Hello!
There have been a lot of fun things happening around here (Although I am sad that we have had the last of our binary days for this year ... next year are the last possible binary days for this century so look out for them). The Christmas decorations are up and I am looking forward to Thanksgiving where there are going to be tons of people around here for the lights.
When it is cold outside I am grateful to be assigned at the BeeHive house. We are getting a lot of people from the chemical engineering conference and I am thoroughly enjoying myself out here right now... imagine me connecting chemistry to the gospel and learning about proteins used in the study of Alzheimer’s disease... I was just in heaven right then and there. Benam from Persia was really a delight to answer questions, even though we couldn't invite him to learn more about the gospel. He was fascinated by the temple and about our devotion to God... he just didn't think that he would have time to get to know God and study any science.
The members who visit the Beehive house are pretty amazing. I may still feel a little worried around little kids, but I am completely at home with the youth groups that come through. Brigham's conversion story really brings in the spirit; there was one group of girls who were in a show choir (like Glee, one of them said) and they came through and they felt the spirit so strongly when we explained to them about his conversion: how one person's simple testimony converted a man who eventually became a prophet of God. Imagine their surprise when we also answered the one question they had at the beginning of the tour by showing them the room where that the scripture was revealed. It was an amazing experience. I am grateful for their leaders taking the time to make a spiritual experience instead of all of the scavenger hunts that we're seeing as of late. The hunts are fun, but the fun spiritual experiences are what they are going to remember for a lifetime.
So much fun though, remember who you are and what it means to be a missionary. (because everyone really is one)
Sister Pielstick
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