Sarah's January 13th email

Hey all!

Sorry it's taken me so long to write. It's transfers week and then yesterday we were snowed in, and everything closed because of the ninjas (you know how they are). So I'm writing you now. And the next time I write will be on Tuesday, because the Library is closed on Monday, due to the holidays!

Yay!

So about transfers: I am (hopefully) not moving. They asked us to go to transfer meeting though. They told us we were staying the same, but that we should go. I think that we are being assigned to different wards.

The Sister missionaries who work in the city always work in the singles wards. Usually, there are three sets of Sisters for four wards, and one set covers two wards. Recently, there have only been two sets of sisters, two wards for each, but we have just found out that Sister Stevens and I are going to become the only sisters in the city now, and possibly will cover all four wards. I will let you know what happens on Tuesday. Either way, the whole point of telling you this was to say that my address has not yet changed, but may because I don't know how boundaries work out. SO FUN!!!

In other news: I may have mentioned before about out deaf investigator, Jonathan. Well, he's doing really well. He loves church and he understands (we think) what is being taught to him. We are really sad though because even if he wanted to be baptized, we don't have a permanent interpreter for him, and we want people to be able to talk to him.

Our solution?

BAPTIZE MORE DEAF PEOPLE!!!!!!!

That's right. Semi-supported by our mission, and with a haphazard and unsure plan about how to proceed, Sister Stevens and I will endeavor to become (dun dun dun daaaaaa!) The First American Sign Language Missionaries in Boston!!!

Fist big problem: I don't know sign language.

However, I can bear testimony and compliment someone on their shoes AND say "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas" So I think I'm on the right path.We aren't sure if it's going to work, but there is a huge deaf community here in Boston and Sister Stevens knows how to get to them. We plan on starting a ASL class here for the members, so they can communicate with them, and there are lots of other things to be done in this respect. We plan on being very busy for the next few months. YAY!

We have two or three members who are really excited to help us out, and I'm pretty excited about it all.

Thank you so much for your prayers! God has blessed me so much! I know he watches out for me, and that he has something great in store. Thank you all so much! I love you!

-Sister Dixon :Sign language missionary.

Oh yeah.

PS. What the heck was with that picture!?!?! Who is fondling my little sister? and why does it look like that? And why is her face all white? And Lilli, Why oh why would you wear that bow in your hair?

PPS. Just kidding, you rock the bow.!!!

PPPS. I'm guessing it was for a play. You look awesome.