Transfer 8: Week 6

Hello!

The weather is Hot, the unusual thunderstorms are pleasant, and the Temple is still made out of granite. And Sister Pielstick is still in the office. However now I understand more of what this place means... basically if there is anything related to lists or numbers, or anything resembling a list or a number then we get to take care of it. Missions require a lot of work, and this mission requires a lot of background help to keep running smoothly... We're not leaders, we just get all the information they do and we report for the mission. That didn't make much sense either: suffice it to say that office assistants help with the mission's temporal needs running while the assistants to the president keep the spiritual needs of the mission met. It's odd and has no category to put you in, so I guess it suits me perfectly.

Missionary work is fun though. We just met this amazing family from South Africa, who had the most amazing questions and wanted to read and understand more from the missionaries. I love it when you get to meet people who actually are looking for something and want to learn more about the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Teaching History was so much fun, because you never knew what question that it would prompt: eg teaching about the temple and them asking us about Joseph Smith. I was in love with them. We have the opportunity to teach so much in Temple Square, and to teach the entire world here. I feel sorry for other missions sometimes, because we have no end of potential investigators here. But then again, they get to teach them face to face... so I suppose that would make the difference worth it. It just makes me sad when people do not recognize how much this mission works to teach the entire world. Sister Farmer and I had one set of Elders who brought their investigator to Temple Square (no, sadly, it was not Elder Bonaro)... which was so much fun because as the four of us taught together their investigator opened up so much and we got to learn more about why he wanted to read the Book of Mormon, which wouldn't have happened so quickly in any other setting than standing in front of Mormon himself with four representatives of Jesus Christ working toward one goal. Missions should work together towards a common goal instead of competing one with another.

We also had a wonderful new investigator from California. She is AMAZING, she called me and asked for the bigger picture that God has for her life. She had visited Temple Square last year, but was not even remotely interested in anything but the history. Then when she went through a hard time she thought about the church and decided to call us and learn more and meet with the missionaries. There are a few more miracles, but life as a missionary is wonderful and I am excited to be here on Temple Square.

Sister Pielstick