Mom Emailed Curtis on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:38:28 -0700
Curtis Emailed back that same day.
Hi Curtis,
We would like to have you call on Thursday night. That is this week, on the 18th if that will work for you. Rob, Shara,Taylor, Michelle and Jeff can all come down that night if it will work for you. They will not get here till 6:30 or 7:00. I know that is getting really late for you. If it needs to be earlier, Michelle will leave work early to get here sooner. Will that work and what time is best for you? If not, we could do Friday, the 19th or Sunday, the 21st. Those days don't work as well for everyone, but they will adapt to work with your schedule.
is there a time that I can call the next week? when it is closer to christmas. I will have to ask permission in order to call this week and the time to ask would be this wednesday when I have an innterview with president gamboa but then I won?t be able to tell you if I am calling or not. the next week would be much better if you could.
Where will you be calling from?
The house of president Ruiz he has a phone that they allow the public to use and it has a meeter on it to tell how much time you have used and how much it costs so I can call you on this and then you can call back
How long are you allowed to talk on your phone call? I need to buy the right length of calling card.
I can only talk for 45 minutes no more
When is your companion going to make his phone call?
on the 25 in the evening
Have you received any packages yet? Did you call the office about them?
no I haven?t recieved them and no I didn?t call about them
Have you received any more DearElder paper letters? I have sent you one or two every week since you left.
yes I recieved 8 last wednesday and read them today
Did you get to baptize Christopher this week? How old are Allison and Christopher?
no we didn?t christopher is ten and allison is 12
Did your investigators come to church this week?
yes we had ten investigators at church this week
Tell us more about your investigators that are progressing and scheduled for baptism, please.
Carlos de Barco he is scheduled to be baptised this next sunday he has had much time with the missionaries but he studies in guayaquil which makes it hard to schedule time to meet with him but we have been working hard to schedule this and it is pretty sure that he will get baptised
The Family of Ricardo and Maria they are great investigators they need to get married but we are working on that we need to get mariah a papel de votacion to prove that she voted so that we can get the papers they need to be married they also have two kids that can get baptised too so on the 27th they are getting baptised if they are married by that date. they love the missionaries and we have lots of fun with them lots of good jokes
Tell us more about the four times you have hit your head. Did you get hurt badly? Did you laugh or cry?
the first time I hit my head it hurt we were leaving the barber shop and they have a metal door that is similar to a garage door that you can pull down this is what I hit my head on. The second time was in a bus the celing in the busses are short so I have to bend over a little bit to enter since I was bent over I didn?t see the hand rail that is monunted to the roof of the bussed and I hit my head on this this one hurt but not that bad I didn?t realise it untill later when I was scrathing my head and found a scab that this one had caused me to bleed. the third was the door to the house where allison and christopher live and it didn?t hurt but every one laughed at me and I laughed too. the fourth was a tin roof and it was more of a bump than a solid hit so it didn?t hurt at all.
How are your clothes holding up? Is the hand washing hard on them?
my clothes are fine no problems so far just the nametags on the socks are coming off that is all
Are you dreaming in Spanish yet?
no I haven?t really been dreaming in my sleep or if I have I don?t remember it
What was the best thing that happened to you this week?
(no answer)
Have you done anything Christmasy, like Caroling or baking cookies for your investigators? Do you have an oven?
no we haven?t done anything christmasy and no we don?t have an oven
Are you happy and healthy? Has the cold gotten better or worse?
yeah I am happy and healthy my cold is doing much better I have been using zicam that I bought in the mtc and it is helping a lot
Do you need anything?
no but in the next package you send send me a couple more tide pens they are life savers.
I love you lots.Mom
Hi Curtis,
Shara and Rob can't come down on Christmas Eve like normal because Rob's brother, Jason, is a fireman and that was the only day he had off. They are having the Gibbons party that night. I just emailed Shara to see when they could come down. It will have to be Sunday, Monday or Tuesday. Unless we do it on Christmas day and do it from Lewiston.
Michelle and Jeff are coming down for Christmas Eve and morning, then they are driving up to Island Park for the weekend with his family at a cabin. We could possibly all go up to Lewiston on Christmas day before Michelle and Jeff head north and call from there.
I read that you are going to the temple this week on Wednesday. Tell us more about that. What time to do leave on the bus to go? Are you sleeping the night? What other activities are planned besides going to the temple?
Are you still there? I feel really bad about the packages. They should have been there by now. Please try to do some checking to see if you can locate them. They left the airport in Miami on November 24th, so they are in Ecuador somewhere. I can't track them any farther than that. I tried, but I can't find the right place to look. I will see if Gary Jenkins can help me with the tracking. Please check on your end.
Curtis, Could you do Sunday night, the 21st? We could go to Smithfield and you could call there? We could go up after church, so anytime in the afternoon or evening would work that day.
We could do Monday or Tuesday if that doesn't work. We would have to drive to Smithfield and have you call there. Michelle gets off work at 6:00, so you could call at 6:30 and everyone would be there by then.
Choose the day and time that works best for you. The phone number in Smithfield is 435-563-5709.
(No answer to any of these. He must have been out of time. We will have to setup a phone call by email next Monday.)
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
2008_12_08 Week 7 Balzar Mom
Mom Emailed Curtis on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:08:16 -0700
Curtis Emailed on 8 December 2008
Dear Curtis,
Some questions for you to answer. Like I told you in my other letter, I will be shopping with the girls today. I will have my phone with me so I can get your emails. Hopefully I will have a signal and be able to email with you a bit.
Are you happy and healthy? Have you had any sickness?
right now I have a bit of a cold but it is nothing serious don t worry
Have you gotten your packages yet? If not, do you think you could contact the Mission Office and ask about them?
No I haven t recieved my packages yet yes I can call and ask about them but my companion said that the office elders will pay for them and take the money from my giro so don t worry
Have you gotten any more letters?
no no more letters yet
I got an email from a guy this week. He had gone to your page on the mission website. His message reads, "I to served in that area, it is lots of work to do thier. tell eulogio i said hi to him and his family. enjoy your mish. con amor years served 02-04. frank ika." Do you know anyone named eulogio? I think he means they are in Balzar.
Eulogio is the name of Presidente Ruiz the president of the rama in balzar his wife is my mamita de comida so it isn t a problem to tell them hi for hno ika
How did your baptisms go? Please tell us all about them.
they were good they didn t get to the church untill 8 30 and the baptism was supposed to start at 8 because church is at 9 but it was good first was the son of a member that lives in palestina then I baptised Allison and then the son of another member that lives in relicario christopher did not want to get baptised but next week he might get baptised we will see. in sacrament meeting they confirmed all three members of the church so it was good.
Do you have any new investigators that are promising or any more that are committed to baptism?
Yes we have six people with baptism dates Julio España, Carlos de barco, Florentino, Christopher, and a family Ricardo and Maria they have two kids that can get baptised but the kids don t have dates for baptism right now but we are working on it first we have to get them married this friday is the day we have set for their marrage. They love the missionaries every time we visit them usually every other day in the evening they feed us galletas a sweet cracker with cola or crackers and fresh cheese or galletas with jam every time.
What is the best thing that has happened to you this week?
we taught the ten commandments with presidente Ruiz and his wife to the family of Ricardo and Maria presidente is so good he taught the comandment don t commit audultery he taught the whole law of chastity and commited them to be married this friday it was soo cool and then this sunday I was talking to presidente in his office and elder Bejar was outside talking to other members and Ricardo and Maria came in to talk to presidente about the things they would need for marrage the papers and all that and we commited them to be baptised on the 27 of december during this time it was amazing.
What is the most spiritual thing you have had happen to you so far?
(No answer)
Tell us about Christmas preparations in Balzar. What do the people there do to get ready for Christmas? Are there lights in the city or programs, or ward parties or caroling? Do they have advertising in the stores?
There is advertising in the stores yeah almost the whole time I have been here people put up lights and trees too but I don t know about caroling or ward parties the cyber I am in right now has lights up and decorations
Do you have any invitations to eat lunch with anyone on Christmas day?
We have invitations but we can t only with our mamita
What will your Christmas day be like there?
A normal day in the mission but we will share a message about Christ and watch joy to the world with the people we visit then in the evening we will visit our mamita and she is planning on preparing us dinner
Did you get to watch the First Presidency Christmas Devotional?
no we could only watch it if we had investigators and we would have had to go to quevedo too to watch it
Tell us about something funny that has happened to you or that you have seen.
so far I have managed to hit my head four different times here once on a metal doorway when we were leaving the barber shop the second in a bus the third in relicario a wooden doorway and the fourth a tin roof of a patio
How is your Spanish coming?
it is coming along ok I am understanding the people much better now
Have you seen any ducks, geese or swans in your area?
just the ducks that people have they are a form of domesticated muscovy duck there is also a type of whistling duck here too they are also called tree ducks
Have you seen any other animals, like deer, antelope, elk, moose or bear?
Cows pigs goats gecos birds
Do they have any kind of hunting in Ecuador?
not really that I have heard of or seen but don t worry I will keep searching
Please tell us anything else that you would like to or that you think we would like to hear about.
I sent you two disks of pictures last Wednesday in our district meeting. What day would be best for you to call me? I know a phone that I can use to call you that you can call back but you need to tell me when to call you I want to call when All of the family is there so figure out when the family will be together and then email me this time remember there is a time difference too If you want to buy me a Christmas present you could buy me The Money Maker it is a goose call made by Zink and just put it in the gun cabinet for when I get back you don t need to send it to me.
I love you so much.
Mom
Hi Curtis. Thanks for the answers. I sent another package this morning. It has letters for your mamitas. There are also Christmas cards with our family photo on. Give one to each mamita.
Sorry to hear about you hitting your head. There are some disadvantages to being a giant.
Your experiences are awesome. I am so happy you are having wonderful experiences like that. I know your testimony must be growing. Tell us more about your great experiences. I am driving to Cache Valley. I pulled over to type this. Type long paragraphs about your experiences please.
what experiences do you want to know about?
Anything. Good, bad, funny, spiritual
(No reply, so sad)
I love you. Have a terrific week. You are a magnificent missionary.
Curtis Emailed on 8 December 2008
Dear Curtis,
Some questions for you to answer. Like I told you in my other letter, I will be shopping with the girls today. I will have my phone with me so I can get your emails. Hopefully I will have a signal and be able to email with you a bit.
Are you happy and healthy? Have you had any sickness?
right now I have a bit of a cold but it is nothing serious don t worry
Have you gotten your packages yet? If not, do you think you could contact the Mission Office and ask about them?
No I haven t recieved my packages yet yes I can call and ask about them but my companion said that the office elders will pay for them and take the money from my giro so don t worry
Have you gotten any more letters?
no no more letters yet
I got an email from a guy this week. He had gone to your page on the mission website. His message reads, "I to served in that area, it is lots of work to do thier. tell eulogio i said hi to him and his family. enjoy your mish. con amor years served 02-04. frank ika." Do you know anyone named eulogio? I think he means they are in Balzar.
Eulogio is the name of Presidente Ruiz the president of the rama in balzar his wife is my mamita de comida so it isn t a problem to tell them hi for hno ika
How did your baptisms go? Please tell us all about them.
they were good they didn t get to the church untill 8 30 and the baptism was supposed to start at 8 because church is at 9 but it was good first was the son of a member that lives in palestina then I baptised Allison and then the son of another member that lives in relicario christopher did not want to get baptised but next week he might get baptised we will see. in sacrament meeting they confirmed all three members of the church so it was good.
Do you have any new investigators that are promising or any more that are committed to baptism?
Yes we have six people with baptism dates Julio España, Carlos de barco, Florentino, Christopher, and a family Ricardo and Maria they have two kids that can get baptised but the kids don t have dates for baptism right now but we are working on it first we have to get them married this friday is the day we have set for their marrage. They love the missionaries every time we visit them usually every other day in the evening they feed us galletas a sweet cracker with cola or crackers and fresh cheese or galletas with jam every time.
What is the best thing that has happened to you this week?
we taught the ten commandments with presidente Ruiz and his wife to the family of Ricardo and Maria presidente is so good he taught the comandment don t commit audultery he taught the whole law of chastity and commited them to be married this friday it was soo cool and then this sunday I was talking to presidente in his office and elder Bejar was outside talking to other members and Ricardo and Maria came in to talk to presidente about the things they would need for marrage the papers and all that and we commited them to be baptised on the 27 of december during this time it was amazing.
What is the most spiritual thing you have had happen to you so far?
(No answer)
Tell us about Christmas preparations in Balzar. What do the people there do to get ready for Christmas? Are there lights in the city or programs, or ward parties or caroling? Do they have advertising in the stores?
There is advertising in the stores yeah almost the whole time I have been here people put up lights and trees too but I don t know about caroling or ward parties the cyber I am in right now has lights up and decorations
Do you have any invitations to eat lunch with anyone on Christmas day?
We have invitations but we can t only with our mamita
What will your Christmas day be like there?
A normal day in the mission but we will share a message about Christ and watch joy to the world with the people we visit then in the evening we will visit our mamita and she is planning on preparing us dinner
Did you get to watch the First Presidency Christmas Devotional?
no we could only watch it if we had investigators and we would have had to go to quevedo too to watch it
Tell us about something funny that has happened to you or that you have seen.
so far I have managed to hit my head four different times here once on a metal doorway when we were leaving the barber shop the second in a bus the third in relicario a wooden doorway and the fourth a tin roof of a patio
How is your Spanish coming?
it is coming along ok I am understanding the people much better now
Have you seen any ducks, geese or swans in your area?
just the ducks that people have they are a form of domesticated muscovy duck there is also a type of whistling duck here too they are also called tree ducks
Have you seen any other animals, like deer, antelope, elk, moose or bear?
Cows pigs goats gecos birds
Do they have any kind of hunting in Ecuador?
not really that I have heard of or seen but don t worry I will keep searching
Please tell us anything else that you would like to or that you think we would like to hear about.
I sent you two disks of pictures last Wednesday in our district meeting. What day would be best for you to call me? I know a phone that I can use to call you that you can call back but you need to tell me when to call you I want to call when All of the family is there so figure out when the family will be together and then email me this time remember there is a time difference too If you want to buy me a Christmas present you could buy me The Money Maker it is a goose call made by Zink and just put it in the gun cabinet for when I get back you don t need to send it to me.
I love you so much.
Mom
Hi Curtis. Thanks for the answers. I sent another package this morning. It has letters for your mamitas. There are also Christmas cards with our family photo on. Give one to each mamita.
Sorry to hear about you hitting your head. There are some disadvantages to being a giant.
Your experiences are awesome. I am so happy you are having wonderful experiences like that. I know your testimony must be growing. Tell us more about your great experiences. I am driving to Cache Valley. I pulled over to type this. Type long paragraphs about your experiences please.
what experiences do you want to know about?
Anything. Good, bad, funny, spiritual
(No reply, so sad)
I love you. Have a terrific week. You are a magnificent missionary.
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