Transfer 12: Week 5; North 3

Hello!

This will most likely be my last post... I leave on My P-day next week.

This week has been super crazy. There are so many things that have to be done because this mission is not like any other in the world. We have to split up our area book and give our beloved investigators to the other sisters in the mission. Sister Au-yeung is already on top of the people I sent to her and some of the people who met with the missionaries before stopped meeting with them and now she is teaching them with her trainee... my crazy cat man friend and the Philippine man obsessed with finding the secret to happiness. Our investigator in Kenya hasn't been picking up recently because his phone died, so hopefully he doesn’t get lost. Sister Platt and Aranda have some interesting troubles with our investigator from Nairobi... so hopefully everything is going well.

We've met some amazing members during the Christmas lights. One lady I met was an amazing member missionary... she was a convert of a couple of years and wanted all of her friends to know more about the gospel. The funniest thing was that I never invited her; she just stopped me because I was a missionary. I love miracles like that, people who are so prepared that they would refer with anyone... I was just in the right place at the right time. I shouldn't have been there, but I was in the right place to get a miracle. I also love hearing people's conversion stories, whether it be because of a missionary or because of a scripture... the spirit comes so strongly. I think that one of the general authorities stated that when you speak by the spirit then miracles come out of your mouths. Miracles are interesting beasties to have. Following God's will and not yours is always interesting. I talked to this one older man who was a farmer and I remember thinking that we were wasting our time talking to him because he loved talking, but then he thought of a bunch of farm hands who needed the gospel. I never would have guessed. Just to prove that my judgments were incorrect I met another old man who was just getting active in the church again, but was telling us how he adopted one of his daughters and then we found out about his son who was so excited to be a missionary that he is already following the white handbook and studying his scriptures... it'll be fun to see where his son gets sent when he turns in his mission papers in two years.

We've also met some amazing guests as well... not any that were interested in learning more about the church, but some really neat people who were sincerely interested in learning more for themselves. I hope that the skiers get the snow that they want so badly. I'll pray for them to get some more.

Good to hear from you all and the Christmas tree is so covered with ornaments that I can hardly see the tree itself.
Sister Pielstick