Monday:
Sister Cosper and I went to a less active house that lives an hour away from us. Her ex husband goes to the deaf branch, so we have been trying to get her to come to the Rockville Ward instead. Well, when we got there, we saw her, her friend, her ex husband, and her ex husband's friend. When we asked for her cell number she wasn't happy with us. (We contacted her through the other ASL sisters' video phone). She told us she wasn't a member and that she was a Catholic. Also, she said she wasn't going to church, so stop asking to come back and left us with her ex husband, her son (who came in after we got there), and the ex husband's friend. The lesson turned to teach their son who isn't a member. He has a very scientific brain so he was asking a million questions about God and why we were here. He was a typical teenager. He would ask a question then pretend to fall asleep when we tried to answer him. It was frustrating, but we made it through! It was interesting because the friend who stayed was Catholic and he was agreeing with everything we had to say. So, in a way we were teaching him too without really
talking to him. To say the least it was a strange and tough lesson!
Tuesday:
We had a better day than Monday! We wanted to get the number from the apartment computer lab to get a video phone. (Video phone or vp is like Skype but it's a land line for deaf people). Well, while I was trying to find the number, a lady asked Sister Cosper for some help to read a letter she typed out. We learned she was from Ukraine and she moved here 5 months ago. We had a wonderful conversation with her! We even got to invite her to listen to general conference! We told her if she went in with a question, her question would be answered. With that, agreed to watch conference!
Wednesday:
Sister Cosper and I was just starting our lunch hour at our apartment when we heard a dinging of a bell. I checked the door... No one there. Then a voice came above us saying there was going to be a fire drill and to not panic! Ohhhh did we panic! Haha. We had a fun time running around the apartment while the fire alarm was going off. I never laughed so hard! We took a video too so we can look back on the time the fire drill killed our lunch hour.
That night we went to the ASL class the Rockville Ward puts on to help hearing members learn ASL to communicate with the deaf members. The last two weeks they didn't have the class, so this was the first time I went. It was a lot of fun and I could feel the love these members had to sacrifice an hour to learn ASL every week. It was a lot of fun and I'm excited to go every week and help teach with Sister Hill.
Thursday:
This was probably the best day of the week! Hold on to your hats cuz a lot things happened! Sister Cosper and I went to Sister Taylor's house for lunch. We go every week to teach her one on one ASL and she always feeds us lunch. She is the best and sweetest person I know! On the way there,Sister Cosper was calling the APs to ask a question. When they answered a little spider decided to land on her.She's screaming, the APs are confused, and I'm just laughing! In between laughing, screaming, and trying to talk, Sister Cosper was finally able to ask our question. It was really funny!After having lunch with Sister Taylor, we went a less active home to help clean up her yard a tiny bit. One of the tasks she had us do was drag out statues for the Nativity. Most of the statues were headless! Sister Cosper earlier that week read about how John the Baptist died. So she exclaimed, "Why is it always the heads?!?!?" It was a traumatic experience for us. Haha.
Then that night we were going to go to the metro stop by our house. But we both had a stupor of thought about it. So we prayed and felt a hunch to do street contacting instead. Not long after we met a man that is from Iran. He was so nice and sweet. He was atheist but was willing to hear us out. We learned all about Iran and about him. We also compared beliefs and I could tell he was realizing how sad his beliefs were. We walked with him for an hour and guess what!?!?! We didn't pass by anyone else on the streets so we were meant to run into him! In the end he thanked us for not going straight into talking about our religion but took the time to get to know him first. We will hopefully get in contact with him this week to see if he is interested in learning more!
Friday:
We helped teach a deaf lady with one set of ASL sisters. This lady has been investigating the church for at least 4 years, but she has a low understanding. So we went to help teach how God and Jesus were separate and how to pray. That was fun! She kept saying that God was Jesus. Once we felt like she understood they were separate, we
moved on to teaching her how to pray. We practiced and practiced. Sister Cosper even wrote it out for her. She wrote:
1. Heaven Father
2. Communicate
3. Jesus Christ name Amen
So this is what the lady signed: HEAVEN FATHER COMMUNICATE (we then were laughing because she was signing exactly what we wrote down) JESUS NAME CHRIST AMEN. We then had to clarify what we meant by
communicate and had her copy us for the closing prayer. It was a good experience in seeing how to keep things simple.
Saturday:
We had a mission wide food drive. Sister Cosper and I went with our roommates to Safeway. It was a lot of fun!! Then that night was Women's Conference. Wow!!! I loved all the talks!! They were all individually powerful. I'm looking forward to read the talks and mark them up! And... I bet President Uchdorf's talk will become a picture book! Haha. Some of my favorite things that were said:
1. One of the sweetest things the Holy Ghost can tell you is how much God loves you
2. Good friends focuses on your good qualities and ignore your weak ones
3. God didn't design us to be sad, he designed us to have joy!
Sunday:
This was a really good day! We had a less active come back to church after not coming all summer. She even came to Women's conference the day before. It was one of the best Sunday yet! God is a God of miracles and tender mercies! This lady is so sweet and has one of the most powerful testimonies I have ever heard. I love her so much!
The lady in the wheel chair is 100 years old and just went through the temple. She was baptized
in 2009,'which means she was in her 90s!
I hope you all have a great week! Congrats to those who are recently married or engaged! It's fun to hear all the big events happening in people's lives!
With love,
Sister Parker
P.S This week is transfers and....Sister Cosper and I are staying together!!, I'm excited to see how long I can be Sister Cosper's companion! I hope it will be long cuz I just love her so much!
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