We had busy, fun, service, and spiritual filled week!
First off... I have been grounded from the keys! I have lost the keys twice! The first time wasn't my fault! It was a few weeks ago. I looked down and the keys were literally missing! We never found them. So we made a copy of them. Well... This week I dropped them.... Down the crack to get on the elevator to be exact. So.... The keys are now at the bottom of the elevator shaft! It turns out we can't get them back until the elevator guy comes... And that's when he has to come to fix the elevator. The front desk ladies were so kind to allow us to get another copy of the keys. Lucky Sister Cosper loves driving, so I won't need to touch the keys until she decides she doesn't want to drive.
On Monday we had a sweet experience to do some service. We were on our way out of the grocery store when Sister Cosper spotted a lady in the self checkout line with a cart FULL of food. Sites Cosper asked if she could help her and she said yes. Sister Cosper is pro at bagging since she worked at a grocery store before her mission.Since bagging was a one person job, I decided to talk with an old lady who was sitting on the bench. I found out that her daughter-in-law was the one buying her food. Right away I could tell she was from another country because of her accent. It was funny and cute because she was talking with me in English, then she suddenly switched over to Spanish. It probably took me 3 min to realize she wasn't speaking English anymore. I pretty much pretended I knew what she was talking about because she was so cute!
So we have this contacting challenge until January. We have been working hard to contact more people every day. It has been a great experience riding the metro more and getting to know people in a short amount of time. Once we got a high score of 11 in a day and on another day contacted 8 people within an hour! We are getting better at it and I'm excited to get more people contacted this week than last! Every week we will try to raise our numbers to be higher and higher!
We have this new deaf girl who we are teaching. She is turning 8 next year. She is super sweet and energetic! We played apples to apples and took breaks to teach her the first lesson. Her mom wants us to teach her all the lessons so that she can fully understand what we believe before she gets baptized. I loved being at their house and feeling this little girl's energy and excitement about life.
On Wednesday was our very first time teaching the ASL class all by ourselves. We and the whole class had a super fun time! I love it so much! I'm so proud of our class members! I'm excited for next week to teach them again. I'm sad because we are taking it off this week because of thanksgiving. But, everyone seems excited about us teaching. Sister Hill has done AMAZING job and we hope to match up to how well Sister Hill has taught.
Thursday night we got to help out at an interfaith concert. We had 5 different religions (including the LDS choir) and a high school choir group. My job was to escort the high school choir in. The other sisters had a flag to carry on that corresponds with the religious group. The high school choir didn't have a flag, so I had the easy job to just walk in when it was their turn to come into the auditorium. Being around the high school choir for a brief time made me realize how much I miss choir! It was a fun evening!
The next day we got asked to come help the Salvation Army with Thanksgiving dinner preparation. The dinner was for people in need. That was so much fun! We prepped apple pies, mash potatoes, and smashed boxes! It was a ton of fun! There were a lot of missionaries there that helped out. I just love service!
So last weekend was stake conference and Friday night was the 75th anniversary celebration of the Washington DC stake organization. President Nelson from the 12 apostles came with Elder Hallstrom to come to all 3 meetings. It turns out President Nelson came to the 50th anniversary too! He used to live in the DC stake, so he was able to name people he knew in the audience and those who had passed on. It was an unique experience! Sister Cosper got to shake his hand on Friday and he shook my hand after the Sunday Meeting. He said, "Thanks dear". He was referring to me interpreting for our deaf members. I only did some of the songs and the closing prayer. Sister Cosper did the rest with 2 other interpreters. Sister Cosper even got to interpret for President Nelson too!
Stake Conference was just amazing! There was such a good spirit there. Oh! And the main reason for stake conference was that the DC stake presidency was getting reorganized. Bishop Baird is now the new stake
president! He is such an amazing man and I will miss him being the bishop of the Rockkville Ward! He will do fantastic in that calling!
Well... I ran out of time again! I hope you all are doing great!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Sister Parker
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