March 25th

Hoi familie! 
Transfers are in, and I am staying for a 5th transfer here in Antwerpen!  Couldn't be more excited!  I've been telling everyone that i'd  be leaving too.. Sonia was super sad, as well as her kids, and I'm really excited to now to be able to tell them that I'm staying for 6 more weeks, I'm hoping that I'll be able to use that to help them get baptized these coming 6 weeks!  A lot of things happening, a lot of great expiriences, but I really don't know what to write or how to put them into words this week =o  So.. I guess just know that things are going great!  Mircales everywhere!  People progressing, ward relations improving, new investigators being found.. Were going to start teaching Jens father, really excited about this, it's going to be really spiritual I just know, Monique is giving us all her family's info and were sending that to suriname, that's super exciting!  Isaac and christiana are doing wonderful, there really excited that i'm staying! 

Elder Da Cruz will be leaving, he has been transfered to Rotterdam as the Zone leader there, so I will still be able to see him when we go to zone leader council and what not.. my new companion his name is Elder Van Overbeek, he is one of our district leaders in the zone, so I know him very well, been on a lot of exchanges with him, and he's very american!  Just like me, it'll be a change after having Elder Da cruz for so long!  Really looking forward to this next transfer, so happy that I still have things to accomplish here in antwerpen and that this chapter of my mission isn't over quite yet =)

Love you all,

Elder Mohrman

March 19th

Hoi familie! 

*Deep Sigh*  I survived this week!  Through sickness, bad haircuts, zone training, exchanges, and failed baptismal interviews, I survived!  I've had a bit of a cold all week, I went through 5 rolls of toilet paper this past week!  I did not know that a human body could produce so much snot!  But oh well, life went on, Monique did indeed get baptized which was very very good!  I had the opportunity to baptize her and it was a very special moment.  Stressful getting to it! But it happened, We went on a mini-exchange with the district leader so he could perform the interview on saturday, they take almost an hour! and then I hear his voice saying "Our mission president will need to finish the interview.."  I'm just thinking ahh blast!  She started to cry, and asked if she would still be able to be baptized the next day.. we look at each other, and I just said, we'll call you tonight..  We go in a frenzy calling people, trying to reach our mission president and his wife, to no avail.. things weren't looking good for Monique's baptism, but her faith is so strong and god wanted to happen, our mission president calls us, and he just happens to be in Belgium driving in the direction of Antwerpen to go back to the Netherlands.. he's able to come to Antwerpen, and we call Monique, she is able to come last minute to the church, they have the interview again, and she got baptized!  Her whole story Moniques is just miracle after miracle, really neat to be apart of it!  And what added to it, was Isaac and Christiana stayed to watch the baptism as well as Jen.. everyone that I have seen baptized was there.. just kind of neat =) I told Isaac and Christiana that I'll probably be leaving, they were pretty sad, so I'm going over an extra time to there house this week just to spend time with them.. but I'll be ready for the next chapter of my mission if it does indeed come in a week =0 

Well, there are other neat things, miracles that are happening, but I'll save those stories for another day, thanks for all the emails!  I enjoyed the video of the little munchkin the kid is getting big!  Cute kid also =)

Love you loads and thanks for all the support!

March 12

Hoi familie!!

Thank you for the emails mom and dad!  A lot of good things have happened this week, with the best of course being the baptism of Jen.  Beautiful service, a lot of people stayed and supported him, his father came, and also his girlfriend, and what was really neat was his father started to cry, feeling the spirit so strong.  He wants to meet with us now =) Monique is doing great!, had some rocky moments as does everyone it seems like the week before baptism.. we went over almost every day to Jen to just make sure he was doing alright, to visit, to talk.. satan was working on him, but he fought through it, and now he is filled with the light of christ.. same with monique, were going to go as much as possible, she came to church yesterday for the 3rd time, had wonderful talks with the bishop and other members, she just can't wait to be baptized, and she will!  She also stayed for the baptism, loved it.. and Sonia!  Wow.. she is doing just wonderful.. but so sad, because her man won't marry with her yet!  She wants to be baptized so much, she has such a strong testimony, but Martinez.. something is holding him back, she is praying and were praying that the spirit will soften his heart.. it was tough, after church, she pulled me aside and asked what the options were if Marinez wouldn't marry her.. I had to explain that either they get married or she would need to find a new place.. not easy, and we don't want that at all.. but I have the feeling that when he comes to the church for the first time, he'll not want to leave.  And his daughter Joanne is scheduled to be baptized on the 8th of April.. so if he hasn't softened his heart by then, his heart will be softened then i'm positive of it.. there such an amazing family, I love them so much.. it's amazing to think back to when I first met them, clear back in December, and going through all the different expiriences that I had with them through the past few months, how sonia couldn't get past being re-baptized, and now she wants it with her whole heart and soul.. Everything will go well with them, keep them in your prayers, they need all the support they can get.  Other neat expiriences besides these wonderful people preparing for baptism, God blessed us with many new investigators this week, we visited a former investigator, turns out they are a part member family, the woman was baptized when she was super young, and doesn't remember much, and she has a daughter who is 13, Florica and Florina are there names, they came to church this sunday, stayed for the baptism also, Loved it!  Florina is about the same age as Joanne and so I told Joanne to lead Florina to all the different classes which she did, and they hit it off right away, it was so cool to see, two investigator girls making a friendship in the church.. Were going again tonight, and hopefully we'll be able to commit her to baptism.. I think that it will be likely =)  We introduced the book of mormon to another man, a man from ghana, and after sharing our testimony's of the book, we asked him how he felt, what his feelings were, and all he could say was, "I'm just excited.."   Were going back tuesday to share the restoration.  We visited a referal last friday, a headquarters referral, from another mission, a woman is getting baptized in southern belgium, and she sent her sisters information to our mission.  We went by, and we met actually that woman who is getting baptized, she was there visiting her mother, we came unnannounced but we had a nice chat on the door, we caught her by suprise, we left, and then we hear her calling us back, so we go back, and the womans mother was there and she wanted us to meet her, turns out that she was just at that moment talking about the church to her mother, trying to help her understand that the church and her decision was a good thing, and then we come by, she took it as a miracle, which it was, and we went back and met then the other sister and her ENTIRE family this past sunday, 5 new investigators a wonderful family.. really neat.  We went by another ghanian family, also a referal, unnannounced and we met the wife of the man who ordered the book of mormon, we went by again last sunday, he shared why he ordered the book of mormon, he had went to ghana, went to church there, saw changes in his friends lives, and he wanted the same thing, he said flat out, "I am here to follow your teachings.."  A lot of neat things, it had been a few weeks since we had some new investigators which was fine because we were focusing on the progressing investigators that we have, but now that there starting to get baptized, god sent us new people.. It's amazing how he works, because now were able to put much more thought and attention to these people then if we would have found them just a few weeks earlier.. wonderful, wonderful, wonderful things are happening =)  I'm anxious with this coming transfer because I just know and feel i'll be leaving, which is so sad to me, to see all this happen, naturally I want to stay and see where it all goes!  But i've been here for 6 months and I've seen wonderful things, so I will just enjoy these last few weeks that I may have here in Antwerpen =)  

Love you all so much, thanks for all your support and examples! 

Your son, brother and friend

Elder Mohrman 

Hoi Dames en Heren!

Beste Familie!

 

Thanks for all the emails!  Very nice, and wonderful.. I enjoyed them immensly!  Great hearing from you all and your expiriences from this past week!  It's a great exciting time!  You've been hearing of all the miracles that i have been seeing for the past few weeks, and now this coming sunday Jen Onzo Chako from belgium will be baptized, and Moniek Rattan from Suriname will be baptized the sunday after that, so in less than two weeks!  Sonia is preparine also to be baptized, she just needs to get married to her man.. complicated situation, but I think she will be baptized in April, and for certain her daugther Joanne will be baptized on the 8th of April a little over a month.. amazing, amazing amazing.. I really don't know what to say about these people, there just doing really amazing, all of them were in church, Sonia came for the first time to the investigators sunday school class in dutch, she had been going to the gospel doctrine class, and she loved it!  Because it was simpler, smaller, gave her an opportunty to participate, which she did, bore her testimony in the class, very beautiful.  We had an appointment with her last friday, and we talked about being positive, I thought of the hymn "count your many blessings" and so we were at the church and I told her to wait a sec while I got get a hymn book, and when I came back and showed her the hymn, she said that she was just barely singing it to Elder Da Cruz.. It was a neat lessen, because it wasn't a lessen that is on the teaching record or required to teach before baptism.. it was a lessen completely based on what she needed.. it was powerful, and she says multiple times, over and over she wants to be baptized, she wants to be baptized.. Amazing.. just need to have Martinez, her man to soften his heart, and they'll be a great family in the church;  Sonia, Moniek, and also Jen, all have been fellowshipped really well by the ward, it was monieks first full day at the church, and we really made it a point to introduce her to everyone, and many people said after to us, that they want to stay for the baptismal services of both jen and also Moniek's.. Really great! 

Well this past week went to brussel's twice, first to pick up Elder Da Cruz's passport, took the opportunity to see some sites in brussels =P  And then I got a call from my mission president, and he assigned me to a 'secret mission', where I was to return to brussels this week.. I guess a change in law over here in the netherlands and belgium is that american driver licenses are no longer valid to use.. so the area office over the cars, were threatening to take away all of our vehicles.  So my president sent me and another elder to brussels to see if we could exchange our american liscenses for belgium ones.. which we were succesful in doing.. problem is.. they took our american licenses and it takes a month to get our belgium one (so i'll probably be done being in an area with a car).. and we signed everything away on french documents, and they believe that we "surrendered our licenses" so were probably not going to be able to exchange them back at the end of our missions =0  Which means i'll probably have to exchange it back when I get to the states, which will probably be messy.. but the office elder are working on it, and figuring out what we'll need to do to get our american licenses back!   It's a weird feeling to know i'm not technically legal to even drive in America!  But it'll all work out, no problem =)  

Yesterday, we went to a fireside, and the speaker was a jewish business man, talked all about judiasm, and what not, very interesting.  Enjoyed it a lot.  Wish I could tell you more about these things and other things that have happened!, however i'm out of time!  Love you loads,

Your son, brother, and friend!

Elder Mohrman