Amsterdam week 5 :)

Goededag mijn familie!!

Hope alles is goed met jullie!! What a interesting busy week that I just had. Christmas.. Got to love it.. Love it more with Family.. but hey.. it's all good =) On Tuesday we did a Christmas Concert type thing for the stake of Den Haag. THe missionary's of my zone put it on, so I got to sing in another choir, just all the missionary's sang in it, so taht was pretty legit =) Elder Osmond is the one that put it together, and it was a really well done concert, different people had solo's and duets and quartets and all sorts of fun musical terms! It was a great time, kinda cool too that night, my companion Elder De Meester received a letter informing him that he might be training again.. that would be 3 straight greenies, and 4 overall.. crazy.. I don't know what that poor Elder did to get so many greenies.. ha ha But what that means, is Í'll be getting a new companion.. Me or Him will be leaving Amsterdam, and I will no longer be a greenie.. pretty crazy stuff.. time flies on a mission.. no.. let me correct that.. Time flies out in the field on a mission! MTC was slow.. Anyways, transfers are this friday.. so I could be in a new city for christmas.. or I might still be in Amsterdam.. I don't know.. so next week I'll let you know when you call.. and all that fun awesome stuff.. Really looking forward to talking with the family. So much to say, but so little time.. What I have been thinking, all these wonderful emails that I get from you all and I never respond to any of your wonderful questions ha ha =0 write them down, then when you call we can cover everything! Anyways I thought that was a good plan.. maybe not.. haven't given it too much thought to be honest because I've been thinking of transfers and what not.. We should find out tonight what's up.. or tomorrow night at the latest. so sorry.. no update til next week.. Íf I'm in a new city you'll know by my subject title in next week's email ;)
So I guess the sales here are in January and at the end of summer.. so I've decided to buy a sharp looking European suit in January.. hopefully at least.. that's the plan.. My two that I got before are still fine.. although in the MTC I did lose a pair to my black suit.. and then my third one is pretty trashed, and it's pretty tight on me.. I think i'm growing.. outwards =0 Well I went shopping for you all last week trying to think of what in the world I could get you all.. but I failed.. so this week, me and Elder De Meester went shopping with the sisters in Amsterdam! Sister Holbein who is from Kentucky, and Sister Kraemer, who, yeah I know very well.. I figured they'd be able to help best what to pick out for you all.. since most of you are females.. but unfortunately failed again.. so no package from me for christmas.. sorry.. maybe you'll get a random one in march or something that says merry christmas.. the hard part is, I want to get you all something meaningful that would be useful to you all.. but something that is uniquely dutch.. ahh well.. today I bought a couple of flags, the amsterdam flag, and the belgium flag.. figured I can buy the netherlands one later...
and for my fun experience for the week, On saturday Elder De Meester and I were invited by these two islamic guys (about our age) to go talk religion with them and they said they'll be other christian faiths there and some athiests and we can just share what we believe and visa versa and just have a healthy discussion on religion.. well we thought that was awesome.. chance for us to share our story with all them, so we of course took them up on there offer.. when we went to the place however, it was only us.. and 8 muslims all decked out in there robes and everything.. and a couple of there intents were solely on converting us to islam.. so they asked us all sorts of questions (all in dutch) so I really didn't understand.. and they tried to reason with us how the christianity is false because the bible has faults in it.. Anyways.. they said a lot of interesting stuff.. and I really didn't participate because well I couldn't understand much.. so I kinda had a side conversation with another guy, and I was able to share my testimony and what not so that was good.. but the funny thing was.. There whole approach was attacking christianity.. attacking what we believe, and ""proving"" that it wasn't true.. too bad for them they had never talked with Mormons before, because we whipped out the Book of Mormon, and told them our articles of faith, and how we believe in the bible as long as it's translated correctly, and after that they really didn't have any ground to bash us with, because all there points we agreed with for the most part.. And I kept telling the guy that I was talking too that this was silly to talk about this, because there asking questions to us about things they wouldn't understand if we gave them the answer because they don't know the background behind it.. So him and his other friend, said that they would love to talk with us again, and we'll be able to tell our whole story "lessons" and then we'll be able to talk.. it was a pretty interesting experience.. And after it was all over, and even during, I just got this warm feeling in my chest that yeah.. I know this church is true.
So to close this week's email I just want to leave you my little testimony.. that I know this church is true.. I know, that Jesus Christ was the savior of the world, and I know that his gospel his truth was restored through the prophet Joseph Smith. That we have evidence of this because of the Book of Mormon, the most correct book of any on earth. And that God still speaks to man today through his prophet and apostles..
Love you all,
Tot Ziens

--Elder Mohrman