typhoons & baptisms & such
first and foremost ROSA GOT BAPTIZED. which is a miracle in itself because she's been investigating for 14 months and ah I can't even explain how lucky i am to be her missionary. now we're helping her do the temple and family history work, so this is me publicly thanking summer herlevi for talking me into taking genealogy at byu. please everyone now picture me trying to decipher birth certificates from el salvador, because this is how i spent my friday night.
guys. my body is wrecked. we've fasted 3 of the last 8 days for various reasons, left our car parked as much as physically possible which means i have essentially walked all of canada (our area is beyond massive, i've never even seen a complete map), and dear hermana kartchner snores so sleep isn't really a thing. BUT miracles are real, missions are worth it, and i am real life happy here in this lovely land up north :)) oh also there was apparently a typhoon on saturday, everyone we spoke to was like "go home!!!!! buy bread!!!! and flashlights!! prepare yourselves!!!" but we worked all day anyways and i was unimpressed by the storm.
also, i sleep talk ward correlation discussions. and sleep pray in spanish.
ALSO THE HAPPIEST NEWS!!!!! I GOT PASSED A FRENCH INVESTIGATOR!!! the elders, bless their hearts, gave up on trying to teach her since according to them she speaks 95% french and 5% english so SOEUR CURTIS got to give it a go and it was the kindest answer to prayer from Heavenly Father to get to use my french for real. super terrifying too, especially since she's from the congo and her french is for sure not paris french. but gift of tongues is real and so is the work of salvation and so yes. this is happening. we have a return appointment with her next saturday :))
in other news i wounded myself and now have a scar from running into my bed, but i'm actually pleased because now i can continue my tradition of getting a new scar in every country i go to. super fun.
i have to go but i love all of you people more than you know, and i love my mission. we're the lucky ones out here with nametags on, as hard as it is.
xoxo.
hna reagan curtis
ps everyone i teach is literally named maria. and when we were doing rosa's genealogy she asked me to enter all of her siblings names and 5 OF HER 5 SISTERS ARE NAMED MARIA AND 3 OF HER 3 BROTHERS ARE NAMED JOSE haahahha I LOVE LATINOS!!!!!
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