Culhuacan (new area)

well well well where to start this week.... sooo my new area, its in the zone Culhuacan and the ward is called Aztecas and our church building is like less than a block from the Aztec Stadium!!! its the huge stadium where we had the cultural event with the Prophet so thats super cool but its a little different because during church you can hear the roar of the 110,000 screaming mexicans LOUD and CLEAR!!! haha so its pretty cool, so our area is alright it is full of hills! up and down and up and down all day long its not too much fun i finnally got my first blister! haha but it might be from playing 5 hours of soccer...hmmm. so yeah my companion is Elder Reyes he is from Durango and he is full blooded MEXICAN! its funny we never have a dull moment together we are always having fun or causin trouble but its fun we were in the same district in my first area in Chalco and we both started our missions the same day so its cool and we get along pretty good. so if you look on the internet for my area look for the "estadio Azteca" my area also has the big University of mexico called UNAM thats in our area too so its cool but the members are super strick haha theyre always getting after us for something haha they are worse than our President but its also good in a way too i guess it helps us stay on task haha so yeah thats the happenings this week in my new area. so also when i got here we had a bunch of really good investigators that had been to church a bunch and everything but my comp and his old comp were scared to invite people to take a baptism date so when i got here that was the first thing i did we went to most of the really good investigators and i put baptism dates with 6!!!! haha so yeah on sunday before the services at 8 we had a baptism of an older man it was really neat, and weve got 1or 3 more this week hopefully. and yeah so im doing really good but really you had a dream about me on saturday night,,,,,(from Cindy - Saturday night I woke up in the middle of the night with a feeling that Josh was sitting on my bed, he wasn't upset or anything just sitting there, I couldn't shake that feeling of his presence so I got up and said a prayer for him and tried to get some sleep. I told him about my dream and wondered if things were ok. I don't know if my prayer helped him or not, but it helped me, what a blessing),,,, that night we had a person with a baptism date say she didnt want to get baptized about 45 minutes before her baptism so that wasnt very fun and then our distict leader chewed us out for it so that was no fun, so that night i was really really frustrated, but its all good its the life of a missionary. but i dont know what your hearing about mexico???? i dont really hear anything about it here haha tell me what youve been hearing im curious.... but yeah its not too bad down here nothing too bad has happened to me so yeah but let me know and ill tell you how it is down here in good ol´mexico. well thats that for today
bueno pues espero que tiene un muy bien dia!!!
i love you guys soo much
Elder Curtis

transferred!

hello family so this week we have transfers and im getting changed!! im going to a zone called culuhuacan its not too far from where i am now so thats cool i can come back and visit haha so yeah there are transfers every 6 weeks but you dont get changed every 6 weeks every 2 or 3 changes usually. ok so big new there is a woman that is flying to phoenix this week to live with her husband and she said she could take some stuff for me... so i sent a small package with a purse for lia a shirt, a bag that a member thought i might like to give you haha and picture CDs so yeah but you guys will have to go get it or have kim or adam if adam knows some spanish because they dont know ANY english!!! haha so yeah here is their address (I didn't post their address on the blog, but have to find a way to get to meet them, especially if I want to see more pictures!)
Jesus Rodriguez A.
call before and ask " si estan en su casa para venir por el packete de mi hijo, Elder Curtis? haha and yeah
haha good luck the family is really nice so dont worry haha and good luck well i better get going i still have to pack!!!! haha oh and still no packages so who knows hopefully tomorrow.
alright well i love you guys and have a good week!!
adios
Elder Curtis

pyramids, again!!!!

hey family hows it going? my week has been really good haha so ill aswer the questions first haha so the Zocolo is the center of mexico its like our Washington D.C. the president of mexico works in one of the buildings there and there is a cathedral there that is really cool to tour and stuff and yeah its just a cool place to go, so elder fullmer is one of my good friends here and we are in the same area kinda, we are in the same Zone and his area borders ours on the north end but yeah so we went to the zocolo with the 4 m last week and after he shaved my head!!! haha it saves sooo much time in the mornings haha so yeah in our zone of 18 elders there are 5 americans so its not too bad. so last week we only had 2 baptisms and this week none!!?? so kinda big bummer but this week looks good we found a family of 5 and they are amazing!! haha so yeah so today we dont have hardly any time to write cuz we went to teotihuacan the pyramids fyi with our ward and yeah not a whole lot of time so yeah but we are going to get on tomorrow to send pictures home so be ready for those tomorrow!
i love you guys soo much i miss you tons
Elder Curtis

A good week, Baptisms!

hey well this week has been good we had some baptisms! It was a family of 3 but one of the kids got super nervous and didnt want to go through with it so we couldnt really force him to even though we wanted to. haha But im sure he will with some time, so yeah we had 2 baptisms on saturday. On sunday was stake conference and a member of the 70 came with his wife, Elder Wickman and i talked to his wife after and turns out her dad grew up in St. Johns her maiden name is Farr. So yeah it was way good our president even spoke so yeah all in all it was a good week. So yeah today we went to the Zocolo and went into the huge cathedral there and took some sweet pictures so I'll send those later today (we didn't get any pictures :( )or next week not much time today. Oh but ask seans parents or papa and patty if they remember a boxer from the 50's and 60's named Gene Fullmer well I'm good friends with his son here in the mission he's from Utah, haha kinda random. So yeah this week we've got 2 or 3 more baptisms so I'm super excited the work is going really good im loving it here! So yeah thats wierd that Nathan Gleave is gonna be a dad thats way wierd haha but good for him. So yeah other than that kinda a normal week here oh so the yard sell yeah you guys better not sell any of my JUNK! haha I'll go through it when i get home only 17 more months haha so this next week is gonna be good we are working hard trying to get our goal of 10 this month but its going by way fast haha but we are trying. So thats good to hear Lia is doing soo good with school haha hows sam doing does he get to start school this year or what? Well i hope you guys had a good week and try not to get too stressed out about this school stuff it will work out "just take care of the small stuff and the big stuff will work out" quote of the week haha well i better get going i love you guys sooo much and all you do for me!!
adios
Elder Curtis

He can cook!!!!

This is a picture of some spaghetti that he cooked in his fancy kitchen! He said it was pretty good, although I'm not sure what he put in it.