Hoi Hoi

Hoi familie!!

Another week, almost another month.. and things are still just going great!  Isaac was confirmed, and he asked me to do that honor.. it was great, first time that i have given someone the holy ghost who wasn't dead!! It was a neat expirience the spirit was strong, and it was neat to talk with him a little afterwards about it.. He's on fire, we had an appointment the day before he was confirmed and we focused on his wife Christiana, she understands but doesn't speak english really.. just the native Ghanian dialect (one of them) twi, so we brought a twi speaker with us, and long story short, it went great and we set a baptismal date with her for the first week of 2012.. It was great, she is super excited, and wants to follow the example of her husband.. there two little girls just love church!  They participated in the primary program in sacrament meeting yesterday, did absolutely great!   Our other family were teaching Kwame, who also has a baptismal date with his 10 year old daughter Elizabeth, doing awesome as well, came to church again, for the second week in a row.. Elizabeth participated also in the program with her little siblings, and then a recently baptized family with also a bunch of little children, that we have been working with, they came and those kids also participated in the program!  Half the kids there were from those three families, me and my companion couldn't help but feel good knowing that through our efforts, half the kids who go to primary are from families were working with!! 

It was another great week with new investigators, our other investigators have all caught the missionary bug, and keep bringing there friends to our appointments!! Ling our chinese student, she brought two of her friends to our last appointment, appointment made for this coming tuesday.. it was great.. Kwame, that brother is trying to convert the world, his uncle waited two hours at there house before our appointment to meet us, to let us know he wants to sign into our church.. So were going to share the restoration with them this coming week!! These are just a few examples, isaacs daughters with there husbands we met with this past week; all agreed to hearing more, just a great great story!!

But gotta go, getting kicked off the computer,

Love you all!!

Peace love

Elder Mohrman

Photos from Nov 21 email...Isaac baptism with family...former district photo and playing squash

Happy early Thanksgiving!

Hoi familie!!!

Transfers.... and... yeah i'm staying, no big shock there =) So christmas in belgium, looking forward to it! Elder Frahm, he also is going to stay with me, we both thought that he was gonzo.. but his prayers were answered and he will now be my second companion that i will have for longer than 1 transfer =O And we are on fire right now, blessings up the wazoo!! it's been absolutely crazy here.. Isaacs baptism did indeed go through, what a great expirience.. humble man.. and he brought all his family to church to see him get baptized! We had a scare though, mid-way through church our ward mission leader comes to us and says that there is no water in the font, but that there's a foot and a half of water in the church basement!! the hot water pipe busted and was spraying water all over the place.. the ward wanted to cancel the baptism, and of course we didn't want too.. were scrambeling to try and find a solution and finally we figured out we could still fill the font, but just with ice cold water.. Well our ward mission leader really wanted to cancel the baptism, but we had him ask isaac, and isaac said "i'm ready, i will be baptized".. amazing.. and so isaac was baptized in ice cold water with his family all watching.. powerful, the spirit was very strong.. I had my first opportunity to translate, i translated a couple of talks that were given at his baptism into english.. interesting expirience!! But it was good.. Isaac shared his testimony after he was baptized, and bared powerful testimony on the book of mormon, and also his expirience a couple weeks ago.. he likened the cold water like how he felt that day.. super neat.. Then he said his next greatest wish is to see his family also be baptized into this church.. it was great, after it was all over, isaac's wife, who just had a kid so we haven't really taught her, she told elder frahm that now that isaac is baptized we can focus on her.. so neat, and the daughters are also super excited and were going to be going over and visiting with them this week as well, with isaac as the joint teach!! It's just miraculous.. that's a good word. =) We have two other baptismal dates at the moment, kwame and his daughter, both came to church also, both loved and had a great time, and kwame knows a member in the church really well, and told us that he will come every week, this is the church for him!! That was super great, as now he has a foundation we can build on, and also a friend in the church who is also super excited and said he wants to help us teach kwame's family! Ultimately, these past two weeks have been hands down the best in my mission, in terms of success seen, production all that.. we had 9 people come to church last sunday! Three times the standard of excellance for my mission.. absolutely crazy and great, and things are just continuting to roll here.. Not much is changing in my zone, the sister companionship is changing though in antwerpen.. an old friend is coming, sister kraemer.. that's going to be crazy, haven't seen or been around her since my first transfer!! It should be fun, everywhere in the zone miracles are happening, it's been so fun being the zone leader and seeing all the different miracles take place! I'm not even scratching the surface of what i could be talking about, but i suppose this will have to do for this week.. life is good, i'm going to try and send you some photos.. this fancy computer at our church has a slot for my memory card!! how cool.. well okay, thanks for everthing, i guess the next email, i expect i'll have the news that i'm an uncle =0 Unbelievable.. in a good way of course =) I'm going to have a great thanksgiving this year, going over to a members home, and they said not to eat lunch before we come over.. theres going to be a lot of food, it's going to be great!! A lot different from last year that's for sure!!
Love you all loads!
-Elder Mohrman

De tijd vliegt voorbij...

Familie!! Vrienden.. Kennissen.. buurmannen en vrouwen.. Hallo =)



I can't beleive that it's already close to the end of transfers.. next week we find out!! Not that i'm worried that i'm getting the boot already.. just crazy to think i'll be on transfer 10!! Craziness.. but it's good.. we had a miracle week this week.. We had a zone leader council once again this past week, and our mission president told us, that as zone leaders we need to be getting standards of excellance every week, as an example for the other missionaries.. You don't know what standard of excellance probably means, but in a nut shell it's numbers that if you reach, your doing really well, in fact excellant.. hence the title.; go figure right =P Well.. on my mission i have never hit standards of excellance in every categorie in one week.. not many have.. put things into perspective a little bit, and the past few weeks we haven't even been close either.. but this week, literally by the grace of god, we made it.. saw so many miracles.; we had people show up to church that we had no idea who they were, but were able to make appointments with them.. it was just great, and obviously a mission isn"t about the numbers, but the numbers represent people, and the people that we have representing our numbers are solid, and Elder Frahm and I are both really excited about the coming weeks.. Isaac, is super excited about his baptism.. he can't stop talking about his "miracle". in fact to his friends and family as well! He's already talked to many people and many people will support him and come to his baptism.. the potential is great.. and that's just the potential from this one man.. we have some other really amazing people that we have met and are teaching/ beginning to teach.. Jimmy I have no idea if i've talked about him yet, but we had a powerful lessen with him this past week.. such a spiritual lessen.. we really took the time, to plan out the restoration lessen, based on his needs and focused it on the scriptures, one of the best lessens i think i've had on my mission.. what a wonderful feeling to know, that you taught to someones needs, and it really touched them.. his biggest concern, was why isn't this message the story of joseph smith being told to people??!! people need to know about this! We did assure him that we were doing our best.. we have a lessen this coming wednesday, and we are, at least for now, planning on extending the invitation to be baptized.. but for him i'm really optimistic.. and of course, he has a family.. a wife and kids.. and if he comes the family will follow.. that's what were really being blessed with right now, is families.. we are teaching many, many families.. and we set a baptismal date with the head of a different family, his name is Kwame, he's also from ghana.. and he's committed to coming to church as well.. we'll see, these people have a long way to go, but there on the path, and it's really looking good.. I was laying in bed last night, after gathering all the numbers and what not from the zone (zoneleader responsiblity =P) and i was just thinking about all these people, and all the potential we have with these families.. little overwhelming!! I'm not used to having to keep so many people in my thoughts and trying to juggle them and plan for them.. this is easily the busiest time of my mission, and my last city i was pretty busy as well =) I guess i'll learn (be forced to learn) a lot of valuable skills, of planning and priortizing.. these next couple months will definitely be a time of much growth for me!! But.. it truly is amazing to see gods hand in the work, to see these people to teach these people that have been prepared by god.. it's humbling when I take a step back and think about it.. 20 years old, and this is what i get to see and expirience.. =)

Ward relations are going great, really have seen a lot of progress, and building friendship and trust in the ward.. i don't know what more to write about.. life is great.. still alive.. driving here hasn't killed me yet.. wow.. driving in utah will be nothing when i get back!! =) i'm going bowling.. after this, should be great.. okay, i think that's about all!!

Love you all; thanks for all your support and love,

-Elder Mohrman

Another week on this mission thing =)

Hoi familie!!

Week was one of a lot of joy and a lot of frustration as well.. saw so much success at making appointments with people, and planning was so enjoyable this week!! My compnion and i tried to focus on the small things, confirming appointments finding joint teaches, building relations with the ward.. and it was great in that regard!! peoples free agency though.. frustrating at times, confirming appointments the night before, even day before!! and them not going through.. going to peoples houses to get them to church, and there not there.. unbelievable!! but you know.. its okay; because we were blessed with all our hard work, with one of the busiest weeks i'm going to have on my mission.. we have some solid positive investigators now; that the appointments will 98 percent go through.. and we have members assigned to go with us like never before, really positive investigatrs that we found this last week.. one man is a headquarters referral; he is the most doctrinally prepared man i have ever met.. knows that Jesus christ is his savior but has done research on the bible, and found out how it was formed, and that shook his faith, so he wants to read every book about jesus christ he can find to solidify his faith and find out what the truth is.. loved the book of mormon, were going over there again tonight.. isaac, had a really powerful expirience with him this week, he has arthritis, and it was acting up on him this week, when we met with him he couldn't move out of his chair it was so bad.. felt like we should throw a curveball in our plans and taught about the preisthood, and offered a blessing, we were on exchanges, so it was me and another elder, and we gave him a blessing, after we said amen, he just sat there for a moment, and then started to cry, spirit was so strong.. when i was giving him the blessing; i have never been impressed to say before "be healed".. scared to say those words, that's intense, but during the blessing felt it come so strong; and i tried to fight it, but the words came out.. like i said pretty intense.. we leave come back another day and he tells us when we left he got up, and with his arms outstretched called his daughter into the room and said "i can walk!!" and he was better, so he could go about doing his work and chores.. amazing.. he said that after i said amen with the blessing, he felt this warmth and energie working in him, and he couldn't control it and the tears came out.. pretty neat expirience to see a man overwhelmed with the spirit that it brings him to tears.. Isaac it ready to be baptized.. i've had some pretty amazing expiriences with blessings on my mission, looking back.. there is a line in my patriarchal blessing that says i'll see the gift of healing in my life, and that is definitely true, i've been blessed to see the power of the priesthood in action on my mission..
Well.. life is great, things are really looking good here, we've persevered and were getting blessed for it, we have nothing but a positive future ahead of us.. that was a weird sentence.. pretty dutch =P
but love you all, and thanks for all the emails, i'm thinking of you, and appreciate you even though i don't have time to write back to all of you this week!!

-Elder Mohrman