Monday: We had a thank you dinner from the people who own Madison fields. Mom... You might know Sister P! Anyways Doctor P invented a vaccine for SIDS I think. So, they are very well
off. They have a neat Library in the basement of their house. They even have the death mask of Joseph Smith, journals from one of the prophets, and any church book you want to read! If anyone wants to see where I have been serving at this past transfer, look up Madison Fields in YouTube and it should come up with the video that shows what the farm does for autistic children.
Tuesday: I had 2 dinners! Haha. One of them was a member meal. They have multiple gardens and at least two green houses. We got to snag a few cucumbers and tomatoes. Afterwards, our roommates needed help eating their second dinner member meal. (The hard life of Spanish program! Haha), This lady though was SUPER sweet and awesome. She knows English, so we could talk with her too. The spiritual thought was really powerful. We talked about digging our roots deeper into the gospel. I
said that accepting challenges from God is a way to get your roots deeper. I felt like choosing to go on my mission was the challenge I knew I needed to accept to get my roots of conversion deeper in the ground. Then we made the sad track up to my friend C's house. We were sad to say good bye each other. We must have hugged each other 3 times before I left! I'm really excited to stay in contact with her!
Wednesday: Transfer day!!! So here what went down! I am in a trio with Sister Brimhall and Ellsworth for two weeks in Sliver Springs until the 4 new ASL sisters come. It sounds like I'll be taking my trainee to Rockville and Sister Brimhall and Ellsworth will share the other 3
trainees. So, they will switch off having a trio and a companionship. I know weird huh? It will be fun though! So.... ASL has no boundaries where we can go! It's awesome! We cover 4 missions:
Richmond VA, DC South, DC North, and Baltimore! Also, as of right now there is no sectioned off areas within the ASL program. Pretty much... if you find them, you get to teach them! I don't know how I feel about that, but we will make it work!
Thursday: I had a super fun meal with the ASL branch President Van De Graaff. We had such great time with his family. We had lots of laughs. The funniest thing was when President Van De Graaff shared how every year on their anniversary, him and his wife would tell a different story to their kids on how they met. Like a Tarzan story or riding on a train, etc. The real story??? He was her teacher in the MTC when she was going on her mission! She said that he was a really mean teacher because he would throw things at the students to keep them awake!
Friday: I had a fun lesson with two investigators with Jason Hinds. (he spoke at last week at the Why I Believe seminar!) Jason was super bold and it was really powerful! We all hope these two investigators will continue to progress. One of them MIGHT be moving to China. We will hopefully get to finish teaching him the lessons before he moves.
Saturday: We got a surprise invitation to do some service! It was a lot of fun! A deaf lady was moving out of the house with two other kids preparing to go to college. So we helped her sort out all of her things and put things outside for the yard sell she had going on. It was touching to see how appreciative she was,. Thanked her for letting us come and she was like, " why are you thanking me?!?! You are the one helping me out!" For dimmer we went out to Buffalo Wild Wings. Can
I just say... I'm a baby!!! I got the least spiciest sauce for the wings. Guess how many cups of water I drank???? 4!!!! It was good, just the spice lingered. Anyways! It was fun because we had a member,
his son who isn't a member, and a recent convert! M, the recent convert, is getting ready to serve his mission! He should have his application in anytime now! I'm really excited to hear where he ends
up going!
Sunday: We had 2 investigators come to church, one for each ward. We cover the Deaf branch and the YSA ward. It was really neat to finally go to deaf ward. The coolest thing was the sacrament prayer. The person blessing the sacrament puts a little step stool in front to kneel on so that they can sign the prayer and everyone can see it! That night we had another fun member meal! They are from the deaf branch and they brought another couple over from the branch as well. The wife is pregnant and the husband was so cute about being so excited for his daughter to come! It was so adorable!
Monday: Today we went to the National Art Museum! I have to say I really enjoy the sculptures. I like seeing the dimensions and detail in each piece. One of my favorite sculpture was entilted, "God's Hands." I could stare at it all day!
Tomorrow we get to hear Elder Perkins from the 70 come talk with us. It's going to be a early start... We have to be there at 7.... And It's about an hour drive! Haha. It should be a great meeting though!
I hope you all are doing great!!! I love you all!
Sister Parker
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