Busy is now my middle name!

Family and friends,

Wow. This past week has been so crazy! So many things happening now.

With permission from our Mission President, we have been filming the members share their Testimonies. We will put them together in a DVD and distribute that to all the deaf we meet. We have also been including hearing members as well who know sign language.

Friday we went to the Temple with the Branch. Small group, but we enjoyed it. One young adult woman recently has been called as an interpreter in our Branch, and still is awkward with sign language. So we met her last week Friday. She's a lot more comfortable with people her age (she's 24) than with adults or other settings. We were one on one with her so she was able to receive direct feedback from us as we helped her. We are now teaching her sign language and practicing interpreting two times a week. She's a recent convert and is really cool.

We fasted for one of our investigators, S. He's READY to be baptized. He KNOWS the church is true. Yet he still hesitates. He's still nervous, not taking that last step. Last week Elder McGill led the lesson and we felt the spirit so strong. We proved to him that he was ready. We reviewed the baptism questions with him without him knowing what they were, and he beleives EVERYTHING about the church, yet still doesn't want to be baptised. So Tomorrow we will take him to the Temple and walk outside and allow him to feel the spirit. He wants to enter the Temple and see his friends from the Branch there. We hope we can figure out how to help him.

We've also been setting up home teaching. Our Elders Quorum President is resonsible for all of this, however he works and is super busy, which is probably why two full time Missionaries were called, meaning my companion and I. So we were given the task to setup home teaching, figure out how to teach Priesthood class better, and help supervise the Branch's temporal needs. Sunday was crazy. We had a meeting with him at 9am, we reviewed our home teaching list we stayed up the night before preparing. Then we had a special meeting where we and another leader with two different lists tried to combine and unify them. Then after a long heated discussion we finally agreed and setup home teaching.

Then the hearing ward that meets at the same time had a Primary program, so we watched that and supported them. Then taught our Gospel Principles class, then fell asleep during Priesthood because I have a small cold that's making me exhausted. Then Sacrament meeting, very good.

Today we took control of PDAY. We had a picture scavenger hunt and it was fun. Will have to explain later.

Anyway I need to go! Take care!

Love

Elder Gardner.