This is a true story about how all my investigators are cooler than me.
I just want all of you to know that Dani Gronnestad, our investigator, is my favorite human alive and took us on the dreamiest hike today and then we ate sushi on top of a hill and watched a storm roll in off the ocean and is currently sitting next to me, stalking my Facebook and chastising me for every photo that she can see my knees in.
She also came to both sessions of stake conference this weekend, and told her psychiatrist that she's thinking of becoming a Mormon and he told her it would be good for her. SCORE. And also I feel like if I didn't have the Gospel in my life I would literally be HER which is frightening at times. Also she's a paramedic and 25 and told me a story today about when she helicoptered out to an island and had to spend the night with two dead First Nations men at a logging camp because it was too dark for the helicopter to take off again after they died????? She's an actual legend?????
And SPEAKING OF FIRST NATIONS: Stake Conference this weekend with Elder Echo Hawk of the 70 was there just essentially blowing all of us away with his stories and the Spirit. And also we had Zone Conference on Friday and Sister Chandler and I had to give our first ever training in front of President, and we get to go to Nanaimo this week for their conference too since we cover both zones, and SPEAKING OF NANAIMO we spent three days up there this week on exchanges and I got to go with Sister Lauren Hunt, who I've known since Grade 7, and it was honestly one of the most miracle days of my mission. We literally had people ask us if they could read the Book of Mormon. She's a killer missionary and I love love love serving with all these people I know and love and seeing their pre-mish self mesh with their missionary self.
Other updates include the fact that I found out Sister Chandler microwaves her socks in the morning before putting them on, everyone deserves to try a Nanaimo bar IN Nanaimo, and that Dani is actually AJ Call, just Canadian. And not a missionary. Or Mormon. Yet.
Our other investigator Nancy came to Stake Conference and looooved it. We adore her too, she has the teeny tiniest voice and both Sister Chandler and I talk at a million miles an hour so we most likely frighten her sometimes, but she meets with us anyways. She's from China and her family is super Buddhist, and SO SORRY if I already told this story but mission brain. Anyways she has started praying and reading the Book of Mormon, and by doing this regularly it is literally curing her Bipolar Disease. She has cut her medication in half, and gives ALL the credit to the BoM. Those. Words. Work. Miracles. Do not doubt that, please.
Ah I NEVER HAVE ENOUGH MINUTES to let you in on all the good coming about on Vancouver Island!!!! Give me til winter and I'll fill you all in.
Sending all my love <3
xx Hermana Curtis
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