But for reals, I love this time of year and how much work there is to do on the square. It is unique because there are thousands and thousands of members around so we get to go around and ask them all for referrals. We would explain that we teach online and ask them for people that we could reach out to and maybe start teaching. I'm grateful for the missionary-minded members that gave us their friends and loved ones for us to reach out to and teach. We for sure are going to be busy on the computers this next week or so!
We are down to the last week of the transfer. It is crazy how fast six weeks goes! By next pday, I should know if I will have a new companion or not so stay tuned! I could honestly see Sister Brinkmeier and I staying together so it is all up in the air at this point.
I hope you all have a great week!
Sister Moran
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This past week was pretty fun! The last pday, the mission activity was watching the Sound of Music. I had been saying since my second transfer that the Sound of Music was a good wholesome movie and that we should watch it as a mission. Lo and behold president read my mind. It was so fun to watch and to listen to all of that music. Also, since we are the only zone with Tuesday pday, we had all of the theater one to ourselves. Sister Brinkmeier and I snatched the best seats with an unobstructed view (nailed it) and because we are the only zone with Tuesday pday, we literally got unlimited snacks. Like SO MUCH POPCORN and ICE CREAM SANDWICHES and CANDY. So fun. Plus, it was kind of like a blast from the past and homesickness for Germany. I was just remembering when we went on that Sound of Music bike tour and it was such fun! Also, just Germany and Austria and Switzerland I think are just the most beautiful place ever. It really made me miss it.
We took a few German tours this past week. My favorite was of this German couple that are members and they were in town for Conference! They had the cutest story too. The guy was 43 (but looked like mid-thirties tops, he was very attractive) and his wife was 22 or 23, they had been married for a year. She had gotten baptized a few years back after coming to family night at like a YSA thing and then he invited her to come to hear him speak in church and then she just came every Sunday and got baptized a few months later. Pretty cool! Then, a few years later, they got married. They were literally the cutest couple I have ever seen though, no jokes. We took them through God's Plan and at the end they were both crying the husband was like "I am a lot older than my wife and it makes me said that there will be a time that I won't be here with her anymore" and they were just both crying as he was saying this but then he was like "I am just so grateful that we have the Temple so that we can be together forever and I can see her after we die and everything will be okay." Sister Brinkmeier and I were both about to cry at this point it was just so tender and wow. Hands down my favorite German tour that I have ever taken, if not one of my favorite tours on my whole mission. Even though it was with members and I don't usually like that, I was grateful to gain a new appreciation for the Temple.
General Conference was really good! We had the whole spiel on terrorism and what do with an active shooter and what not to do so that was a good reminder. The actual days of the conference were really good too. I loved going to the women's session with my whole heart. I just felt so peaceful when President Nelson was talking. I just had this insane desire to be a holy woman. Like, I thought about parties and USU and how I thought it was so fun and I just didn't have the desire to do that or do those things anymore. I had a desire to go to the Temple and read my scripture and pray and stuff. Don't get me wrong I still love to have fun, but my views on it shifted and when I go home I want to be less in the world than I was when I left.
Our whole zone got 50 referrals total and Sister Brinkmeier and I got 26 of them. I really don't know how people didn't get more. Everyone was asking us after "how did you get that many" and we were just like "you have to target the YSA, pre-mission people and RMs" That is so true too because they will give you people left and right. The others, not so likely. So yeah, we just know the crowd that will be willing to give us people. Work smarter, not harder. But still hard. You know what I mean. And mom, you are right, General Conference on Temple square is a party, especially when you are a missionary here. We get fed all three meals a day, only 30 minute meal times though because we have so much work to do. I love being busy all day every day. I can really get to the end of the day and feel satisfied with the work that I have done. Even though Conference is mostly members, I still got to teach two lessons to nonmembers and I even got their contact info! The stand out one was with this lady named Yasmin. She for reals was super curious about what was going on and what our church believed. I taught her basically the whole restoration, gave her a Book of Mormon, and got her phone number. It was a General Conference miracle! While I was talking to Yasmin, these two guys from Myanmar came up to Sister Brinkmeier and told her that they wanted to meet with missionaries! Just right off the bat! It is so crazy that we were standing at the most unlikely desk of all of Temple Square and three prepared people just wandered our way. What a miracle. God is super aware of His children.
Well, I love you both a lot. Thanks for reading this crazy long email and for all of your support! I really appreciate it! Miss you!
Love
Em
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