Curtis, William

Hello everyone! I hope everyone has been well. Here in Canada, things are just swell. Well first transfer is in the books. It's been a whirlwind. We've been able to have some success, been able to baptize, but I know we can do better. This next transfer is going to be awesome! In other news, PLOT TWIST: We have a new companion! His name is Elder Seely. He's from southern Alberta (which apparently, is Very, Very different than northern Alberta, unbeknownst to me) and he's waiting to get his plane ticket to Costa Rica, his original assignment. This elder is also now my running buddy! So awesome, gotta get those miles in. He seems motivated, so me, him, and Elder Garibaldi are gonna go to work here in Lago Lindo. I had exchanges this week with Elder Tsai! He came to the Spanish area and we were able to teach a lesson, find someone, and go to dinner. Elder Tsai is a Stellar missionary; he's a convert who is twenty fire and got baptized two years ago. He wanted to bear h...

If you couldn't tell from the title of the email, DIANA GOT BAPTIZED WHOOOOOOOOO! It was actually so awesome. I don't know if I ever shared how we met her, so here goes. Flashback to 4-5 weeks ago, me and Elder Girabaldi were walking the dangerous calles de Edmonton, when he hopped on preach my gospel (basically the missionary app) and he said "hey we're close to someone who's met the missionaries before, let's go say howdy" or something of that nature. So we knock on Diana's house and she lets us in. Turns out she's super interested in the message. Like so much so we're talking about baptism in 10 minutes, and we set a date for septiembre 16. I got to teach her every lesson for the first time for me and her in Spanish.  The actual baptism was awesome, because the branch is so small, it's literally a family so we had half the branch there. Fun fact: yours truly was able to perform the ordinance. Which was terrifying and lit all at the same ...

Hello all you beautiful people. Special shout-out to all my elders who just had their first weeks in the field, all your emails are lit. (I say that like I'm a veteran when in reality I've been out here 5 weeks) It's just such a shame you all didn't receive such an amazing mission call as Edmonton Canada, because this place is awesome. Everyone is so nice (except for the people who aren't) and the latinos we find always want to talk to us. It's probably because they're so lonely, most of them are incredibly poor and know absolutely no one. They also don't speak a word of English, so everyone wants to learn. That's one of our main finding strategies, teaching English class.  That's the way we found our new friends, the Peña family! They are from Columbia, and the first lesson was an English class with a gospel message, and the second was a gospel class with an English message at the end haha. We talked about baptism in the second lesson and they g...

I dedicate this email and its title to the one and only Doctor Butta. Fun fact: as I'm writing this email it is 10 degrees outside. In September. Just kidding, that's in centigrade not Fahrenheit. But still, that's about 50 degrees, so it's already Arizona's winter here. The weather has been so nice, it's a shame things are gonna turn into a freezer very soon. Ok let's get into the week. We actually had a pretty awesome week! We had a lot of appointments and were able to connect with some old friends. This was the highlight: we go to a house to teach a Spanish class with a man name Guillermo (fun fact: that's William in Spanish). We get inside the house and turns out he brought all of his friends. So there I was, sitting down in a house with my companion, a mexican, and a house full of fifteen mexicans, in the city of Edmonton Canada, teaching them English and the gospel of Jesus Christ. In Spanish. Let me tell you, you can't make this stuff up. And ...