this
week was hard. like lately i have just been exhausted so this week i
need to re focus myself for the work. its hard when my companion asks me
trunky questions all day every day it makes me trunky! haha
so the highlight of this week was we got to go
through the temple with one of my companion's old recent converts. it
has been a year so she was able to go through and we got invited! we
were so excited to get on a jeepney and have an adventure going to the
city. two white girls making our way through the city. good thing i know Tagalog or it would of been impossible. but it was great!! it's
amazing, because that is why i am here, to get people to make covenants.
first baptism, then going to the temple. i love it! i saw an old family
from my old area Cogeo, that was getting SEALED! so amazing! so happy
Heavenly Father made those two on the same day so i could see them. I
wasn't too close with them, but still excited!! AND GUESS WHAT? i saw my
old companion sister Segovia the one i just had at the temple. she was
just doing a sessions (i week after she went home ha ha she misses
missionary life) and it was so good to see her. i had like tears in my
eyes we were so excited to see each other. she didn't have a name tag.i
never want that to be me! ill send the pic
THENNNNNNN, on the way home, we got off in a city before my area to
eat dinner and got stuck in that city for 3 HOURS!!!! i sat in the
rain, hollering down jeepneys (like they do in new york ha) for 3 hours
and each time i looked back at my companion she was talking to a
different person each time about the Gospel. HA! (if my dad knew i was
in the Philippines late at night outside of a bar talking to random
people-he would die ;) ) but the thing is, people are so nice here. and
we are protected. we were about to call the ap's to come get us when our
nice district leader calls and i am like basically crying to him and
then the senior couples came and got us! but it was a good night!!
we have a new investigator La Arnie. Her husband is
abroad in China working, so they only see each other two weeks a year!!
that is how EVERYONE here is. So Abby, count your blessings. But her
husband is a member and active there and she said she wasn't ready for
the gospel but now is. she is amazing. we showed her the Joseph smith
movie and i think because she is so amazing Satan did not want our visit
to go well. we had so many distractions, and then on top of everything
my DVD was scratched! but at the end we both just bore short and
powerful testimonies of Joseph Smith and the spirit came back in. i love
her! she has a little girl and i just play with her each time we
visit.
we have a baptism next week. Ellen, she is 19 and is sooo smart. We
had to move her baptism date due to some coffee word of wisdom
problems, but in relief society she bore her testimony about how being
off coffee has helped grow her testimony and come closer to Jesus.
Amazing right?
i hope everyone is doing great. i got so many emails
one day i will write all of you. mom sent me some of her spiritual
experiences, i loved that! i love hearing about them. the new temple is
so beautiful in Brigham city!! i want to go there! Bryce looked so cute
at homecoming.you are too cute bryceeman! your date is gorgeous! is she
blind? JOKE! love you all. cool new car dad ;)
xoxo
Sister Curtis
