don't stress team i am still very much a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but also sometimes i am catolica because rosa, the recent convert who got baptized in october, has been teaching all the missionary lessons back to hermana kartchner and i and it is the BEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO US! true story. i always pretend to be catholic and hna kartchner pretends to be my member friend and rosa straight up teaches us like she is a preach my gospel missionary and it is incredible and at the end of the first lesson she extended me a baptismal date??? for christmas day?? and i laughed so hard that i fell off the sofa nearly? and hermana kartchner just sat there and cried? all 100% true. so so cool to see the change in her.
other miracles include the fact that jeremy gomez, who we found out in the rain last week for those of you who actually read these, came to church. i was dangerously close to hugging him when i saw him. such a miracle. as a result of other miracles. ah. yes. so grateful.
plus la familia sanchez? our cute colombian friends? had the most beautiful lesson out of my entire 4 months como misionera with them last night. we taught about the restoration, again, which was not at all our plan. but we showed them the 20 minutes resto movie that the church has put out, and nidia (the mom), looks at the dvd cover and goes "wait. i've seen that before." turns out she BOUGHT THE RESTO DVD in a thrift store six years ago in quebec????? because she loved the picture on the front of joseph smith and the light falling around him in the first vision (sorry bear with me, those of you who have no idea what i'm talking about. i'll explain when i have more than 7 minutes left to email, my bad). anyways, yes she bought it. watched it. didn't understand it. and then this time it brought her to tears.
guys.
i just am so grateful the every little piece of the church that Jesus Christ established when He was on the earth is back. for us. every piece of it. we have such a powerful message. God never forgot us. He loves us just the same as every person in the BIble, as every soul who lived during those times. of course He wouldn't leave us without that priesthood, that exact authority to act in His name. otherwise I wouldn't be seeing so many miracles.
okay, i'm off. happy thanksgiving to the land of the free, home of the brave. forgot that was a thing, cause canada :) i love you all dearly and i am grateful in every moment for the prayers and loves and thoughts i feel coming from each of you.
xoxo
hermana reagan curtis
ps speaking of gratitude i was looking at the mountains and such out the window the other day and literally started crying because God just keeps putting me in the loveliest of places, from american fork canyon to paris to british colombia and i just don't know what the mission has done to my emotions hahah but there's that.
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