I'm in Naples!! :)

Whoo! P-Day already?? Crazy stuff! Well, I'll do my best to include all of the crazy stuff that happened this week, but (as usual) I don't have oodles of time.

    So Sebastian got closed down last week. It was sad, but I LOVE  where I am now! :)

We spent last P-Day packing and emptying out the house (since there is currently nobody living there) and on Wednesday morning we got up at 5 am and set out at 6:30 for Plantation. It took us 3 hours, but we got there in time and just a little bit early! Thank goodness for carpool lanes! :)

    So we got to transfers and it was SO exciting as usual! It is seriously like a mash of Christmas and a family reunion! Sister Montague and I went in and greeted the "baby" missionaries. I knew right off the bat which one Sister Montague was going to be training. I totally called it. :) And Sister Jackson came up to me before the meeting started and declared that I would go to Naples. Fancy that! :)

    The meeting got started, we had the testimonies of new missionaries (and there were a TON of  them. Mostly sisters!), then Elder Burgoyne announced that we would have departing missionary testimonies (typical, since he was dying, too!). Sister McAfee, Elders Pukahi, Christenson, Skidmore, Liddle, Noguerra, and Dinkins were the ones that I knew. OH! And the last Elder to bear his testimony turned his attention to a new elder in the audience (Elder Higginbotham, who is waiting on his Visa to Portugal) and said "I was a visa waiter, too." And then he just grinned. And then the whole audience burst into laughter! It took me a second to realize that he basically said that he waited in the Florida Fort Lauderdale mission for TWO YEARS FOR HIS VISA TO BRAZIL AND IT NEVER CAME!!!!! I was DYING with laughter when I made the connection!

     The assignments were announced, and I got sent to Naples to greenie-break Sister Rammell (Sister Alcazar and Sister Jackson's baby). I'm in the same district as Elder Scutt, and our DL is Elder Amos (he just got out of Key West). And they are in a Haitian Creole area. Elder Amos came into the mission speaking English, then President wanted him to learn Portuguese, then he went to Key West (so naturally he had to learn Spanish. Did I mention he only studied Chinese in high school?) and now he is in a Creole-speaking area AND HE DOESN'T SPEAK A LICK OF IT! Crazy stuff!!! Oh, and Elder Nielsen is the DL for the other district! :)

       We got going, it took us about 2 hours to get to Naples. We did some tracting and taught an English class, so that was fun!

     The next day we had district training, and it turns out I have a son! I'm the "oldest" sister in my district, and Elder Higginbotham is getting trained in our district! I have a kid!

     We accidentally knocked into a blind, English-speaking member named "Clyde Steele". He was SUCH a sweet guy. That was awesome! :)

       We've also found some cool people to teach, and church was great! I'm so grateful to be in a Spanish ward again. :) And our members are wonderful! <3

        I got a ton of loving from the Payero's  dogs last night, all three of 'em! They reminded me of Jet, Hoss and Scout!

       We're also housing with Sister Pankratz and Sister Samuels (Sis Samuels is going to heaven and Sis Pankratz is going down the other way. A funny story for another day; it involves a Hebrew Israelite that they encountered, lol!)

       Also, Sister Rammell and I found something neat in our studies when studying extending commitments. 1 Kings 17:10-16. Notice how commitments that are bold and loving are also ALWAYS specific to the individual. Even the Lord promises specific blessings, for example, look at the 10 commandments! And even in 2 Kings 5, too! It is so amazing how the Lord knows us ALL so deeply and personally, and loves us all the same. He never has us do ANYTHING without having an incredible purpose behind it.

     Well, that was essentially my week. Have a great week, everyone! I love you all so much! :)

      ~Hermana Curnow

21 Julio 2015 Transfers!

Hey, I'm back again!

So before I forget, I need to tell you something cool: My companion's older brother was Lindsey Stirling's DL in the New York Bronx mission! :) Cool stuff. 

Anyway!

    Sister Montague and I are both transferring! And they're shutting down the Sebastian area!!! WHAT?? I couldn't believe it! Crazy stuff changes are happening in our mission. She is also transfer training! :)

     Well, I'm running out of time pretty quick here!

Some other cool things that happened was our lunch with the Crosby's (AWESOME people!), seeing Mamma Rae, getting downpoured on while biking, teaching Donna about temples (getting her excited to go!) and celebrating Sister Montague's birthday. Good stuff!

    Love y'all! Talk to you soon! Please mail me! I LOVE being kept in the loop! :)

~Hermana Curnow

13 Julio 2015

(Please ignore that last post which was posted WAY too early!)

Welcome to my life of exciting things happening daily and having about zero time to type them up once a week! :)

     So last Monday we had the zone activity in a park and had a BBQ. It was actually pretty well organized, the food was great and it was fun! :) We got a group pic on the slides and Sister Montague, Sister Burdett and I owned the swing set, haha!

     We had interviews with President on Tuesday, those were awesome! President Richardson is seriously the best! I got a lot of revelation and good ideas for things to apply to our area and work.

     The next day we had a "Christmas in July" zone training, a white elephant gift exchange and a fire exchange with the STLs. It was Elder Christensen's last ZT. And Elder Skidmore's, Elder Liddle's, and Elder Pukahi's. Basically our whole zone is guaranteed to be at transfer meeting.

      We had lunch with Sister Holton on Thursday and MAN do I love her! She is just the most fun, fiery old lady you'll ever meet, and her testimony is amazing. :) And I ate 3 pieces of her turkey pot pie (it was heavenly). We did some biking in Vero, and met with Sister Lawson for a little bit to discuss missionary work, and that was great! She had some really good insights.

      We had dinner with the Doyles the next day. That was so fun. They're just such a hilarious and exciting family, especially the little ones! And Brother Doyle's accent cracks me up!

       Next day, service with the Escamilla family. Then biking. And we found another gopher tortoise! Those are so common up here! :)

       Sunday came the next day, so we went to church. A lot of visiting members came, so that was fun! :) Sister McEwen taught me a Dominican phrase, "A Po' Ta' Bien" or something similar. I'm still not sure what it means, lol! We were able to go over to the Mouso's house and have dinner and an FHE with them and Mike, which was wonderful! This ward has my heart. :) And the last event of Sunday was visiting Sister Blanchett (the new WML's wife) and seeing the 4-foot alligator that was swimming around in the canal in her backyard! 

        That was basically my week! Oh, look! I'm out of email time! Talk to y'all next week! Love you! Email me! I love knowing what is going on! :)

           Con carino,

       ~Hermana Curnow

13 Julio

Welcome to my life of exciting things happening daily and having about zero time to type them up once a week! :)

So last Monday we had the zone activity in a park and had a BBQ. It was actually pretty well organized, the food was great and it was fun! :) We got a group pic on the slides and Sister Montague, Sister Burdett and I owned the swing set, haha!

6 Julio 2015. 'MURICA.

So I just realized that I don't even need to put the year on these blog posts anymore cuz I have less than a year left- EWWWWW. Seriously, I have NO IDEA how time goes by so fast!

   Tuesday we met some grouchy people while knocking doors but whatever, we are here to do our Father's work! :) Then this SUPERSTORM started! Like, SUPER close lightning and everything! We were about 3 miles from our house and on bikes, so we were BOOKING it! I've never ridden that little lightning rod so fast in my life! And we didn't die, cuz Kelly saw us biking, had just gotten a weather warning on her phone and decided to save us and give us a ride to our house. I love her! <3

    Wednesday we had DT, went to the Toyota dealership to get our window fixed and we gout 5 Guys Burgers and Fries for lunch YUMMY! We went biking and did some good knocking on the island, and got to talk to Chloe. :) She's cool! The Traylor family fed us dinner, lovely folk!

   The next day the Baemans took us out to dinner at Ay Jalisco! Yummy! We had a GREAT MM with the Hauber fam.

    We went knocking all day Friday and saw Elisabeth. She has my dream job- biological scientist! :) Had a media referral for a Bible, so we delivered that, it was great! Somebody asked me if I was Sister Montague's daughter, and another person got confused by the "Hermana" on my badge and said, "I'm just gonna call you 'Hemmie'." LOL!

   The ward had this GREAT 4th of July BBQ on Saturday and we went on a finding blitz with the ZLs and STLs. And we got to know our lovely neighbors that just moved in! We were home by 7:30 

(safety reasons) and I took a LONG shower <3, caught up on some journaling and went to bed early. <3

  Yesterday was CHURCH. I love church so much! And we briefly visited with the Hayes family. :) That was my week! And everybody go study the talk by Elder L. Tom Perry from the April 2009 conference! Every member a missionary! Love you all!

    ~Hermana Curnow

P.S. Rest in peace, Elder Boyd K. Packer. <3