I forgot it was Thanksgiving :( but I'm still very, very grateful.
So by Thursday I literally did not have a clue that it was American Thanksgiving, buttttt we did get to have a bit of an impromptu Turkey Bowl on Monday for our Zone PDay :) Also we played Gator Ball, which is as close to a contact sport as you can get on a mission. Like part soccer, party rugby, part basketball. It's a good time. Especially with 43 missionaries who have a lot of pent up competition inside their little missionary souls.
ALSO IMPORTANT THINGS!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HERMANA HEALY!
AND ALSO HERMANA ARCHIBALD! SO MUCH AMOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Speaking of Hermana Archibald, I got my very last transfer call every and MY DAUGHTER IS GOING TO KILL ME IN VAN YSA! For those of you who are unfamiliar with missionary lingo, Sister Archibald, who I trained a year ago, is going to be my final companion here in Vancouver YSA for my last three weeks of the mission :) ANNNNNND we're in a trio again with Sister Kovalska! From Ukraine!!!! Good thing I'm fluent in Korean now so I can focus on Russian.
I actually got to go to a Korean class that the missionaries started this week and it was the BEST THING that ever happened to me hahah. Literally like 6 Korean-speaking missionaries, me, and a woman from Romania. Still can't write my name in Korean, or even the alphabet, BUT I can say hi, bye, thank you, i love you, and yes. This is all I need.
Okay here's a miracle of all miracles for you all. I met a woman named Masoomeh from Iran last week while crossing the street on my way to catch the Skytrain. We talked for 2 minutes maybe about Jesus Christ and missionary work and she went home that day, showed her entire family (including those in Iran) a picture of me and told them that she'd just met a Christian girl and maybe wanted to change her religion. WHAT MASOOMEH?????? She brought her husband for a church tour that weekend and when we showed them a painting of Christ's baptism her husband asked to take a photo of it and said, "I feel such strong positive energy from this picture. I've never even felt this in my own mosque." This weekend they brought their 18 year old daughter to the Christmas concert and loved every second of it. They feel such a pull to learn about Jesus Christ and it's beautifullllllllll to witness. Beautiful. I've never felt so much like a "vessel". When her husband, Abraham, explained the feelings he recognised while looking at that painting, she said that those were the same things she felt during our brief conversation on the street. It was something entirely foreign to them, but so lovely and so powerful. Oh, how I love this work.
And I love each of you!
See you, like, really soon.
Hermana Curtis
(Also shoutout to Ryanne for submitting her mission papers, I also forgot my camera today sooooooo this is the only picture I have, thanks to her.)
LOVE LOVE LOVE OKAY BYE!
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