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Friday, November 21, 2014
Pictures
November 17, 2014
Dear Family,
That was a really cool story about that boy! I'm glad he's alright. Yikes! I have no idea who the Griffeth family is.
Occasionally I have a really hard time focusing but that's alright. I'm beyond grateful I've had this opportunity to serve
and
my favorite thing about it is that I will continue to be a missionary
for the rest of my life. I just won't have a badge on.
Which will be great because then people won't stare me while I eat!! Biggest pet peeve ever.
Anyway
sounds like things are moving forward with the remodel. I can
understand how the clutter would get to you...cleanliness is
next to Godliness right?
Sound
like winter season has hit just about everywhere...it's gotten really
cold here as well. I'm still trying to figure out whose idea
it
was to put sister missionaries in a skirt in the middle of blessed
Nebraska for the winter. Not my favorite rule ever! I'm thankful for
long boots,
fleece lined tights, gloves, and a coat. Granted it takes me like 8 years to get dressed in the morning but I'm warm.
This
week was really the usual up and down week of a missionary. I'm getting
so tired sometimes I just dream about sleeping. I don't know how
Elders do this for two years...missionary work is so hard. It's a great work but it's hard work.
Some
miracles that happened this week was we had a zone conference in
Lincoln!! So I got to spend some time in a city that I served in for 9
months.
It was great and a couple of Holmes Lake members came to the church and said hi! Oh my goodness it was so great to see them.
But
a really cool miracle happened on the way to Lincoln. We were driving
on I-80 just chugging along and we were coming up on this car. It had
Iowa license plates
and a Montana sticker. I was like I know
that car! Where do I know that car? Then it dawned on me that it was my
ward mission leader from Sioux City!!!
We came up side by
side their car and we honked and sure enough it was the Walkers!! AH!!
It was such a tender mercy to see them. I hadn't heard or seen from
them
in a year. So we pulled off at some random exit cried
and talked and then Bro Walker was like this is great but I'm cold meet
us at Perkins in Lincoln and we'll all go get
hot chocolate! :) It was wonderful. The exact timing of meeting them on the freeway was for sure not a coincidence. :)
Zone
Conference was wonderful we had Elder Nielson from the 70 come. Both
Elder and Sister Nielson answered some of my questions and concerns and
it was
really great to see some of my past companions like
Sis McCauley!!! I also saw some Elders and Sisters from my MTC district.
It feels like just yesterday we were all
there goofin off.
Then
another miracle happened yesterday...my comp and I felt like we needed
to go visit this member. So we did and we were just talking to her
because she was having
a super rough time and was just
struggling so hard with some things. So we went over and she's making
pumpkin muffins and cuts her finger on the can of pumpkin. The cut is
really deep, so blood is everywhere and she can't handle blood at all.
So I'm holding paper towel after paper towel on her thumb and we're like
Sister we need to go the ER. So we do. Luckily I know the ER people and
they totally remembered me! So this Sister is just crying as she
getting shots and stitches and what not and we're trying to distract her
with funny stories. We make through the ER and then it dawned on us
that we hadn't planned on seeing that Sister at all. She just came in my
thoughts and in the thoughts of my wonderful companion. Sis Harris and I
had been struggling so much this week, a lot of things have happened
and this area is just so hard sometimes. Yeah it's been rough, we hate
going to church here because of some people. Anyway needless to say we
felt like we weren't making a difference at all. We were discouraged. We
felt like God didn't trust us at all in this area and many more
emotions. But we realized that we are worthy to have the Spirit with us
despite our weakness and despite our discouragement we can do the Lord's
will. It's amazing how the Lord teaches us things. But yeah.
We can only pray that we can see peoples hearts change this week.
Now that I wrote a super long email....whoops. Love you guys and thanks for all the support.
Love, Sister Curfew
November 10, 2014
Dear Family,
Glad church went well and that the house is hopefully put back together. Let me know how EFY goes. That'll be cool.
Mom,
I love your testimony. It's the simple ones that are powerful. :) And I
want to get my foot zoned? Is that even how you say it?
This
week was full of crazy busy service. We mowed lawns, raked up leaves,
organized a garage, cleaned a LA apt, and helped a LA
after
her surgery. We taught a couple lessons here and there and then we went
to Omaha to the trail center with our investigator. She's 14 and
really
wants to get baptized! All we need is permission from her guardian and
we should be home free to teach her the lessons. :)
We were really blessed this week. I'm sorry this is so short but we didn't really do anything else this week.
I'm
doing alright. I'm really really tired we might just sleep for the rest
of the day today. But hopefully we can get our energy back somehow.
Love you guys!
Love, Sister Curfew
November 3, 2014
Dear Family,
Yes I got the Halloween package! Thank you
they were awesome. :) Sounds like our house is in a bit of turmoil...But
it'll look good when
it's done I'm sure. What kind of floor
is going in? Yeah, we went to the Saturday session of Stake Conference
and everyone was like let me get pictures
of you for the
facebook page. I'm pretty much a model. :) haha joke. The pumpkin
pictures were either from Adrienne or Elicia not sure which one you
got.
Sorry to hear that your phone went into the toilet...was
it clear water?? Is Dad feeling any better? Yes, I've been taking the
Chewy vitamin stuff. I'm actually all out.
We had Stake
Conference yesterday and they too talked a lot about going to the
temple. I would love to go to the temple as well but we're not allowed
too. Ha awkward. Also I will start sending packages home next week. I've
got to get all of the stuff I need to send home gathered together.
Well
this week was great. I was not transferred!! So we begin a new
transfer! And it'll be my last! We're hoping for some serious miracles.
So
hopefully this doesn't sound to rude, but to help me stay focused it
would be a huge help to not talk about coming home or to talk about the
future in emails. Hopefully
that will be a little easier for me to say focused. No worries I haven't gotten trunky yet. I don't think it's hit me.
We
were blessed with a lot of cool things this week. One, we found a solid
new investigator. Again because of members she was a lot more
interested than she would
have been on her own. And she's only
14! She's a really smart and prepared 14 year old. Two, branch parties
are the best. We had LA and Inv come to the Halloween party
the
branch put on this week. They really enjoyed the fellowship and we were
just pumped that people came! They didn't come to church but that's
alright. One step at a time here.
We also had a great Halloween. We were able to spend it with the Deakin family and man did they stuff us alive with food. :)
A
downside to this week was almost everyday we were yelled at. That's
wasn't my favorite but oh well. One of our investigators decided she
didn't want to be baptized and
so she yelled at us and told
us we were horrible and what not. Afterwards we were like...I don't
think she's ready. She'll get there. Then Carol the lady we live with
yelled at us. About laundry. Sometimes member housing is really hard
especially when they make it very clear everyday that they never wanted
us to live there and they were forced to house us by the branch
president. I love being a burden...but whether they like us living
there or not they'll still be blessed.
Super funny thing that
happened this week was we went to go see this LA. And he answered the
door in his underwear...gross. So he is in his 50's and he just sat
down
on his front stairs because we didn't have a team up and
couldn't go inside. Oh my what an awkward situation. But we preceded to
teach him about prophets and it went well despite the awkwardness. Oh
missionary work. So yeah that was our week. :) This area is pretty much
rockin :)
Thanks for all of your support and prayers. Could you please continue to pray that I will be able to stay focused?
Love you all very much!
Love, Sister Curfew
October 27, 2014
Dear Family,
Thanks for the email. Sounds like y'all have been
busy. What kind of floor is going in in the kitchen and bathroom? I
think God just wants
me to cut wood for the rest of my life because one of our LA mentioned that she would like help splitting her wood this year...
Has it snowed in Utah yet?
That's
sad that people are falling away. I heard this quote in a Relief
Society lesson once prophesying that things like this would happen.
Then
the quote went on and explained that if you don't have a
foundation of the Book of Mormon than your testimony won't stand at the
last day. It was quite bold.
That's probably why are mission
is focusing on the Book of Mormon. Everything we teach to anyone needs
to be out of the Book of Mormon.
We do have quite a few of
investigators. We're teaching a lot of the first lessons, which I love
because it's my favorite lesson to teach. We're also seeing
a
lot of success with Less Actives! They're starting to come to church!
The members here really are what's making the difference. The members
follow up, have constant contact, and build friendships so easily with
everyone. It's really cool because more and more of the members are
changing and developing Christlike attributes! Praise the Lord! :)
Although
we're having much success Sis Harris and I both got really sick this
week. We're not really sure what we had. But we slept a lot. Being sick
on the mission
stinks. I hate it so much. But what can you do?
We
also went on exchanges this week. It was a really rough exchange. I
worked in Holdrege with the STL while Sis Harris worked in Kearney with
the other STL.
Usually exchanges uplift and encourage and
inspire you to be better. Well this time when the exchange was done I
felt like a failure. I felt like I had wasted 17 months of
my
life. Some of the comments she made really hurt my feelings. I felt
like Heavenly Father was disappointed in me. It really sucked! For the
first time on my
mission I felt like quitting. It was a
really scary moment. I didn't want to pray because I was afraid that
Heavenly Father was going to be like Sister your STL is right.
Our
branch leader gave me a blessing and it brought a lot of peace. It
didn't really say anything specific about anything, but I just felt more
at peace. Which is really
all you need right? So I prayed
and did what one of the Apostles talked about in conference about how we
need to express our thoughts, fears, frustrations, EVERYTHING in our
prayers. So I did. I don't what Heavenly Father thought but I sure felt
better. So I guess I just get over what happened and continue to do my
best as a missionary.
Oh trials. I guess they're needed but they're hard.
We
also stayed at another members house to keep her company and watch
their dog for a day. It's a huge yellow lab and his name is River. I
want them to get another dog
and name it Creek. ha ha I'm
hilarious. :) But River does not leave my side when we go over he slept
with me, he waits outside the door while I go to the bathroom, and I
might bring him home with me. I don't know how, but I'll make it work.
Ha just joking. :)
So Robin and Carol have been out of town
for like 2 weeks. Usually they let us know when they come home. Nope not
this time. So in the middle of the night I wake
up to the
door opening and I'm like oh my gosh someone is breaking in. We're going
to die. So I'm like freaking out and I sneak upstairs and see Carols
white hair and I was
like I'm going to kill you guys. They were like we thought it would be funny to surprise you. I was not a happy camper.
Anyway, that's pretty much all we did this week. Thanks for everything. Love you guys!
Love, Sister Curfew
Love, Sister Curfew
October 20, 2014
Dear Family,
What other projects are you doing? Crazy that Blaine will be graduating this next year. Hopefully you don't get sick.
I loved the picture of you guys at the Utah State game! :) That was super cute. Did Daemian and Aidan get my letters?
This week was awesome! We found like 3 new investigators! It was really cool. So we now have a total of like 12 investigators!
We were looking at their names on the board during weekly planning and we realized that all of them except one were
with
members help. Whether it be a member referral or it be that a member
prepared them by bearing simple testimony. There was only
one
investigator that we found through our own efforts. My testimony of
member missionary work is increased so much! I used to think
it
was a lot easier without members getting involved because they make
things complicated. Which is sometimes true, but once the members
are in a sense "trained" man alive they're really effective. :)
We
had zone training this week as well so we trekked off to North Platte.
In the training our Zone Leaders basically told us that we were prideful
and
that we're horrible missionaries. I was like well
then...I guess we better humble ourselves. But let it be known last time
I prayed to be humbled I sprained
my ankle so I haven't
prayed to be humbled quite yet. So instead I read the talk from
President Uchtdorf from the last Priesthood session and I really loved
it. :) I love how Apostles phrase things and I love how the Spirit
motivates. I think this is my favorite quote from the talk:
"Brethren(Sisters), if it is y
Go Christlike Attributes! Woo! But yeah, it was a great week and I love being a missionary. :)
Love you guys!
Love, Sister Curfew
October 13, 2014
Dear family,
Well, thanks for forgetting me again...ha just joking. It's not a big deal.
Hopefully things are going well for you guys in Mo-town.
Well this week was kind of incredible....like really incredible. We got a sweet
new solid investigator. The members are changing!! They've done some crazy Christlike
things this past week. I gave a training in Dst Mtg that went really well. We had 7 investigators
come
to church!! One was Patrick who dropped us like 3 weeks ago! He just
randomly came to church. It was crazy! So we were fasting yesterday for
branch unity and because of the branch unity we would be able to see a
baptism. So just imagine fasting for that and then walking into church
and seeing 7 investigators there. I was like man I'm fasting everyday!
I
can't even describe to you all the stuff that happened this week. It
can be summed up by saying that our members are improving, the area is
progressing, and this is the Lords work. I came to the conclusion
yesterday that because this is the Lords work He can give us people to
teach. He can give us a baptism. He knows each of his children
individually and so He knows who's ready and who isn't. I was like why
am I stressing when the Lord had totally got this covered. :) Wish I
would've figured that out earlier in my mission. :)
Funny
story...so we went home to go eat dinner like we always do. As I was
putting my stuff on my bed I hear Sis Harris ask me in a really hesitant
voice "Sister please tell that's one of your head bands" I look down
where she is looking and this snake is coiled up in our hallway. We all
know that I'm crazy afraid of snakes. So I do what any girl would do.
Scream for Robin and limp upstairs to find her. Robin just rolls her
eyes and comes down and picks it up and takes it outside like it's no
big deal...And this is why I was not called to foreign mission....:)
So yeah. I'm doing well. I love you guys and I hope you have a great week!
Love, Sister Curfew
October 6, 2014
Dear Fam,
I would have to agree conference was crazy awesome! We are
so blessed to have such inspired leaders. We were particularly grateful
for
Elder Bednars talk because we had an investigator
watching that talk! Our investigator had decided to take a break from
meeting with
us but he watched that talk with a member and we're meeting with him on Tuesday. Praise the Lord! :)
I did see the pictures of Aidan losing his tooth. He looks so old.
What
did Chels send me? Was it the fruit leather or was that you? I will
start sending packages home in the middle on November. I shouldn't have
that much
stuff to send but I'll be sending a lot of my study
stuff/ summer clothes home. Sounds like the mission reunion was super
awesome. I'm glad he talked a lot
about missions because they're incredible.
Speaking
of incredible we were so blessed this week! So everyday we were fed by a
member this week!!! One of the members was the member was someone
who
had let everyone know she didn't like us. But she said that she had
been humbled and explained everything that's going on. So it was a
really neat experience.
Also one of our investigators got a
blessing. She's 17 and her parents are open to us and we're pretty good
friends, but they still are a little wary of the whole
Mormon
situation. But Shelby got really really sick and so we and a couple of
priesthood brethren went to their home, and they gave her a blessing and
her parents sat in on the blessing. Afterwards the Dad was like "Wow,
Shelby I feel better for you. That was good. " It was a really powerful
blessing. My testimony of the proper priesthood authority
was for sure strengthened that day. And we potentially have a family to teach! Hopefully. :)
Yeah we had a great week. This area needs a LOT of work but I'm thankful that the Lord has blessed with miracles this week. :)
Thanks so much for your support and your love. I love you all very much.
Love, Sister Curfew
Monday, September 29, 2014
September 29, 2014
Dear Family,
Blaine. You're an odd duck. Can I just
say it's weird that you're like best friends with someone my age? Glad
you enjoyed yourself at the comic con. Nerds unite...;)
I'm
excited to go to the Ogden temple again!!! WOOO! I'm glad you got to
sing with a whole bunch of people. Sis McCauley's sisters sang as well
so you
probably saw them! Also we've only had one Christmas
where we weren't all together. Yes I agree I will be watching a crazy
ton of movies. Get a list of good
movies for me to watch. :)
Anyway
enough with this worldly business. This week was interviews with
President Weston. And that was my last interview with him besides my
departing
interview. Yikes! It was a really good interview. He talked a lot about
how the Lord has specifically placed me in the areas I've been because I
have a talent.
The annoying thing is is that he wouldn't
tell me what the talent was. He was like you have to figure it out. Yeah
I have no idea. He also talked a lot about my progression
as
a missionary and how cool it is to see me now compared to when I first
came out. Which I don't get because I feel like the same person. Except
I've gained a ton of weight. Ooops. The funny part about my interview
is he saw me limping into the interview room and he was like "Sister,
who ya been kicking." and was like "Satan!"
Then he proceeded
to tell me to buy compression socks because that will help with the
swelling and I won't have to elevate all the time. I don't even
know what compression socks are so...oh well.
Unfortunately
our investigator Brandon dropped us. :( If you guys could pray that he
will feel the Spirit as he reads the Book of Mormon that would be much
appreciated.
He doesn't want to meet with us anymore but he promised us he would
read. He says that the Book of Mormon contradicts the Bible and that he
thinks
Nephi and Lehi just ate the wrong mushrooms in the
wilderness. I don't really think that they had mushrooms in the
desert...Anyway. Although lame stuff like this
has happened
all week. Sis Harris and I were talking and we were like you know we
could blame all the crap on us. Or we could just know that opposition
exists.
Satan is going to do all that he can to make sure that no one reads there Book of Mormon. Including members.
We've
been noticing that a lot of the reason why the members are struggling
hard core in this is area is because they aren't reading, they aren't
praying.
So we're working on teaching lessons where we aren't
preaching the basics. They know the basics. We all do. So any ideas or
object lessons would be great.
My ankle is healing well. We
played softball for a YW activity and I ran a couple of laps. That's all
I could do though because Robin showed up and started yelling at
me for running. She's such a mom. :)
I'm
doing well. I'm getting really tired. I'm hoping a second wind will
kick in soon...or I might have to drink coke for the next 3 months.
Either way. :)
Love you guys and good luck with the house and refinancing and stuff.
Love, Sister Ash Curfew
September 22, 2014
Dear Family,
All is well. How was the temple dedication? A storm is headed our way so hopefully we'll get some of that rain!
The pizza was awesome!!! We were really excited to come home to pizza we were starving. :)
Glad you're enjoying your foot zoning class.
Well
this week was different. As you know I started out the week with a trip
to the ER. And let it be known the ER people here have
no
sense of humor. I was cracking jokes left and right about how there was a
golf ball in my ankle and they just looked at me like
I was a
moron. Rude. I don't know if Robin told you the story...but I fell off a
step stool. Let it be known that I fell really gracefully.
And
my companion just laughed at me while I was crying on the floor. I
was so mad. Thankfully Robin helped me up the stairs and into
the
car. But I can still drive. Anyway I got a blessing and it said that I
would be healed in less than 3 days. And it totally happened. Well kind
of.
Like Monday and Tuesday I couldn't put any weight on my
ankle or I would just cry. But Wednesday I could hobble/walk with out
crutches. Which
was awesome because my armpits were crazy
sore. Then I've just been improving since then I have to have my splint
on for another week and half
and I have to sleep with my foot
elevated. (Which stinks) And I'm supposed to be icing it 3 times a day.
There is a lot of fluid in my ankle still so the
swelling is still pretty bad. My bruise is really nasty. I'll have to send pictures.
But yeah. The branch has just started calling me gimp and they have been super awesome at helping us.
So
obviously we couldn't go out and work that much because I couldn't move
so we didn't really have a chance to teach very many people.
But
on Saturday we were able to go and do service and then go and actually
for reals work! It was so cool because we worked like 3 hours in
Minden
( a small town in our area) and we taught 5 lessons. That never
happens. we're lucky if we teach 5 lessons in 2 days. I was so thankful
that the Lord was mindful of us.
So
yeah that was my week. Hopefully my ankle will hold up. We have
interviews on Wednesday and I'm slightly tempted to get the crutches out
and
hobble into the interview and see what President says...but I probably
won't end up doing it. He'll probably be like Sister why don't you have
enough
faith to be healed already. ha :)
Well I love you guys and good luck with the house.
Love, Sister Curfew
September 15, 2014
Dear Family,
THE PACKAGE WAS AMAZING! I shed a
couple of tears. Especially with the homemade bread and the zucchini
bread. Mmmm :) Yeah I have the best family ever. :) I'm sure
you
guys already knew that though. Also Adrienne like loves you guys. What
did you do to her? Robin loved her package as well. Thanks for
remembering her that made her day. :)
I
can't believe you met Wesley!!!! :) I'm glad you and Blaine had a great
time nerding...And I agree your lack of costume totally means you're
already super heroes.
I decided for Halloween this year I'm just going to wear a super hero shirt and tuck it into one of my skirts. :) ha.
I've
hear the foot zoning thing is huge. I'll admit I'm a bit
skeptical...but I've never had it done to me so I guess I really can't
say anything.
That's SO COOL that you're mission president is
an Apostle and that you get to see him. Whenever I see him speak in
conference I'm always like, yeah that's my Dad's
mission president. Ha no big deal. :)
Yeah
I have received a lot Enduring to the End speeches. I'm honestly not to
worried. I was earlier but I prayed a lot and I just decided to not
worry about anything
until I get home. I feel like I still
have a while left so I don't know why everyone is like preparing me for
home. Granted I don't really want to come home...so maybe I'm
just in denial? I don't know.
Anyway
this past week was crazy hard! I had an experience very similar to the
experience I had in Trendwood...I handled this one much better than the
last one though!
Woo! Go Sister Curfew. ;) Our branch is just
struggling hardcore. All they do is gossip and bash and so on and such
forth. It makes me so sad. Mostly because if this is how
our
branch is going act then I don't want to bring investigators or Less
Actives to branch activities. We've been promised by President Weston
that if we can get our branch/ward to read the Book of Mormon then that
unit will achieve unity. One can only pray that this branch will open up
the Book of Mormon.
Ever since we've been applying that
promise and trying to get anyone and everyone to read The Book of Mormon
we have experienced some crazy opposition. I'm thankful
for
the opposition though because it has strengthened my testimony of how
powerful this book is. Satan knows full well that if we read this other
testament of Jesus Christ
we will grow closer and closer to Christ and therefore become diligent followers of our Savior.
We
had one of our investigators drop us this week because is heart is SO
HARD. We taught him the Restoration and he liked everything except the
Book of Mormon.
We asked him to read and pray about it and
etc...So when we went and followed up on it he was like I don't like
this book. It has nothing to do with Christ. I laughed and I was
like
what book did you read? So we read 3 Nephi 11 with him and explained
the chapter and the Spirit was so strong and I was like oh my gosh this
book rocks. Then the dear
investigators says that we're crazy
and we have no idea what we're talking about and that we're wrong and
we're going hell. You know the usual. I was so devastated. Not because
of
what he said we get that everyday we're used to that. But the fact that
he felt the Spirit he knew that it testified of Christ and he willingly
chose to go against it. After that experience I said a prayer of
gratitude that I was raised in this church and that I understood what it
means to have a living prophet and how grateful I was that I have
gained a testimony of this gospel. I can't even tell you how thankful I am for the experience.
So
despite the crazy week where everyone was hating on everyone I found
great comfort in my Book of Mormon. I know it to be true and know that
it changes peoples hearts.
I hope you guys have a great week. I love you!
Love, Sister Curfew
Monday, September 8, 2014
President Skinner
September
2, 2014
Hi Sister Curfew,
Thank you for your missionary service and for how you
represent our great Stake of Zion.
I know you have only a few months left on this
mission. Your mission can become "full"
but it is not yet "full" (reference D&C 62:2). You still have the most important part
remaining. The "enduring to the
end" is the most important. For
those of you who like sports, this is the 4th Quarter or the 9th Inning of a
game. For those that like music, this is
the culminating verse or stanza. For
those that like plays, this is the final act.
At this point in your mission, you have developed into a wonderful and
powerful missionary. I know you're not
perfect, but you can be powerful. Don't
hold back nor hide your candle under a bushel.
May I offer a challenge to you? Make these last few months the best of your
mission. Enjoy the work. Work hard and
with a hastened pace. If your mission
has weekly records for work, break those records. You can't change people's decisions but you
can control your own pace. Keep the
rules better than ever before. And
remember to enjoy it. I know with the
Spirit you can accomplish much good.
I love you and pray for you. I look forward to seeing you in a few months
when I will have the honor of releasing you from full-time missionary service.
Thank you,
President Joey L. Skinner
Funny
The members won't feed us because the past sisters were crazy
picky and wouldn't eat their food.
Well...we like food. So we're posting this above our meal calender. Ha! :)
September 8, 2014
Dear Family,
Glad you liked Adrienne. The license plate says River Song. I knew Blaine would like that because it's from Doctor Who.
Robin
showed me the pictures!!! I loved them. Aidan is getting so big! I got
an email from President Skinner, I'll forward it to you. It kind of
freaked
me out. Not sure how I feel about ending my mission. I wish everyone
would just stop talking about it. Anyway, Sorry you were sick.
Everyone
in our branch except a couple families was sick this week as well so no
one was at church this week. Actually pretty much everyone
in
Holdrege was sick because every time we knocked on a door people are
like come back we're sick. Yeesh. President Weston told us that we have
to go get our flu shots... blech. Not a fan. But we're going to try and do that sometime this week.
We
kind of had a rough week this week...but it turned out pretty well
towards the end. It was just a crazy discouraging week. Church yesterday
helped
a lot. I love taking inspired to questions to church and having them be answered.
Ha
funny story, we took this sister on a team up with us to go see this LA
family. She's in her 50's and she just won't stop talking. Well she
decided to
show this LA family how to do the splits. That was
incredibly embarrassing for everyone there. Oh my goodness, let it be
known when you go on team
ups with the missionaries...DON'T DO THE SPLITS! Anyway that was interesting.
Even though our member went cray cray on us, the lesson with that family went well. :)
We
also had a womens conference that was all about holding onto the Iron
Rod/Nephi's vison. Something that I really enjoyed learning about was
the Love of God.
That phrase "Love of God" really made an
impression in my mind so this week I'm going to do a topic study of the
Love of God and hopefully gain some insights.
Something that
also was talked about was tender mercies and what they are, and how we
can be consistent in being obedient servants. They talked about the word
"striving". As long as we are striving we're doing what the Lord would have us do. That brought me a lot of comfort. :)
But yeah that was my week. I hope all is well at home. Love you guys.
Love, Sister Curfew
September 2, 2014
Dear Family,
Woo new computer! Sounds like a lot has been
happening. That's cool that you can start running again. I wish I could
run...I just need a companion
who want to run as
well...They're hard to come by. Glad you saw the pictures at zone
conference. A lot of pictures happen at zone conference so I'm always
curious which ones go on the internet...
I like living
with Carol and Robin a lot. Carol she's my
favorite. She tells it like it is. She is divorced so it's all girls in
the house. Woo!
Robin is awesome. Her husband passed away from cancer when her two
boys were 6 and 8. Then she got breast cancer after that. So Carol is
Robin's mother in
law. Modern day Ruth story. :)
I
do like Sis Harris. I'll be honest she requires more patience that
other companions but for the most part we get a long really well. She's
an incredible teacher which is really all that matters. She's from
Carlsbad California, and before the mission
she worked at Lego Land. I think that's my favorite thing about
her. Her parents are super old. Her Dad is a stake patriarch and her
oldest sibling is 52. I just
can't wrap my brain around that one...Anyway.
I think that Dad is going to be the next EQ president.
Wow,
you're really far in the Book of Mormon! I'm being a slow poke! The PMG
challenge seems pretty awesome though. It's required to read it here so
I'll have to do that
when I go home.
Rylan came home?! He just left?! Weird.
Anyway, this
week was awesome! We were very blessed to find investigators! It amazes
me how we are always in the right place at the right time. It kind
of
freaks me out every time it happens. At the same time I've been super
tired. I don't know what my deal is this week. I think the Lord only
blessed us cause
I was not mentally all the way there most of the week. Ha. We do
service at this Senior center here in town and they pranked me with a
fake rat. Old people are my favorite.
They're so weird. I
love it. Also, I'm a really big fan of the Book of Mormon. I have come
to the conclusion that the Spirit of reading it everyday is what solves
my problems.
Because it makes seem like they're aren't a big deal and it reminds
me of how great God is. I've been feeling super overwhelmed lately
because we have a ton of commitments
that we've been asked
to do. Like hand out a BOM every day, teach 20 lessons a week ( I know
it seems small but, I've only reached that twice my whole mission.),
Baptize monthly, every key indicator needs to filled in, and so on and
so on and so on. I just am overwhelmed because we try and hand out a
BOM everyday, or we don't baptize monthly, or I forget to study that one
chapter. The list will go on. But when it doesn't happen I'm like
great. I'm going to hell. Someone warm up my seat cause I'll be there!
Anyway I'm just grateful the Book of Mormon is like Sister Curfew chill
out, and I'm like okay that's a great idea. So yeah. That's been my
week. I love you guys and
I'll talk to you later.
Love, Sister Curfew
August 18, 2014
Dear Family,
What did mom do while she was by herself? Sounds like
you had a blast camping and doing guy stuff. I miss that kind of stuff a
lot.
I tried to convince President Weston to let us sleep in
a tent in the members yards who live super far away so then we could
work in
that area the next day. He said no. But it was worth a shot. I also
tried to convince the Elder over cars to buy us a truck. He also said
no.
Man, lots of rejection. Yeesh I'm just trying further the
work. ;) Kind of. A guy in our branch bought me a fishing pole! And
we're going fishing
next prep day. I'm pretty pumped. Sorry about the computer dying. Technology these days...
Well
this week went really well. It always has it's ups and downs but you
know that just the way things are. I'm loving my comp. She's great. :)
We're very similar. I don't know what I did to be blessed with two
awesome comps in a row...Hopefully we stay companions for the rest of my
mission.
A Recent Convert helped us get a new investigator
this week! Mark, the recent convert, told this guy at work about his
baptism. He said he was searching
for a new church and wasn't sure what to think anymore. Um. Can
anyone else say prepared?! Mark was like so we have these missionaries
that teach about
our church and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
IT WAS AMAZING! I haven't taught the Restoration to someone so open. He
had so many question and was
so confused. He really really liked Joseph Smith's story. He was
like see that sounds like God, calling another prophet. And we set him
for baptism! We set him
for Nov 8th!
So if you could pray that he will find the answers he needs and be able
to make that date that would be great. His name is Brandon. He actually
looks
exactly like Blaine...it's kind of weird.
Anyway our
investigator Patrick was supposed to be baptized this week but
unfortunately he was still drinking coffee. :( So we had to reset him.
But because of his work
schedule he won't be able to be baptized until like October or
November. So if you could pray that a miracle would happen and that his
work schedule will allow
him to be baptized. That would also be great. :)
Oh! So weird moment. Do y'all remember when we went on the road
trip and we drove through Nebraska on I 80? Well we were driving to
North Platte for
zone training, which is 2 hours away, but we
drove by a rest stop that I'm pretty sure we stopped at because it
looked super familiar. I could be wrong but
I'm pretty sure that that is one of the rest stops we stopped at.
So how weird is that we drove past my area! Whaaat?! :) I just thought
that was cool.
So yeah we had a super great week. :) I like it here and I'm adjusting well.
Thanks for all of your love and support. :)
Love you!
Love, Sister Ashley Curfew
August 11, 2014
Dear Family,
I'm not upset at all about you guys not
coming to pick me up. I will for sure have to send some stuff home
though. I'll probably start doing that later though. I'm glad you
had the missionaries over! Dinner appts are our favorite. Glad to
hear that they were funny. It's so weird to me think that there are
missionaries in our small town. I
love my birthday stuff. I also got the backordered stuff. Ah it's my favorite thank you! :)
Well surprise I did get transferred! I'm in Holdrege Nebraska. It's
in the middle of nowhere, and I'm serving in a branch. On a good day 50
people show up to church.
So that's been quite the
adjustment being in a super small town and not a ward. But I LOVE IT. I
miss Lincoln a ton though. I get a bit homesick now and again
for Holmes Lake. I miss the members there a lot. It was also
heartbreaking to say goodbye to Sis McCauley. We were late getting to
transfer point and so it was
quick goodbye and we just cried
for a second. My new comp is Sis Harris. She's really cool. I don't know
much about her yet. We also live with members! It's been awhile since
I've lived with members. We live with these ladies who are basically
the story of Ruth. They're hilarious. They make homemade bread everyday!
Woo!!! :)
But this area is rockin! We have an investigator getting baptized
next week. We have to give members of our branch a copy of our schedule
because they
make appts for us with people they just randomly
find at work. Then they call us and are like hey come teach this person
at this time. It's insane! Members
also like nag us to go on team ups! What is this place?! They're
like when can I come out with you guys, I need my team up. It's kind of
amazing. It's also nice
have a branch mission leader who
actually cares about us and the work. The mission leader in Holmes Lake
was less active...that's awkward. Almost everyone here
is a graduate from Utah State. So I was welcomed really open arms. haha :) I knew going to USU was a good choice.
Oh
so cool story. So I got off the transfer van and this Sister comes up
to me and is like your Sister Curfew?! I've heard so much about you
because I served in Le Mars.
And she told me about all of these investigators who I once taught
who are getting ready to be baptized. Some Less Actives I was working
with are going to the temple! It was
and incredible
experience. She just hugged me and I balled cause I felt like I hadn't
made any difference in Le Mars. All we did was tract and do service.
And I was so excited to hear about people I love so much accepting the
gospel! :) It was a huge tender mercy to just hear her share her love of
the amazing people in Le Mars. It also helped me put into perspective
that conversion takes time. I can't explain to you how amazing that
feeling was when she told me all the stuff that was going on there. I'm
sure we looked like dorks cause we're both just crying because she
didn't want to leave and we both just miss it so much!
It's crazy that was a year ago. Anyway. I'm doing really well.
Every now and again I get a bit teary eyed cause I miss Lincoln. But I
know this is where I'm supposed to be
and I look forward to
hopefully ending my mission here. The members were like we'll help you
sprint to the finish line Sister! Ha they're so cool. :)
Well I love you guys and are grateful y'all are doing well. Thanks for all the prayers and support. Love you all!
Love, Sister Curfew
August 4, 2014
Hey fam,
Sorry this email is going to be super short because we kind of ran out of time. We went to a lake with some members
and we actually got permission to play volleyball with our whole zone including Elders. Which is a huge deal.
But I love you guys still!
I'm doing well. Things are going well. Nervous for transfers but I will let you know how it goes.
Glad to hear no pets died this week. And yeah . Sorry this email is going to be super short because we kind of ran out of time. We went to a lake with some members
and we actually got permission to play volleyball with our whole zone including Elders. Which is a huge deal.
But I love you guys still!
I'm doing well. Things are going well. Nervous for transfers but I will let you know how it goes.
(https://www.lds.org/ensign/
July 28, 2014
Dear Family,
Well I would recommend telling me when things die in a letter and not an email because I'm crying like a baby in the library...Love, Sis Curfew
July 21, 2014
Dear Family,
That coke bottle is so cool! It even spelled my name right. Sometimes I forget that I have a first name that's not sister. was super epic. I'm surprised no one knocked it down.
days we'll be able to have consistent weeks. :)
would be a good idea to go down this really big hill...yeah bad idea. I have a testimony of helmets.
Other than that...we did a ton of service. We helped with this kids Eagle Project on Saturday that was pretty fun. We painted
a gym in the Salvation Army here in Lincoln.
Then we helped this Less Active family move. Last week in
ward council we specifically said to the EQ president. Hey this family
is moving
at such and such time and day. They were like
we'll totally come help out. Yeah NO ONE showed up. So for four hours we
moved this family out of their apt and into their new apt. I HATE
stairs. We were so sore. I was a bit annoyed that no one showed up
because then it showed the LA family that they couldn't depend on the
ward for anything. But all is well. It is what it is.
As for our investigators they're doing well. We're preparing them to be baptized one lesson at a time. :)
But yeah. Hopefully this week will go a bit better than last week.
Well love you tons! Thanks for the prayers and for the birthday package! I look forward to see what's in it. Sis McCauley's birthday is on the 25th so it will be a birthday week for us both! Some members in our ward are throwing us a surprise
party...but we're on to them. Well anyway. I love you guys! :)
Love, Sister Curfew
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
July 14, 2014
Dear Family,
Happy to hear that mom is doing well. Those were nasty pictures. Sounds like everyone is taking good care of her.
That's
cool that Blaine is the Ogden shin dig. When is it being dedicated? I
feel like Blaine will be much more prepared for serving
a mission than I was. :) It'll be cool to see where he goes.
a mission than I was. :) It'll be cool to see where he goes.
Well right now I just super exhausted. I'm pretty sure we'll be spending our prep day in our beds blissfully sleeping. :) haha
that was a joke...we don't even have time to do that. But all is well.
This week was kind of incredible. I learned SO MUCH. We had a really epic zone training this past week. President Weston
has committed us to baptize monthly. And so the zone leaders trained a lot on faith and etc...I left that meeting wondering if
I
have any faith! My companion was like yeah let's do this! I was just
doubted hardcore that we could baptize monthly...I mean it sounds doable
but then you go out and start
working and it's harder than anything I'll ever do. People just don't like us.I don't know I was just doubting. I know I am a horrible person. But as I prayed about it every night
and was reading my scriptures I was like, what can God not do? Nothing. He can do everything and I know that so why am I doubting? So my faith
was strengthened very much so and then that day we were able to set a guy named Danny for baptism. He just happened to be home at the time
we were planning on being there and we had an amazing team up with us. Have miracles ceased? Nope not at all! They're very real. :)
working and it's harder than anything I'll ever do. People just don't like us.I don't know I was just doubting. I know I am a horrible person. But as I prayed about it every night
and was reading my scriptures I was like, what can God not do? Nothing. He can do everything and I know that so why am I doubting? So my faith
was strengthened very much so and then that day we were able to set a guy named Danny for baptism. He just happened to be home at the time
we were planning on being there and we had an amazing team up with us. Have miracles ceased? Nope not at all! They're very real. :)
So we're going to try our best to baptize monthly. :) Much prayer would be appreciated. haha
We also had exchanges this week. It was amazing. We got in with so many people who usually would not let us in.
I was a little stressed out planning for that night because I
felt like we needed to see these people, but I knew they wouldn't let
us
in. So we put them down in our dinky planners expecting it to be a
failure and we got in with every single one. I was very humbled.
Man I just need to work on having more faith! I'm seeing a pattern here. Anyway. This week was just amazing.
It
was still hard though because we had what we call "The Great Car
Shuffle." So we had just set a plan with sisters we were sharing a car
with and
it was going really well and great and stuff. And then we get
a call from the zone leaders that we were getting a different car with
different
sisters and so on. It was really complicated! Anyway the new sisters we are sharing with are new sisters and they're just really difficult to work with.
sisters and so on. It was really complicated! Anyway the new sisters we are sharing with are new sisters and they're just really difficult to work with.
It's really hard to be like Sisters we have done this before,
we know what we are doing, and we promise the plan that we have is
really the most effective
plan for sharing a car. Yeah
they didn't like it. Usually I would be like that's it get out of the
car you're walking for the rest of your mission. Peace out!
But my comp and I were like okay...you do your thing and
we'll do ours and whichever one works better we'll go with that. Our
plan did work better like we said,
but they just needed to figure it out on their own the way things work.
It made me think of like Agency and the huge role it has in
the Plan of Salvation. God set a plan for us to follow. Keep the
commandments, follow Jesus Christ,
be baptized, and
etc...But we are able to choose between right and wrong. How amazing of a
gift is that? Good planning on Heavenly Father's part. :) We have to
figure out things by ourselves and that's much more effective than Satan's plan.
Anyway yeah...I'm doing really well. Enjoying the work. :)
Love you all!
Love, Sister Curfew
July 7, 2014
Dear Family,
Dad, thanks for the email. Glad to hear that Blanding was super fun. It always is. I look forward to going there next year. Love, Sister Curfew
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