General Conference & Easter

My week was pretty good.  We got paid this week so were able to be out and about more.  We went to Gallaudet a lot to teach some of our investigators and less actives.  And active members too.  We've been figuring out our bus routes pretty good.  Wednesday night we went up to the DC stake center to interpret and help teach an ASL class they have.  It was lots of fun.  They learned a whole bunch of Easter signs.  Afterwards we were asking if we could get a ride back to the metro station, and a very kind family in the Rockville ward offered not only to take us all the way home, but also bought us dinner on the way there!  That was really cool!  

Friday we had institute at Gallaudet and beforehand, we ran into the Wardle's.  They got us lunch from the cafeteria before class.  While I was getting my food, I ran into the deaf lady I met on the metro last week!  It was super cool to see her again, and get to talk to her for a sec.  Then Saturday we watched the first session of conference, and then we metroed out to the very end of the silver line which goes super far into Virginia so we could watch priesthood session with our branch president.  It was awesome.  His son, JM plays lacrosse so Elder Tracy and I got to pass the ball around with him for a while before it started, and we had super good tacos too.  

Then Sunday we went up to the Lawrence's again for the rest of conference.  It was so much fun.  Between sessions we would play ping pong, and basketball and tons of fun stuff.  So, one thing about watching conference in ASL, is the interpreters can sometimes be really distracting.  During President Utchdorf's talk Sunday morning he was super solemn, right?  Well the interpreter was signing all big and happy and not in the same spirit of the talk at all.  It was a great talk though.  

Then, today we just got back from our spring break sports day zone activity down at fort Washington.  It was super fun.  I scored all our points in football, so that was cool. The actual fort itself is freaking awesome too!  We got there an hour early, so we got to go around the whole fort and see everything.  It's super cool.  Right on the banks of the Potomac.  You can see Washington up the river.  It was super rad!

Elder Sorensen