Transfer 6: week 2: South 2

Hello friends and family!

"Welcome to Temple Square. As missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we'd love to share more about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ with you or anyone that you know that might appreciate this message. Please see a missionary after this presentation to find out how we can help you with your missionary work."

I know it needs a bit of tweaking, but we're changing a lot of things for this General Conference and missionary work. Being an announcing coordinator is exciting and interesting, we get to figure out how best to talk to the many member missionaries that come to see us during General Conference time. Hopefully the changes don't make everything worse, but the AP's are really helpful with that. When the changes are approved I'll let you know more about it, but it is a blessing to serve the mission in a non-leadership capacity. Leadership still scares me a bit, but my companion keeps reassuring me that I have not, in fact, completely ruined her as my first junior companion guinea pig.

Teaching the gospel is awesome. Too bad you only have 18 months to do it as a missionary, where the tag on your chest means that you're there to teach them more about the gospel. Helping others find out more is really amazing, we have two investigators that I am really excited for... one who is trying to figure out how to go to church this Sunday and another who is in Texas and texted her best friend's mother to ask how she could meet with the missionaries after she failed to chase them down yesterday. It was so exciting. Another has had a really bad week, so hopefully we can help her feel God's love for her while things get really tough.

I'm having fun with youth conferences; yup, that's right youth conferences. I can't wait for the summer when there are going to be loads of them every weekend. We get to take them around Temple Square and they then get to have a tour of the Conference Center and get cooking classes from the chefs in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. (I wish that we could sit in on that sometime, but maybe another time) It's fun to see how much the youth look up to missionaries, how much they all want to be missionaries and bring others closer to Jesus Christ. We talked to one boy who's thinking about going to church because his best friend is Mormon and invited him a lot.

Best wishes to everyone.

Sister Pielstick