You know I told my new
companion that you would google him, once they found out who he was, and
i was right! =P Ha ha Elder Van Komen, fresh out of america, fresh in a
lot of things.. been a very interesting 5 days. Definitely see the
blessing of getting this opportunity to train, especailly at this stage
of my mission. The most interesting part has been to observe him, and
how he handles things that we come across.. the absolute excitement of
setting up an appointment, or having a great lessen, to the hardcore
dissapointment of when that appointment we set up doesn't go through, or
when there not positive in a lessen.. really have seen how important it
is to not let the little things get you down.. to just shrug off
dissapointments, and just look forward to the coming appointment or
day..He's a good guy, has a big heart, powerful testimony, and i'm
looking forward to what these 12 weeks with him will have in store for
me.. what I'll learn! Definitely will keep me on my toes! He is one
that likes to ask the questions! But this past week to give a little
more detail, we got back into contact with Ramone the young man in the
wheelchair, after not having any contact with him for a couple weeks,
found out that he was in jail for those two weeks.. organized everything
again for him to come to church again, had a great lessen with his
cousin brian, had a great lessen with his uncle leonardo, all three were
going to come to church, of course they didn't show, but we have there
numbers and addresses, so we'll go look them up pretty soon.. Ramone..
ramone.. going to be one of those roller coaster investigators.. but
most of the roller coasters I've been apart of on my mission have been
the times where I've seen the most miracles.. so I'm excited it'll be a
great challenge for me and Elder Van komen.. Elder Van komen is really
great with people, so i'm excited.. good things are going to happen here
=) Other than that, our investigators are dropping like flies.. but
that's okay, no feeling of sadness, because we have a lot of good things
that will happen soon, I just have that feeling.. which is really nice
to have, because to be honest this past week was the worst numbers week i
have ever had on my mission. I think before I would be feeling bad,
and being like, man, what in the world am I doing wrong??! But I don't
feel that right now, just.. peace.. were also getting our phillipino
fix, set up appointments with all the phillipinos in our ward, so I get
to feel like stefi this coming week!
Bit of sad news, the senior couple that was serving here in Den
Haag, the sister, Sister Moore, passed away over the weekend.. she had
been really sick, but still really shocking, even more so, because at
the Jovo Centrum we were there, and we didn't have anything that night,
(appointment fell through) and instead of just going home, decided to
stay and just talk with the moore's just get to know them better, talk
about life.. really cool, really neat because sister moore pretty much
bore her testimony of how great elder moore was and how supportive he
was in her life through all her sicknesses and what not.. and then she
passed away that evening.. really glad I followed that feeling to just
talk with them, even though most people would of thought that, that
would be a waste of time.. had some pretty good appointments with
members this past week, just giving support and love, this one brother
from nigeria, he is really sick, has to go to the hospital every day,
his family is all in nigeria and he has no one here, we have been
visiting him, and he is a sport FANATIC.. so funny listening to him talk
about sports.. he get's really into it, but it's neat to see how
appreciative he is of our visits.. memories for life!
Love you all so much, thanks for all the emails,
Tot de volgende week!
Elder Mohrman
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