Another week, another month! Had a pretty okay week, not so much excitement as the previous week, but nevertheless a good week. Last week a man came to church, his name is Onzo, born and raised here in belgium, came with a member, just to check it out. Loved the church, loved the baptismal service, and we met with him twice this past week talking about a lot of different things, he's awesome, keeping committments, really excited about what he's found here, came to church again this past week, had some great lessens, on the restoration and prayer in priesthood that really touched him, and to top it off, he went to school with some members, and they were super excited to see him come to church, I've never had members come up to me before and ASK to come on joint teach.. pretty cool, things are looking very good for him, he has a good foundation already to carry on in learning the gospel. He was the only one though that came to church.. pretty sad, saturday night, we committed 9 people to church, all said they would come, all had been reminded 3-4 times in the week, but.. helaas.. they didn't show, not to say there not positive anymore! Just means we have to work that much harder, and pray that much harder for them! Sonia, love that woman, but I feel like she might be the modern day Job! Everything you can think of is just piling up on her.. Its so sad to see, because it's hindering her progression! But were fighting for her, I don't think i've ever prayed more intensly for someone on my mission, she's a special one, and she'll come around, she just needs prayers! So pray for her, and if and when you go to the temple, please put her name in the temple.. She became super sick this weekend which is why she didn't come to church, it's amazing, sometimes with some people, you really feel the adversary working against them, he really doesn't want sonia to be baptized.. but solutions are being found, and she also has a good foundation in the church with members and what not, and she'll weather this storm. Kwame.. his addiction is killing him! But we had a great lessen on saturday, we asked him to make a goal, of when he can be stopped with alcohol and Weed, and he said one month, so we gave him a poster of jesus christ being baptized by John the baptist, and told him to hang it up on his wall, and to hang up a calander right by it, and every day he goes without smoking or drinking he can cross of his days, a way for him to see how much he truly is progressing.. we'll see what happens, but we haven't given up on him! Really cool exprience with another investigator, her name is monique, she is a friend of another investigator and she sat in on a lessen a couple weeks ago, she has been searching for a church for a very, very long time, has been to every kind of church you can imagine! And she's heard nothing but bad things about the mormon religion, and so finally since we were there, she decided to finally find out what we were all about! She asked us the classic questions about who and what is "mormon", and if we believed in the bible, so we were able to explain, what the name of the church really is.. she loved it. She said "Oh, I like that name much better!" and we said "Yeah, we do too! Because it truly is the church of jesus christ!" Well anyways we didn't have an extra book of mormon on us, but the other investigator had an extra one, and she gave it to her friend monique to read, who was super excited because she said that she was going to ask her friend for a book anyways because she had nothing to read, and she said that she'll read it! Then on Saturday, I was cooking, then I had the thought, call Monique! So I told Elder Da Cruz to call her and she had been reading like crazy in the book of mormon! Can't put the book down, and she said that though she hasn't read all of it, she believes it's the word of god, were going over tonight to have a lessen with just her, I'm excited for how it will go.. so lot's of wonderful miraculous things just keep on happening here in good ol' antwerpen!
Love you all loads!
Elder Mohrman
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