General Conference (Transfer 2 Week 4 Cover Zone)

Hello!

Sorry for no new nifty languages this week, I'll do better next time promise. This week has been a rather crazy one. From General Conference to Christmas (which starts here Thanksgiving), it seems like there is not enough time for everything to get done here. Oi!

There were some amazing miracles, and the members are so nice during conference. Usually they try to avoid us, but this time they were more than willing to talk to us. And we had some amazing people, couples who had just joined the church and were getting sealed this week, people who had been on 4 or 5 missions together as a couple, people who were just starting school or just finishing it. There were amazing families of people who were listening to conference while they were eating lunch on the lawn... I enjoyed it. They also were able to let us call their friends, which is a huge trust that they put in us. I hope that I can talk to their friends and do the best I can. If the members were that amazing, I can't imagine how amazing their friends are going to be...

We also get to see only one session of General conference, which was sad because apparently this one was especially good. I saw the Saturday afternoon session and I was only 10 rows away from the pulpit (albeit I was also only 10 seats from the wall) and I loved Elder Scott's talk about Faith building character. I hope that all the faith I have to use is helping me build some sort of character... otherwise I am just sitting here on my mission learning nothing more than a few new ways to say hello/ how are you.

We've also had a couple of amazing people, Charlie was my personal favorite though, he is a water quality guy for the government and his tour was really fast. (Sister Newman likes short tours, but he likes them even shorter: we saw the three historic buildings and the North visitor center before most people stop gawking at the Tabernacle roof) But we had fun talking to him about Joseph Smith, which was funny because he wasn't interested in anything before, then he asked if he and his wife could learn more from the missionaries about the Book of Mormon. He then walked to the Book of Mormon displays and saw the Christus in the time it took us to get upstairs.

There isn't too much more to report here, except that temple square is now officially in slow season... which means that there are fewer people and that I have time to push more buttons and see all of the media that temple square has... someone told me that there is over 12 hours of material on just one floor, so I may be able to listen to everything before it gets too slow. :)

Love you all,
Sister Pielstick