May 9th 2011

Hoi Familie!

Just like what you all expressed in your emails, it was really great to be able to talk with you all. Kinda sad that it's over! That hour flew by! You all sounded just how I remembered.. crazy huh? ;)

I was just happy I was able to make it through the call, I've been battleing with this virus for the past two weeks, and it got me last night.. threw up in the middle of the night. . oh man not fun! But hey such is life.. good thing it's P-day, can take it really easy =P

Liliana the lady that we met on saturday, and then who came to church yesterday, called us again today and we were able to meet with her right before this at the church. Really neat. We watched "To this end was I born" and just shared our testimony about how Jesus Christ is how we find peace and rest of soul. That he is the only person that truly understands us, and can help us. Felt like it was a good lessen.. It was great because My companion and I were on the same page, we had planned on watching another movie with her one about the restoration, but we both felt something about Jesus Christ would be better for her.. She's amazing.. still don't know quite what to think about her.. since she came into the scene so fast. I explained breifly her story over the phone, but I'll give you more detail.

We were walking doing a consecrated hour, and we were walking by her, when she asked if we were from the church, and if we could pray for her.. she said she had a lot of pain and sadness in her life, she just seperated with her man after finding out that he had been cheating on her.. and her daughter chose to believe the guy rather than her, so she is going through some real heavy stuff. We were in the middle of a parking lot of a grocery store, so we walked over to some trees away from everyone else, and she's talking a mile a minute about her life and about her situation, and I'm just feeling we should give her a blessing, well then áfter talking with us and spilling her life to us for about 5 minutes, she asked when we have church service, we told her tomorrow at ten.. said she wanted to and will come and also that she wanted to be baptized, and asking how we baptize in our church and how long it takes to be baptized.. wow.. at this point I couldn't decide if she's crazy or not.. but one thing led to another and we said we could walk to our church since it wasn't far, and pray there for her.. so we walk to the church, my comp made some lemonade for her, we gave her a blessing.. and a church tour.. asked us again when she can be baptized.. we said we have to teach her first about our church and doctrine, and she has to come to the church 3 times. So she said she'd come, and she did the next day.. stayed for sacrament meeting, which was powerful because it was mother's day and the primary sung a mother's day song and what not.. she had to go after sacrament, but we set up another appointment, and then our appointment today was a suprise.. so pretty neat.. she literallly came out of nowhere asking to be baptized.. don't know what's going to happen, she's going through a mid-life crisis so don't know if she's all there... pretty neat that we've been given this opportunity to try and help this woman.

Another positive investigator we have is from bejing, china.. we met her on the street, and had a church tour with her and watched the restoration dvd.. our joint teach was a chinese guy around the same age, and it was a really powerful lessen as well.. I love teaching people that ahve no background with god.. and seeing them feel the spirit for the first time.. anyways she said she wants to learn more.. not so sure on baptism because she doesn't know what her family will say..(there in the government =0) but she definitely wants to learn more..

Those are probably the two most positive people that we have so far, but we also have other families that I wish I had more time to share with you all ;)

Love you all.. I pray for you guys always, and thanks so much for being a support for me ;)

--Elder Joseph V. Mohrman