In his last area there was a member who would refill fire estinguishers so of course Josh wanted to see what that was like, as you can see he had fun. Wish he'd sent the one where they did it all down the street!
In the group picture, Josh is sitting next to one of his really good friends Elder Smedley as well as both of their comps, Reyes (Josh's) and Martinez (Smedley's).

Elder Perez, new comp

June 22, 2009
hey hows it going? well this week has been very Interesting to say the least. so my comp is Elder Perez, hes from Colorado Springs Colorado and he has a few months less than me so here we are in mexico teaching people the gospel. his spanish is.... well its getting better haha he just isnt very comfortable with speaking it. but in my new area we have 3 towns Clapala, Cuatzingo, and Los Alamos where we live its cool we live in like apartment type things its aton of houses but they are all the same and right next to eachother so its really easy to work cause if we are knocking doors its really easy haha but we have been having a ton of success we have people with baptism dates up untill the 12 of july so now just have to wait and see who really sticks it out and gets baptised its usually 1 in 4 so a 25% success from the people who go to church to getting baptised so 4 people in the church 1 gets baptized, this week we had 7 people go with us to church and we had to pay for all of them it sucked but its good to see them come with us so its worth it. so me and smedley are still in the same district so thats cool. but im pretty sure our new President comes this thursday because we have a mission conference so its like pres Doxeys farewell and pres Chavez is going to talk and interview all of us so that should be interesting other than that its the same ol work just in a new place, im probably 30 min from my first area here so thats cool im planning on visiting them soon. so today we played soccer, volleyball, and basketball for another 5 hours so now im super tired and just want to go to bed!
so what happened with dustin were thay repeling or what i didnt understand what happened? but yeah well i hope you guys have a good time with grandma up there for a few weeks that should be fun. well i better get going im super tired and hungry so ill talk to you guys later!
give sam and lia hugs and i love you guys soo much!!!
love you
adios
Elder Curtis

transferred Chalco area

hey hows it going. its good to hear how well sam and lia are doing, i sure do miss them. so yesterday we had the transfers phone call to see who was leaving but my comp had a ton of stuff packed but when the phone call never came we thouhjt we were going to be together another change. so in the morning he wanted to call our district leader to find out for sure cause he really wants to leave haha and sure enough the DL said i had changes ME! i just got here 3 months ago to my 3rd area and now off to my 4th area in 8 months! i move way to much but it keeps it interesting, so last night me and E Smedley were talking about if we both got changed to the same district again how funny and how slim the chances are of that happening but it turns out we are neighbors again! and in the same district. im going back out to Chalco where i started but im in a different area its called Vincente Guerrero its kinda the suburbs of chalco but really poor and dirty a big change from where we are now but i like it out therea lot more relaxed and the members are way cool and humble, so me and smedley are leaving tommorrow and our comps are both americans and we are the senior comps so hopefully my comp knows some spanish at least i dont want to teach him everything because i barely know it! so thats the news about changes, so today we played our last soccer game as a zone and in our last game Smedley came to shoot and i went to block and some how some way my ankle got messed up! i can barely walk on it and it hurts so hopefully it gets to feeling better soon or its goonna be a long few weeks walking on it every day. but other than that i still have to go and pack all my stuff and then say goodbye to all the members so its gonna be a LONG P-Day well othr than that its about it on my side down here i hope you guys have a great week and keep up the good work, tell the hollidays that im proud of them and give lia and sam hugs and i love you guys soo much.
adios
Elder Curtis

feeling better

well time is officially going by fast i cant believe its june already. so this week has been good nothing too exciting has happened so far. today me and elder smedley and our comps went to a mall again to hang out and i was looking for a new Ipod (his old ipod broke this week, and he is dreaming of a new one to put all of his music and pictures on) and found out the electronics are way more expensive here!¡ I looked up one on the internet here but its like almost a hundred dollars more than what I can get in the states! it was crazy but im thinking about it, one even has a translater built in!! i could better my spanish whith it and bring more souls to the Gospel haha.
anyways the sickness is gone and im feeling a lot better. work has been good this week we found some good families to teach which i love, teaching whole families is the coolest thing ever. so this sunday we have changes or transfers however you want to call it so we find out if one of us is leaving or both are staying. so other than that nothing has really happened just the same old stuff different day, so im here with elder smedley and he said his mom told him you wrote her and sent a picture of me and she just said "wow hes big!" haha thats the impression i make on people haha im definately planning on hanging with smedley after the mission hes super cool and hes 24 so i might hook him up with C---- see if she wants a pen pall hahaha
well i better get finishing up i have no idea what to write about my mind is totally blank so i might write later but i love you guys soo much dont have too much fun without me haha
i love you
Elder Curtis

sick

well hello family and friends haha well this week has been one of those weeks... so thursday night i went to bed feeling fine and woke up at 5am with the worst feeling in my stomach i coulndt do anything to get it to go away i just sat on our couch and then went into the bathroom and started throwing up and it stayed like that till 7am it was the worst feeling ever but the pain didnt go away, today in the morning was the first morning i woke up with no pain but a member hooked me up with some medicine so that helped but yeah so been sick this weekend.

on other news our baptism that we have for this saturday well they dropped a bomb on us they said his wife is still married to her husband so they have been separated for 5 years and they have a son together but she takes care of him so we have to divorce her and then marry them so her new husband can get baptized haha so hopefully we can get it done quick and we have another guy that we are probably going to baptize within these next 2 weeks so im excited his wife and 2 young kids go to church every week but have about 10 months in the church so he will complete the family im super excited and hope they get sealed in a year so i can go with them!

in other news from the dirty city of the south i have not gotten any packages from anyone, but a question can you find me a fitted sheet bottom for my bed its super annoying it always falls off! so if you could find that it would be great, so today for p day we got together with some elders that are right next to us and went to one of the 2 malls in our area but this mall was super fancy i felt like i was back in the states again haha so i chilled with elder Smedley from utah hes pretty much the coolest haha we ate some Subway and walked around the mall then came back and played some 2 on 2 soccer and now e mailing home and might go for some tacos after i cant wait haha well i better get going i hope everything is going good on your end keep me posted about your plans dont worry everything will work out as long as you trust in the lord and prayand follow with FAITH so simple yet the most important part in this life, well i love you guys i better get going love ya.
Adios
Elder Curtis
the sheet is i think a twin and if you cant find that color just a dark brown. haha tell lia and sam i miss them soo much and give them hugs and cook me a marshmellow! well have a fun night and tell rick congrats! wish i coulda been there i love you guys