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 trying to find people that have been taught before but literally like no one answered us soo yeah. It feels like I’ve been in this area forever now because it’s pretty small and it’s hard to find people that will actually listen to us. We will find people but they won’t go to church so then we have to drop them so it’s constantly just finding and dropping people. The rest of this transfer is definitely gonna be a fight.
Thursday we had our Christmas Zone Conference. Élder Young and I woke up at 1:30am to go to Salta and got there at 8:00am. I had to read a part in a little Nativity Narration and then we had some fire talks by President Janzen and his wife. Then we had some great food and then did a gift pass game. We had a budget of about 12-17 USD so I bought a miniature fan, a monkey paperweight and some Skittles. What I got was this crappy pinball type game that no way could’ve cost more than like 8 USD. I bought a pull up bar at this weights store and then Élder Young and I left at about 5:30pm to head back to JVG.
We worked Friday morning until we got a call from the AP’s. We were scared there was something we could’ve got in trouble for or idk, but the first line from them was “Élder Young, have you enjoyed your time in JVG?” Because of some issues in another area and other things, he got pulled up to ZL and I got left in JVG. The rest of that day was him packing and me making the Rice Krispy Treats still for the Christmas Party.
We woke up a little bit early on Saturday and took a 5 hour bus ride to the opposite end of my mission where I waited 6 hours for my new comp, Élder Erickson. He is from Wyoming and has 10 months in the mission, and now my 4th comp in my first area. The area is called Pichanal, which if you put a space in the middle of that word and put it into Google Translate, you’ll get exactly what the area looks and smells like. We had to stay in that area till 11:30pm to take a bus home so we went out with the Elders there and this lady thought I had 20 months in the mission because of my Spanish, even though I messed up my grammar a bunch during that lesson. We then got home at 4:00am. We didn’t get to go to the Christmas party so I didn’t get any glaze from the members, but apparently all of the Rice Krispy Treats got eaten.
There were 10 other people in church besides my comp and I, but we had Ricardo come again. We are gonna try to put him on date to be baptized this week so he can be baptized either this next Sunday or before the end of the month.
Spiritual Thought:
I was assigned to talk yesterday in Church and because it’s Christmas, I got assigned the Devotional by Elder Anderson titled “Time for the Savior at Christmas”. In this devotional he talks about how great it is that this time of year is dedicated to focusing on the Savior, but other than that it is difficult the rest of the year because of how many distractions there are in the world today. He quotes President Nelson saying,
“I plead with you today to counter the lure of the world by making time for the Lord in your life—each and every day.”
It is so great that we have this time of year to focus on the Savior but after that it’s hard to find time for the Savior in our daily lives, that is why we must make or set aside time for Him each and every day.
I love you all and hope that you are all having a great Christmas! Please email me or join my Google Photos https://photos.app.goo.gl/g9K5EHgzbJLtD3wC8
– Élder Curtis
