YOOOOO (11/16/09)

Hey ma peeps,

Hello how are you all? Life is crazy but I can't complain in any way. I am doing everything I love. I get to walk around all day talking to people and teaching them about the gospel that I love, how could life be any better? I have no time to write letters ever. Hopefully I will have a little time today, I'm not sure. So the deafies are amazing I love them they have such a spirit about them and they are so humble, in general there are a few exceptions. Oh and I am outside in short sleeve shirts almost everyday. It's starting to get a little chilly at night so I just throw my jacket on and I'm good.

Monday prep day and email. I played capture the flag outside in a t-shirt and it was so hot. It was fun though, my zone is amazing. Then it was off to an ice cream social for deafies. Got to mingle with the deafies while eating, life is great.

Tuesday Zone meeting then we are trying to get Visiting Teaching and Home Teaching to work in the deaf branch because right now we are at 0%. So we made a poster and everything visual hopefully that will bring back a lot of our Less Actives (LA). Then we had dinner with some of the elders at a members house and we taught her the first lesson after. Awesome!!!

Wednesday We taught Scott our investigator about the importance of following the prophet and obeying, specifically the word of wisdom. He has now been to church 3 times we just need to get him to stop smoking and he can be baptized. I know he feels the spirit and knows the church is true. Its just really hard for him to realize why he needs to stop smoking. So please pray for him that he may have the strength to quit. Then we did some contacting had 4 return appointments it is so refreshing when you ask them to come back and they say sure. So when we find people we just inform them the other missionaries will come and teach them because we work with deaf people, and we ask them if they know any deaf people. That night we had English Class, deaf peole come and we teach them english because they have very broken english skills. Ex. Store i goes with brother and enjoy. That describes just about every deaf person. We normally only have Jeremy come, who is amazing he has mental disabilities along with being deaf but has the greatest spirit ever. So we have been trying to get our english class to grow. at the ice cream social we passed out fliers. This week Jeremy was in English class as well as 4 deaf very accountable people. AWWW miracles happen everyday. They are all non-members. They are coming this week too. We are so excited. Pray for that as well.

Thursday: We visited some LA and that went well our teaching appointments canceled and rescheduled. We went contacting at some appartments. We found this little girl, her name Diasha she is this little black girl maybe 3-5 yrs old. We asked her if she knew any deaf people she said yes and led us to the appt. It was a guy about 30 with his wife and her kids. We are teaching them tomorrow, he was very open to the idea. Pray for them. we went around to more houses found some scary drunk and high people then later we found Diasha again we told her she could work with us for the night. She was passing cards around to everyone she saw. We asked her if she knew anyone else that was deaf and she lead us to the next appt. We teach them tonight it is a single mom and her 14 yr old daughter is deaf. Pray they will be open and receptive. Then we went to visit Bonnie a LA that is not accountable but needs direction. We taught her the first lesson. Hopefully she comes back. Diasha was an angel i'm pretty sure.

Friday We planned all morning for next weeks goals and then taught a LA and her mom. we are trying to get her prepared to go on a mission. SHe would be awesome her name is Rochelle. Then we had dinner with a member and went to another deaf social.

Saturday We were at the church all day helping with the Relief Society social because the sister missionaries have almost every calling in the branch. We are the activities coordinators and the interpreters and everything else. So we did the activity and it was stake conference so we interepreted the night session and had dinner and then went home it was a long day but we had some LA come so that was really good.

Sunday Scott came to church, we did a blitz with the zone meaning we all go to a companionships area trade comps (except the sisters) and tract their area. We went and got shut down by every single person. we desided to go to one last place before heading in and that was where we handed out a Book of Mormon and a return appt this guy is awsome I hope all goes well with him. Then we had some birthdays so we took brownies out to the people with birthdays. They deafies are awesome they really are a blessing in my life and some of them are going straight to the celestial kingdom. It's awesome....That is my week and I love my life. Pray for the deafies that they will be active and we can find them.

Until next week oh and write me

SIster HOlt

Be happy and keep smiling.