Every six months our church congregation meets in a big building called a Tabernacle for our church service.(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). In our church we are divided first into ward groups which are the people we worship with each Sunday. Our ward has about 300 people and is led by a bishop.
Our ward is part of a stake consisting of several wards which number about 3,000 people and is led by a stake president. Every six months we meet and worship with everyone in the stake. This meeting can not be held in our regular house of worship as their are so many people. For this meeting we hold services in a building across town called a tabernacle where we all can fit.
The idea behind the organization of our church is to know and take care of one another so the people in each ward is over seen by a bishop, and each stake is over seen by a stake president. It works out well.
We discovered during the last meeting about 6 months ago that although the tabernacle is a beautiful historic building, the acoustics are not so good. In light of this fact, we tried to get to the meeting early today so that we could find a seat where Chance would be able to hear better. We discovered last time that the balcony was not a good place to sit for Chance (read that story here) and the main floor usually fills up before the balcony seats, so we were shooting for main floor seating.
We managed to find a place on the main floor, but once the meeting started, it became apparent that it was still going to be difficult for Chance to hear. Since the meeting lasts for 2 hours, that is an awfully long time to sit as a kid not being able to hear well.(heck, that is a long time for an adult to sit not hearing well:)
Chance's dad slipped out of the meeting to find the audio visual guy to see if the building had a FM signal that Chance could hook into with his implants via an FM receiver, that would send the signal to his implants through his NoizFree telecoil adapter. They did not find a FM receiver, but believed that there was a signal being transmitted, and there was a receiver back at the stake center. So this gentleman who did not know us at all, got in his car, drove across town and got the FM receiver from the stake center library and brought it right to our seat!
Talk about going above and beyond the call of duty! What a wonderful man to invest so much of himself in getting Chance what he needed to hear better. Chance really did hear better with the receiver and it made a big difference in his experience and ability to hear a truly inspiring meeting.
I did not realize that this nice gentleman had driven across to town to get the receiver until we got home. I am going to write a thank you not to him and so is Chance.
There are such good and caring people in the world!
Six months from now, when we worship in the tabernacle again, we will be sure to check out the receiver from the library and take it with us to the tabernacle so Chance can hear the meeting. And maybe we should bring a plate of cookies to the audio visual man who is so caring:)
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