Curtis, William

Buen dia mi gente que lo que Today is my 90th Monday as a missionary. How crazy is that? Time flies when you're serving the Lord. Cool miracle this week. We were knocking doors, basically no one was answering and none of them were latino. Triste. Then we went to a lesson where our friend dropped us. Even more triste. As we're walking back to the car, we get a notification on our phones. Someone texted us and asked us if they could come to church. Could you come to church? Please and thank you. So we set up a church tour on Saturday and they came to church on sunday. Liliana and Alex from Columbia. God is so good! BTW my friend Morgan got baptized on saturday in another ward! So hyped for him Spiritual thought: The last step in the doctrine of Christ is enduring to the end. Now that doesn't mean griting your teeth and holding on until you die lol. It means giving it your all until the end. Oftentimes this is hard for us. We get tired or bored or lazy. But the true mark of a ...

Just one from this week. Finishing up our night, we had comp study in the house. As I'm pulling into our parking spot, I have a strong thought (no other word to describe it haha): go visit David and El Salvador. They live about 3 minutes away. So we go to their house. We've stopped by like 8 times, they have never answered. This time, they did on the first knock. We walk in there and teach them a fantastic, Spirit inspired lesson about putting off the natural man from the Book of Mormon. They promise us that they will read it. Our member that we gave a video call to testified powerfully of how it has helped him. Then, we went back home. Moments like these are so precious to me. I know that what Moroni tells us is true: "And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things." He will guide us, if we are worthy! Elder Curtis Ps. My friend in Grande Prairie got baptized! English class with some homies

Hey y'all! It's your favorite temporary Canadian. Funnily enough, Canadians are quite patriotic, and it's rubbing off on me. every time I see the big ol , I just want to start singing " oh canada" It was a great week. Highlight was definitely when I got to take our friend Tatiana to the baptism of Ricky Spitzer! That's right he finally did it. The readers digest version of the story is when I got to the ward, I learned that he wasn't baptized, but the rest of his family was. I asked sister Spitzer (his wife) if I could come over and share a message with their family. She looked at me and said, "You can, but I know what you're trying to do. My husband is not interested in the gospel." I said ok. That first lesson was about prayer. Bro spitzer sat in on the lesson. At the end, I was prompted to invite brother spitzer to say the closing prayer. I was pretty scared especially because sister spitzer was right there staring daggers at me haha but h...

Que lo que mi gente, que bacan la semana Great week! The area is beginning to move in the right direction. I'm gonna be completely honest when I started here again in Rio Vista I was quite concerned cause the area was blank, but we have had the Lord Himself working side-by-side with us lately. Here's the highlights TATIANA: Super cool lady, has lived here in Canada for 3 weeks, has felt super lonely but we have introduced her to everyone in the ward! She came to church on sunday, loved it, will be coming to a baptism on Saturday, total milagro! Dylan: absolute king. Unbaptized youth bc his parents have had drama with the ward but he wants to get baptized! We're gonna set a date next lesson and re activate his family  Diana: actually found her when I was here last time haha she told me so but I did not recognize her (awkward) really awesome and wants to learn more! God answered so many prayers this week. I feel all of your prayers sustaining me! Thank you all so much! I'...

This week was long. We knocked a lot of doors. We also met with probably half the ward and invited them to share the gospel with their friends! Gotta get those member referrals. Here's a little spiritual thought! My favorite conference talk of all time is "Motions of a Hidden Fire" by Jeffery R Holland. I studied it again this week and found something cool: Luke describes Jesus’s descent into His expiation as requiring Him to pray “more earnestly.” How does one who was perfect, pray more earnestly? We assume that all of His prayers were earnest, yet in fulfilling His atoning sacrifice and through the pain that attended its universal reach, He felt to pray ever more pleadingly, with the weight of His offering finally bringing blood from every pore. What I got from this is that when we go through difficult times, we are blessed with a chance to call down the powers of heaven on our or another's behalf. We can either suffer alone, or turn to the Lord and pray, "more...

Well hey everyone. A lot has happened since my last email. Let me fill you all in! I got transferred from Londonderry. Man what a blessed ward. It was hard to say goodbye to all the recent converts, members, and friends. So many awesome people that love the gospel. But now I'm back in Spanish! It's kind of insane, bc I haven't served in a Spanish unit in almost a year, but im super excited! Picking up the language has been pretty easy, cause I've been training a native speaker, Elder Mauad. He's from Lima, Peru (shout-out to all my Peru serving missionaries) and really loves to work hard. The work has been a bit difficult, the area's been looking a little blank, but we've been finding a bit of success recently. I have a very strong testimony that uncomfortable/difficult situations are where we grow the closest to God. I read a scripture recently about this in Enos: And my soul hungered; and I kneeled down before my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty praye...

Had a crazy week this week so I'm pretty tired and that's why this is so late. But yea had 3 zone conferences this week and they were great! Went on a bunch of exchanges and they were awesome too! I'm loving life.  Spiritual thought Ether 12:19 And there were many whose faith was so exceedingly strong, even before Christ came, who could not be kept from within the veil, but truly saw with their eyes the things which they had beheld with an eye of faith, and they were glad. The last line is interesting. What does it mean to see with an eye of faith? What does that look like? I think it means creating something, or imagining something happening before it does. If we do so, miracles will happen! What do you need to see with an eye of faith? Elder Curtis