TEAM! hello one third of the way down with the Missionary Training Center. I feel crazy. But so good. Spanish is coming, poco a poco lol. My companion and I can teach any of the lessons without notes now and our investigators apparently understand us so that's a blessing.
First things first I owe my sanity to Nan and Dad and Ava and Reese for the DearElders and package and also sweet Tia Hayward for the peanut butter bars out of the blue and Em Carter for the darling necklace and Kendra and Lexi and Tieler and Madeline for the notes and letters I ADORE ALL YOU PEOPLE. Seriously greatest week yet because of all of you.
I lost a toenail this week. Actual tragedy. Remember when I dropped my computer on my toe Winter Semester finals week?? Probably not because it was also the most chaotic week of my entire existence. But yeah anyways it finally fell off cause Elder Perry slammed my toe in a door so now I am a cripple. Send help.
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| Hermanas Bronson and Curtis |
Okay this is the hardest part of a mission, wading through the utter chaos in my mind of everything that happened these past seven days to write down for all of you. So please, please bear with me.
-Sometimes we walk out to the temple and the flag is at half mast and we are all ?!?!?!?!?!? because we live in a bubble so someone PLEASE explain to me what is going on with the outside world. There are rumors flying about that the Church is making a statement about PokemonGo??? Did everything fall to shambles in the last week or???
-Actually changed my mind, the worst part of the MTC is the fact that every week somebody LEAVES for some far off piece of the world and then you're all sad for like all of Monday and Tuesday until you get new missionaries on Wednesdays.
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| Welcoming Kenna Bland |
-HOSTING! Got to pick up Sarah Nielson. Only because I was shouting DIBS and chasing her car down the row to fend off every other sister missionary trying to snatch the newbies. Greatest thing ever. I felt so grown up even though I have literally been here for two and a half weeks hahahahaha.
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| Picking up and welcoming Sarah Nielson to the MTC |
-Our elders are super good at entertaining themselves. The last conversation I overheard was a plan to flood the bathroom floor, soap it, and then just slide back and forth on it all night. Also they discovered that if they yank each other's earlobes really aggressively it puts you in a whole lot of pain and then there is apparently a really cool sensation. And I don't understand because they literally watch each other scream in pain and then go "wait wait do it to meeeee!!!!!" Anyways Elder Nielsen pulled so hard on Elder Peterson that all of a sudden there was BLOOD everywhere. So please take a moment to look at the attached photo of that very moment.
-Without a doubt the highlight of the week was walking into my classroom to see all ten of our elders in a circle, blessing one of the guys who has been sick. So so powerful to see these good, sweet, kind, righteous 18 and 19 year old guys exercising their priesthood authority without anybody asking them to, without anybody looking over their shoulders. So proud of them. They are seriously my brothers and when they all fly off to Argentina and Nicaragua and everywhere else they're going there are going to be TEARS.
-Spanish update: Like I said we are for sure making progress. But my comp also accidentally said that bad music and lyrics elevate her spirit to an investigator this week so that was slight shambles. But we recovered.
-I kid you not I for real live in Footloose, like found out sister missionaries are not supposed to wear white ankle socks?????? For some entirely unknown reason? Also there is no music in all of ever except at choir (which is actually a really good time). And no dancing.
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| With Lexi Lords - one of Reagan's first friends when she moved to Utah. Lexi's dad is Reagan's MTC Branch President |
I lost a toenail this week. Actual tragedy. Remember when I dropped my computer on my toe Winter Semester finals week?? Probably not because it was also the most chaotic week of my entire existence. But yeah anyways it finally fell off cause Elder Perry slammed my toe in a door so now I am a cripple. Send help.
Here's the thing though, never for a second have I doubted that this is entirely worth it. The hardest parts are not the things I expected. I'm on my feet at 6:30 every morning and I only email my family once a week and all my skirts are below my knees and nobody calls me Reagan anymore, but everything I learn is so real and so good and so bright and people need to know this. People need all the pieces of the truth.
"I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?"
-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
CON MUCHO MUCHO AMOR
Hermana Reagan Curtis
PS I am 100% serious did Trump really ask Russia to hack Hilary's email and also what is up with Turkey???? LDS Newsroom is so not cutting it for me.
