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Hoi familie!!

I'm emailing for the first time in 8 months somewhere other than the Antwerpen church!  And emailing for the first time on a normal keyboard, not one of those french ones and it is difficult!!  I've forgotten where everything is on this thing!  But i am in den haag, I came last friday, and it's been great so far.  Love my companion, he's a great guy and were having a lot of fun together, today we were playing ping pong on our little coffie table =P  We've also already seen some miracles!  They had an investigator who's name is steven.  He's from ghana, and i had my first appointment with him on saturday, I asked him different questions to see where he was and what not, and he said that he had prayed about the book of mormon and knew that it was true... pretty cool, so i asked him what does that mean or affect his life, and he said that he now needs to follow the teachings of joseph smith because he's a prophet.. so I told him that the teachings of joseph smith say that we need to be baptized into the church, and he was all for it, and so we set a baptismal date with him for in a couple of weeks!! Not bad for a first day huh? =)  He's a really cool guy, reminds me a lot like charles, someone who just gets it right from the get go, they had only had a couple of appointments before the one on saturday, so we still have to teach him everything, but it's going to go super fast.. he came to church and everything, so he will definitely get baptized this transfer.  Also had a cool expirience, a sister missionary who served in den haag a while ago, told me to look up some investigator she had when she was here, but i had forgotten the name, but on sunday that lady came to church randomely, she said that she had a feeling that she needed to go, and she asked for a blessing, so i gave her a blessing in dutch, and then after making an appointment with her, I found out who she was.. don't believe that was coincidental!  And also an investigator that i had the first time around, a cool chinese girl, has agreed to meet with us again, once she comes back from vacation.. she's a cool story, and that is the person, I really hope will progress.. so cool things already!  It was hard to leave, but it was time.. i don't feel antwerpen-sick, like i felt spijkenisse-sick, probably because it was dragged out for so long, and i'm back in a familiar place.. it was interesting to be back in church, and seeing old faces, recognizing them, but not knowing there names any more;... a lot of people recognized me, mainly because i gave the sacred grove cards out the first time around, they said "óh your the card elder".. well, i think that's all i have to report today, and all that i'm willing to type, this keyboard is starting to annoy me!!!  but i love you all, thanks for everything!  And looking forward to hearing from you guys next week!

Elder Mohrman

Last Week of Antwerpen!

Hey familie!!

The time has finally come!  Kind of... I was going to leave this place today, but of course they postponed it back another 4 days, so I still have most of this week here in Antwerpen!  The members got a kick out of that, they truly think that I won't leave now =P  But friday is the day!  And i'm back to the Netherlands, back to Den Haag!  I'm getting excited, with all the delays of getting there I'm starting to feel a little ansy, I love this place, but it just feels more and more every day that my time here is done.  Last saturday was a very special day for me, Sonia, Martinus, Monique, Jen, Jo-ann, Joantly, and a few of the members threw a party for me at the church, Sonia and Monique cooked surinamse food, and it was just a really cool evening being there with everyone that means so much to me here in Antwerpen, Earlier that day I had lunch with Isaac and Christiana, I love those people so much.  I gave Isaac after the meal and during our talk, I gave him my favorite sacred grove leaf, the one that has been in my scriptures my whole mission, and one of my name tags.. I'm planning on giving a name tag to Sonia and Martinus as well, just something to remember me by.  It was interesting sitting there that evening, with all of the recent converts there, and thinking about there individual stories, how I met them, where they had come from, different backgrounds completely different stories, but now they were all together, laughing with each other, talking with each other, making bonds and developing friendships.. just really neat.. a very happy day of my mission that is for sure =)  Ivan came to church yesterday as well, he's doing great, and he is so happy, since the first time I met him, to now, he has just more joy, and it's completely due to him finding the gospel again, same with all these people, the thing they have in common is accepting and applying the gospel of jesus christ.  True happiness.. Well other than wonderful meetings with members and recent converts, things have been getting really slow here, kinda sad to see, people are using there agency, and letting fear get in the way of faith, so we are re-building hoping that we can re-build the teaching pool for when Elder Davies comes here, we have some prospects, and some really cool people that we have appointments set up for this coming week.  Were excited and staying optimistic, were also swamped with lunch and dinner appointments, lucky for me, the members aren't sick yet of me using the going away card =P  So it will be a really enjoyable last 4 days in Antwerpen!  

Other than that, not much more I can think of to say, today for P-day, were going to be playing basketball with some other elders, been playing basketball a lot now that I have been with Elder Andrews, it's kind of nice to be able to make 9/10 free throws every now and then, brings me back to my glory days =P 

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

Elder Mohrman

Have a happy week

Hoi familie! 

Really great to be able to SEE all of you as well ;)  Wow, crazy to think the next time I'll chat with you all, will be face to face.. But it's going well as you can tell.. I have one more week here in Antwerpen with Elder Andrews and it is going to be a blast!  Have a lot of apointments set up with members, a barbeque with the El Salvadorian family and the ghanian and surinamse feast on saturday!  Cool story of the week that I didn't share, a in-active his name is Ivan, he hasn't been to church for a few years, but this past week we were able to organize a meeting with him and the bishop, and he asked that we sit in with him for support, went really well, and both the bishop and Ivan were so happy after wards, Ivan took us out to Mcdonalds, and he was just exclaiming over and over that "I'm back!" "I'm back" and thanked me and told me that was the reason I stayed in Antwerpen for an extra couple of weeks, was too help him become active again.. pretty neat, he's a good guy, has a crazy story.. but anyways.. the situation right now in Antwerpen, we've baptized a lot of our investigators and the other ones are getting into the hard to have contact phase, so we are doing A LOT of finding right now.. I haven't had full days of finding in a very long long time, but maybe its so I get some practice again going up to Den Haag.. who knows, but we were able to look up Nana yesterday evening, after not having much contact with him for a couple of weeks, and had a wonderful appointment with him and a friend of his.  His friend we had met 3 weeks earlier and he was so perplexed and bothered by the fact that we had invited Nana to be baptized even though he had already been baptized before.. he said that he had been thinking about it every day since we had met the first time, and it was just really bothering him.. so Elder Andrews and I were able to teach about authority very clearly, and he said that he had peace of mind after wards.. I was able to extend my favorite first lessen commitment of "Will you investigate" and he said he would so we have two appointments for wednesday and sunday set up, really excited about him.. the name of the friend is Ben.. and he said a very beautiful prayer at the end of the appointment just thanking god that he has this chance to investigate.. so two appointments then it's on Elder Andrews and Davies to help him the rest of the way.. well I don't know what else to say to be honest.. Church was good, people were suprised to see me of course, but I'm just livin' the life right now!  

Have a wonderful week!

Love your son, bro, and friend

Elder Mohrman

The boy who cried wolf

Hoi familie! 

Another great week on this mission thing!  Charles was baptized, beautiful service, it was pretty cool because he's from Nigeria and we got all the nigerian members of the ward to participate in the baptismal service.  He was very happy, and it went super smooth, couldn't ask for anything better! 

So funny you know how I've been saying, it's over, I'm leaving this place.. it's set in stone.. I've been telling that to everyone in fact, been getting dinner appointments left and right people wanting to say there goodbyes, just great people.. and.. well.. I'm not quite leaving yet =P  In an unexpected twist my companion is going AP, and so I am staying in Antwerpen, but for only half the transfer, and then I'll be going back to Den Haag to be the district leader there.. craziness!!!

I thought I had tied up all the loose-ends here in Antwerpen, that was my whole focus this transfer, because I knew it was so strange and crazy that I stayed and Elder Da cruz got transfered, but I guess there's still some things I need to do and set in motion, and so I'm off to work, I have the deadline though, and I know what my last city will be.. Antwerpen seriously has become a home to me, I think we might have to spend just a week in Antwerpen with how many people I want you all to meet!  But it's great, I think this is the most perfect situation for me, be able to stay a little longer in Antwerpen, and then leave to Den Haag, a city where I only got 7 weeks in.. couldn't ask for anything better! 

Yesterday at the baptism, were watching this film while Charles and Victor the member who baptized him were changing, and Monique comes and sits behind me and says "elder Mohrman, give me your hand" and she then prays for about 5 minutes under her breath, praying that I'll stay in Antwerpen.. unbelievable.. and now I get a few more weeks, but Sonia is really happy, they want me to stay til they are baptized which of course would be great, but I have a couple more weeks with them and others.  Too many cool expriences, but my thoughts our jumbled and so are exprieinces, so I'm going to have to wait to share these things til next week where I'll be able to see and talk with you all!! 

Things are going really well here, had a great transfer with Elder Van OverBeek, and the elder who's coming Elder Andrews is in my youngers, and we have a good bond, so I'm excited!  As for my companion in Den haag.. I have no idea who he is, some newer missionary that i've never seen before =P ha ha Anyways loves

Your bro, son, and friend

Elder Mohrman