Transfer 4: week 1: South 2 Zone

Hello!

I'm sure this letter took just about everyone by surprise. Thursday p-day is definitely different. At least Wal-Mart was pretty much empty and there were no lines at the checkout (a miracle in and of itself).

My new companion is Sister Bruno from Brazil, she's very crafty and loves to make everything look nice. She also enjoys testifying all about the Gospel. She'll stop anyone in the street and if she feels like it is awkward, she'll testify and bring the Spirit so that it's not so awkward anymore. Sister Doggett went off to be a zone leader, so now Sister Bruno's hoping that the same fate doesn't await her.

The entire mission has changed here, instead of 6 zones we have 8 and there are so many different ways to share the gospel now it is insane. We now are able to teach the people we meet on Temple Square and let them know more about Jesus Christ. We are able to teach until the missionaries come into contact with them, which sounds amazing... I just have to figure out a whole new set of missionary skills that I haven't used since the MTC. It makes for an interesting new way to look at people; you want to teach them just enough so they want to learn more... but don't feel overwhelmed with the new information. There are other aspects of the mission that I haven't figured out yet, but everything here is definitely changing.

I did have one last miracle to share that I had with Sister Doggett. Zone leaders have a lot of training that they need in order to become such. The last week we had together, Sister Doggett and I had hardly any success because we weren't on Temple Square much. However, the short time we were on the square gave us so many miracles, Heavenly Father does not joke around with blessings. If you serve him as best you can he will pour you out a blessing that you may not be able to receive it. Every time we were on Temple Square we found someone who was prepared, someone who either wanted to know more about the gospel or people who just walked up to us with friends they thought would love to learn more about Jesus Christ. We even met an amazing lady from Holland who was the sweetest, friendliest, nicest European that I had ever met during my time here. I hope that she loves the missionaries as much as they are going to love her.

I'm sure I'll have miracles with Sister Bruno, but as we have been together for just one day nothing yet... I'm still figuring out how to fill out paperwork and work the conference calls. Oh well, just as I thought I had figured everything out they change everything up on me.

Love you,

Sister Pielstick