Hello!
This week was a Japanese week. So many different people from Japan, and they were all amazing.... albeit Japanese culture does not look kindly on having strangers visit. I hope that the missionaries tract into the people that we met over the last couple of days, especially after they watch General Conference. (They promised to after talking to us.) The gospel can really help all people find peace no matter what trials they are coming into in this life. God knows them, and when they come to a place where they can feel His love He gives it to them freely. One Man from Tokyo was so sweet, we have a display here on Temple Square where you can watch the Testimonies of the 12 modern apostles speak, we showed him Elder Perry's testimony and he felt the spirit so strongly, he wanted to know how he could listen to more... so we told him about General Conference and he's going to go and watch the apostles talk... he hopes that one of the Nehongot (Japanese) Seventies speaks this conference.
We also had some interesting times interpreting Scriptures from the Chinese translation of the Book of Mormon... because apparently it is written in regular Chinese not old Chinese (like the King James is in Shakespearean-esque English not colloquial) So when she was reading the last verse in Chinese she read that the Judgment Bar was cute, like a cat... not pleasing. We had some fun conversation about this but we still have not come to a conclusion about what the cute Judgment Bar will look like. Maybe it will be pink? I don't really know, interesting to think about though.
We are all preparing for Conference, transfer conference and general conference... They tried to have me sing three songs for transfer conference because they are trying to have a musical spiritual transfer conference.., all about the Savior, so I finally do get to sing the song that Dagan found for me. YAY! It turns out that it is Sister Günter's favorite as well, and Sister Willis from England is accompanying me...as is her beautiful American companion Sister DeMontingy. We're really excited about it.
And interesting thing happened.... President Holmes gave the mission a pre-conference treat... we got to watch 17 Miracles, a movie about the handcart pioneers. It was pretty good, albeit I already knew all of the stories because of my mother's tutelage. Who knew that the apple pie in the middle of the desert was not common knowledge? I guess other mothers prefer other types of bedtime/anytime stories. Who would have known?
Best week for investigators ever! They are all not officially reading, or excited to read the Book of Mormon and one loved what he read in Moroni so much that he is sending his family to church even though he is working on Sunday. (we met him on Temple Square and he is a truck driver so he has a hard time making it to church) But there were so many amazing miracles this week... and that was just the past few days. General Conference season is truly a season of miracles. As Sister Bruno always says "Heavenly Father is amazing" (to be honest it only works if one says it in a Brazilian accent, but I'll try my best... apparently my Portuguese isn't too bad though. I greeted one fellow and he tried to carry on a conversation with me while his daughter put copious amounts of flowers in his hair... such a good dad)
Love you all! Be excited for conference! With God nothing is Impossible.
Sister Pielstick
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