March Madness started early!!!

Happy March my friends! The cold month of February has passed and spring is actually starting to peek it's head around the corner!!!!!

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I have heard Germany is beautiful in spring and that wild flowers are everywhere. So I am very excited!!

This week was Karneval. It basically felt like the alcoholic week long version of Halloween. People were dressed up every day from last Thursday until Tuesday. There were countless parades and endless supplies of alcohol. So that's what led up to our first weird experience of the week. On Friday sister Balls started to get really sick. We had some meetings at the church and she napped for a while until we had our dinner appointment. She was starting to feel worse, and let me tell you, German's take sickness very very seriously. So we met up with the other sisters at 7:30 at night and the member drove sister Balls and sister Clifford home so sister Balls could sleep and sister trait and I went on splits and went into Köln because we had a lesson planned with our baptismal date investigator Kasim. (He's super cool by the way). After the lesson it was decided by everyone that by the time we returned to Leverkusen and the Köln 

Sisters returned back to Köln. It would be WAY too late, especially because of Karneval. It's not a good idea. So we went on a very spontaneous (president approved) split and I spent the night in Köln.  Hahahahahaha I didn't have any way to preserver my contacts and I didn't have glasses. So the next day I walked around half blind for a while.

(Sister Tait has glasses I borrowed.... but her vision isn't as bad as mine)

On Saturday night we were at a Baptism for the Elders and sister Balls was not feeling well. So the ward members drove us home (Natürlich) and severely threatened sister Balls if she came to church. So Sunday was a sick day and we stayed in the apartment.

Monday came and Sister Balls still felt bad. So we went on splits with the other sisters for half the day so I could go out a little bit. Sister Tait stayed and took care of my companion. I went with sister Clifford and we had a very interesting lunch appointment and just did a ton of Finding. It was really good. Spoke to some really cool people and got a couple potentials! Then, we of course had to celebrate Karneval, so we got Döners for dinner!

Ummm. Wednesday we had zone training. That was fun. I always love seeing all the other missionaries and we had interviews with president. I'll be honest I was terrified for my interview with president. But this time when he asked me if I had questions and what was up with my life we just were able to casually talk and it was super good!

Oh yeah.  P day last week!!! Last week for pday we went to the three corners!!! It's like four corners in America. But way cooler. It's where the borders of Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands meet! A ward member drove us up there. It was really fun and we got hot chocolate and it was good.

That was about it for my week. I hope everyone has a wonderful first week of March!!

Thought for the week: "The journey of discipleship is not an easy one. It has been called a “course of steady improvement.” As we travel along that straight and narrow path, the Spirit continually challenges us to be better and to climb higher. The Holy Ghost makes an ideal traveling companion. If we are humble and teachable, He will take us by the hand and lead us home. However, we need to ask the Lord for directions along the way. We have to ask some difficult questions, like “What do I need to change?” “How can I improve?” “What weakness needs strengthening?”.....The Holy Ghost really does give customized counsel. He is a completely honest companion and will tell us things that no one else knows or has the courage to say." Elder Larry R. Lawrence

Sometimes we want to be better and be the perfect follower of Christ we can be, so we decide what we need to work on and set goals on how to be that perfect follower. But I've also noticed that when we do that we sometimes set too many goals and too hard of goals to all do at once and then we feel like failures when we can't met all of our goals. We feel like we are worse off than we were before. That's why we need to ask the Lord. He knows exactly what we need to do and how we can be better.

Have a great week! I have you all love!!!

Sister Losee