dont mean to sound ignorant but.
people with perfect hearing are not the best at teaching the signing.
those that depend on it for daily life are better for some reason. Maybe because they take it more seriously?
I have no clue what it is not to hear. I have no clue how important it is to communicate with hands instead of mouth.
I would like to be able to step in for the woman that does the sign at our church services, she tried to teach once but nobody got it.
Understandable. That's true that some people with perfect hearing aren't the best teacher for teaching sign language. However, there are some are really good at it. For example, one of my friends have interpreting degree and certification and she can hear. Her aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. are deaf, and that's why she can sign so well. I thought she was deaf when I first met her because she signed so well for a hearing person.
Also, there are alot of hearing adults out there signs so well because they have deaf parents and grew up using ASL all of their life. So, don't rule out perfect hearing adults when it comes to teaching sign language. Check out their background first before making a decision.
The lady at the church may be called a "signer". She's never really learned proper sign language and called herself as an "interpreter", but she's not. A "signer" are Wanna Be Interpreters for the deaf. They don't know anything about code of ethics, acts like they know everything, scolding at the deaf adults for doing something that was wrong, etc. A real professional interpreters would NOT scold deaf adults, would not treat the deaf like they are an idiots, and will not break the confidential of doctor/patients information to other deaf people in the community.
Ever since I had problems with the "signers", I've complained to college and gotten a professional interpreters since then. I also made sure that all interpreters at my doctor appointments, college courses, etc. must be a professional interpreters. I checked their background out first.
It's very important to communicate with hands because it is alot easier to understand than trying to lip read that gives me headache and blurry vision from being overtired and overworked. Lip reading is a very hard skilled that I have gained since I was born. No one taught me how to lip read. I just did it. I've people asking me to teach them how to lip read and I was like "Uh, I don't know how to teach it." I guess people have to be deaf to be able to learn how to lip read.
NOTE: Not all deaf people can lip read. I know several of deaf people can not lip read at all because they have never been around hearing people in their entire life until they graduated from school for the deaf to work in the hearing world and they feel very lost and frustrated. It's very understanable. They never had to learn because they have deaf family and attended school for the deaf and there was no need to learn to lip read.
I would LOVE to see you to be able to sign fluently and step in for a woman at the church to help as a team. Church is a place that is okay for a "signer" or volunteers to help with signing the lectures and songs.
I wish I could attend the church services on Sundays, but none of the Methodist Churches have volunteer interpreters/signers. However, almost all Catholic Church have interpreters/signers in this area. I don't want to go to Catholic Church just for an interpreter/signer.
There are some words I could not prounounced at all. People would hear me misprouncing the words and get a kick out of it by laughing so hard. For example, back in 1999, I asked a co-worker for a disk and she thought I was asking for "Dick". She asked me why I wanted a "penis" for.
I couldn't do "s" very well.
Now, who mentioned that I was deaf? 
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