June 30, 2014

Hey I was able to find a computer to send an email this week. So today we only have a 2 hour p-day because they are going to give us an all day p-day on Friday for the 4th of July. Supposedly Idaho Falls got 2nd place last year for best firework show so I am super excited to see how great it really is. So we have been having a great week we have been teaching like crazy in order to be able to reach our monthly goals that we set for the area. We have been having a hard time trying to get in contact with our investigators because they are all busy between work and family that is the most common excuses that we have been receiving from them. Fortunately we have a super solid investigator named Ceilidh (it is gaelic and really pronounced Kaylee) and she is 9 year old girl that Elder Tovar and I found but the family wanted to wait for July for her to be baptized. Her family doesn't really come to church because the mother travels a lot and because there was a situation with them wanting to wear kilts to church and the Bishop wouldn't allow the son to pass the sacrament and the father and son got offended so we are trying to work with the whole family through the baptism of Ceilidh Clark. She has been coming to church with a member family for a while now and we never realized it but made us feel bad for a little bit for not noticing but at the same time it was one of those tender mercies/miracles that we have been praying for to be able to have a baptism this month. Our mission has recently changed some of its goals. In the past the goal for the mission was to baptize 1500 per year and we have been able to get really close but have never been able to accomplish it. So our mission president, Pres. Brinkerhoff, had a meeting with L. Tom Perry after a regional stake conference and L. Tom Perry wants each missionary to be baptizing 10 people per year which has increased our mission goal to 2500 per year! Well I have to go now but I love y'all very much!!

 

Elder Wyllie and I are continuing to grow tremendously together and we have set some pretty hefty weight loss goals for the next 5 weeks so we are currently trying to start waking up at 6am to get an extra 30min of workout time. I will be doing a lot of cardio and just trying to eat better and less so can be skinny again. haha

P.S. - The Mission office address has changed:

Idaho Pocatello Mission Office

135 South 7th Ave

Pocatello, ID 83201

My home address is still the same.-- 

Love,

Elder Curtis