march 11

sorry about the photo mix up. maybe this clerifies.

currnetly serving asl sisters:

sister acker, oliphant, jenson, repman

 

we are in a different order in the temple tour picture.

 

to answer your questino yes yang, sia are both single. yang wants to be married and sia is scared to death of it. kind of funny actually, we are trying to help the two of them be better friends actual. sia has had a few bad expereinces in her past that i think effects her relationships with men, especially hmong men. sia does have two beautiful daughters though. she does not care for them though. and we found out they are actually members too! small world. sia lives by herself. yang on the other hand lives with his sister and brother in law. yang i would say is a way less "bluebox" now and is practically fluent in sign. he is picking it up way fast! i think its because he interacts with the deaf so much more now. sia is not quite as much. she is a lot older mind you. the older you are the harder it us to learn any language. but we are trying to find more resources for  her to continue learning about the gospel. :]

 

sister repman yes can interpret! oh she saves me all the time. funny sometimes she needs interpreting herself, other times she can help interpret. it depends on noise polution really. if she can real clearly she can interpret. other times she missed what people say. but currently shes been interpreting sunday school which is great because i will teaching the mormon.org workshop. we start next sunday :] hopefully it all works out well!

 

wow i would love to teach a mormon.org profile workshop at the second ward! dont know how well it would work though as we have a full blown family history center with 8 computers that we use. madison 2nd i dont think has the same resources. but yeah the profile is just amazing. what they are most helpful for are for YOUR non lds friends. more to come :]

 

hyrum you are passing the sacrament! oh wow im so proud! how blessed are we to have another priesthood holder in the home. and terrill received his patriarchal blessing! wow. wish i could have been there. sounds like a really neat expereince. funny i remember when richards recieved his patriarchal blessing more than my own. so glad we both got to share that experience together. patriarchal blessing are one of the neatest things. so personal and so insightful. thank you heavenly father :]

 

the highschool is doing "All Shook Up" agian?! yeah they did that one my freshman year. oh remember that try out? had a bad head cold and ended up singing the song 2 octives lower than it was written. bahaha i dont think our choir director wanted a female bass. the next year i tried out for "The Boyfriend" and made cuts with my better health singing "Taylor the Latte Boy" song. always a personal favorite ;]

 

We visited many less actives this week! visiting teaching/hometeaching=missionary work. seriously its the same thing. so this week we visit taught nine people. ive never been so great at my visiting teaching and i dont even have an offical visiting teaching calling. pah.

 

we found a deafie! who is a member! yipee! he was baptized a few years ago even and has fallen off all charts. its always nice to know we have more deaf to teach and keep track of.

 

oh did i tell you... we moved AGAIN. this week. oh my goodness since the new year (i think its because of all the new missionaries and the changes our mission is having) things have been balistics. moving, surprise missionaries showing up, emergency transfers, car switches. its been fun to say the least. keeps us on our toes. our exchange sister, sister beale, and also our roommate for 5 days, was emergency transfered yesterday to open up a new area for spanish sisters with a brand new missionary baby. "shotgun" training. its one of many happening right now. we had 30+ missionaries come in last transfer, and we'll be having another 30+ this transfer as well. we are booming. those rates are 3-5 times more than normal. but yeah so we are back in our old apartment with the spanish sisters this time. we will miss the Bird family and their beautiful home. (so far im keeping up with my clean habits i picked up there... we'll see how long is lasts ha)

 

we are teaching a woman named maria. she is a paralized woman who got in to a bad car accident years ago (dont talk on the phone while driving mmk). she such a sweet woman. her caretaker is an lds woman from the spanish ward. woopie for member missionaries! i am so glad she opened her mouth, we are so happy to be able to share the restored gospel with maria.

 

The grandmother we are teaching with her 10 grandchildren she cares for came to church on sunday! i think we just about doubled our primary and the took up a whole back pew. good to see them there and to see the gospel bless families :] reminded me a little bit of growing up and our oliphant herd.

 

thats about it for this week. (other than i miss my past asl sisters more and more everday.)

thanks everyone for all the post this week. it makes me smile so so much :]

Happy early st pattys day. ill probably be dying the milk green again :]

 

Love sister oliphant

 

ps: my half way or 9 month, mark is tomorrow. ummm thats crazy.

pss: happy late bday jesse! (ummm i may sometimes i dream about your cooking)