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 I haven’t met cause they’re inactive or just haven’t gone to their house yet. The stories I’m sharing this week are about that.

First off we visited this member named Hugo. He’s in his 60’s and lives I think with 1 kid but the kid is either not a member or inactive. We go and talk to him kinda about his life and how he got converted as such, and then he randomly switched the conversation. He started talking about how he is talking to a “29 year old US soldier who is currently stationed in Gaza”. Like 4 times he said “but we’re not like boyfriend/girlfriend or anything, but she said faithful to me.” He rambled on about how he’s not sure cause he doesn’t have much time left in his life. He told us to come back to teach/ visit his son so wwwwww

The other nuts thing that happened this week was just all of Friday morning.

We were heading to our first thing planned which was talk to a recent convert, but on the way a drunk guy who I’ve talked to before stopped us in the street and was like “Come by my house and teach me, I live over there, but I’m a little bit of a sinner😏😏😏.” And busted out laughting and went on his way.

After a bit we went to this house where there is supposedly an inactive member. Her point on the map says “Gift of Tongues”, which we just thought meant she was tough to understand. We went to her house and she seemed normal until we got talking to her. She said she has vistited every single church and is now in the Evangelical church, which got baptized into. Basically she used to live in a really poor area and one time hit her head or something and had a vision from God and now she can speak in the “language of the Spirit” and then she’d start blabbering her mouth and be like “you hear that? Thats the Spirit talking, not me.” . My comp and I could not look at each other this whole lesson or we’d start cracking up. Elder Young pulls out his BoM and she asks if its a Bible, he says no, and so I pull a mini New Testament that I have and asks if she can see it. She opens to Psalm 23 and starts YAPPING IN GIBBERISH and goes “God wants you to read this” then yapps in gibberish again while nodding her head. I say thank you and then she immediately goes off about another story where she got a vision from the Virgen Mary and Jesus Christ and they told her to “move the mud” which she did and made a stove and oven out of clay. She wanted to show us it by saying “Come and look at what I created. Maybe then you can be a part of it too.” Once she said that I turned to my comp and was like “we gotta get out of here”.

We dip out of there and are walking around baffled at what just happened when a car pulls up to us. The guy shows us his phone and he was a ref we had contacted that morning. We get out of the way of the road and teach him a quick little bit of the Plan of Salvation and then part ways. Then we go to send a video to our Zone Group Chat talking about what the flip just happened, and when I get to the part of the lady telling us to read Psalms, a drunk guy on the side of the road howls “PSLAMOOOOSSS”

Elder Young and I burst out laughing and just went home.

My comp and I made Beignets (Sopa Pias if you’re a descendant of Grandma Garnder). We were bored yesterday so thought why not. I also made marinated chicken again but this time it was marinated for almost a day so it was sooo good and made fajitas with them.

I found a huge slug with a huge shell so I brought it home, killed by pouring a ton of salt of it, pulled out the thing, and washed the shell and it’s sick. Smelled nasty when I pulled it out though.

Everyone in the branch here says I have to make Rice Krispy Treats or “Pastel de Cereal” because they can’t pronounce any English for the Christmas party this Saturday so I’m fricken prepared and ready to get all the glaze from the members.

That’s the only cool stuff that happened this week. No one came to church like usual. We had 3 people send us audios during 2nd hour saying “I just woke up. I had alarms set but never heard them.”They said they were gonna have the Primary Program, and by that they meant they had the Primary Kids sitting in the front and then they didn’t sing the hymns.

Spiritual  Thought:

“If you have problems in your life, don’t assume there is something wrong with you. Struggling with those problems is at the very core of life’s purposes. As we draw close to God, He will show us our weaknesses and through them make us wiser, stronger. If you’re seeing more of your weaknesses, that might just mean you’re moving nearer to God, not farther away.” -Bruce C. Hafen

I love this quote because, as President Oaks once said, “The Gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to change. Repent is it’s most frequent message.” By us changing (repenting) into a better version of ourselves constantly and seeking to grow closer to Jesus Christ, we will see more of our weaknesses and things about ourselves we can improve. That’s the whole point of mortality, to learn and grow through the experiences, triumphs, and hardships that we face because they will change is into becoming more like Jesus Christ, if we let them. We cannot change overnight but we know we can, eventually. I know you can. Jesus Christ knows you can and that is why He sacrificed Himself for us, so He could help us.

I hope all is going well at home! Let me know what’s going on. Like email me. Please email me. ( mwcurtis@missionary.org) or join my Google Photos ( https://photos.app.goo.gl/g9K5EHgzbJLtD3wC8 ) Love and miss you all!!

-Élder Curtis