Farenheit 451 in the Canada Vancouver Mission

IN OTHER NEWS I am actually living 1984 now. The novel, not the year. We all got Tiwi's, aka "Big Brother", installed in our cars, so we have to swipe a little card and log-in everytime we drive. Tiwi  monitors our driving and coaches us as we drive and email President if we speed too much or drive aggressively or don't have a seat-belt on or hit a bump too hard or take a turn too fast or are out after hours and it is CRAZY hahahah. Ours is named Tabitha. We are not on the best of terms. I had two "check your speed warnings" IN THE PARKING LOT within our FIRST TEN MINUTES of her joining us. It's okay though team. I'm okay. I'm grateful for the improvement my aggressive driving has seen since the beginning of the mission, as well as for the fact that Tabitha is hating on Sister Pitts just as much as she is on me. 

(Real talk though I'm grateful for anything that helps us be more obedient, I AM GOING TO BE OKAY WITH THIS.)

On the bright side, Kai passed her baptismal interview!!!!!!!! More to come on her full story next week, but she'll be getting baptized in a week and a half and that is a ridiculous miracle. God is so good to us. Sister Pitts and I are happy and healthy and accidentally finding mud runs for morning workouts which is a goooood time. We taught Tomomi without a translator for the first time ever this week and Gift of Tongues is SO REAL. We somehow picked up from a church video that "shinko" means faith in Japanese and managed to teach the most powerful lesson about the Atonement in the teeniest most broken English + Japanese. I had to employ all 7 words I know hahahha. 

ALSO Christl Bradley aka one of my absolute nearest and dearest from my time as a missionary pulled one BIG time on us!! She's moved to the mainland now but showed up for one of our lessons with Dani and Sister Pitts and I very nearly fell over :))) Love love love her. Ah. 

Okay I hope you all have the happiest week and that you read your Book of Mormon everyday and that you take to heart this little piece of pure wisdom that President Burt shared this week:

"Life is hard, but it's even harder when you're stupid."

Grateful for inspired humans around me all the time.

Love you all to pieces!

xxx Hermana Curtis

PS Also one of my favorite things in the world is getting calls from other missionaries like the one I got from the Zone Leaders this week that go mostly like, "Sister Curtis!!!!! Speak Spanish!!!!" and then they hand the phone to some unsuspecting Latino on the street who doesn't understand why a crazy American, French man, and Filipino in suits have stopped him on the street and then I get to talk to him about God via flip-phone.