Hello!
This week has been crazy, it definitely doesn't seem like it has been a week. Wow! The Beehive House is becoming more powerful as I've finally mastered the history to the point where I am comfortable changing up the facts I share every time I go through the house. History and pioneer stories have a mind of their own sometimes (and hyperactive Utah fans are hilarious BTW). Sometimes I mess things up, but Sister Doggett seems to have an infinite well of patience coming from somewhere. (I haven't found the source, but hopefully she'll teach me how to get that source because I am certainly still as impatient as ever)
We've had a lot of fun member missionaries who came and visited the house. Even though people who live in Utah don't have a lot of friends to invite to meet with the missionaries, they still try their hardest to find ways to serve others. There are also a lot of people here seeking to find out their heritage, which is interesting because President Holmes added the family search center to our mission. This is exciting, also, because our boundaries are small as it is and we definitely appreciate the increase to the area we have to take the guests. It's exciting to see how we'll be able to let people realize that genealogical research builds perfectly to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It makes me a little excited because now I am learning more about how immigrants came into the USA. There are some amazing stories.
Service is the best thing, especially if that service means taking down a haunted village, which we did on Wednesday. With most missions you have to do a certain number of hours of service per week, at Temple Square there are too many of us so we're lucky if we get to do service once every six weeks. We got to take down the haunted pirate ship, it was awesome. Then surprise, surprise we started putting out the Christmas decorations. Which is crazy to me, but for big places things like Christmas decorations are planned as early as May. Eeek! Now that's scary.
We're having fun, and still searching for a pair of attractive AND warm boots for winter because the first lasting snow is expected next week. As much as I'd like to imagine that the warmth of the Holy Ghost can keep me from frostbite here on Temple Square, other sisters have told me that I will, in fact, need to wear boots and gloves to stay warm when the Christmas lights turn on. So much for a Floridian's hope for the warm weather to continue.
Hope this letter finds everyone in good spirits,
Sister Pielstick
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