Bonnie's Mission Adventure: Wait am I in Germany or Ghana?

This week was crazy. Basically Frankfurt life is crazy.

We started off our week at a less actives home with the zone leaders for dinner (because it was the 26th and still holiday we could have more than one set of missionaries there). Jammed out to MOTAB and gospel music while eating Ghanaian food. On Tuesday we met a man who acted like he hated us and just kept muttering about us aloud to the whole bus. Just to turn around and ask us questions. So random. He then thought we were Amish. Glad I cleared up with him that Mormons do indeed have television and electricity. On Wednesday a funny man on vacation walked up to us and gave sister weeks his phone number. He Wanted to hang out hahahahahaha and I "could come along". Also turns out he thought Mormons were Amish too!!! He thought we didn't have electricity and drove horses and buggies instead of cars! Two days in a row!!

Oh boy oh boy. This week was a week of public transport catastrophes!!! We missed sooo many different bahns!!! On Wednesday night we were heading out to a dinner appointment in Bad Homburg and we were on a really tight schedule. Anywhoo. I read the bahn wrong or something because I could have sworn we were running onto the U2.

Nope. Didn't realize until too late we were on the U8. How do you read 2 out of an 8?!?!? Then we had to totally backtrack around and then we missed a bus and were late to our dinner appointment hahahaha.

We had another street display this week!!! It was AMAZING!!! I decided I was going to put my all into it and I did!!! I tried to talk to everyone and I found THREE potentials and gave out several Copies of the Book of Mormon. Sometimes it's frustrating being at street displays because all of the other missionaries aren't always doing very good at contacting and spend most of the time talking. But I've found when I am doing my best I don't feel as cold, the time goes by faster, and I am happier afterwards. So it was a great display!

Also this week we helped someone move with the help of the Elders.

Afterwards she said she would buy us pizza. There were five of us and she bought one tiny pizza. It was hilarious because we all got one tiny slice and then secretly went and ate more food after. But we then made tons of jokes about how we are on pizza missionaries (like from Jonny lingo and the 8 cow woman).

Now New Years Eve. That day. Holy cow that day. So Friday night the zone leaders called us informing us that they had made an appointment with a potential for Saturday for us!!! I was SO EXCITED!! New investigator!! So they text us the address and Saturday morning we go to the church to use the wifi to look up transportation and directions. We then proceed to miss two bahns. Which then made us miss a bus in Offenbach that only drives every thirty minutes. So then we are stuck at a random bus stop out in Offenbach for 25 minutes in the cold. Also. SNOW!! I saw snow for the first time this year!! Then we walk to the address. She's not there. Turns out it was the WRONG address. So then we were lost in Offenbach and an hour away from our appointment by walking. So we back track and I try to get us to the appointment without having wifi to look up directions. We did eventually make it two bahns and a Straßenbahn later. Arriving to the appointment two hours late!! But her name is Rebekah and she is awesome!!! So we taught the first lesson and committed her to read the Book of Mormon and pray about Joseph Smith. Well then she says. Hey stay for dinner I have a chicken and it's New Year's Eve. We tried to say no we gotta go and we were supposed to be indoors by 6 o clock.

Well she started to get super offended. So what do you do? Stay to eat. We then proceeded to watch her literally hack a chicken and nearly cut off her hand several times. Then she made some more Ghanaian food(oh yeah she is from Ghana). Man. It was some interesting chicken..... we are pretty sure sister weeks ended up eating the neck.

Then we finally made it indoors at 7 o clock after a Straßenbahn an ubahn and two buses.

Then came New Years!!! We got to overnight at the sister training leaders apartment which meant staying up with all of the other missionaries at a senior missionaries apartment and watching the fireworks. New Years in Germany is CRAZY!!! I felt like I was in world war 3!!!! But it was awesome fun and definitely an adventure. It just made it hard to get up for 9:30 church the next day. Especially when you realize you forgot to pack contact supplies and your glasses.

My third Ghanaian experience was on New Years. I had foo foo for the first time. It was really gross. I almost gagged. Yuck. It had this fish soup stuff on it that yeah.... yeah....

Okay. Man. That was probably one of the worst emails I've ever written. Please enjoy though hahahaha. Basically the main point of the email. Got lost a lot and had weird people and food. Had some awesome contacting though and found tons of potentials this week!!!

Sister Losee