Maryland has a funny way of naming things!
Especially describing the road. What normal people call speed bumps,
they call it speed humps (Hard to break it to ya... there are "speed humps" here in Oregon haha). Litteraly the cation signs says speed humps, it gave me a good laugh. Another sign that took me by surprise is "Caution Rumple Strips
ahead!" I was like what?!?! It reminds me of those veggie straw chips
for some reason! Now for the life of me I don't know what people on the
west coast would call what rumple strips are. These are the little bumps
in the road to help you know to slow down. Also, what they call
mountains here are actually hills!
Ok enough of that, now to my week full of stories!!!This story happened the first week I was here at Rockville. I was too embarrassed to share it last week because... well you'll see! But I must share it because Sister Cosper makes fun of me all the time because of what happened. Ok, so we were member tracting to get to know the ward better. When we were at this one lady's house (her name is Barbra), it looked like she was the only one who lived there. So I knocked on the door and someone answered it. All we could see was one eye, but even I knew it was a man. For some reason I couldn't think of anything to say, so I ask, "Are you Barbra?" Then Sister Cosper laughed and said, "That's definitely not Barbra!" He then looked sorta mad (I don't blame him) and said that she was asleep and he wasn't a member. So much for first impressions!
Last Monday we had a huge tender mercy! We of course didn't have any teaching appointment's, so we decided to go in our back yard of our apartment building. It's a really nice park with a pond. Right before getting on the actual path surrounding the pound we passed by a lady. We said "hi!" and she said, "Hi! It's it not a beautiful day?!?!" We agreed and the conversation went from there! She was so interested in learning more about the church and agreed with us on how we view God and how important it is to have a relationship with Him. We ended up giving her a Book of Mormon and she said she would read it with a question in her mind to see if the Book of Mormon would give her an answer. We have yet to get a hold of her to see if she would like to hear more from the missionaries.
After we met that lady, we met another
man with his labradoodle. He wasn't all that interested, but we have
seen him 2-3 times since last Monday! It shows how important it is to
remember what people tell you when you ask them questions. One night
following we ran into him at the elevators. We asked him how his day was
and about his work. He was impressed we remembered the details about
his job. Then a couple nights ago we ran into him at the park while
street contacting and got to talk with him on the way to the apartment
building. It is great we are building a friendship with him, so we
shall see what happens!
The most exciting thing of all????? WE GOT TO TEACH A REAL DEAF INVESTIGATOR ON TUESDAY! Her name is T. She awesome! We found her under the potential investigators and texted her to see if she was interested in learning more about our church. She said yes and we got to teach her! She didn't know a lot of gospel signs, so we ended up teaching her "The Gospel of Jesus Christ". It seemed to go smother after that because this lesson can be taught by a list. It was really nice to bear my testimony in ASL and testify how much Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ loves us all individually. What was the best part was having her say the closing prayer. She was able to list off everything that we talked about in the lesson!!! She even accepted to go to church! We gave her the option to go to the deaf branch or our ward in Rockville. She said she wanted to go to church at the deaf branch! That being said, we had to pass her off to one of the ASL sisters there because we are not over the deaf branch. I am excited to hear from them how everything goes with her! She is super sweet and I'm just happy that she is wanting to take the discussions!
On Wednesday morning we were enjoying our morning studies. Then I hear our phone go off in the other room. I answered and it was our district leader on the other line. He ask, "Are you coming to the stake center?!?!" And I was freaking out in my head thinking what meeting did I miss?!? I asked, "Why should I be at the stake center?" He then said, "It's the emergency drill! And we are being timed!"So with that we rushed out to go to the church. It took us 20 min to get to the church... so much for being responsive! Haha!
This next story is the funniest!!!! Keep in mind this couple has Autism. The wife is a member and she likes to help interpret for Relif Society. Her husband is Jewish, but he is VERY knowledgeable about the Mormons and he comes to church with his wife every week. We were having a fun getting to know each other. The wife actually went to the White House last summer to celebrate the ADA anniversary. I thought that was so cool! It's not everyday you can say you have eaten and been inside the white house! When we got to our spiritual thought about service, the husband said, 'Oh, my favorite scripture is Mosiah 2:17!" We replied, "We were going to share that scripture." He then goes on to explain why that's his favorite scripture. Then his wife perks up and says after that scripture it talks about being unprofitable servants. I got really excited and said, "We were also going to share that scripture too!" Then the husband says ."Well that wraps up the thought, lets say a closing prayer!" So his wife says it. They then got distracted and went on to talk about something else. Then we had one more chance to share our thought! So Sister Cosper was like, "Which brings us back to service!" Then without warning they laughed and the husband showed us out the door. Then I'm saying how wonderful service is as we are walking out the door! It was so funny and made me think, "What just happened!" haha
On Saturday, we had an amazing opportunity to do serve ice and direct people for the blind at a run/walk event. It was so cool because we saw a few deaf people there as well! Sister Cosper got to
sign with one of them for a few min too! It was so much fun!
The last story I want to share actually happened an hour ago! Sister Cosper and I were food shopping at Gaints. I was down the aisle getting some butter and when I got back, I found Sister Cosper talking to this man. It turns out he and his wife was looking for a church to go to! He said that he would check out the visitor center and then would request missionaries there if he was interested. His wife even wanted to check out our church too! So I'm excited to see what will happens with that!
Tonight we have a lesson with a less active. None of the ASL missionaries met her yet. Supposedly her ex goes to the deaf branch, so she would possibly want to go to the Rockville Ward!!! So I'm excited to see how the lesson will go!
Well that pretty sums up my great week of fun!!! I'm looking foreword to this week ahead and seeing what lays in store for us!! I hope every one is doing well.
Love,
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