We had zone training on Thursday
which was really good! I had to interpret the entire 4 hour meeting so;
needless to say, I was super tired when it was over! Ha-ha I did have some
breaks! Elder Nelsen doesn't want me to have carpal tunnel so he had me
take breaks every hour or so! ha-ha. But
it was really good and it was perfect for the two of us as it goes with what we
are going to teach this Sunday for combined RS and Priesthood!
Ok, on Thursday night we received a
call that a deaf man in our apartment complex needed us to go over the next day
and get rid of evil spirits that were in his house. We were ok with that! It is
weird to be called as an exorcist! Ha-ha. So on Friday morning we went
over there and we met one less-active member as well as two deaf people that I
had never met before as well as the deaf man that lived there! It was cool!
Anyways, we went inside and as soon as we were inside I could feel that something
was most definitely not right there. It was a bad feeling! The guy told us that
he had seen "ghosts" inside and he would hear them sing (he is more
Hard or Hearing then deaf). Anyways we all kneeled down in prayer and then
Elder Nelsen said a prayer and commanded the bad spirits to leave. As soon as
he said amen the entire feeling of the room changed! The bad feeling was gone
and it felt good again! Afterwards we talked to all the people there for
awhile! One of the new deaf people I met is now rooming with the Less Active
member and they invited us to come visit soon! And the other new deaf person is
actually a very good possibility! Her in-laws are members and she started
asking us some questions. Hopefully we will be able to see her again soon and
hopefully start teaching her!
One other really interesting thing
that happened on Saturday was I had my first contact with a blind and deaf
person! It was pretty funny actually! We went to visit our investigator
Jessica, she couldn't meet then, but as we were driving away Elder Nelsen
smacks my arm and says, "Stop the Car"! I do and he says he sees deaf
people so I parked the car and then we went and walked over to them! Joe, the
husband, was a little nervous. I can't blame him! We look like cops and we had
that whole "Stop the car" scenario. But we started signing to him (he
had just got out of his car) and then he opened the passenger door and let out
his wife Katie. She is the one that is deaf and blind! It was interesting
because to communicate with her, she would hold onto our hands as we signed and
she understood everything! Then she would sign normally to reply! It was really
interesting to communicate with her! It was cool! They just moved here two
weeks ago so we will go sometime soon to see and visit them!
We had an interesting day yesterday
at the branch! We had an entire sign language class show up for their class.
Which in and of itself was interesting! But through the sacrament we had one
member get up and give one of the most unprepared talks I've ever heard. All
this member did was read from preach my gospel about their topic and even that
they didn't know what they were doing. It is hard to describe but let's just
say it was one of those times that you wish your investigator DIDN'T come to
church! It was awful! Also yesterday me and Elder Nelsen gave the lesson for
combined RS and Priesthood about the branch and missionary work! To be honest,
it was a fantastic lesson! And the two of us did really well with it! But we
noticed some interesting things! One is that, for the majority of the branch,
they aren't going to be fully into missionary work, some of them even were
expressing doubts. It was kind of sad! But it was a good lesson! Hopefully we
can really get the branch going with it!
Things are going pretty good!
Numbers-wise, as always, it doesn't look like are doing too much but it
actually is going pretty good! That was our week!
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