I love General Conference! I look so forward to hearing the talks and feeling the spirit.
Elder Hallsted and I interpreted all 4 sessions of conference for our friend C who is about 21-22 years old.
C understands simple ASL, so the regular church interpreter confused him. He simply has had no education
what so ever. He was born deaf so his family did not see any reason for an education. He is now going to school
and learning ASL but is about a 4th-5th grade level of education. He is amazing and is learning so much,
he is also teaching us so much! We simplified the talks for him to watch!
I think that helped me understand what the Speaker's focus was, as most of the time the simplified ASL
would leave us repeating many phrases. From what I interpreted, alot of the General Conference
was focused on Jesus... maybe that was just my interpretation :)
I would reccomend re-reading all of the talks. I will also be doing so!
We played frisbee golf this morning, not quite real golf, but I'll take it. Apparently Bees don't really like me,
and as I was about to tee off, one latched onto my ankle and stung me through my sock.
Luckily I was a big boy and only cried for 2 minutes.
We went on exchanges with Canyon Crest and also the Tech elders. Thats about it!
Besides amazing conference!
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-Elder Vance