We had a good week this week! It was refreshing to do things we normally don't do.with lots of service and lots of meetings!
On Monday we had a fun time going out to eat for lunch saying good bye to some sisters who are leaving this transfer. On the way back from the lunch I got to talk with a guy at the metro. I ended up giving him a Book of Mormon with our information in it. It felt so good to do metro contacting again on the metro. The last time I talked
with people on the metro was with Sister Cosper. There is still no word from the guy I gave the Book of Mormon too, but it felt so good to chat with him and bear my testimony with him.
That night we went over to the Bishop's house for FHE with Sabrina and Ashely. This is the daughter and her mom from China who has been going to different church events with us. The lesson went really well! We taught about the Plan of Salvation and Sabrina (the mom) asked a lot of good questions. It was so awesome to have the bishop and his wife there to help us teach and answer all of her questions. Even their oldest 2 kids were able to help us teach too! It was a great experience to have their help!
Tuesday was a day full of service! We helped cut veggies for the soup and salad for the Seder dinner. Then we went over to help set up for the dinner. That was a lot of fun! Sister Lagos came for the activity! It was fun to have Sister Lagos there and chat with her. Gloree put on the dinner and she's Jewish herself so she knew exactly how to set it up and organize it. She is married to a member of our ward and has been going to church for 20 years! She's so sweet and awesome. I love her so much! Anyways the activity was so much fun! It was a great reminder about the Israelite's story about fleeing Egypt and how it can be compared to the Atonement. We have been set free, but we must not wish to go back to our sinful ways.
Wednesday was a good day overall. The craziest thing was trying to talk with a deaf man over the Video Phone. On Sunday we got a card from the visitor center to call this man who is deaf. He called in to the visitor center to ask for ASL missionaries to call him. We called him tha
t day and learned he is actually less active. When we ask if there was anything we could do for him, he said no and quickly hung up on us! Since Sunday he kept calling us when we weren't there or not dressed yet for the day. So on Wednesday night we got a hold of him. He was SUPER hard to understand. The way he signs and what he is signing doesn't make any sense. We tried our best to understand him, but we ended up giving him our cell phone number to text... He hasn't call or texted us back yet. So we called the bishop up in Fredrick and asked him if he knew about this deaf man. He said yes and passed him to the Elders. He has some developmental problems and would do better with Elders. So that's fun!
Blossom Festival on April 16th! Most of us are going to help usher and some are going to carry HUGE balloons down the street. It sounds like a huge and fun event to be a part of!
After our meetings we were suppose to have a lesson with Aggie, but she wasn't in town. We were going to have a member come with us too! So when we called the member to say that Aggie canceled, she was so kind to invite us
over for dinner instead! We had a traditional Irish dinner of corn beef, boiled cabbage, and soda bread! For desert we had green milk with donuts! It was a fun dinner! Then we crashed the AP's dinner (the members and the Elders
knew we were coming!) that was awkward though to knock on the door and kick the Elders out. It was fun to chat with them and eat a small 2nd dinner with them. I was surprised I was able to eat as much as I did that night!
On Friday we helped a deaf couple in Fredrick move out some of their things. We finally got the attic all emptied out. President Van De Graaff came to help out too! He pulled a joke on me! He came out when we almost had
everything out from the attic on the front lawn and told me that the lady changed her mind and wants everything back upstairs. I sighed and signed ok... He laughed and said he was just joking! It was so funny! After we swept the attic and Sister Kucharek had fun collecting stink bugs to release outside. When we showed the lady the bugs she
said to throw them away. So we did! Haha.
That afternoon we went to meet Christelle at the McVays house! Little background for you. So the McVay's have a son who needs lots of medical care, so Christelle is one of their nurses. She is from Cameroon and speaks French. The McVay's have a great relationship with her and out found she was interested in learning more about the
church. Christelle is awesome! She had so many great questions and is interested in finding more about our faith. We were able to teach her a part of the Restoration to answer her questions. We are going to have a pass off the
lessons with the French Sisters this Friday so Christelle can go to the French Branch. I'm excited for that!
On Monday we had a fun time going out to eat for lunch saying good bye to some sisters who are leaving this transfer. On the way back from the lunch I got to talk with a guy at the metro. I ended up giving him a Book of Mormon with our information in it. It felt so good to do metro contacting again on the metro. The last time I talked
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That night we went over to the Bishop's house for FHE with Sabrina and Ashely. This is the daughter and her mom from China who has been going to different church events with us. The lesson went really well! We taught about the Plan of Salvation and Sabrina (the mom) asked a lot of good questions. It was so awesome to have the bishop and his wife there to help us teach and answer all of her questions. Even their oldest 2 kids were able to help us teach too! It was a great experience to have their help!
Tuesday was a day full of service! We helped cut veggies for the soup and salad for the Seder dinner. Then we went over to help set up for the dinner. That was a lot of fun! Sister Lagos came for the activity! It was fun to have Sister Lagos there and chat with her. Gloree put on the dinner and she's Jewish herself so she knew exactly how to set it up and organize it. She is married to a member of our ward and has been going to church for 20 years! She's so sweet and awesome. I love her so much! Anyways the activity was so much fun! It was a great reminder about the Israelite's story about fleeing Egypt and how it can be compared to the Atonement. We have been set free, but we must not wish to go back to our sinful ways.
Wednesday was a good day overall. The craziest thing was trying to talk with a deaf man over the Video Phone. On Sunday we got a card from the visitor center to call this man who is deaf. He called in to the visitor center to ask for ASL missionaries to call him. We called him tha
t day and learned he is actually less active. When we ask if there was anything we could do for him, he said no and quickly hung up on us! Since Sunday he kept calling us when we weren't there or not dressed yet for the day. So on Wednesday night we got a hold of him. He was SUPER hard to understand. The way he signs and what he is signing doesn't make any sense. We tried our best to understand him, but we ended up giving him our cell phone number to text... He hasn't call or texted us back yet. So we called the bishop up in Fredrick and asked him if he knew about this deaf man. He said yes and passed him to the Elders. He has some developmental problems and would do better with Elders. So that's fun!
Thursday was a day full of meetings! We first had our language meeting with President Cooke to discuss what we
could do to improve the ASL program. It was a rather intense meeting to try to solve the issues of the ASL program. It was awesome that President Cooke trust us enough to come up with our own game plan to move the ASL program along. We then had a quick lunch at Subway before having to go to Zone/District meeting. At the end of our meeting Sister Cooke came to talk with us. She announced that the whole mission gets to help with the Cherry
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over for dinner instead! We had a traditional Irish dinner of corn beef, boiled cabbage, and soda bread! For desert we had green milk with donuts! It was a fun dinner! Then we crashed the AP's dinner (the members and the Elders
knew we were coming!) that was awkward though to knock on the door and kick the Elders out. It was fun to chat with them and eat a small 2nd dinner with them. I was surprised I was able to eat as much as I did that night!
On Friday we helped a deaf couple in Fredrick move out some of their things. We finally got the attic all emptied out. President Van De Graaff came to help out too! He pulled a joke on me! He came out when we almost had
everything out from the attic on the front lawn and told me that the lady changed her mind and wants everything back upstairs. I sighed and signed ok... He laughed and said he was just joking! It was so funny! After we swept the attic and Sister Kucharek had fun collecting stink bugs to release outside. When we showed the lady the bugs she
said to throw them away. So we did! Haha.
That afternoon we went to meet Christelle at the McVays house! Little background for you. So the McVay's have a son who needs lots of medical care, so Christelle is one of their nurses. She is from Cameroon and speaks French. The McVay's have a great relationship with her and out found she was interested in learning more about the
church. Christelle is awesome! She had so many great questions and is interested in finding more about our faith. We were able to teach her a part of the Restoration to answer her questions. We are going to have a pass off the
lessons with the French Sisters this Friday so Christelle can go to the French Branch. I'm excited for that!
That night we had a little lesson with Sabrina. We showed her the Easter video. At the end she said she was way too busy to go to church events and meet with us because of school 
. So, hopefully she will change her mind and we can meet her again!
Saturday was a throw away kind of day. ALL 3 of our appointments fell through. Instead we spent 2 and 1/2 hours in a car shop so they could replace our windshield wipers. Our old ones had a rip in them so they were leaving water streaks on the windshield. So that wasn't a lot of fun. That night Sister Kucharek taught me some kick boxing while waiting for CALL OUTS! That was a lot of fun! I want to do kickboxing with her in the mornings if we are awake enough to do it! She's a great teacher! So..... CALL OUTS! I am staying another transfer in Rockville!!!! So is Sister Kucharek. In fact ALL the ASL missionaries are staying where they are at. So that's crazy! One ASL sister has been in the branch for 11 months now, so hopefully she will be able to get transferred out next transfer.
Sunday was a great day! We had a really great Sacrament meeting with amazing talks! And the Lagos came to church so we got to interpret for them. That night was Why I Believe. It was pretty good. The best was a testimony from a lady from the Baltimore mission. She used to be apart of the church, but had to get re baptized. My favorite thing she said was about the Holy Ghost. She said she missed having the consent companion of the Holy Ghost when she wasn't a part of the church. It was such a touching testimony how great and important the Holy Ghost is! What was so great was the Lagos came!!! So did Randy and Linda 
. Yesterday was a fun night!
This week looks like to be a good one! I can't believe my birthday is this weekend! What better way to celebrate than to listen to the Women's conference! I hope you all will have great week and enjoy the spring weather!
Much love!
Sister Parker
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