Plot Twist

Okay so holy moly this week is OVER!! Actually the days do start to go faster and things have been going smoother. So cool experience:

I was told that if you can make it to Sunday you can make it, well I did, but that's about when things were getting rough, I was feeling discouraged and sad and wasn't feeling my best. Tuesday rolls around and it was rough! I was having negative thoughts and just feeling down, but then it was Tuesday night devotional. Honestly I went in thinking, I don't even know this authority who is speaking and at the start I thought it sounded pretty boring and wasn't applicable to me. Man was I WRONG!! By the end I was practically about to start crying and I just felt so much better and I was feeling that YES I can leave behind bad thoughts and carry on with help from the Lord. So then a member of the branch presidency comes and joins us after the devotional to talk to us about it and I shared my experience and thoughts (along with everyone else) and Brother Waite starting talking about how Heavenly Father helps us and with him by our side we can do anything!! It was AWESOME!! Then the coolest thing happened!!! During the closing prayer I just suddenly felt this huge peace wash over me. I have never experienced that before in my life!! And the prayer wasn't even talking about that right then, Heavenly Father just used that opportunity of me bowing my head to him in my own personal pleading and gave me the comfort I needed. Honestly I feel SO GOOD NOW!! I have been awesome ever since and I feel like I can do anything with my Heavenly Father!! It is honestly the best. 

So basically my district ROCKS!! They are all SO FUNNY and we all get along and we have to SCHEDULE talking breaks or else we talk TOO LONG! Which is good but also bad. 

My German has definitely improved since last email, I still feel like I don't know anything but obviously I DO! hahaha and it's kinda frustrating, but my companion is REALLY bad at the language and memorizing so I have basically been teaching the lessons all by myself. I hope it changes soon because it's hard having it all be on your shoulders. Oh about our investigator Markus. HERE COMES THE PLOT TWIST!! HE IS OUR SECOND TEACHER!! It's super weird. Also we didn't commit him to baptism. but the spirit told us it wasn't the right time, also he was "moving back to Germany" anyways. So whatever. We learned a lot from him and will do so much better!! 

So since I'm in the process of writing a novel I will stop, but just one thing: The Nashville Tribute Band came Sunday night and sang to us, and they sang one song about being a missionary and saying goodbye to moms, and everyone ALMOST cried, but then he had us sing it again WITH HIM!!! Lets just say lots of people were crying (EVEN ELDERS!!!)

Oh and Shoutout to Sarah Thomas for the Dear Elders. They're the best. So if anyone wants to send me on of those you should. It's like a letter but you type it up online and they print them out here and get them to me before pday. Oh pday is saturday in case anyone is wondering and if you forget to write me that's totally fine because Saturdays are usually busy. 

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First Three Days

Hallo EVERYONE!!! It's Sister Losee!!! I have survived three days in the MTC!! Man do I have some things to say about my time here. First of all: The days are ETERNAL!! You feel like the day last FOREVER and NEVER ends. Yet you still feel like you don't have enough time to do what has been asked of you. 

I can't even tell you guys how many times I have said to myself (and aloud): I wish I was speaking English!!! Wednesday was probably one of the most confusing days of my WHOLE life!! I am still getting used to the rules and the times and places and expectations and meetings. That all wouldn't be so bad, but then our Teacher ONLY talks to us in German and it is just super crazy right now. 

On Friday we taught our first lesson to an investigator .... in GERMAN!! It went... hmm... how would you say it went? Not very well. haha my companion and I basically read everything we said off of note cards, the prayer was two sentences long and we basically went away telling him he is a child of God and that Himmlischer Vater loves him. (Heavenly Father) It was super funny when we tried to talk about the Holy Ghost and I only said Geist (ghost) and he went : Geist? Like Ooooh oooh and he raised his arms and acted like a ghost. So Markus just might believe that if you join our church a ghost will be haunting you! 

I totally forget to mention some important stuff:

1.My companion is Sister Racca and she is very nice and we actually get along. Day one she told me that I looked like I would be super shy and wouldn't talk, but I'm the opposite. (sometimes I talk too much). She struggles with the language and is kind of slow at everything but that is okay. 

2.My residence is on the fourth floor. THAT is a lot of stairs to walk everyday.

3.The food is GREAT and I need to not eat a lot or else I will be fat. 

4.Sister Racca and I got called as sister Training Leaders. Things just got a lot more stressful. We have to do interviews for all the sisters and we carry around a phone in case the front desk needs to contact the sisters. Oh and we have to teach the lesson in Relief Society on Sunday as well as prepare a talk in German. And we just have more meetings. It's a little scary and I feel like I'm probably not the best person for the calling, but the Lord knows best I guess. I'm just glad Sisters can't be zone leaders hahaha.So to show that we shouldn't be in charge examples:

      1. We forget/lose everything!! Especially Sister Racca, she is the MASTER of losing things. She has lost her bag, her swipe card (multiple occasions) and her keys and other miscellaneous items. It's pretty funny though. 

      2. On Night one they take you on a tour and the sister training leaders who took us on a tour thought they LOST us and so that was pretty good hahaha.  

5.I am doing GREAT! Friday was a really hard day, not going to lie. I got VERY discouraged with the language and with trying to teach in a language I can barely understand, let alone speak. But I am happy and good. 

My district is awesome, we sometimes have too much fun. It's hard to balance the hours and hours of serious study with fun and joking. But I love my district and my teacher Sister Mucke (aka Sister Mosquito in German) is fun and has a sweet spirit. She is from Germany and just wants us to succeed.

Love you EVERYONE!! (sorry for the novel)

Wish me luck as I have to teach ANOTHER lesson to Markus in German tonight!!

Love,

Sister Losee

p.s. apparently you need to buy a special connector thing to put your SD card in to get your pictures loaded onto the computer. So sister Racca and I need to go buy them and pictures will be later today!!

I GOT THIS!!!!!

I'm gonna survive I'm Alive!! (Or am I ? ) hahahah!  Everything is SUPER confusing right now and we have no time for ANYTHING!! And everything has to be in German and I am in way over my head, and I just got called as Sister Training Leader along with tons more responsibilities and lessons and things to do before Sunday and it's crazy. Also they trusted the companionship who loses everything with a cell phone, smart move. 

So I am actually doing super well. I haven't been very homesick and I am actually really happy and laugh a lot. All though, the days feel like twenty. They are SOOOO LONG! Yet still no time to do anything. We only have like two minutes to just say hello and don't worry about me. I'm totally going to make it!! (other than the fact that I felt like I only slept one hour last night)

LOVE YOU!!!!

Gotta go and be overwhelmed by so many new responsibilities and more confusion about scheduling and where to be and when and not die from lack of knowledge of language. 

Oh and my companion is Sister Racca and she is very nice and easy to talk to. Gotta go almost 9:30!! AHHHH

-Sister Losee

P.s. I am already known to talk a lot, so you know I'm okay.