First week of the transfer, gedaan! Time just flies, I
feel like I was just here sitting at this turks internet cafe emailing
you all, letting you know how things were.. But another week, another
week full of memories and stories.. and what an absolutely crazy week we
had.. geesh.. had one of the most stressful most intense expiriences
I've had so far in my mission.. Let me explain.. I won't do it justice
in writing, my companion is a better story teller than me, but I'll do
my best! Earlier in the week I was thinking to myself, what we needed
to do as a companionship, what we could do to find more people to teach,
since we really didn't have anyone making progression.. and I got this
feeling that when we look people up, instead of just biking from one
house to the other, to just walk.. it's extremely awkward at least for
me, to be riding a bike then stop in front of someone and contact them
about the gospel, other missionaries do it very well, me, never got the
hang of it.. so got the feeling to just walk then, less awkward, a lot
easier to stop people on the street, so I told my companion, and we said
we were going to implement it! Next day we have a great appointment
with a girl from the phillipines. she's a member just moved here, and
were meeting her in the centrum, and on the way we get off our bikes and
start walking, literally in a couple of minutes, this dutch man,
walking the other way, shouts "You guys the mormons??" and a big smile
on his face, and you know it's not everyday that someone stops us.. so
we are about ready to talk about the gospel with this guy, and out of
nowhere Folly.. a member here in Den Haag, a crazy intense african
member comes up behind us and starts preachin' to this guy.. totally
ruins the contact, the opportunity with the man, scared him off.. were
just like oh man.. start talking to folly a little bit, but then folly
starts talking to this random african man, and before we know it, they
were having this gospel discussion, african style, and the two of them
were joined by a couple other africans all praising the lord, and
talking about christ and there belief in him.. which was different from
each other.. when africans go at it, it's crazy.. but at the end of all
this, we get 3 potential investigators, so folly came through in the
end.. Anyways, so we go to our appointment meet up with this girl, she
buys us lunch, it's great wonderful, we then have someone to look up,
and so we start walking again, and the second person we have an
opportunity to stop, is this african woman, and her face lights up when
she sees us.. recognizing her look of recognition we go over there start
trying to talk to us, she says she knows us, she's seen us before in
Ghana.. we try turning it into the gospel, but randomely she pulls out
this piece of paper and asks for directions to the salvation army.. I
offer to help her find it, so we type into our phone, find the route and
start walking with this woman, who's name is Amma, to this place, we
continue starting to talk about the gospel introduced the book of
mormon, she loved it, said she was going to read it, and we promised we
would get her one in twi, the ghanian language. We get to the salvation
army, we say here it is, going to depart ways, but she asks if we can
come in with her.. come to find out, she just got here to Holland on
monday, after being in ghana for a year, and when she came back someone
had moved all the stuff in her home and changed the locks, so she is
without a home.. and so she has been directed to this place because she
is "homeless".. she doesn't speak any dutch, and she speaks broken
english, so it's even difficult for us to talk with her.. but as were
talking to this guy at salvation army, it became very apparent that this
lady would not stand a chance in finding out what happened because of
the communication barrier, and both sides were not understanding each
other, so I served as the mediator, and we found out that she couldn't
sleep there, but we had to go to social services and get a pass for her
to sleep somewhere else.. so knowing this lady couldn't go alone and do
it by herself, we go with her to the social services place, had to talk
to these people, about her situation, learned all sorts of more crazy
things, and to cut this story short, we then had to go to one bank, then
go to another bank, back to another homeless shelter, carrying her
luggage all over Den haag, but eventually we got things pretty sorted
out, got her a pass to sleep at the place and also a meeting with social
services where they'll be able to talk about her situation, and we got
sucked into that meeting as well.. but man.. the most hectic two days of
my life.. spent 6 1/2 hours with this woman, trying to figure out her
life and what happened.. but it was all made worth it in a minute and a
half, we set up an appointment with stephen and victoria, stephen is the
recent convert from ghana, and they were able to explain to her in Twi
all that had happened and what her situation was now.. but as we were
ending our meeting with them, I felt like we should share a scripture
with this lady, so I shared Alma 7: 11-12 Stephen translated it into
twi, and I was able to tell her that everything would be okay, and that
Christ knew what she was going through.. pretty powerful, spirit was
strong, she was crying, she cried a lot those two days, but these were
different tears, these were tears from feeling the spirit.. so we'll see
what happens with her.. I know though for a fact, that we were led to
this lady to help her through these couple of days.. amazing..
Also have some potential investigators for this coming week, some
cool stories, that I wish I had time to share, but things are going
well.. the work is slowly, but starting to pick up, and I'm really
excited for the next coming of weeks.. I know good things will be
happening soon ;)
Ramone if anyone is wondering, cannot accept what has happened to
him, and is in denial of the fact that he can't do things like he did
before.. really sad to see, if only he could look at the positives in
life, if only he could recognize gods blessings in his life.. but he's
struggling, and he's becoming crazy from it.. and we've actually lost
contact with him for the past little bit, but we haven't given up on
him, we'll see what happens..
Thanks for all your support and love,
Love you all so much!
Elder Mohrman
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