Transfer 6; Week 1; South 2

Transfer day!

Notice anything different? I certainly don't. Everything from my assignment to my roommates is exactly the same and I am more than a little shell shocked, but now I'll figure things will go pretty smoothly. Especially since I get to work with logistics for General Conference, which I was hoping to be able to do before the end of my mission... but now I see it as a gift for my half way mark of my mission.

This last week had some amazing people that we got to talk to... a really awesome young neuroscientist who didn't believe in organized religion, but said that if he did he'd join this one because he can still believe in Alien life forms. (He did actually say that, it was a lengthy and odd, yet awesome conversation) I seem to attract the atheists on Temple Square, because we've talked to many flavors this week, from the jaded Jew to the secure scientist. Conversations with them make me glad that I found out about God, because if I didn't believe in him the world would be a very confusing and downright dreary place. But it's interesting to remember that God loves every single one of them even though they don't really believe in Him. It's actually nice to think that even when things are difficult, that God loves everyone no matter what. It strengthened my testimony because sometimes I get to give them a glimpse into the eternities, rather than their typical life is only the here-and-now attitude.

Funny story, so apparently there are now two sister missionaries here on Temple Square from my hometown. One, naturally, is me, the other I met just yesterday at the Joseph Smith Movie. In order for you to understand the incredulity of this story, may I mention that transfers are usually crazy and Sister Farmer and I are assigned to start the Joseph Smith movie every Wednesday from 10-3. Sister Farmer and I go to close one of the films and we run into Sister Andersen and her trainee who were racing to close the movie we just closed. We start talking and laughing and start asking the new Sister how she likes her first day, things like that. So of course I ask where are you from?, she answers "Florida." Excited I exclaim "Me too, where are you from?" She then says my hometown and then we just looked at each other (It seemed like an eternity, but we know that it wasn't that long really). We're from the same ward and do not know who the other is. So we play the name game and realize that we were in fact from the same place, we were even friends with some of the same people. Finally she says "I am Jonathan's girlfriend" and I look at her cockeyed and make a complete idiot of myself by making the obvious observation "You joined the Church?!" So Sister Wright is now here on Temple Square being trained by our favorite Swedish Sister( aka the only Swede here after Sister Victorstam left), and Sister Pielstick succeeds in being the most oblivious missionary at Temple Square. God does have a sense of humor and apparently it's not enough for it to be just once.

Hope that this letter finds the family and everyone well.

Sister Pielstick