I just held a kangaroo.

But the good news is THIS WASN'T EVEN THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY WEEK CAUSE PRESIDENT WONG IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND AND I AM MOVING TO HONG KONG WHEN I GET HOME.

POSSIBLY.

Okay but listen to this, bless the sweet Wongs, they're terrified of driving. Which is natural, coming from Hong Kong. So Sister Thueson and I were their chauffeurs for a few days while they were here in Kelowna. President Wong is exactly what we need. So inspired, so hopeful, and an absolute master at teaching by the Spirit. But on top of that he's hilarious. At one point we were driving along and I volunteered the fact that Sister Thueson does rodeo, so he responds, "Ohhhhhhh. You tie things up??? This why President Burt give you Sister Curtis as companion?" hahahah I was in shambles. Cute little President Wong was throwing down on me all day in his broken English, and intermittently teaching me about how God works. I love him. 

In other news there are currently about 250 wildfires raging in BC, one of them was just 4 k's from me the other night and we were watching 5 water-bombers trying to put it out. Crazinessss. A lot of the missionaries up north have already been evacuated. There were 10 homes lost in the fire by me the other night and hundreds evacuated. Send prayers friends <3 

Okay on to the miracle of all miracles, we found three new friends to teach this week! Prichie, from the Philippines, literally referred herself online. She was taught before in the Philippines and Edmonton, was too stubborn to get baptized, moved to Kelowna and realized she was entirely wrong and wants to get baptized in August sooooo bad. She's darling. Kaori, from Japan, is ALSO darling. I loved reading Kendra's email this week about how happy teaching people who God is makes her, because teaching all my Japanese friends here is exactly that. It's all terribly new and foreign and bewildering to them but so wonderful at the same time. She came to church yesterday and said "I have strange feeling. But it feel good." I said "Yeah Kaori that's the Spirit." For the win. Last but not least was Taeva, from Jamaica, who I met my first day here. Invited him to church and he never showed (quelle surprise / que supresa) and then literally a month later he calls us out of NOWHERE and is like "Hey sorry I never came, can I come this week?" Yeah sure Taeva. So yes he comes to institute which was this rather intense lesson on eternal marriage - which resulted in me holding my breath the whole time cause people were throwing around absolute deep doctrine - but he loooooved it and called us the next day to tell us he's still feeling "light" from the night before.

MISSIONS ARE THE BEST. GOD IS THE BEST. TEACHING TRUTH IS THE BEST. SISTER MISSIONARY SHOE TANLINES ARE THE BEST. AND ALL THESE THINGS OUTWEIGH THE FACT THAT I CURRENTLY LIVE IN A CLOUD OF WILDFIRE SMOKE!

Hey I love love love you all, and I miss you terribly! But I'm so grateful to be serving right now. These past few weeks have been an ongoing lesson in consciously choosing patience and positivity again and again, but I need this and I want this.

Be good and say your prayers <3

Con todo mi amor,

Hermana Curtis

PICS!

Real-life kangaroos, a very windy very happy moment with the Wongs, and wildfires approaching.

HEY BY THE WAY President Wong told me I'll officially be home in time for Winter semester. Freaky. Someone please let me know if I have to, like, pull my life together or anything sometime soon in order to attend school then.