The week of the Bees

This was a hectic week and a very tired week. I thought I didn't like daylight savings before, well I take it back, hahahaha so much harder on a mission. I really could have used that hour of sleep.

Hahahahahaha but it was a good week. I'll start off With a funny

moment: Bees

Now that the weather is warming up, the bugs are resurfacing. Now. I don't like bugs. Especially bees. For some reason the bees are finding me. It's slightly terrifying. We were on a bus Tuesday morning and there was a bee trapped in there. It started flying around my head and naturally I semi freaked out. I went into a fetal position and just desperately tried to ignore it and not move so it would leave me alone. Sadly half the bus noticed and laughed at me. But hey. It's okay. Part of our job is to make people happy. I was just spreading some joy on a Tuesday morning. I also got CHASED by a bee right before an appointment with our investigator Martin later that same day. Yes.

Martin laughed at me as well, I need to work on this..... hahahahahaha

Other adventures of the week. Well two weeks ago we doored into a lady and she said we could come back the next week on Friday..... but in the morning at 9:30..... she lives in Köln..... and that's when we are supposed to be studying....... So Friday morning rolls around and we do it. We leave our apartment super early and journey to Köln. We walk from the train station to her front door. We say a prayer and klingle her name. And. No answer. Nobody was home. She may not have been home.

And we may not have gotten a new investigator. But I know God has been blessing us in our efforts because of it and that we showed Heavenly Father we were willing to do his work. Even if it meant getting almost no studies in and being slightly disappointed that the lady with the cool dolls in her apartment wasn't home. Example A of the blessings:

we had a man walk up to us and contact US yesterday. We have an appointment set up for Monday with him! God really does give us blessings for working hard.

We had a really cool miracle story this week as well. We hadn't been able to meet with one of our investigators with a baptismal date in several weeks and he said he didn't have time and has just been hard to contact. Well we were on our way one night to teach a really cool investigator named Melanie, but we were running WAY behind and we missed our bus by about five minutes and the back up plan got us there WAY late. We started to follow this plan anyways. But Melanie texts us and says. I'm sorry something came up with my friend and I can't meet with you.  We still had to go to the town that she lives in so we continued with our plan.  But then thought. Hey let's take a different way. So we get off the bahn early and Lo and behold our other investigator was on the train Gleis. Waiting for the same bahn as us!!

So we got on with him and end up getting to teach a lesson. Heavenly Father really does work in mysterious ways.

The other big adventure from this week was Sunday. Sunday is ALWAYS stressful and hectic as a missionary. Between member missionary work, investigators, recent converts, and working with ward leaders. It's exhausting. This week we also had the opportunity to teach relief society and help out in Sunday school. But it was really cool! We took our sixteen year old investigator into relief society with us (because there is basically no youth here) and we used an object lessons that required two volunteers. When we asked for volunteers she was the first one to raise her hand and volunteer!! It was really cool to see.

The ward loves her already and she is so happy to be at church. Our only concern is that her mom isn't too exited with the idea of our church right now. So prayers for her mom would be much appreciated.

Other highlights: Russian dinner appointment(you have no control on how much you eat. It's a lot)/homemade Persian food that tastes just like cafe rio/ possibly being spit on while teaching a lesson..../ talking to an old lady soccer fan on a train whose german is so thick and so slurry you can't understand one lick/ fashion show by a two year old/ and unexpected service for an adorable old lady :)

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!!

Sister Losee