The craziest April Fools I Ever Had!.... But seriously it did happen!

Hello everyone!

I can't believe it is time to write again how my week went! It went so fast!! It was a good week!

Us with Sister Brown!

Monday: We went to the Cranney's house for dinner with the other Rockville sisters. They are the best! I had Bro Cranney tell us about the time he was on his mission in New York during 9/11. It's a crazy story! He and his companion got permission to go take pictures of what happened to the twins towers. On the way back the subways were closed down, so he and his comp, a long with 7 other people, went through the subway tunnels to go back home. As you can guess they had a few freaked out voice messages on their phone. We kept joking how only a dumb elder would do that! Before we left we saw their baby girl's room! The baby is due on April 10th. It was so cute!  It is dragon themed. Over the crib it says "A true princess fights her own dragons" 

Tues: We had to use the map again to find out what street to go tracking on! We looked before we left to see if anyone showed up on our map that lived on that street and no one showed up. So we  instead we knocked on that street. Almost everyone answered their door! They all said they weren't interested except for one guy! He answered the door and he looked happy/surprised to see us! He said that he already had 2 Book of Mormons. He asked if we wanted one back. We promptly told him, "No, you keep it!" Then we asked if he would be interested in learning more and he said yes, but after he read some of the Book of Mormon. We told him sure and we got his number! I'm excited to try to get in contact with him this week!

Wed: That day was a BIG service day. We went over to the Brown's to help clean the baseboards of the house. They moved out yesterday. I'm going to miss them so much!

Thurs: we had a funny district meeting! Our district leader, Elder Thorpe, had us show a hidden talent that you would show to 6th graders to impress them. To start off Elder Thorpe showed us how he could flick his pointer finger by hitting his middle finger and it made a snapping noise. He can do it with both hands! He looks like a crab when he does it haha! The other people in my district had something physical talent they could do too. Lots of cracking of joints. Haha. The sister before me said, "Well, I can't  close one eye at a time. It just closes together. Plus, I can't  roll my tongue over to the side." So I got up and said that what ever she said she can't do I can! I close one eye ALL the time and I can only roll my tongue to the right. Haha. It was so funny.

Friday: This is the craziest day ever! To kick off April Fools the night before, Sister Kucharek told me to put an Onguard bead in my mouth. Then she told me to bite down on it, so I did! OH MY GOODNESS did that taste nasty! It burned and made my tongue go numb for like 5 min! It was quite funny... Wished we got it on tape!  On Friday morning Sister Kucharek was going to have an alarm go off at 5:30am to prank me, but she woke up at 5:00 and couldn't go back to sleep. She turned off the alarm because she was afraid once it went off she would be asleep again. So, instead my trick from her was a bunch of photos and a videos on my iPad wishing me luck for April Fools day. Haha. 

So there is this crazy intersection off a roundabout that we use every week to go to Gallaudet. Without fail every time we almost get hit because the car in the next lane wants to take a left instead of going straight. We didn't get hit that day, but we were soooo close yet again! At institute Ryan was already there waiting for us! We dropped him a couple of weeks ago because he didn't have an interest of learning more. He just wants to chat. Anyways Ryan came and he said he enjoyed it! He said he would be interested in going to the Deaf Branch next week.  We passed him off to the Elders to see if he does better with them. I'm excited to see what happens!

On our way to our next appointment we saw 3.... yes...3 separate area with of some serious police action! The first time was right in DC. There were 10 police cars outside a pond shop. There was tons of people on the sidewalks and also cameras! The second time was getting onto the freeway. Its really a highway... Anyways we just got on and we see 3 or 4 motorcycles with red and blue lights on. They weren't making any noise, so we were confused what was going on. About 3 min later they start signaling everyone to pull over. So we did.... Than 1,2,3... 10 police motorcycles zoom passed and we were really confused! Then we saw 2 SUVs with 2 black Cadillacs that had American flags on it. Then it was followed with 2 or more SUVs and 4 cop cars trailing behind. That was a scene! We are guessing we just saw the President of the United States pass through... Only in DC would this happen! Haha. The third time wasn't as exciting as the 1st two. It was just 2 cop cars doing a drug bust. They had gloves on and looking through a paper bag. All of this happened from ONE car ride! That was pretty intense and fun ride up! Haha

We got to see Aggie that afternoon with our mission leader's wife. The lesson went really well. We decided that Aggie does so much better when a member comes with us. She is much more talkative and gives better feedback with what she is understanding. If everything goes well, she should be able to get baptized next week! She might have a problem with tea though... And she likes to put coffee in her milk because she doesn't like white milk! We are going to give her coco powder to substitute for the coffee. Wish us luck this week that everything will fall into place! 

Saturday and Sunday was taken up by General Conference! We were able to go to the visitor center to watch it with Aggie. We were late to meet her because we had to set up General Conference in ASL at the stake center next door. (yes.. I go to church right next to the temple! Literally they are neighbors!) Aggie seemed to enjoy conference and is so excited to get baptized! Saturday afternoon and Sun morning we watched the conference in ASL hoping people from the branch would come. Sat afternoon we had Jackie come. I helped teach her way back in Nov. she was the lady we tried to help teach her how to pray. The other sisters are working with her now. That was fun to see her again! Sat night we were going to have a pass off lesson with the other sisters, but the lady forgot to tell us she was not home. So, hopefully we will get to meet her this week!

So General Conference happened! It was so good! I really enjoyed Elder Holland's talk. It was exactly what I needed. He was the perfect way end the conference with. I also enjoyed Pres, Eyring's talk about faith. There were so many great talks. I'm so excited to go back and read and mark them up! What's neat is watching general conference in ASL. Watching it in ASL was especially fun with stories! The best one was the 4 year old when he said, "Sometimes it is hard to focus on Jesus". I also loved watching Uctdorf's talk in ASL. It was cool to see how it was shown the difference between being forced and bent to be obedient versus when we choose ourselves to be obedient. 

Well.. I hope you all are doing great and enjoyed general conference too! I love you all!

Truly yours,

Sister Parker