Hoi Familie!
Hoe gaat het met leven??
God is great, and we had another wonderful week in this city called Antwerpen! So many miracles! So much to share, where to begin, where to begin.. well let's start off with the investigators, Jen! He's amazing, he's doing it, he had an addiction to marijuana, pretty severe, but for the past few weeks, ever since we introduced the word of wisdom, he's made self goals, and plans to stopping, planned the whole thing out, and he's followed through with everything, and his final day was this past saturday, and in celebration he wore a suit for the first time to church, to show that he is a new man, on a new path, he's wanted no help from us, because he has said that it's something he must do by himself, but we gave him a priesthood blessing after church, more of a sealing of his own committment to stop, it was neat, he was emotional and thanked us for giving him the blessing.. were hoping to move his date up a week because he is just ready.. amazing man, he's went to parties where there was temptations of every kind, and he' s stared it in the face and overcame everything that satan threw at him!
Next stop Sonia, we had an amazing sunday, one of the best sundays of my mission that there wasn't a baptism.. serious, and I don't say that lightly. After church, after the exprience with Jen, we went by Sonia, she wasn't able to come to church, we were worried so we came by, you know the norm. We start talking, she asks questions about trials, and why does god sometimes acts like he doesn't answer prayers.. we read a couple of scriptures from the story of alma and his people after they fled the presence of King Noah, how they were put in bondage when they had done everything they were asked to do! She got it, and she was comforted, she hasn't been reading because of the stress and tiredness of life, we again turned to th book of mormon and read great verses about scripture study, again she got it, and committed to read every day, rain or shine, tired or not, she said she would, the spirit was very strong, and finally we started talking about baptism again, i've shared her story I believe, from the first contact with her, to the period of no conatct, to once again having contact, all the prayers and fasting on behalf for her, her concern about being baptized again, because she has already been baptized.. all came together at this point, and she said that she has been connecting the dots, and she shared some personal stories about her life and how she now sees that god was preparing her for this moment to accept his gospel, she said that she hopes she can be baptized next month, her only concern is financial and she needs to save up and what not for her baptism.. we once again turned to the book of mormon, read the classic Mosiah 18, told her that this was what God expects and requires of her to be baptized and that it said nothing about money in there, spirit was so strong, first time that she had ever said that she wanted to and was planning on being baptized, we extended a date, and she accepted.. and even if she doesn't make that date, she'll be baptized, she's committed herself to this.. it was amazing, and her daughter Joanne is also on board with a date now for March 17th.. So much joy, so much happiness, it was truly a miracle, Sonia connected the dots and is going to be baptized!!
But of course, the day was not over, Moniek and Adela people we set baptismal dates with last week, also weren't at church, so we stopped by and visited them.. Moniek the super positive one, she comes out, and is so excited to see us, she sits us down and explains how she was going to be late to our church, so she just decided to go to her church, while she was there, she heard a voice saying "go home," she heard it three times, before she finally decided she should listen and go home, she arrived 5 minutes before us. She was so amazed, and we were so amazed, and she said that she will always come to our church that she learned her lessen, we had felt that since she had her answer maybe we could move her date up to March 17th instead of in April, but she didn't give us a chance to ask, she asked us if it would be possible if she could be baptized on the 17th since she heard we were having a service then, we said yes of course! We explained however what needs to happen though if she will be baptized on that day, and she is fully committed to doing it. Amazing, and then we decided to share all these miracles with our ward mission leader, Brother Nuyens who is a 70 year old man who just does his best, we tell him our stories and miracles, and he gets choked up. Amazing, amazing, amazing..
Well I hope you all have also had a good week =)
Love you loads,
Elder Mohrman
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