Sign Language

February 4, 2019

A literal school of children following us!!

Short email this week but just wanted to tell y'all about a cool experience this week! Thursday night we were coming back from a rendevous that fell through and were trying to figure out what to do before we went back home when we saw this inactive member that we have been trying to get to come to church ever since I got here. Well he saw us before we could stop him so he started walking as fast as he could in the other direction but we caught up to him and started talking to him. Well he ended up being a little drunk so we started talking to his friends that were with him. One of them turned out to be a professional soccer player in Thailand and we shared with them a little bit of the Plan of Salvation. Well, this lady who was Muslim saw the brochure and yelled out to us, so we went and started talking to her but she wouldn't take a brochure because she was about to go pray. This woman came up behind her and the Muslim lady turned around, did a cross sign with her hand to this other lady, then ran off. Well turns out the lady who came up to her was deaf and she started doing a bunch of sign language and it was pretty clear that she wanted to hear our message. So me and my companion are standing there trying to figure out how were going to explain the Plan of Salvation in sign language!! Well, luckily a whole 5 or 6 signs I had learned back in 6th grade came back to me along with how to sign the alphabet, so in about 10 minutes of us trying to get a message across by spelling it all out with alphabet sign we found out that her name is Afiwa and even though she knows sign language the only other person who knows sign that she can talk with is her dad!!! No friends or other family know sign! She was super nice to us didn't stop smiling once while talking to her and we told her we would come back to see if her dad could translate but we gave her a Plan of Salvation brochure and had her read certain parts of it. Her face just lit up and she kept thanking us over and over and I hope and pray that her dad can translate so she can hear our message! Hope y'all have a great week!!

Love, Elder Briggs

Bad idea of the week.