First off, Sister Kucharek has now changed the GPS to talk in Spanish! She was driving on Wed and wanted to change it up! I told her that she better change it or translate when I drive. She said that she wouldn't do either... Then changed her mind and said, "Fine. I'll translate because I want to live!" haha. She and Sister Cosper gives me the hardest time about my driving! haha... I am not even that bad! I would like to say I have gotten better since Sister Cosper. BTW the GPS is still in Spanish and we are all alive
On Tuesday night we had ASL class! We started over on the lessons so we can allow new people to join in. We had quite a number of new faces there! That was really exciting!!! There was even a few non members there, so I hope they will come again and we can get to know them better!
On Wednesday we got to visit with one of our deaf members with Bishop Alfandre. They have not been feeling well for the past week and wanted a blessing. Bishop Alfandre asked them some questions including if they were doing Family Home Evening. Bishop felt impressed to tell them how important Family Home Evening was and encouraged them to do it! Bishop wants us to join in for the next few weeks to set up a habit to do FHE. I am so excited to do this! It has been a long time since I gotten to do a formal FHE!
On Thursday we went on exchanges! I got to leave Rockville and be in White Oak for a day! That was so much fun! That night we went to the bishop's house to hear where his son was going on his mission.... He was called to SLC West Spanish speaking! What is neat is that he gets to go to the Mexico MTC! It was cool to hear a mission call... The last time I heard someone read a mission call was my own!
The next day (still in White Oak) we tried to look up a street to check up on two referrals. For some reason the GPS wouldn't find the street we needed. So we just picked a street where we were already at to go tracking! It was a short street and 3 people said to come back to see if their families would be interested in learning more! When we got in the car, Sister Sterling decided to drive around the neighborhood to get onto the main road instead of making a U-Turn. It was a good thing she did because... We found the street the GPS could not find!!!! Isn't that awesome!!!! We had no idea that would happen!
On Saturday we got to Skype Jules!!! (He is the recent convert who lives in Madagascar). We love him so much! He had a non member friend during his sykpe lesson!!! She knows only Malagasy ASL, so Jules had to interpret for us when we wanted to talk with her. That was pretty neat! At one moment Jules invited her to come to church, read the Book of Mormon, and invited her to be baptized all in 3 min!!! That's how it's done!! She said she would come to church and read the Book of Mormon! I am excited to hear on Tuesday how that went!!!
When we were about to end the lesson we talked with the Elders about Jules' interview with the bishop to see if he can go to the temple. Among all the logistical things, the bishop told Jules that he wants him to find a wife first before he goes to the temple! This is because it's so expensive to fly him to South Africa where the nearest temple is. So, if he had a wife to marry, then he could also do his sealing there too. Jules... well... he is not too happy about that! He was so cute about it though! I hope he will find someone soon so he can go to the temple for the very first time! Or.... he will be stubborn and go through the temple without a wife! haha! We shall see what happens!
After Skyping with Jules, we went to do some service! We went to the Brown's house to help paint their FULL house! There was a TON of people there, so it only took us about 2 hours to do, plus touch ups later that day. That was so neat how many people came and how fast it went because so many came to help!
This week has been a good one! We had some laughs, lots of service, and great memories! I am looking forward to this week!
love you all!
Sister Parker
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