It has been consistently colder and colder as the year ages. I don't think it has gotten above freezing all last week or this, and I hear that it isn't going to improve. Luckily, I have very good snow and cold weather gear, so I am doing alright.
I just hit my six-month mark on Friday, making a quarter of my mission complete. Oh how the time has flown, and how it will continue to fly faster and faster!
With the plunging weather, our teaching has gone down as well. When I became companions with Elder Aston, his area wasn't doing too well, and hasn't really gotten better yet. Church attendance is down, as it typically is in the winter due to colder weather. For some reason, deaf people aren't as willing to come to church when it's cold outside, and a few think it's even closed because of the weather. It would have to take another hurricane to not have church, and even then, we still might. It has been a struggle to teach, but I have been learning a lot about my new companion and about myself.
Probably the most interesting day was Friday. That evening, we went to the restaurant Max Brenner's for our 6-month mark, which had some amazing Mac and cheese and flatbread pizza. Then after teaching a youth group some ASL, we discovered a pipe burst in the women's changing room of the font in the basement. It wasn't horrendous, but it was even slowly filling the font. We got a mechanic from the hearing Ward over to fix the problem, and rolled out at around 10 pm. We then got on the subway with a drunk guy who said some not nice things about us and the church at us. We just signed to each other and feigned deafness.
Hope you are all doing alright, and keep being awesome.
Elder Ryan Turner
New York New York North Mission
American Sign Language
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