Out of the MTC and onto Temple Square :)

kami sama wa aishiteiruyo!

God Loves you in Japanese, Mainly because my new companion Sister Inoue is from Japan/ Hawaii. She is really nice and very diligent, appearance wise she looks almost exactly like Mulan. She loves talking to everyone, but especially the children because before she was on her mission she taught Nursery. She also studied at BYU before coming on her mission.

I am in the North Zone, which means that I am in the building with the Christus and the Jerusalem Map. We also have the Tabernacle and the Conference Center in my area... which is pretty big because some zones only have one or two rooms as their assignments.

I have met many different people so far, especially since I have only been here a week. I have met many people from Japan and Taiwan visiting as well as many people from the Netherlands, even a family from Israel. The German sisters have officially decided that Pielstick is indeed German and that we have been mispronouncing it for ages... they say it more like peel-stoich than Peel Stick, so that was pretty interesting. I have not passed off tour giving, but I have learned most of the historical information for my area (did you know that the Christus has a twin that was used in the World's Fair?) The information is all very interesting from the hand painted benches to the scale model of the temple, but the hardest part is trying to tie everything back to our basic beliefs, because it is our basic beliefs that brought the Pioneers to this place, and caused them to create these beautiful buildings.

I like showing people Temple Square on tours most of all because you get to know people on a better basis. Yesterday I got to talk to a family that asked if they could sing in the tabernacle to test out the acoustics and they bust out into a four part harmony of one of the old chorales you often hear in the Catholic Cathedrals... I thought that was amazing, even if they didn't want us to show them around temple square (Which was sad because I would have loved to get to know them better). Music seems to have followed me out here as well because I am in charge of closing and opening the Tabernacle for the musical performances... which means of course that I have to listen to them:)

There is one unfortunate thing about being on temple square and that is my body's fault. I was practicing to be able to give the acoustical demonstration in the tabernacle and the day I planned to pass it off I lost my voice, so I get to add my input via whispering right now... I hope that i regain my voice sometime soon. I am not happy that as soon as I started to feel comfortable talking to people that I lost the ability to do so properly. But hopefully I'll be able to make a difference regardless.

They also love to have language tours here, but I talked to some Parisian people today and realized how much I had really lost in my speaking vocabulary... hopefully I am able to regain my French so I can guide people around temple square in French.

Love you all,
Sister Pielstick