Hello!
This week has been pretty fun. There have been so many Australians coming out for General Conference. Maybe the church should make one of the sessions go to Australia and the other be in Utah... except that would be a lot of change and then the Australians couldn't plan six week church history tours that culminate in General Conference at Temple Square. It's fun how excited everyone here gets about it, the excitement is so contagious that even the non-members want to come back and get ticket to watch a real live prophet speak the words of God. We had an Australian who really wanted to extend his trip so that he could see it first hand, but he said he was definitely going to watch it when he got home. (Albeit it would have been sweeter if he had also wanted missionaries to come and talk more about prophets, but everyone has their agency)
I suppose this week was Australian week. I got to try and explain what little I know about rugby to Sister Au-Yeung, who was convinced that it was something to do with raising bunny rabbits... not exactly. Lots of things to learn and improve on... especially my Cantonese. I am not trying to learn the language while I am on my mission... I merely want to be able to introduce myself. However when there are nine tones involved and I can only identify about 5 of them... sometimes Sister Au-Yeung tells me not to say certain things ever again. I also had two Buddhist missionaries (I've never heard such a thing before, have you?) try to convert Sister Au-Yeung and I to Buddhism... I didn't have the heart to tell them that I had read the books they were talking about and they had actually confirmed my faith in the apostasy of the early churches and my testimony of the restored gospel. (English was not their first language and they were trying so fervently...well, I wish that was the real reason, in actuality I had forgotten that I had read the books until he told us the title and the author and left... the mission makes you forget many things)
But after all this and more I can now tell you that I am still a member of the restored version of the original Christian church. And that I am going to need some major memory help after my mission, or I'll have to re-start reading the whole library again.
Love you loads,
Sister Pielstick
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