February 16th, 2026

Face Volcano and St. Johns Pretty above average week but there were a few highlights. For P–day I lived up to my Gardner heritage and played golf but also lived up to my the heritage of my uncles and brother because I played horribly. I didn’t put on sunscreen of course and got super burnt. …

February 16th, 2026

Water Buckets but an Empty Font Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! Thankfully nothing insane happened here like there sometimes is but I hope everyone’s week was great!  So we were hoping to baptize our friend Pablo this week. If you don’t remember him, he’s the GOAT from a few weeks ago, please go read my emails …

February 9th, 2026

6 Months, Bomberos, and Baptism 6 Months in the mission🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Gone by so quick and an amazing week for completing 6 months. Finally made contact with the mom of the 2 girls and grandma we were teaching 😬😬😬 The Mom was mad because we were trying to coordinate with her to be able to teach …

February 3rd, 2026

Cut Trees and Roots Settled Hey everyone!!! Second week in the second area was really good and we should be having some baptisms here soon🌊💦💧 Pday: All the Elders in our District came to our area because it’s only like a 30 minute bus ride. We went and got breakfast and then afterwards went shopping …

January 26th, 2026

Don’t Worry, Be Happy Hey Everyone! First week in my new area and it’s going great!  Monday: I got to my area at like noon and right as I walked into the terminal, by accident met the Branch President of my area. Waited about an hour for my comp, Elder Vargas to get here. Dropped …

January 19th, 2026

Long Walk and an Even Longer Travel Hey everyone!!! Sorry for not emailing last week. Had a super busy PDay but also not an eventful week last week, so I really didn’t have much to write about. Last week: Literally nothing but working. Didn’t have much happen minus a drunk guy stopping us in the …

January 5th, 2026

New Years Exchanges Happy New Years everyone!!!! I hope you all had an amazing New Years so far and are doing your resolutions Pretty baller week this week! Monday we were gonna reattempt the hike we tried to do a few weeks back but got shot down by Interviews with my Mission President. It was …

December 29th, 2025

Not So Holly Jolly Christmas Hey everyone! I hope you all had an amazing Christmas! This should be short because I was sick all week 🫰😋🫰 I thought that the food poisoning I got on my first transfer here was bad but it was nothing compared to this one. I woke up at 1:30 in …

December 22nd, 2025

Emergency Transfers but I’m Still Here Hey everybody! This will be a super short email because literally nothing happened this week besides Emergency Transfers. Please email me about your Christmas plans 🙏🙏 mwcurtis@missionary.org So we went around Tuesday and Wednesday trying to find people and probably knocked 40 doors while also teaching recent converts and …

December 15th, 2025

Crazy ahh Witch Lady It’s almost Christmas but 100⁰ here in JVG😊😊 Hope everybody is doing well and having fun for the holidays! Crazy stuff happened this week but not much in terms of the work. So in an effort to show around my new comp, Elder Young, we visited every member, including ones that …