We got a deaf investigator!!!

This week has been a good week!

On Monday we had our zone activity and it was so much fun! We were able to dress up so I wore my thing 2 shirt. We played a game where you tie a balloon around your ankle and you try to pop other people's balloons. It was so funny! Afterwards Sister Cosper had a eating contest with Elder Fisher, our zone leader. It's called bubble soup. It's basically little black and white squishy balls. It was really funny, but a tad gross. They chugged it down!

On Tuesday after our meetings we went to the family history center for Sister Cosper to find a name for the baptismal trip the next day. We found one name for her!!! I was so excited I yelled... Haha. Sister Cosper was like "Shhhhhh... You don't need to be so loud!" Then we had some fun time contacting people before dinner. One man reminded us exactly like the male version of Rose. He said he is spiritual, but not religious. It's so interesting how in general conference it talked over and over again how important church is. We have ran into a lot of people who said they don't believe in organized region because it creates separation. It's sad to me that people think this way, but comforting that the general authorities know what they are talking about!

On Wednesday was our baptismal trip as us sisters! It was really nice! I got to do 4 family family names. We went on exchanges afterwards and I got to spend night in my old apartment in Gaithersburg! That was really fun! Sister Whiteford still lives there and so we got to hang out that night. She cracks me up. My favorite moment that day was at our last door. The lady answers and said in a frustrated tone, "I am in a hurry!" And so I turned around and headed for the door. She followed us out, so I held the door for her. She said in a sincere voice, "I'm sorry". That was so touching to me that I could do that small thing and left a better impression on her.

Thursday..... Was my tired day! We had an amazing visit with Sister Hill. We talked about what we could do to help the work in the deaf group and ASL class to be better. We are going to teach the ASL class in a few more weeks until Feb! Sister Hill has been so stressed and over worked, she needs a break. We are both VERY excited to help out. Sister Hill does so much! Then we finally got our Video Phone set up in our apartment. We have been enjoying it very much!

Friday was the BEST day of our week! S is one of our deaf members in the Rockville Ward. She has been wanting us to meet her friend Char, but our appointments kept falling through! But, on Friday we finally got to meet her! S was able to even come with us too! Our lesson went SO WELL! We taught her the first lesson of the Restoration. She was so excited to read the Book of Mormon and to meet us next week to learn about the Plan of Salvation! Sister Cosper and I love her so much. She was so nice. That night we had the Ward trunk or treat. Sister Cosper and I got to pass out suckers to the kids. That was a lot of fun. Randy Finder was next to us (he and his wife is the ones with autism and they showed us out to the door when we tried to share a spiritual thought). He hid in his trunk and passed out candy. A lot of the kids were skeptical about this and we just had to laugh!

Saturday was an interesting day! One set of the ASL sisters needed our help to teach a single deaf man up in Frederick. It's an hour drive away. We had a pretty good visit with him... I guess. Haha. He told us from the start that he didn't see the reason to listen to general conference because he felt like they were repetitive. We still shared the conference talk, "faith by choice, not chance". I got bold and told him that if he listened to general conference, his faith would increased. He didn't like that very much. Then Sister Cosper said that God requires us to keep all of his commandments. In reply he told us that he has been apart of the church for 30 years and he knows how to build his own faith. He is just one of those people who think that he can pick and choose what commanders to be obedient to. Oh well.

Today we got to tour around the Kennedy Center.. That was so fun and neat to see!!! That is one place that I would love to see again! 

 

Well, there is more I want to say... but as always I am running out of time! Hope all is well!

Sister Parker