How a simple question can pull you into an article...

On July 6th, 2008, The New York Times published an article about Mormons witnessing to the deaf.  I feel that they did a good job using a quote to open up the story.  You can get to the article by clicking here.  

The story opens up with a young man asking, "Do you know anyone that deaf?"  For me this quote immediately made me wonder, why is he asking that?  That's such a weird question to ask a random person.

I feel that this article allows for me to remember why I love to read feature stories.  It creates a storybook out of reality.  I love to be set up for something.  And this story helped to set me up to discover witnessing in the Mormon church-on another level.  I found it so interesting how they are able to train these young guys to learn sign language- just to go out and find the deaf so they can share "the word" with them.  And I feel that I wouldn't have gone into the article if it wasn't for the interesting use of a quote.