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
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