Dearest Family and Friends!
I am just going to dive into this week because I was terrible at managing my time well on the computer this week. I get distracted very easy. Sorry if this email isn't as good as pervious ones. I love taking pictures when we are driving! What else is there to do.
I will start off with one of my favorite people. Eva! She is getting baptized on June 7th! Can you believe it! That is so soon! We are so excited for her. She is so ready to be baptized. I have been teaching her for about 4 months now and it is amazing to see the different changes that she has made. She really wants to be baptized and she understands how it will help her life. We had a really cool opportunity of having her come out with us to talk to some people. She would make an amazing missionary! She was testifying of the Book of Mormon to strangers, telling them how it will bless their lives if they stop drinking. It was awesome. In that moment I knew that this was finally her time.
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| When Eva came and did some missionary work with us. |
Last Friday we had a Pizza party! Eva, Rachel, Sister Kekaouha and I! It was so much fun! We are the funniest group of friends you will ever meet. That's one things I love so much, these people I have met really are my friends. I am never going to forget all the amazing people I have met in the past 9 almost 10 months! They have changed me so much and helped me to have a completely different outlook on life. We also had a great lesson with the YSA Elders. They came to have a lesson with us so they could get to know her better. We talked about the commandments and we went over some of the topics in the For Strength of Youth pamphlet. Her faith and her desire to do what it right is so strong. She is going to be such a great example to so many people. She has already been that to me. :)
As I have mentioned before we are meeting with a really awesome couple Albert and Heidi. We got to meet with them this week and we brought an amazing couple with us. The Jakeman's, they are the cutest couple in the world! They are everything I want to be when I get married! They are only here for the summer, he has an internship for General Mills for the summer. But I don't care I am so glad that they are here! In our lesson we had planned on teaching about the Plan of Salvation. Then we asked them what they thought of what they read and that is what we talked about for the next hour. They want to know everything. It was great to have the members there to help answer some of their questions. The Jakeman’s invited Albert and Heidi to church. Albert and Heidi told them no because they already had plans. But we didn't give up! Our mission has really been focusing on "selling church." Talking it up and making them have a desire to come. That is exactly what we did and we told them how great it would be for them to come to church and to feel of the spirit that is there. They still wouldn't commit but they said they probably could next week! But then yesterday when we were sitting in sacrament guess who walked in the door! ALBERT AND HEIDI! We couldn't believe it! They came! They couldn't stay the whole time because Heidi had work but THEY CAME! And they came completely on their own! We are excited to see what they thought of church! We know that the Lord blessed us because we continued to be persistent! We are planning on setting a baptismal date with them this week. I will let you know how it goes!
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| Look a bunny! |
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| Exchanges with the STLS (Sister Training Leaders) |
Sister Chapman was in the MTC with me. We have been saying since day one that we want to be companions. We finally got to go on a one day exchange. It was great! Everyone in the mission calls Sister Chapman my mission twin. They think we look alike!
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| This is at Wonderful's house. She even braided our hair. |
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| Sister Chapman and Sister Curtis |
Okay get ready for this story you are all going to die! Remember a couple weeks ago how we went and cleaned that nasty house? She is a less active part member family. She has a 9 year old daughter who isn't baptized. Recap, we threw a bunch of stuff away because it was old, expired and it needed to be in the garbage. We then tried stopping by their house two other times and they didn't answer. Earlier this week we stopped by with the Relief Society President and they were home. We were able to set up a time to come back and see them later this week. We saw them and taught her daughter, Sophia the Restoration and we invited her to be baptized. Sophia said, "Maybe, if you don't throw away stuff we need." .....We were like What? Then the mom was like, "Yeah, you guys threw away about 20 things that we needed when you cleaned our kitchen and I had to go out into the trash and look for it and I'm still looking through it to make sure we have everything." That was 2 weeks ago! She has 2 week old garbage sitting in her house. No wonder she wouldn't invite us in! We apologized and told Sister Lambrecht that she should have told us that we did that and we would have come back and help her look for the stuff we threw away. Then, the best part Sophia then said, "See Mom, we should have just asked them for help and not hid from them two times." It took everything in us to not laugh at all of this. We apologized and we were able to set up a time to come and see them this week so hopefully they don't hide from us again. Then on Sunday we found out that she gets offended easily! Oh man! I am never cleaning a house like that again! Terrible idea.
As for me, I have really been focusing of gratitude. I know that as we are grateful for everything we are given and as we look for the good in different situations we are in, things don’t seem as bad. One example, I am really grateful for this ward. The members and the leaders are wonderful. They are so involved in missionary work. Our bishop and ward mission leader especially. I know that with leaders like them it really will help hasten the work in this area. I am so grateful to be here to learn from them and their examples.
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| This picture is a tradition. Every missionary who has lived in our apartment has posted a picture like this on our fridge. The Elders and by some lame graffiti wall and the sisters by this cute landscape with sheep! They write their name and how long they have served here. |
That's all I have time for this week! I love you all so much! Thanks for everything!
Love, Sister Kendra Curtis
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| This is a picture sister K and I framed to bring Unity into our home! haha |
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