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