Its pretty far south of my roots though, haha, so there's plenty new! Jacksonville, IL is a cute old place with beautiful Victorian homes (one of which we live in on the bottom floor), a college, a deaf school, and an industry in making Ferris Wheels! Also, the Mormon Battalion traveled straight through here! Great stuff.
The ward has a few deaf members and an interpreter stood up the whole Sacrament Meeting, signing!! So cool. The missionaries are encouraged to learn ASL here, so Sister Lowe and I have been practicing the alphabet and learning some vocabulary!
By the way, Sister Lowe: the most prepared brand new missionary ever. Love this girl. She's from Idaho Falls, Idaho, turned 19 last month and went straight on her mission! Its crazy to think its been 10 1/2 months since that was me! But I'm glad to be here with her and help her along her way :)
We met with an investigator of the missionaries here before us, who really connected with the convert member we brought. We hope to be setting a baptismal date with him this week, and finally meet the other investigators the elders had been meeting with!
We were trying to find one of them and ended up in a tiny town off Jacksonville called "Litterberry", obviously in the wrong place. I still felt like we should take the opportunity to knock a few doors, which allowed us to run into a man named Bill Decker we approached and shared the four minute restoration with--after much practice and roleplay!--and he gave us his phone number and address and wants to learn more. Miracles left and right, basically.
And #lightthworld is about to start! I hope you all take the time to look at the video and check out ways you can make the world a little brighter this Christmas Season. mormon.org is the place to go to see it and download the calendar!
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