Transfer 6: Week 3; South 2

Aloha!

This week has gone by crazy fast and I adore young men's groups. One of my best friends in the mission (Sister Terry from Oxford England) is in charge of the youth programs and she got my help this week for a couple of programs. My favorite was a group of young men from Utah. It was wet and rainy, but they were so well behaved. We started with the Temple in the south visitor's center where we talked about how excited they were to all go on missions (one of them turns in his papers the exact same time as Dagan) Then, of course we told my favorite missionary story about the Tabernacle (did you know that the missionary calls were given in that building for ages... imagine going to general conference and listening to the prophet calling your name in the middle of his address so that you can pack up, leave your family, and serve in a strange land for 2-5 years at a time... crazy) We ended up with about 50 youth in the Christus for a short testimony then escaped with our young men before the other random youth groups got their wits and followed us for the rest of the night. My favorite bit was that all of our young men thought of one way to help others come closer to Jesus Christ, even though I lead them in Ye Elders of Israel to the tune of Redeemer of Israel... it's only been 2 years since I've heard that song, and they were all following me, so I had no idea that it was the wrong tune until Sister Terry mentioned it in the end. The moral of this story is that the Atonement and the Spirit can work wonders with well meaning missionaries.

Our investigators are now with the missionaries... which is a happy and sad thing-happy that they are learning more and sad that we are not there teaching them every day. Oh well, God will trust us with more souls to teach and invite. My favorite is still our North Carolina boy who met the missionaries faster than anyone else I know and loves learning about the church, even though he doesn't like Mormons for the most part... but he feels the spirit give him peace when he reads the Book of Mormon, so he knows that something has to be right. All of them are so much fun, even when things get hard they try their hardest to learn more about Jesus Christ. (One of our new investigators is from Honduras and he's an engineer, he's a really busy guy this week though. )

Hope that this finds all of you well. Remember that God loves everyone, and that the Atonement covers everything, especially little mistakes like the ones that I am prone to making.

Love you.

Sister Pielstick