Hoi familie!
Another week. Crazy huh? It was an interesting week, missionary work wise, we found a few people on our own this week.. finally! That was pretty neat, we knocked on this door, and a young guy answered and started talking.. really cool guy, told us his purpose in life was to do the will of god.. I asked him what he thought god wanted him to do, and he said to preach his gospel.. both really good answers.. very knowledgable person.. knows the bible really well.. and he's young! Maybe like 24-25.. pretty crazy, don't see young people like that, that knows the bible so well.. but we talked about Joseph Smith and the restoration, and he said he's never heard about that before.. we made an appointment for this coming wednesday.. so.. hope that goes through, and hope we can create an atmosphere where he'll be able to feel the spirit.. But he was the most positive person that we found on our own from this past week.. it was pretty interesting, when I came into the land I was picked up by Pres. and sister Brubaker, and after I went with the two assistants to go do some contacting in Brussels and to eat out and what not my first day and night. One of the assistants was leaving the next day, so it was pretty neat to be able to talk with him as I was coming in, and he was leaving.. now.. 7 months later or something, he came back with his family, and turns out he served in spijkenisse, and we were able to go to a dinner appointment with a member and this former elders family.. which was cool, I've always enjoyed talking with returned missionary's, but his mother who's name is... Beverly Koons.. who grew up in some place I think called Lakewood, Florida, which is right by a place called Liveoak I guess she said.. And she hung out with/ran around, was good friends with a guy by the name of Jay Mohrman.. what a small flippin' world.. is that not crazy? I don't think I've ever met someone that has only known Uncle Jay and not you dad.. she didn't remember you.. but wow.. so yeah, it was a fun appointment/dinner thing, she couldn't believe that I was related to Uncle Jay.. and she said to tell Uncle Jay that Beverly Koons says hello.. I don't know if you knew her dad? maybe.. probably.. but anyways.. And then for the past three days this other returned missionary has been around, he served about 4-5 years ago, and we've kept being invited to homes that he's visiting, so we've had three appointments with him the past three days.. crazy.. been able to talk to him a lot also, which was pretty cool as well.. he gave us a referal.. just some random guy that he remembered he met during a finding session one time, and he still remembered where he lived, so we went and looked him up yesterday and.. wow one of the most humblest men I've every seen.. we didn't say much, just that we were sent by this former missionary, and he brought up, that he wanted to talk with us again, he told us when, gave us his number.. it was amazing.. we were able to tell the former missionary that today, and he seemed pretty excited.. cool experience for him, to be able to give us missionary's a referal from someone during his time here.. maybe someday I'll be able to do that ;)
Funny guy though, the former missionary that is.. he left his wife behind, and so he brought a camera to make little videos to show her and what not.. and every time he wanted to do something that he hasn't done since he was here.. like eat some vla.. (dutch dessert) or riding a bike.. he would forget to make a video, so I had to remind the guy three different times, to make videos for his wife! Kinda funny.. maybe you had to be there ha ha,
I think this coming week were going to go visit this Jehova Witness guy... should be fun and interesting.. I'm not a good person to bash.. or have people bash with me.. I ask and say to random of things which I suppose is a good thing! Yesterday we were let in by some Jehova Witnesses and they kept wanting to talk Doctrine.. but I kept asking them random questions about how they met.. how many children did they have.. and nothing about faith at all.. it was kind of fun, just because we left with a good feeling of getting to know these people instead of, thinking to ourselves.. wow these people are morons.. so it was fun.. also a really neat experience that I'll quickly share, we have this investigator named Pat, she was found before I got here, and we haven't had a lessen with her my whole time here.. we finally had one a couple days ago, and we were able to really get to know her and know her background I guess you could say about religion.. she's from nigeria and says she's very religious and all.. but a couple of years ago, when she married the dutch guy, she had a problem and she prayed to god every day for a while, but she never received an answer she said.. so she said she was tired of it, and quit praying and all.. quit reading the bible.. everything.. still believes, but just tired of making an effort.. we had a powerful appointment where we committed her to a "testimony" date, and we promised her that if she read, pondered, and prayed ever day til this date, that she would have an answer that the book of mormon was true.. and then I felt impressed to say, that as she reads the book of mormon, thinks about it and prays, that she'll also get an answer to her other problem, question that she had earlier.. she said that she would do it.. pretty neat experience.. hopefully she does..
went to the zoo last p-day.. think I mentioned that we were going last week.. it was cool.. took pictures.. you'll see them I suppose sometime.. but it was sweet.. okay that's all you get from me this week,
Love you all
Tot Ziens
Elder Mohrman
Hi Joseph,
ReplyDeleteNice to see you back here. I think I am one of the Jehovah's witness family who let you in to have a drink at that time. I must say we really enjoyed talking to you and your friend and I remember this with warm feelings, so your strategy absolutely worked :-). I am sorry if you were somewhat annoyed about our preference to speak about doctrine. It was just that I felt we had a lot in common but was also intrigued about how we followed such different paths while we had the same objectives (and supposedly even had the same line of thinking at the very moment). I was just planning to give you a drink, but to be honest, JW also tend to proselytise a lot, so that might have interfered a bit with my initial intentions :-). Nevertheless, a lot has happened since those days. We are not active als JW's anymore, but we are doing fine. I hope you are doing fine als well! Wish you all the best!