Ward night!

April 19, 2010
hello family, so another week has come and gone and we are on the downhill side of this month so thats good, and that means its about May and that means its almost mothers day, the day i get to talk to you guys. haha i cant wait to talk to lia and sam, they are getting soo big and have changed a lot in the past 20 months. so other than that me and my companion are doing great, we are getting along really good and we are working hard. we are having success and the month of may is looking to be a good month with probably 6 baptisms this month which is really cool i hope all goes well with the people with baptism dates. we have 2 families that are ready to be baptized so im excited, i love baptizing whole families its one of the coolest things to be a part of. so yesterday we had ward conference in one of our wards and it was really good we had a new family there with us and one of our old investigators just showed up which was really cool, and the talks were pretty good i hope the members payed attention haha.
so dad got released... well it had to happen sooner or later, who got put in? and you guys are gonna start moving stuff down there, where are you gonna put it at?? well ALL my stuff, and i do mean ALL should be there haha ill have to go through it all this time i guess, organize and throw stuff away. well that is just about all i can think of thats going on for us down here, i hope you guys are doing good and arent to busy getting everything figured out for the move. well tell the kids i love them and give them hugs, i love you guys.
love,
Elder Curtis
***Bobby Udall got put in to replace Sean. He’ll do awesome!
well this week has been awsome, me and my comp are doing awsome and yes i am teaching him to speak english haha its really funny because i totally know what he feels like not understanding anything like when i first got to mexico but hes doing good. but we are tearing it up here with baptizms coming up pretty soon and the members love us here and are always feeding us and giving us food which is kinda rare here but its cool, we started a good program thing here called "ward night" haha where we pretty much just go play soccer at night on fridays and after we buy some sodas and me and my comp share a message and yeah the members invite their non member or inactive friends to come play and we usually end up teaching the whole group of like 25 people the lessons but its good even for the members to hear the lessons because its like a reminder of what we should be doing as members so its awesome i love it here in these wards i hope i stay here for the rest of my mission but who knows its up to my president, so yeah im doing great down here and loving it more and more every day.
haha just a random chunk of information for you guys haha sorry its kinda out of context but its better than nothing haha and yes im looking forward to talking to you guys, so your going to safford?? (for the Mother’s Day call) its up to you guys if you want to stay home its all good ill be home soon enough to talk to everyone else
Elder Curtis

Elder Ramirez

hey family so first things first haha your questions here we get the liahona in english sometimes spanish, no i dont need the talks on cd thanks though. my new comp is mexican his name is elder Ramirez and he is from chihuahua, chihuahua and is pretty cool and we get along really good, its wierd not speaking english because ive had american comps for the last 10 months haha almost a year, and my comp speaks no english so thats kinda good to help me with my spanish. my comp has 3 months less than me so hes not exactly new we both are getting ready to finish the mission pretty soon, when he saw our house he thought i was playin a joke on him haha he wouldnt go inside causde he didnt think it was our house till he saw all my stuff haha he was pretty excited about it. so this past week we have been working really good together and showing him around the area, his old area was way out in the middle of nowhere so hes excited about being back in the big city. so yeah we are doing great here, a few weeks ago we had to speak in church which is still no fun, no way im speaking in 2 wards when i get back haha its a one time deal! so dad got the job in pima thats awsome haha the commute might be longer than it used to be going all the way to pima haha but that would be way cool to buy the house next to the welkers old house. but either way you guys will find the best thing to do and it will all work out like it should. haha its funny that the kids are already complaining about the heat and its only april haha but theyll get used to it. so yeah and in another month we get to talk on the phone for the last time till i get home haha so yeah i hope all is going good for you guys back home and i hope the family is doing better. well i better get going but i love you guys. give lia and sam hugs for me.
love
Elder Curtis

new comp Elder Ramirez

Well hello family. So this week was another good week for us down here and to make it better was the general conference, and wow it was a good one and like you said a lot of it was focused on parents and mothers but I really enjoyed it. We were only able to watch the 2 sessions on Sunday but I'll read the rest in the Liahona next month because I heard they were all good like always. So other big news this week is tomorrow we have changes and my companion is leaving but he is only going to the area right next to us haha we are still in the same zone and same district so we will still be seeing eachother on a regular basis. So the elder coming here with me is Elder Ramirez he is my first Mexican companion in almost a year haha just americans haha so hopefully this will really help my Spanish so I'm happy about that. So ya that's the news that's going on down here with us.
So wow Pima huh... Haha that's cool I'm excited that you guys are starting to get all the loose ends figured out to get things going and get moved down there. I'm super excited for you guys to be down there with the family. I might have to stick around down there with you guys for a while haha.
So it sounds like your Easter weekend was exciting especially for Sam with all that sugar haha I didn't even know it was Easter till they mentioned it in the conference. So ya that's about it for this week just the same ol stuff, work work work. But I'm loving it.
well I love you guys and I hope all is going great for you guys back home give the kids hugs for me and tell em I love them and miss them soo much.
I love you,

Elder Curtis

20 months down!

well hello family how is everything going for you guys this week? well for me this week has been great, we are teaching some awsome people still and they are really excited about the church so hopefully things keep going good and they can progress even more. so today was p-day and these days are always fun we had the meeting in the morning and then played some soccer and a few rounds of boxing and 2 bloody noses today so all in all it was a good day then we changed and went down to the Aztec Stadium for some good food and now we are just relaxing getting ready to wash clothes and clean house haha my favorite... NOT. so ive almost got 20 months in the mission which is crazy to think about and all my buddies from the mission are finishing their missions and going back to the real world its crazy but i think i am going to miss the mission like crazy this time that i have here is going soo fast and i know i am going to miss it, but next tuesday are the changes so we will see if i get to stay in this area or if im leaving either way i will be happy so its a win-win situation for me. so yeah other than that everything is going better than ever! i hope you guys are doing good, hows the house going?? how are lia and sam doing? lia still loving school? alright well i better get going, i love you guys soo much i dont know what i would do without you.
love,
Elder Curtis

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