Hola!
This week has been an interesting one, to say the least. There have been fewer people around here, so it's been a bit of trouble finding people to talk to. However, there are more gardeners here putting in the tulips and the Christmas lights in time for Thanksgiving. It's hard to believe how many people work behind the scenes here at Temple Square to make everything gorgeous for the holidays (Easter and Christmas, not necessarily in that order though). There have been a lot of youth groups that come here for their young men and young women's activities. Imagine how amazing that would be, to live close enough that you could actually plan an activity to Temple Square. Some of the Youth just take it for granted and text during the entire thing, but some of them are drinking in every second of it, even though some of them may have grown up here.
There are always fun people to meet here. This last week we had 18 hours at a desk assignment, which means that the area that you cover gets limited to a single area (the 'desk' being the center of it). It's hard to really get to know people there, but I had a lot of fun talking to the many guests who came and visited with their families. There was a 'Fall break' here in Utah so there were a lot of stellar members who were fun enough to share a few mission stories and missionary experiences. I love talking to the little kids too, they know who Jesus is. One little girl was waiting for her parents to get out of the temple with her grandmother so she was playing at the map of Jerusalem. Her Grandmother was trying to make her understand what Jesus did at Gethsemane, and finally gave up saying that a 3 year old couldn't understand. I later heard that three year old explain,”Jesus was hurt there for us" to one of her older siblings who hadn't been paying attention earlier. Little kids are a lot smarter than we sometimes give them credit for. They are sponges for information, if I've forgotten where I am in a tour I can just ask them and they set me straight immediately about what I have and have not told them. I think it's great for an absent minded person like myself, and it makes the kids think about what they've been hearing.
We also got to start all of the church movies in the North Visitor center, which I thought was nothing short of a miracle in some cases. We had one Catholic lady who went and saw the Testaments movie and came out so touched by it she went immediately to Deseret Book to buy a copy of the movie and the Book of Mormon. She started telling us how she is trying to be a defender of all Christian Faiths, because she thinks it's silly for Christian churches to fight among each other when we're already being torn up from the outside. It was a fun conversation and she says that she's going to prove anyone wrong who claims that Mormons aren't Christian. Sometimes I wonder if non-members who love the Church do more help when they are not of our faith than in our faith. Because we met an amazing man who leads the huge tour buses here and he made sure that his guests know that Mormons are not polygamists and that he teaches everyone the truth about what the Mormons believe. (His wife is a member, and he learned his truth from the missionaries and general conference, so pretty awesome sources I think) If he only believed that you could know that there is a God...
Oh yes, funny joke from one Jewish couple that came through the Beehive house. So we were taking a tour of the Beehive house on Saturday (which is typical) They were talkative, but not very interested in the history of the church (even more typical). We were in the kitchen and the husband says (out of nowhere) "Do you want to hear a joke?". His wife rolls her eyes and tries to keep him from saying it, so we got nervous (Beehive house is a wonderful place for not so nice jokes). Then he surprises us with this:
So a Cardinal goes to the Pope and says " I have good news and bad news"
The Pope says, "well I'll hear the good news first"
"Well the good news is that Jesus Christ came again"
So the Pope says: "That's WONDERFUL news. What could possibly be the bad news?"
" He's calling from Salt lake City"
While it would be nice for everyone to want to learn more about our church, at least some people make being rejected a whole lot of fun.
Love until next week.
Sister Pielstick
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