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!!!!!

11/11/2013

Hey so I don't have time to send emails today because it is veterans day and like 6 different missionaries are trying to use the computer to send emails. So to sum up this week we didn't have too much happen but we should have 2 baptisms on Saturday so next week I will definitely have more to write and have a fairly good email and hopefully I will have some pictures for y'all too. We also gave talks this week in Victorian Village and I spoke on Faith and I think it went really well. This was probably the first talk that I wasn't nervous at all to give! Well sorry again for this email being so short and not too good but I love y'all very much and am very grateful for all the support that y'all continue to give. 

Nice email from James:

Dang that's really cool about Dallin and the missionaries. I will have to give them rides and hang out with them when I come home!! Hopefully they will still live there when I come home! Thank you so much for the package those cookies are amazing and not good at all for my diet right now. Haha they were actually the wrong shoes but thats ok because I forgot about these shoes and they fit me better than the other ones. But I have to go now :( I love you very much and really do appreciate all that you do and have done for me my whole life because without you and dad I would not be on a mission right now. I love you very much!!

Love,

Elder Curtis

11/4/2013

Well we had a somewhat good week here in the Taylor Mountain Stake. Part of the Plaisance family was able to be baptized which was awesome!! But unfortunately Haileigh did not get baptized because she accidentally wore a bra that had pink hearts on it and she was really embarrassed and did not want to get baptized. Her friend Carley Grey has a baptismal date for November 16th so we are hoping to see Haileigh and Carley both be baptized on the same day. Our other investigators are progressing some faster than others but that's expected and we are super glad to see them progress. The weather here the past couple days has been freezing cold!!!!! It sucks to bike in so we have been trying to find members to go out with us and we will have them pick us up. So usually in the evenings we try to stay out of the cold especially since with the time change the sun goes down at about 6. So for a typical day we will bike during the day and find a ride to dinner and then a member or a priest age youth to go out with us in the evenings. Well I have to back into the frozen tundra again and hopefully I will live to be able to hear from y'all next week. I love y'all very much.

Love,

Elder Curtis

10/28/2013

It has been a fairly good week here with Elder Vigil we are continuing to work very hard to meet a district goal (25 baptismal dates) that Elder Miller and Lopes (the APs) have set for us. We are very close and have till the end of the evening tonight to reach that goal and hopefully we will be able to accomplish that goal. We have a baptism this weekend for the Plaisance family (Crissy, the mom, Haileigh, and Marcus) and we are helping Ross, the father, to be baptized 2 weeks later. This family has been meeting with missionaries since February and they have really been progressing well this transfer and are ready to be baptized and to make that next commitment in their lives. I am so happy to be able to be here for this baptism and am super excited for their family. Please pray for this family that they will follow through and be excited to make this covenant with Heavenly Father. I love you very much and really appreciate all help and prayers that y'all have given to help me out!! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Curtis

10/21/2013

It has been a pretty slow week so I don't have much to report. Sorry a bad email but everything is still going well Elder Vigil and I are still doing great we were not able to teach as many lessons as we planned on but we are continually trying to teach more. We currently have 8 investigators with a baptismal date and there names are Crissy Plaisance, Ross Plaisance, Hailey Plaisance, Marcus Plaisance, Evan Velasco, Sharron Hill, Rachel Judkins, and Brock Judkins. If y'all have sometime please pray for these people that there baptisms may go through and that they will have a desire to  come to church every week. Our closest baptism will be on Nov 2nd at 1pm for Crissy, Hailey, and Marcus. I am really looking forward to this baptism because we have been working with this family for a long time now. The weather is great right now not too cold yet but also not too hot. Well I have to go now but I love and miss y'all very much!! Have a great week!

Love, 

Elder Curtis