Monday was what I call, "the act of faith night"! Both Sister Cosper and I were not
excited about street contacting and knocking on doors, but we did it anyways! With some rejection to the door approach, we decided to just walk around and find people to talk to on the streets. After a while, I was feeling discouraged and told Sister Cosper I would rather knock on doors and actually talk to people. But she wanted to keep walking, so we did. Then finally we saw a car pull up to their driveway and I was like "YES SOMEONE TO TALK TO!!!!" We had perfect timing as we approached the man, he was getting out of his car. We had an amazing conversation about his family and about his beliefs. It turns out he has twin daughters that are doing completely different things! One is in the military and the other is at school. It was neat to relate to him in that way. Then we invited him to the visitor center and he accepted! He said he has lived here for about 20 years and has always wanted to go, but just never gone. When we were saying our good byes, he told us that we made his night. In return, we exclaimed that he made OUR night! He was the only person we talked to that was happy to see us and it was worth the walk and the rejection that happened before hand!
Wednesday was transfer day! I am staying with Sister Cosper for another transfer!!! Yay! The meeting was way shorter than usual because there was only 4 elders and a senior couple going home. For the rest hymn we sang, to the Senior couple's request, "How Great the Wisdom and the Love" to the tune of "Amazing Grace". It was very powerful and touching!
Afterwards we went to a deaf member's house for our appointment. But here's the thing... Her phone wasn't working so we couldn't text her when we got there. Also, the Internet wasn't strong enough to send her a message to say we were at her door. So instead, I tried knocking loudly to see if her hearing daughter was there to answer the door... No luck. Then we went outside to wave a stick in front of her window... But the blinds were closed and the little spot that was open wasn't enough! Then we went back inside and Sister Cosper tried shaking the knob to allow her to see someone was at her door. Still... No answer. Just so you know we weren't crazy for trying so hard.... We
could hear her moving around inside this WHOLE TIME! Haha... What finally got us in??? We wrote on a piece of paper that Sister Cosper and Parker were here and to please let us in! We put the paper under her door and shook it back and forth! It took a minute, but she finally saw it! Haha.
Sister Cosper shaking our note back and forth!
On Thursday I prayed that we would have people to talk to as we went our way to appointment to appointment. I wanted to have time to talk with people about our church since we had a full day of seeing members and weekly planing... Wow! Did God answer our prayer or what?!? First off we
went outside to change our tire, but we didn't have luck on trying to do it ourselves. While fiddling with our tire, we met M who walked passed us. When we went back inside to change our clothes, M was sitting in the lobby. She asked us one simple question, "How old are you girls?" From that question...our conversation lasted for an hour and a half! We got her contact info, so hopefully she will be interested in learning more on what we believe in!
On Friday..... Let's just say the tittle will be: The day I got lost in DC.... Twice! The first time was my fault. I put in Gallaudet University in my GPS without looking at the end destination... I mean
there is only one Gallaudet I know of!!! Wrong! Haha. I knew it was wrong from the start, but I thought the GPS maybe taking us a new way. Luckily Sister Cosper is really good at reading maps and finally got it us to Gallaudet in time for institute. Then afterwards.... We were going to an appointment with the other ASL sisters to help teach an investigator. We got lost once again! After
another hour passed, I decided to bag it and go to our dinner appointment. Luckily, we were right on time! Haha. All I can say about getting lost is that God knew my intentions and he can't get mad at me for trying! It was one of those days everyone needs to have once and a while. It was a humbling experience to slow down and figure out how to get out of the mess.
Saturday and Sunday were AMAZING with General Conference! There are too many good talks to take time and go through each one. My favorites from each session:
Larry R. Lawrence: How important it is to ask God what you need to do to change and be a better person. I love how he explains how the Holy Ghost will be very honest, so be ready for His answer! What is so amazing though, is that the Holy Ghost will give you customized answers that are specifically for you!
Robert D Hales: I will seriously look at this talk when I get back for my mission 😀😜. For those who watched it knows why. HE gave good advice on making sure you are being the person you ought
to be in the first place.
President Nelson: Wow! Probably the most powerful talk from of this conference for me! If I need motivation.... I'm reading this talk! I also thought it was really neat how Elder Renlund was just before President Nelson and they both talked about the struggles they had on being heart surgeons.
Both of their talks were REALLY good!
Ah! The last session is hard to choose! I'll have to say Devin G. Durrant. I'm going to do his challenge for at least to the end of my mission! I will chose a different scripture every week to ponderize about! This week I will chose 2nd Nephi 9:18. You all can hold me to it! I'll put a scripture at the end of every letter to let you know what scripture I'm ponderizing this week!
The other talk I loved was Elder Bednar. I was so touched by his beautiful tribute to the last 6 apostles and prophet that have passed away.
I hope you all are doing great! I'm excited for this coming week and looking forward to see what God has in store for me and Sister Cosper to do!
Love you all!
Sister Parker
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