I have met my new companion a couple times and I think it is going to be great transfer. We got our first good snowfall this past weekend! On Saturday morning my companion and I woke up to 4 inches of snow on the ground which was pretty cool. I still love the snow as of right now but I am sure I will get sick of it soon especially since I will going into another biking area. Elder Vigil and I were blessed with 2 more baptisms this weekend Carly Gray and Haileigh McOmber got baptized and that is always a great experience so if there are any baptisms in your ward coming up if you have time go to the baptisms and support your local missionaries and the new members of your ward. :) The baptisms were awesome and we were at the church like all day but it was still awesome! Well I have to go now and do some shopping and some packing but I love y'all very much!!!!!