May 16th

Hoi Familie!

Kind of a strange different week this week. Felt long and slow because I was sick at the beginning of it, and then we traveled a lot as well. Had odds and ends things that we needed to do as well, but it was good, saw some pretty neat miracles this past week. Liliana we set a baptismal date with on saturday. It's for the 4th of June.. and she came again to church.. she's a shy lady, and she really only feels comfortable around us, and the first sunday she only came to the first hour, this sunday she stayed for the second as well.. which was good because she got to meet a few people in the ward and talk with them. So next week we hope she'll come firstly but then stay for all three hours.. Relief Society would be great for her.
She's the fourth baptismal date I've set during my time in Heerlen. As you know none of them have gone through, but I'm sure hoping she does.. She needs it more than anyone just with her history and what has recently happened to her... so please continue to pray for her!
We also had a dinner appointment yesterday with an awesome american family, and the mother took a co-worker to church and then to the dinner appointment, we talked to the guy for a few hours and watched prophet of the restoration with him.. It was a neat appointment. And while we were there we got a call from another member saying that he has someone that he's been talking too that is almost ready to meet with us!! It's been crazy how many little miracles me and my companion have seen here. Sometimes I feel we don't really deserve it to be honest! But were being blessed a lot, and so I won't complain! =)
The american's name is rich and when we were at church during sacrament we were sitting with lilian, and I look over and sister woodbury, (woodbury's is the name of the awesome american family from before) she started beckoning me to come over because Rick (the co-worker had shown up) So I went over there and sat by him and started talking a little bit. He didn't feel comfortable staying for sunday school, so he went into the primary room with Sister Woodbury as we went to sunday school with Lilian. After that, Lilian left and we went to the primary room to get Rick to go to preisthood, but he liked it in there so we spent the 3rd hour in primary! Crazy, haven't been in primary in a long long time.. but it was fun, it was a neat expirience. The adults in there were great, and while the kids were doing activities they were just making Rick feel at home. At the dinner appiontment, we were joking around about how he would be a perfect primary teacher.. ha ha hopefully we'll meet with him again soon.. the guy is loaded and he has like a 18 bedroom house here in the area, and he lives alone.. drives a really sweet car, the newest edition of a charger.. so really interesting.. he was also an actor way back when and is really good friends with the person who directed the movie "twilight"and also "jesse" from Full- house.. interesting huh?
well those were the highlights of the week, had some really good food, one dish was from a suriname lady, it was fried bananas with fish =0 and this salad thing.. interesting meal most greasiest thing I've ever eaten I think.. and also I can't beleive how much fish I've eaten while i've been here.. and I have to be honest, it's not too bad.. maybe the fish in Utah just is horrible, and real fish doesn't taste that bad? I dunno.. maybe it's just the people cooking the meals ha ha
But anyways, hope all is well, love you loads,
Tot de volgende week!
Elder Joseph V. Mohrman