God Love you! (English if you couldn't tell)
This last week has been interesting, but I will start with an amazing story. We met this young adult at Temple Square, who was just looking so happy we had to ask him why. Apparently you just exude happiness when it's the first time you've returned to church in over ten years. He is amazing, you could just feel the change in his countenance... he was so happy that when we took him to see the Christus he just stood there speechless for a while, then said '"How could anyone come here and not feel anything?". When he saw the Welfare Square exhibit he wanted to find out how to become a humanitarian missionary or to just help others in his free time. He's been to devotionals and he can't wait until he gets to go to church again. All of this because a girl asked him to go to church with her. I wish that I could write a letter to her telling her how great everything has become, how much light is in his eyes because of her invitation. Anyone can change, I just hope that his parents believe him soon, they are really skeptical of his change of heart. It was pretty amazing, he said he's going to come back to temple square to show off his spiffy new church clothes.
I saw the Marshes yesterday. It was rather random, but we said hey (and accidently stole them from the sisters they were talking to, whoops). I keep on running into people from Florida or Cincinnati, it amuses me. Oh and I met a family from Milan, but they didn't speak English and I didn't speak Italian so we sort of mimed to each other to get their questions answered... I hope we get Italian, Czech, and Polish sisters next transfer so we can communicate with the people who come here. But all in all it's pretty cool, even if the temperature is pretty hot.
The organ recitals are my favorite part of the week. I got to meet Clay Christansen, Grandma Pielstick would have been jealous. He was so nice. I got to hear so many amazing pieces, I wish that I could name them all, but I am always sad when people leave early because the best pieces are always the last. Sunday's performance had Flight of the Valkyries, I felt like I was almost plastered to the wall for that one. So, the music is pretty much amazing.
I've passed off on tours so now I can give tours to the 40 or more sized tours. Yeah, sometimes I wish I hadn't but they need all the help they can get. Next week they've planned for me to give a huge tour, and I am more than a little nervous. Oh well, I have to do it sometime, and it's better to learn in the first transfer. Hopefully it will be a Japanese tour so I don't have to say much... all I can do is introduce myself and say where I'm from so far. But Sister Inoue is going to try and have me be able to give my testimony in Japanese before I finish being her companion. So maybe I'll learn a bit of a new language.
Love ya
Sister Pielstick
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