Spending the night with President

This week. Man I have no idea honestly. So much happened. I guess it started really on Friday.

Friday we had lessons with two of our progressing baptismal dates who are so awesome btw. It's about 8 p.m so we decide to call it a night and make some dinner. We were cooking and having a good time so much as to put on my leather jacket with snow flakes pajamas, my 2 dollar aviators and a cooking pot on my head. We were having a jam singing session in the apartment as we cooking but then we got this phone call from sister white who also serves here in Wiesbaden. We answered the phone and we were still doing our rap like we were on fire. But sister White kinda killed the attitude haha but said.

Guys this is serious!

Found out the other sister was extremely sick so much as she was passing out. 

So we booked it out of our apartment and I was wearing the same get up except for the pot on my head and we ran all the way across the city. (5k) and I think I set my own PR.  We even ran through this massive German parade so I took my name tag off cause it didn't look the most appropriate at the time.... and I guess my style was in fashion. I had four people call me out saying I was a legend and one asked for my WhatsApp. (Texting contact service whatever it is) but we were running as hard as we could and I was sweating buckets in my outfit. 

Get there and find the sister passed out on the floor. Gave her a quick blessing and members were already on their way. Elder Harmon my man lifted her down seven flights of stairs as fast as he could. It looked quite majestic I wished I took pictures...Haha. 

Launched her in the car with the American members and sped the way there and find out the hospital is closed.... like really? 

We drive around the side and see some ER'S smoking at a no smoking zone so that was great but we were desperate so I ran up ahead and told him we had a girl unconscious and Elder Harmon just ran her in, more like forced her in. So they put her on a stretch in the hall and put some IV's in her and then we get a call from President Boyer asking us the situation. We found out her American health insurance didn't really work so we had to spend a lot of money to have her spend the night at the hospital and members were about to pay (bless their hearts) but we obviously didn't want that. President Boyer said he was on his way and arrived in Wiesbaden at around midnight or so. Just then the other sister got extremely sick and ran to the bathroom and that was bad. It was almost as bad as the other ones and here is where it gets crazy. 

We asked to get her admitted but they won't because she wasn't registered in the city correctly even though she was. In every city you have to do a thing called "Anmeldung " which is us logging into the city. Apparently they were supposed to put a sticker on it which I have never gotten before. So they wouldn't let her in to get cared but they knew the situation with the poor sister. So the American members got pretty furious at the hospital and it was a great time. 

So President Boyer and us just hung out in his car and drove around with him picking up food and supplies for the sisters. That lasted about 2 hours, but then we realized Elder Harmon left his wallet at the hospital so we go all the way back only to find out the sister is still chilling in the hall even though we paid lots of money for her in a room. They didn't even do nothing for her for the 4 hours she was there. So we really made a scene and they kinda got riled up enough to do something. I don't think we were their favorite people haha but we got what we wanted. 

President drove us home at around 3 in the morning and the other sister who wasn't admitted was cared by an awesome member at their apartment and we crashed, only to wake up the next day at 6:45 to see how the other sister was doing and we hung out there for a few hours and we finally got them both to their apartments. 

Fell asleep again and the next day....

I got it. Throwing up and all that jazz and then Elder Harmon got it and that's how the week went. 

Sorry about the email last week I thought it sent but found out like none of them sent. Problems.

Totally recovered and up for a new week.

Members are so awesome and we got lots of service to do as well as appointments everywhere.

Elder Monroe

1. My outfit for the emergency

2. Cookies from American members

3. Garden work (Elder Harmon gave me a haircut lol. We were low on funds.)

Like What?

Hey yall so I've been transferred again to the freaking awesome city of Wiesbaden. And I'm just gonna tell you all, this place is awesome.

First off we live in the basement of a manor, and it's freaking huge, relatively cool, massive bathroom, literally looks like a legit house. Like this place is where dreams are made yall. And I'm comps with this guy called Elder Harmon. The man is the dream companion. Way cool and super easy to get along with. We just crack jokes and do missionary work in an area with... 

AN AMERICAN WARD! 

Let's go! And we got an American base with taco bell. Dreams come true yall. Like we freaking got Krispy Kremes.

Today for pday we went to Burg Eltz again. Good time but this time without bikes, and we hiked the whole way up and checked it out.... And Mormons were everywhere. It was great. Me and elder Harmon got some way good pictures together and it was a good time.

But you know time is always limited on Pday and we were doing all we could do to make it back to our train and it was a five kilometers from where we were. And we were already 30 minutes later than we wanted to leave to depart. We were in the souvenir shop and just realized the rest of the district just left without us and we were in a bad situation, so we booked it the entire way but realized we went the wrong path, so instead of our trains stop we ran the entire way to another train station in the wrong direction and I was dying. But we didn't give up the whole time. And quite literally right as we saw the train station we saw our train pulling up and we sprinted to the finish. Just like cross country days but had a bit more of a quick and boost cause we needed that train. We get to the station and saw there was no way to our platform but one.... We were so desperate because we ran the entire way as hard as we could to catch this train and we both looked at each other and thought

Forget it we need it. 

So we did the most retarded thing possible and ran across the tracks and got the train and met the other missionaries at the other train station. But we did it. But then we didn't have water and that was another problem. So we get to this train station where we transferred positions or trains but we had fifteen minutes. So we doored this village looking for water and one man bless his heart gave us a six pack of carbonated water. We didn't care we chugged those things down and thanked the man for his generosity. One of the three Nephites yall haha. Finally on our way back right now.

Anyways I left Köln in good condition. Me and elder hunter did some work there and left a couple people in good condition. Cassandra will be one day baptized and she reads everyday. She is currently in Mosiah I think but the one that really got me was our boy Gero. The man that investigated the church in 2001. He is the guy I found in an ancient area book who saw the missionaries and three days later I just randomly called him and asked to meet. He was surprised and we continued meeting and before he was baptized (cause I kinda grilled the guy our first lesson and gave hard testimony) he really felt the spirit and is currently in Alma. He loves it and we read it with and before I left he personally thanked me. The man just stood there and said thanks, that if I never made that call he wouldn't be in this condition. It really got me and he said he will miss me and promised me that he would be baptized when he reads the book and gets the confirmation that it is 100% true. Honestly he already knows it true but he is really sensitive to the spirit and he will be baptized. Man is a legend.

So far so good. Honestly So much more to write about but I'll give yall a break. Love you all and I am truly one of the happiest guys right now. I've got an awesome district and perfect conditions. 

Much love

Elder Monroe

Elder Harmon is top left and they are all great.