Hoi Familie!
Hoe gaat het met jullie! Oh man.. what a week.. rain, rain.. go away.. what has been going through my head this whole week! I love the rain, always have.. but the rain here.. it doesn't go away. And it's not the most amazing experience in the world when you have to bike for an hour to an appointment while it's pouring rain!! But it was okay, because traveling all that way paid off, as we were able to set a baptismal date with our investigator! So once again.. able to set a date.. we'll see what happens, still hoping that Lilian will get baptized down in heerlen, waiting on that news.. finding has been difficult here.. haven't had much success.. in fact we haven't found a new investigator yet.. we've had referals from members which have been awesome! But nobody that we've found.. Sometimes you get into a rut with finding.. get into a pattern.. and well, my companion and I have gotten into one.. but it's good.. fighting through it.. were going to force ourselves to talk to more people on the street, instead of doing doors.. but also like I refered to above, we've gotten referals from members, and Me and my companion have set the goal to really push that and get more from the ward! Had a really neat experience, my first week here, we went to a member house, had dinner what not.. the lady who is single with a few kids, she started talking about a friend she knows and how she wishes that she could find a way to help him, and share the gospel with them.. but he's sick and she had no idea how to reach him or what to do.. And she said that she prayed for him every night.. after she said that I felt really prompted to challenge her, to instead of praying just for his welfare, to pray instead for what she could personally do, to help him.. to ask god what she could do.. I promised her that if she did that she would receive an answer and know how to help her friend. It was pretty neat... never have done that before.. and yesterday at church, I followed up with my challenge and she had done it.. she said that in fact yesterday when she was brushing her teeth, the thought came into her head to send him a card, with our info on it, because he's still sick.. really cool.. I had such a good feeling, just because the sister kept the commitment that we gave her.. so.. pretty neat experience.. Another sister in the ward had a miscarriage this past week.. really sad, so we went by and left a card saying that we loved them, and hope everything was good type of thing.. they showed up the next day to church, and said there thanks to us, that it meant a lot.. just neat little experiences..\
We haven't been finding, but the pool of investigators that we do have are pretty solid.. we have the potential for 3-4 more baptismal dates that could happen this coming week.. really excited about it.. if my companion and I are really dilligent and on top of things, I know that it will happen.. I just have felt that it will.. now the hard part is being dilligent, and doing the little things to keep in contact with these people!
I'll tell you a little about Spijkennisse now.. we actually don't live in Spijk.. we live in a city across the river called hoogvliet.. and the elders to Rotterdam south also live in that apartment.. oh man.. it's a party.. the oldest one (mission wise) is Elder Bjork, and he's on his 7th transfer.. I'm the second oldest on my 6th.. my companion is on his 5th and the other one is on his 3rd.. so a really young apartment.. but it's a blast, I love these guys! It's a really goofy apartment too.. it seems like were always laughing and joking about something.. were saying that this apartment would be a perfect "missionary sitcom" =P
But yeah so we live in hoogvliet and we have to travel over a huge river every day to enter Spijk.. just an outside town, doesn't have any history or anything.. but there's other awesome little towns in our area that have a lot of history.. the area that I am in now is the most dense in terms of members, there's 3 wards around here, two in rotterdam and then spijk.. so it's cool to be more in the thick of things than in the middle of no where in heerlen..
But everything is good.. I said last week that the apartment had decided and were determined to do dutch week.. well.. we got to friday night.. it's difficult.. man.. but we almost did it! We just kind of got burned out.. but it was the best attempt of dutch week I've ever had on my mission, so next transfer I'm excited for dutch week! (at the start of each new transfer, the first week is dedicated as dutch week)
Oh yeah.. so now that I'm back up here in the heart of the Netherlands, people are telling me once again, that i pronounce my name wrong.. really interesting, at church I introduce myself to people, and I say my name.. they look shocked at first then théý'll get really close and look at my name badge, and say "oh! It's MohrmAAn, not "Mormon".. To which I respond, "Well no.. ít's pronounced Mormon" and they'll actually try and argue with me.. amazing.. got to experience it I guess to understand ha ha
Well I guess were going to go to some zoo with a bunch of other missionary's.. so I gotta go.. Love you all, and thanks so much for all the emails, I love hearing about everyone, and yeah.. Doei! Tot Ziens, tot de volgende week! Ik verwach uitstekend emailen van jullie voor de volgende week!
Ik hou van jullie!
Elder Mohrman
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