Thursday was a really good day! It was funny because I thought it was going to be the most boring day because our usual appointment with a lady in our Ward, Sister Taylor, fell through. But God has a way to spice things up! Haha. Right when we were almost done with weekly planing, we get a phone call from our dear friend MK. MK is the one with the headless nativity figurines. Anyways, MK is quite the character, but she is soooooo nice! She called us in a panic because she has a LOT of cats and she needed help cleaning up her house. Luckily we only focused on the living room.... Let's just say her house is VERY dirty and we even found a slug on the floor! It was fun because whenever we go to MK house Sister Cosper and I have a good time! We just laugh and clean the whole time!
After we cleaned, we got a another panic call from one of the Sister missionaries that needed a ride to the visitor center. We rushed home to pick them up and drove to the temple. When we got home we ate our dinner and waited for our Atheist friend to text us back. Let me share a little background on him. About two weeks ago we prayed to know where to street contact and we ran into him. He is from Iran and he is an Atheist. He was very nice and we had a good time chatting about
his life in Iran and we shared a little about our church. Well, this week we asked if we could meet him again and he accepted. Although, he said, "just to let you girls know there is a slim chance that I'll
join your church." We didn't care! We were just excited to teach him a formal lesson. The lesson went good... But when we got to the part about asking him to pray about the Book of Mormon... He declined. He said that it wouldn't make sense to him to pray when he doesn't
believe in God. He said, "It would be like me asking you to stand on your head for 30 min... That would be foolish thing to ask." Then sweet Sister Cosper said, "Well, praying is a lot less dangerous than standing on our head." Haha. Our friend didn't know how to combat that one! He was stumped and said, " you know what I mean!" While walking (he likes to walk and talk with us) I realized I didn't formally teach him how we prayed yet! I was nervous because he already told us that he would not pray about he Book of Mormon. Well... Right before we were done talking, I said that there was one more thing we need to teach you. I told him the steps to prayer and he said, "huh, that's interesting.... It's like a letter!" I thought this was an interesting way to look at prayer. I don't think our friend will be interested in learning more, but we shall see this week when we check up on him.
On Friday we got to see J with the other sisters. (Reminder: J is a deaf investigator who the other Sister missionaries wanted our help with. We have to keep it simple because she doesn't know gospel signs well.) WOW! Did we have a good lesson with her, or what!?! We taught her prayer again
because she didn't understand about just being open and just talking with God. So, this time we taught her how to give thanks to God in her prayer. It took her a second to understand, but she did it! On her closing prayer she signed: FATHER THANK YOU SON SOON JESUS NAME AMEN.
(She was saying thank you that she gets to see her son soon.) We all we sooooooo happy and she was too! She wanted so hard to please us and she wanted to do it "right". She is the cutest deaf women ever! She was happy when we left... It touched my heart to see her give thanks to God.
Saturday was a day full of seeing our deaf members and helping Bro. Cranney with signing a hymn he will be interpreting for next week! First we met the Lagos family at a all-you-can-eat buffet. It was soooo good! We had a really nice time with them. Then we went to Charo's house, the one who didn't answer the door last week and we had to use a paper to get her attention. Well... It happened again! Her door was locked and I couldn't email her. So, we went straight to waving a paper under her door! Haha. It took a few min, but we got her attention to open the door. We also had a great visit with her! She is the sweetest and blunt lady I know! I love her so much! When we were about to play "Because He Lives", we were waiting for her eye contact. She kept glancing up and down looking at her phone. It was a full 30 sec. until she signed well aren't you going to play it!?! We laughed and then started the video! We always have a good time with Charo. Then we went to Brother Cranney's house for dinner! I love this couple SO much! They both are in the ASL class that happens every week. It was
really fun chatting with them and helping Bro. Cranney with the song he will be signing next week.
Sunday was a fun day! We had to take over for Sister Hill because she was watching her 4 little nieces and nephew plus her 4 kids. This means.... I had my real interpreting experience! Well.. I did interpret for prayers and some testimonies before, but NEVER a talk. I did all the songs, prayers, and the youth talk. I didn't do so hot in the youth talk, which isn't surprising! It was great to know that I have a LOT to improve on for interpreting! It's hard! I couldn't hear what the youth was saying because I was so focused on translating 20 sec ago. So that was fun! I also got to translate a little bit in R.S too, but not too long. By the time church ended I made a resolution with Sister Cosper to try to set time every day to go voiceoff... I tried to do it in the car and Sister Cosper didn't like that one bit! Haha. She said if you aren't going to talk than I'm not going to talk to you. She wanted both of my hands on the wheel haha! (No worries I was NOT even close to having an accident.) I respected her wishes and waited until we got home to do voice off. That was SO MUCH FUN! Sister Cosper is such a good, patient, and strict teacher! She tells me what I need to fix and what to work on, I love it!
Well that pretty much sums up my week! I hope you are all doing great as I am!
Lots of love!
Sister Parker
P.S. I have finally accepted my name sign! This is what deaf people use instead of spelling your name every time. Sister Lagos gave it to me, but I had a hard time accepting it because it's literally means PARK AGENT. Or in other works, someone who parks. I finally gave in to that name sign because EVERY TIME Sister Lagos signs my name sign she smiles! I love this women sooo much! So I have now my 1st name sign!
On another side note... Sister Cosper keeps doing hearing checks on me! Haha... The reason
being is because the video phone people said that I MUST be hard of hearing to have the vp. So we are thinking the man who is coming to install it is going to check to see if I'm TRULY hard of hearing!
So sweet sweet Sister Cosper will scream, slam on desk loudly, and just make loud noises... And...I fail the hearing test ALL THE TIME, it's so funny!
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