Happy Thursday everybody!!! Do you know what that means?
That's right!
It's my pday! Glorious pday. Today we will be going back
to the monkey park again, but this time with all of the sisters in our zone. I
am super excited!
This week. It was a good week. It started off with me
realizing on Friday that I was literally the only missionary in Köln that had
been here for more than three in a half weeks. I've been here for 5 months! That's crazy. I basically know this ward like the back of
my hand now.
Speaking of the ward. Our ward mission leader and us
missionaries wanted the ward to focus on service this week. So we had a service
day on Saturday and tons of ward members showed up and we spent two in a half hours
cutting hedges and raking up leaves and cleaning garden beds. It was a lot of
work but we did it! Then we all grilled and ate together. It was really cool to
see the members all working together and interacting in a form outside of
church. I do have to say though, getting directions on how to do gardening
stuff in German is no piece of cake. Confusion was definitely involved
hahahaha.
This week we also had the funny experience of becoming
"secret agents" or so if felt like. We were on our way to meet with
Ebenezer in Bergisch Gladbach when we get a strange phone call from someone
telling us to get on a certain bus and then get off at a specific spot.
Normally people don't follow vague phone call directions. But of course we did.
Turns out it was a friend of Ebenezer and we ended up teaching him the first
lesson and it was really cool to teach him and Ebenezer together.
This week we also had another successful street display
in Aachen! We only ended up having four missionaries there, but I am so proud of
Sister Hannig. I am very good at forcing her to do stuff and I forced her to do
the street display solo. She ended up giving away some copies of the Book of
Mormon and finding a really cool potential investigator. :) it was cool to see
her excitement and courage grow.
We also had a very awkward very strange first appointment
with a man named Souleymann Lee. Boy oh boy was that rough. He doesn't really
speak German or English and his main language is a very tiny tiny African
language from Guinea that no one speaks and there is no Book of Mormon in it.
He also had a friend with him and apparently they communicate in broken Arabic
together. HOW DOES HIS LIFE WORK!! I'm so confused. And then turns out he is a
refugee and is being sent to Italy next month. I can't imagine how hard that
would be.
We also got to go and help paint a members home this
week!! I got pegged the job of using the paintbrush to get there corners and
tops of the walls that the rolled didn't reach. The only problem is that they
had no step ladder..... only a chair.... so I had to do the whole thing on
tippy toes with my arm completely stretched out. I may or may not have been
sore afterwards hahaha.
Finally we had a cool experience of being able to teach
an 18 year old who referred herself on Mormon.org. It's crazy how many people
really do find the church in random ways and reach out to the missionaries! It's also crazy how often we go to random meeting places
to meet a stranger we've never met before. This is usually the thing they tell you
to never do!!! But that's missionary work for you. Well. This is a long email.
Till next week!! Everyone have a great week!
Sister Losee
PS. Living the blonde life.
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