Nightmare Fruit

This was a cool week. 


We started off with an exchange with the elders from Los Cristianos on the south of Tenerife. We got to just hang back and let them come to us, make pretzels, enjoy a fire P-day, and show them everything cool on our island. 


Elders Hansen and Thacker are another trainer-trainee duo like us, and this exchange it was time to send our sons out together. We sent Elders Romrell and Thacker to visit a part-member family with about 4 months of Spanish experience between the two of them and they knocked it out of the park. My trainee has grown so much, I couldn't stop noticing it throughout the whole exchange. 


Tuesday was a typical exchange day, but the Elders had a few extra hours on Wednesday beacuse of flight plans so they got to come with us to our service project. Bishop still uses us as free labor on his farm and we had double the numbers so it was a great idea. We dug trenches and to this day I'm still not 100% sure why. The Google Photos has a good video edit of what we were doing.


While we were out there a friend of bishop's started picking and peeling this fruit called tuno indio. It looked to be related to prickly pear cactus, but all of the side effects they listed were not familiar to your favorite Arizona native.


-It is aggressively purple enough to stain most clothes, including miraculous AndCollar shirts
-If eaten while still warmed by the Lanzarote sun, your bowels will not move for a week.


So of course few days ago we got to try some (refrigerated of course) during our member meal with Bishop and his wife. See photos.


Aight let's talk about the work...


Its been tough with the people we're teaching in the last few days, people are definitely feeling opposition in their lives. Right as our teaching starts to make progress, their life just gets crazy. We keep trying, we do what we can to support people in their trials.


Someone new we've started teaching is Jhonathan! Finding him was a miracle, we street contacted a young guy named Fran, who told us he'd seen missionaries before but wasn't able to talk to them because he'd been in a hurry. Granted, they all say that, but Fran saw us as his second chance since he'd felt bad the last time. He even wanted a selfie with us. Anyway we actually haven't heard much from him but he told his friend Jhonathan who we were, so Jhonathan texted us and asked about English class and Bible study. We set a cita right after English class and had an awesome first lesson last Monday. We met again this week and he's got a ton of great questions. It's pretty fun to teach him and he loves practicing English.


We shared with a few people Ether 12:27 this week. 
27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them


I've talked about this before but I love this scripture. I think it's significant that the first promise is not that our weaknesses will be taken away or even changed by the Savior, but first we will be shown. So if in any moment you feel inadequate or like you're not doing enough, that's the first step to becoming better.


Also I'm trying to read the whole book of Isaiah but that's not quite the vibe I'm going for in this email. Maybe next week that'll be the scripture.


Ciao
Elder Curtis


Photos
Pretzels
Efigenia Rapunzel
Dog named Canela (Cinnamon)
Affirmative
Tuno indo tongues
Behold... tuno indio 
Exchange Squad
We should totally buy our own farm after the mission
More Charco shots









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