Huzzah for Israel!

Hello Everybody!

It's here!!!

     Well guess what its official!  Winter has begun!  We woke up this morning to snow!  Can you believe it!  From here on out I am going to be freezing!  D&C 121:34 "Many are called but few are FROZEN!"  I don't know how I endured last winter!  Lets just say I am grateful that I only have a couple months left of Minnesota winter then I get to come home to warm Utah winters. Yea!  I promise I will never complain about a Utah Winter again.  Not even a Logan winter.  Mark my words!  Also President Forbes already grounded our cars at the first sight of snow.  I'm nervous for what is going to happen for the rest of the time...

This is a Zone lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings!

Selfies with the animals!

     Anyways before it snowed... last I had mentioned that we were planning on going to the zoo with the Elders.  Sister Abrahamson, the member that we live with, volunteers at the zoo and because we live under her roof we get in for free.  Ya whoo!  The Elders got a discount but not as good as us.  Then we went and looked at all the animals.  It was pretty fun.  I'm not really what some might call "a zoo girl" and I don't really like to stare at animals for a long time.  But the Elders wanted to take lots of pictures of ever single animal.  So while they were doing that, and because I am such a peacemaker, I decided that instead of trying to get them to hurry up, that I would just take selfies with every animal.  I got some pretty good ones.  What do you think? :)  It was a good time though.  It is a really big Zoo.  Definitely in the Minnesota must sees.

This is Sister Abrahamson!  She is so sweet!

Me and a Penguin 

Me and a Porcupine  

Me and a wolf!

Me and a bear!

Me and a different bear!

Me standing on a turtle.

Me and Flamingos!

Me and a McCullough

Me and a big Lizard!

     Then the next day it was super windy and then I had really bad allergies.  I was sneezing like crazy and I started getting a runny nose.  It was a rough day, by the end I was totally beat.  When I was finally crawling into bed I looked at Sister McCullough and said, I think tomorrow I am going to be sick.  I was right.  I was sick for the majority of the week.  I slept all of Wednesday, most of Thursday, some of Friday and only a little bit of Saturday.  It was pretty sad and poor Sister McCullough was stuck with me all week.  She got a lot of ASL practice in.  But she is truly the best companion I am so grateful for her.  She helped nurse me back to health.  I love her!  We also ha d a lot of great members who offered a lot of medicine to us. The Elders were willing to give me a blessing.  I am so grateful for all the love and support I have here in Apple Valley.  I am happy to say I am mostly healthy now.  Just a little cough here and there but doing great!

     Although I was sleeping most of the time, we were also able to watch a lot of church movies.  Most of them I had never even seen before.  They were surprisingly pretty good. (Or maybe Sister McCullough and I were starting to become very easily entertained.) I was grateful for the time, even though I couldn't wait to get better.  I had my testimony strengthened in simple ways.  I watched Mountain of the Lord for the first time.  In it, Wilford Woodruff was being interview about the Salt Lake City temple.  There was a part where he was talking about baptisms for the dead. The news reporter thought it was kind of strange to do work vicariously for someone else.  Without hesitation Wilford Woodruff replied, "Not at all."  He then went on to explain that anyone who accepts Jesus Christ and his atonement already believes in doing work vicariously for others.  That really hit me and it is so clear.  Jesus Christ has done for us what we would never be able to do for ourselves.  Just like when we do temple work for others.  It is then up to us to accept or reject the work that has been done.  Everything can always tie back to Jesus Christ and the atonement.  I am really excited to learn and read more about the history of our church.  There are so many great stories and wonderful people who have sacrificed so much for us so that we can have all that we do.  I am so grateful for the early saints.  They were so strong and such good examples to me.

     Aside from all of that, we were able to have some teaching opportunities, which was good.  Sister McCullough really wanted to get out of the house.  We were able to meet with Khalia twice this week.  We went over tithing and baptism and confirmation.  We are talking about what baptism is really all about.  We wanted to make sure that she was ready and that she understood the covenants and promises that she is going to make.  It went really well.  She is looking forward to the 22nd and we are hoping to meet with her at least 3 times up to that point.  She also was able to go to the Mormon Choral Concert last night and she really enjoyed it!

     The good news is that this next week can't possibly be any worse then last week.  Sister McCullough and I are pumped.  We are sick and tried of being sick and tired!  We are going knock every door in this town and find those who are prepared.

Huzzah for Israel!

Have a great week everybody.  

Choose the right.  

Bundle up!  

Read your scriptures.  

Baby its COLD OUTSIDE!

Love, Sister Kendra Curtis