No time!

I'll do a long post next week!

Love y'all!

~Hermana Curnow

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This week in Miami... 20 Abril 2015

    Tabitha sent me a picture of my missionary plaque in my home ward. I almost forgot about that, haha! It made me really excited to see it!

     So we started off this week with interviews with President Richardson. He is seriously the best. He and Sister Richardson do so much for the missionaries and for the people of Southern Florida in general. I appreciate them so much. And they're also the funniest people! I remember on our first night in the mission home, we were waiting for the interviews to finish. Sister Allen and President came out of their interview and the first thing that President did was turn to Sister Richardson and exclaim, "Honey, she's never had a lemon oreo before!!" He then gifted each of us with a lemon oreo, LOL!!! They're hilarious!

     Mariela and Gladys are two adorable Venezuelan women that were recently baptized into our ward. Mariela invited over a bunch of people to her house for a Noche de Hogar. It was so lovely, and they the missionaries to come. Elder Ortiz gave the lesson, and then we ate! :)

    Ummm... This last Friday was the FOUR-MONTH MARK OF MY MISSION. Where is time going?! President said that it would go by in the blink of an eye, and I didn't entirely believe him. But it is! Missionaries need to live every second and take advantage of every day! Time really does fly!

      I heard my last song playing in the gas station on Saturday. "I Lived". And I heard "Shut Up and Dance" in Walmart the other week. It was so weird to hear those songs again. It felt like something from another lifetime.

      We also swung by the Javier house last night to share a spiritual thought and see how they were doing. Maria was cooking and she asked us if we wanted some tostones (fried slices of platanos). We graciously accepted and BOOM! She gave us dinner! She gave each of us a giant plate of bown rice, black beans, spaghetti, lightly-fried chicken legs and tostones! SO YUMMY! And so we ate dinner with Maria, Jose and their sons and shared a brief message. They're such a kind and giving family. <3

    Oh, and Hermana Franchi fed us breakfast on Saturday morning, too! SUPER yummy pancakes and hot chocolate! And she made Hna Lightheart a dog-shaped pancake. :)

     Right now we're such spending most of our days searching for opportunities to serve and people to teach. The Lord's work is rolling forward. Doctrine & Covenants 3:3.

     Les quiero tanto! Tengan una semana buenisima! Hasta luego!

~Hermana Curnow

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SCRAMBLING TO UPDATE

So super quick summary of this week: We taught a lesson to a super sweet Santero family, Hermana Chavez made us papusas, we did service for Linabel, we did service for a sweet old couple, we had zone training, Nerida is hilarious, an old man named Carlos tried to Bible bash with us (we always just walk away from those, haha), we ate Pollo Tropical, we had Menchie's, biked for about 40 miles on Friday and got WAY sunburnt, cleaned the baptismal font with lavender Fabuloso for Emilee and Robert's baptism the next day (cutest kids ever!), had a tug-of-war with Spot (the Cardenz dog), Robert and Emilee got baptized, met a really drunk less-active, and we had to stop teaching a family. It broke my heart. But yeah, CRAZY full week! If you want details, MAIL ME!

Email time goes by so fast!

I love you all! See you next week! :)

~Hermana Curnow

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Pascua y Conferencia General :)

So want to here something pretty cool?

    Last month, during "Miracle March", our mission... baptized ONE HUNDRED AND ONE people!! HOLY COW! 101 new Mormons in Southern Florida! :) We're way excited and the recent converts in our ward GLOW. They are so full of joy to be members and it never ceases to delight me! <3

    We had lunch with Sister Patterson and her family at China Buffet. That was such a blast. They're the most hilarious people! :)

   Still working with Selena and Enoch. They're such truth-seekers, I love them! :) Martha is still a blast to work with. Funniest little Cuban woman ever! She cracks me up and LOVES to talk!

   Something funny about Cubans: They're sassy. Lots of Hispanic people are pretty sassy, but Cubans just blow my mind! It isn't a bad thing; it's just cultural, a social device. And I was already called "The Sassy One" in the MTC, and I think that I'm starting to pick up on the Cuban sass, as well! I'll have a tongue like a knife by the time my 12th transfer comes around, haha!

   GENERAL CONFERENCE WAS AMAZING! Seriously, the talks were amazing and a few of the General Authorities THREW DOWN. I loved it! <3 On Saturday in between sessions, we ate arrepas with the elders at the RCs' house. Gladis and Mariela are Venezuelan, and they're just so wonderful! And arrepas are AMAZING.

AGH! I'm out of time! The only other news is that I caught 2 lizards this week and put one on my ear! :) Love y'all! The church is true! Bye!

~Hermana Curnow

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Mega short post!

I seriously am going to type this so fast! MyLDSmail acted up on us (the sisters) and so we had to try and fail at logging in about 15 times before it let us back in. UGH. Technology. But that's okay! Things are better now!

   We had Specialized Zone Training! Kind of like a surprise Zone Conference, and it was amazing! We got to see the new video about Easter! I HIGHLY encourage you to check it out, it is only about 2 minutes long!

    English: http://www.mormon.org/easter?cid=HP_FR_3-27-2015_dMIS_fMRMN_xLIDyL1-A_

    Spanish: http://www.mormon.org/spa/pascua?cid=HP_FR_3-27-2015_dMIS_fMRMN_xLIDyL1-A_

Read Mosiah 15. I have a challenge for all of you members and missionaries: Go read Mosiah 15 and ask yourself, "How beautiful are my feet?" Sounds weird, but do it!

  The Gonzalez family is still awesome! They're so welcoming and warm! "Alberto" is a professional clown, and he showed us his little fake dog that he uses at parties, and I'm totally rambling but whatever, I LOVE THOSE PEOPLE!

  We also have some really stinkin' awesome investigators right now, too! Martha is from Cuba, and when a neighbor started telling her that the Book of Mormon was false doctrine and started bashing the church, she totally stood up for herself! She said that the Book of Mormon is not to replace the Bible, but to work with it! So true!! :)

  Went on a full-day exchange into the city with one of our two AMAZING STLs! Sister McAfee came to our area, and I went to stay with Sister Mahterian. They're both so dang awesome! And their area is English, so speaking to people in English all day was a neat experience. :) I still prayed in Spanish, though. I have to translate my prayers mentally from Spanish to English if I want to say an English prayer out loud.

   And Exchange Day miracles are SO REAL. We met the most amazing people, and finding was a blast! :)

   Gladis (Mariela's mom) got baptized! It was so exciting, and she loved it so much! Such an incredibly sweet lady! <3

Also, the general Women's broadcast was SWEEEEET! I love those! And I'm SO EXCITED FOR GENERAL CONFERENCE! Everybody go and watch every session! :) I love y'all! Have a great week!

      Estoy mejorando todavia. Mejoramos todo el tiempo. En el idioma, en obediencia, en amor. La vida de una misionera es una adventura! <3

        Con muchisimo amor,

    ~Hermana Curnow

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#MiracleMarch - Where did these numbers come from??

What a terrific week!!

  So for St. Patrick's day, Susie Robles had us over for dinner. She's such a sweetheart, and it was plenty of fun.

   Sister Miles died. :( She finished her mission and is home now. But we took funeral pictures and made a mega-bed (had a slumber party) before she left. so it's cool. I realized something when she was packing to go home: I'm already DREADING the end of my mission! The joy and enthusiasm that you feel as a missionary is something inexplicable. All that I know is that I LOVE serving as a full-time missionary and I LOVE the people that I come in contact with daily. I'm going to make an extra special effort to live every moment, have no regrets and put forth ALL of my effort into the work.

   We taught the less active Gonzalez family. Juan (Sr./padre) welcomed us in enthusiastically and pointed to the Bible that was in on the kitchen counter, declaring that his house was a house of God. Hermana Lightheart walked over and picked it up, and saw that the pages were dirty and crinkled (it was opened to Salmos). She turned to some other pages and exclaimed "Oh, look how CLEAN and UNTOUCHED these other pages are!" The ex-wife, Dalia (who was cooking dinner) got a good laugh out of that. Juan padre also had a friend, Jose, there, and so we talked to him, too. Then Juan hijo (who prefers English),came out and started to chat with us. So I did some follow-ups on his commitments while Hermana Lightheart taught Jose and preached arrepentimiento a Juan padre. So we had this really weird, bi-lingual, three-way lesson going! I chuckled a little at how funny the situation was. :)

   And we got in a car-wreck on Thursday. Not our fault, everyone was fine, we're still using the car (even though a couple of the doors don't work LOL).

   We're currently working with Raul and Maria Gonzalez, from Cuba. Selena, Martha and Enoch from Peru. Johanna, Lino and Joel from the Dominican Republic. Martha from Cuba. They're all AWESOME! I'm so excited to keep working with them and watch them grow in the gospel! <3

   On Saturday, we got to go to the baptismal service of Mariela! :) Elder Ortiz and Elder Coburn have been teaching her and her family, and she got baptized! The spirit was so strong! I gave a mini-talk on baptism. Then the font door was locked, we didn't have keys, so Hermano Roger Ortiz Jr. unlocked it with a butter knife. Skills.

    Then we had the BEST SUNDAY EVER!!  We had a rescue (Osvaldo is coming to church regularly), 2 LAs came (one of them was Liliana, and she is a friend of Johanna! What a coincidence)! And Johanna came with Lino and Joel to sacrament! President Richardson gave a talk to our ward in SPANISH and we visited Selena, Enoch, and Martha with Herman Trini AND THEY'RE WORKING TOWARDS BAPTISM! I can't describe how full my joy is! I LOVE the gospel, it is true, and the mission work is PLOWING forward!

Love y'all! Talk to you next week! :)

Con MUCHISIMO amor,

~Hermana Curnow

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St. Patrick's Day

WHERE DOES THE EMAIL TIME GO?!?!

 

First and foremost: HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORTNEY MY SWEET MERMAID!! <3

 

Transfers are tomorrow!

We checked out LDS.org last week! All of you go look at the new Mormon Message, "Happiness is the Sum of Obedience"! SO GOOD! Also, I'm loving the Youth theme #embark :)

And Meet the Mormons donated their proceeds to the American Red Cross! Sweet! :D

 

Hermana Chavez made us papusas this week! SO GOOD!!!! Flan de queso, papusas and arroz con pollo (the one made by the lovely Hermana Castillo) are my favorite foods now!

 

We got more miles for our car! So we went to Opa-Locka and found a golden Spanish-speaking area down there! We also went to Miramar! Everything is gated in Miramar, but we tried our hardest! :)

 

Nerida is still the bee's knees! Such an awesome recent convert <3

We visited the Javiers, Maria is the funniest Latin lady! :)

We found Johanna, she's great! :)

We also found Selena, and she wants to come to church this Sunday!

 

Susie Robles hosted a wonderful St. Patrick's Day dinner for our district! :) Sister Miles is going home, and Elder Blaser and Elder Call are transferring, so it was awesome that we got to have that last bit of time.

 

We had a prompting to go help a woman unload her groceries. Turns out she was from Honduras and asked us if we were "Elders". We said that we were hermanas, but it turns out that she talked to missionaries in Honduras, and she wants us to come back and teach her daughter! :)

 

General Conference is in a month!! :D

And I get to Skype home in a month! YAY!

 

I literally love every day of my mission! This is the best! I love you all!

The gospel is true! Keep moving forward!

 

Su amiga e hija,

~ Hermana Curnow <3

 

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