I have things to do and lives to change so this will be real short, just know that every time i sit down at this computer to tell all you lovely people about my life i realize how lucky i am to be a world away (kinda), with a name tag on, just roaming about and talking to people about God everyday. in spanish. and sometimes hindi. except mostly when i'm trying to, you know, like, shake their entire understanding of god and earth and life and such to people who only speak hindi or punjabi i just point to my hindi book of mormon and then point to the sky and nod and smile repeatedly.

also, women's conference was the tender mercy of all tender mercies.

also, my ward + every latino in canada has renamed me "hermana cortez" because they superrrr struggle with the name curtis and now mi companera just introduces me as hermana cortez to newcomers and then they look at me all quizzical like "pero, she's white" and i'm just like "si, do you want to learn about Jesus Christ???"

LES QUIERO! FOR REAL!

<3 reags

 

 

I thought it was a myth.

Pero, it's not.

Okay also I will title this section "The Miracle of President Burt" because picture this please, Hermana Kartchner and I, in the car, on the phone with our District Leader in slight shambles because of some really unfortunate things happening to a really lovely investigator that were entirely out of our control. And then all of a sudden we see President's name pop up on our phone EXACTLY when we said "ah we really just need to call president and get his help" and we pick up and he just says "Hi girls, I was just about to get on a ferry but then felt that I needed to call you two. What can I help you with?" and we died. Cause he is so incredibly inspired. Like, all the time. And out of 200 missionaries he has to keep track of he knew to call us at that exact moment.

Other highlights include teaching Rosemund, a woman from Haiti who has taken it upon herself to rhinestone EVERYTHING she owns. I sat on a bedazzled chair, I drank from a bedazzled cup, it was such an experience.

Plus the elders called us, in the middle of teaching this Costa Rican family, repeatedly until we finally picked up and I just hear HERMANA CURTIS HOW DO YOU SAY SEVERE NUT ALLERGY IN FRENCH and immediately I was taken back to the most shambles moment of my whole life when poor Micah and I had to rush Anneka to the infirmary at the French Open for the exact same reason ahhahahhah I died. But the elder lived. So todo esta bien.

I have to go but I am so happy!! And God is so good! And I JUST WISH I COULD EXPLAIN TO YOU ALL MY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW!!! AH!!!

okak ciao til next week all you people that i love

hermana reagan curtis

ps that little girl in the picture's name is literally ISIS i die everytime hahhahaa

20 was the strangest birthday of them all, feels like #19 at byu was an entirely different world, which i suppose it was. the only thing out of the ordinary was that we got a 20 minute break for me to buy myself a blizzard at dairy queen. but of course God gave me a million little things throughout the day. like hermana kellie bronson got to call me from vancouver and i seriously died when i heard her voice HI HERMANA I MISS YOU and also, please prepare yourselves, because punjabi homie?? that i told you about briefly before who showed up to church literally knowing nothing? THE TURBAN IS COMING OFF AND HE IS BEING BAPTIZED. his name is hardeb gil. i think. i genuinely don't know. the elders that we passed him off too called to tell us the good news and they were like "we literally don't know how you got him to listen to you and show up to church he speaks zero english and we had to bring a translator" and i was like HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME IT WAS THE SPIRIT.

more good things: 

first of all, family, will you write out some answers to teh questions at the top of preach my gospel page 152? and send them to me? president asked us to ask you to do so! thank you i love you mucho.

second of all, US open? election? is america still standing? seriously everyday this week when people found out i was american they started asking me 900 things about trump and i was like "believe me you know more than i do at this point also i'm not allowed to talk about politics" and i think it is a specific trial for me from God hahhaah. not kidding. missions are black holes when it comes to news.

espanol: is coming! more and more! i made a  joke in ward council yesterday and everyone got it and this is how i'm measuring my progress. 

french: got to use it (briefly) almost everyday this week <3 and everytime people are like "where are you from????? that's not quebecois (canadian) french?? are you from france??" and i just love my life.

okay also please appreciate these photos. particularly the one of me literally glowing because gospel. and LOOK HOW CUTE ALL OUT BOOK OF MORMONS ARE! i didn't even grab all of them. but we've got arabic, swahili, chinese, korean, russian, green, tgalick, hindi, spanish, french. ah. gospel going to all the nations and tongues of the world. except they're actually all in british columbia. how cool. i learned how to introduce ourselves and that we're from the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in mandarin this week. 

more tender mercies include multiple cars playing jcole pulling up next to us on my bday (don't stress friends we are strictly obedient, but it still made my heart happy), finding the mormon tabernacle choir version of the star spangled banner to blast as i am driving about the streets of surrey, and ZONE CONFERENCE was the greatest in all of ever. i can't even tell you how much i learned. 

okay i'm off to go change some lives, but thank you thank you again for reaching out. thank you for including me in your prayers, i really and truly can feel it. thank you for all of you who went out on missions, who are in the field, and who are just waiting to enter the field. this is a privilege. 

con mucho amor

hermana reagan curtis

8440 williams road

richmond, bc V7A 1G6

canada

ps FOUND CANDANCE BRIMHALL seriously felt like i was back at lone peak hahah the happiest thing. second of all cute mom sent me the print of brae and jack and ster, all RM's now, back in my kitchen in utah and i died cause i have the picture of us at the temple the day before sterling left for the philippines and i can't even process everything that has happened since then.

pps I HIT MY TWO MONTH MARK TOMORROW!!! see you soon lol <3

So we just got out of the TEMPLE which was the loveliest p-day surprise, it's darling and tiny and just what i needed. this week has been such an improvement from last week. about a million tender mercies and a million eye-openers.

First of all we continually find ourselves in whalley, and everytime my companion tells me i'm not allowed to go there after 4:30pm, and it terrifies her and the other sisters have started a competition for taking pictures of "heroin-sleepers" aka the guys fully asleep standing up on the side of the road because DRUGS ARE BAD FOR YOU! bless their sweet souls. super fun. there i am standing in between the african supermarket and manny's weed store and i'm just like "angels on my left and on my right hermana, esta bien." but don't stress nan, we live in a much nicer area. especially since as spanish sisters our area is huuuuuge and i essentially feel like we cover all of canada.

We go running every morning through the woods and i feel like i'm trail running up in AF canyon or something and i loooove it. 

This week i made friends with some nice sikh men who suggested using shrooms to enlighten my mind and i was like "yeah BUT book of mormon????" and also was just listening to our efy music in the car when sweet laken quigley's voice comes on and i for real TEARED UP hearing her. made my week. other highlights include us sprinting from door to door in order to knock as many complexes as possible each afternoon. my favorite investigator in the whole world PAULA whose story i literally don't have time to tell right now, getting my british columbia driver's license GO TEAM.

Ah I HAVE NO TIME!!!!!!! but i love you people and i love your notes and i can literally feel your prayers so thank you thank you thank you.

also i left my camera in the car ugh. stay tuned for better pics next week.

good things are happening up here in canada everyone. some mornings i wake up and i'm like "what am i doing". but then i put my nametag on and i get moving and miracles find us again and again. D&C 67:10.

con mucho amor

 

Hermana Reagan Curtis

8440 williams road

richmond, bc v7a 1g6

Canada