Hoi Familie Mohrman!

Hoi Familie!

Hoe gaat het met jullie?? I had a really wonderful week, thank you for asking! =)  So at the beginning of the week, my companion and I, Elder Da Cruz, we took a step back and we said to ourselves we need to find new people!  We've been finding a little bit, but we've been holding out on current investigators and finding other activities to fill up our days.. but this week, we said we were going to change all that, we were going to dedicate the week of just finding, finding, finding!  And of course that's not at all what happened =P  So many random things kept coming up that ruined our planned day, we went with Isaac and christiana to the "gemeente huis" I forget the word in english, it's where legaltiy stuff takes place.. government building for Antwerpen, but anyways we went there for about 3 hours with Isaac and I served as a translator for Isaac.. super crazy, but everything worked out, and all the problems that Isaac had been having with legality issues were settled, which he was very grateful for since he's been having these issues for a couple months!  We then went another day to the hospital for a couple hours to help another recent convert, and just different odds and ends throughout the week.. but we still had our normal appointments with Isaac and cristiana, and with other people as well.. Cristiana is doing really well!  We went over all the baptismal interview questoins and she has such a sweet pure testimony!  Isaac, blessed the sacrament for the first time yesterday, and they really are just a happy "soon to be" mormon family..   Even though we weren't able to spend so much time on finding like we were planning, the Lord blessed us still with New investigators, a couple of families came out of nowhere, one from suriname, and one from Equador, we had lessens with them, they both agreed to take the lessens.. Sonia, oh man, we had no contact with her for the longest time, called her up out of the blue with hopes that she would answer, she did!  She came to church with her two children, turns out one of the sisters in the ward is her sons school teacher.. they really enjoyed church, and she said that she "has a lot of questions" for us.. so we had the goal for new investigators, to replenish our teaching pool.. and we got them, just not in ways that we expected or even planned.. it's amazing how that works, but really, really excited for the coming weeks and the potential this place has to just explode.. We also had a meeting with the stake president and our mission president, as zone leaders that's our responsiblity as well, and it was interesting to be in a meeting like that where decisions were made how to better help the stake with missionary work.. so it was a good week!  Really good week, sunday was such a joyful day, when we were able to get sonia to church, she was someone that has been on my mind for weeks!! Praying, even fasting.. that she would in some way be able to come to church.. and it happened, and a lot of miracles happened for her, she was really touched at church.. Kwame and Elizabeth will sadly not be being baptized this sunday with Christiana, they need to wait a couple of weeks, but Kwame came and everything to church, so I hope he handles the news okay.. pray for him! 

Well I love you family, your the best, I really appreciate the Kent Williams c.d, going to listen to that as I drive around from place to place!  Attached a few pictures, the one with the belgium family is Simon and his family, we went over there last saturday, and had lunch with them, really interesting and a really good visit.; they have respect for the mormons now I think =)  I asked for a copy of his report that he's turning in, so that'll be interesting to see what he has to say about us.. had to straighten out some anti stuff with him =P

But anyways, love you again, have a wonderful week!

--Elder Mohrman

yet another happy week!!!!

Hoi Familie!!

 Ik hope alles goed met jullie is!!  It was a good week last week, we kind of have been sifting through investigators for a while, but were starting to get some more investigators that are actually investigating!  We met this one man, his name is Ali, he's from iraq, and in fact worked with the american army for many years during the height of the iraqi war.  It was through the american service men that he learned about jesus christ, and started to believe.. he lived in italy for a long long time, so he's fluent in italian, and that's where he met the church, and he studied with missionaries there and really loves the book of mormon and church activities!  We gave him an arabic book of mormon, and he has been reading that like crazy, in one evening, he read all the way to Jacob 2.. craziness, he's worried about baptism thought, because all his family is muslim.. so he's said he's not ready, but he's very positive.. we read Moroni's promise, and when we explained it, he said, "okay, let us pray then, and ask if it's true.." so he bowed his head, said a silient prayer, and were a little taken back, but we do the same, and when he was done, he looked at us and smiled and nodded and asked "that's the holy ghost right,?" but the name of the holy ghost in itailian, and we nod, and say yes.. that's the holy ghost.. so he was happy and we left, and now we'll see where it goes!  Christiana and Isaac are doing wonderful as usual, had a wonderful lessen with them this past week on dispensations and apostasy, got pictures and made a timeline so they could see the different prophets and periods of time, and gave an explanation of the bible.. christiana had great questions and was able to voice some concerns that she had, and isaac, wow, that man, he's amazing, before he would translate everything she said, especially when she had questions, but now he just answers and resolves her concerns.. so everything is going great, she understands, and Isaac received the priesthood yesterday, which was great!  He asked me to perform that, first time i have ever gave someone the preisthood before!  It was a pretty cool expirience, and afterwards, I said to Christiana "Your turn!" and she just smiled and laughed.. going super well.. Other than that, were still visiting and focusing on Kwame, trying to help him with his Addictions.. were really going to put an extra focus on him this week, to see if we can help him and his daugther reach there baptismal date at the end of the month.. so pray for them, they have it the most right now!  We've been visiting a lot of inactives, and seeing great things, had some really good visits.. a lot of these people, they just need love, and they need some attention, something that they feel they haven't had, we have re-activated one lady her name is nancy, a recent convert, really enjoying church again, and makes us nigerian food everytime we go over there.. this week we have a  lot of dinner appointments with less-acitves which is super!  Allows us the chance to get to know them better in a calm setting..  Simon, the refferal from Tiffani, sent me a text yesterday, and were going to be going over there on saturday, that should be fun, I'm really looking forward to that.. so yeah.. Other neat things that happened I witnessed for the first time in my life someone proposing to somone!  It happened also yesterday, it was the teacher of our sunday school class, he's a recent convert from nigeria, and his girlfriend is also a recent convert from nigeria, and during the middle of the lessen he pulls out the ring and asks her to marry her.. pretty cool stuff, pretty smooth! 

Well, hope that you all have a wonderful week! Love you loads,

-Elder Mohrman

another happy week

Hoi familie!!

Life is going just great over here in belgium!  Elder Da cruz is great, it's like we never stopped being companions the first time.. he's a great elder and i'm excited for our coming transfer together =)  We did a lot of traveling this past week, had zone leader council, that was Elder Da cruz's first day down here, and then he had a great first day as zone leader as he grabbed the wrong coat from the mission home!  In fact he grabbed Sis. Brubaker coat, (there about the same size =P) so our keys were left in the netherlands, and we had no way to get into our apartment that night when we found out about the mistake, so we spend the night over at some other elders apartment then drove all the way back up to the netherlands to get our keys.. it was a great first couple of days, great way to break him in for being a zone leader =)  We had a really great appointment with Isaac and Chrisitiana, we brought the bishop a long and he was able to talk with them and let them no what the following steps for them are as new members, and also what is expected as new members of them.. Isaac then had his interview with the bishop on sunday, and he will be receiveing the priesthood next sunday!  And they've also changed there minds and isaac will now baptize christiana most likely.. so cool.. and he's again asked me to give him the priesthood!  Kwame also came to church with elizabeth so we had all three of our baptismal dates in church, along with a suprise, a man who comes from Iraq, his name is Ali, i guess he had been going to "the book of mormon church" in italy for a while, and loved it there, and he really wanted a book of mormon in arabic, so we were able to give it to him, and then bring him to church on sunday, and set up another appointment with him later.. a miracle, and he seems super positive, so it'll be great to see where this leads.. Other investigators that we have have been gone, or stuff has been happening, so a part from our main base of investigators we losing all our other ones and so were going to be in finding mode here soon.. Thanks for all the emails, Love you loads, but gotta go! 

Take care,

Elder Mohrman

Happy New Year

Hoi Familie! 

 

Another transfer!  And... I am staying put, Elder Frahm is sadly gone, so I am getting a new, yet old companion!  Elder Da Cruz is coming!  My brazilian buddy, i'm excited i had a blast with him in Spijkenisse, and now we get round two with each other.. pretty interesting, doesn't happen very often that you get the chance to serve with someone in two different cities, but just another unique thing to add onto my list of unique things for my mission =) 

It was a good week, started off really really well, had some really neat lessen with people.. Sonia, she is from Suriname, we gave her a book of mormon a week before our second appointment, and when we came for the second appointment she had read all the way to the middle of Jacob!  Super cool lady, super prepared, came back talked about baptism, she had problems at first, but we sorted them out, and asked us if she would be able to come to our church!  Amazing right.. except she didn't come =0  We haven't been able to get contact with her, but we have a scheduled appointment for tonight, i have been praying and stressing about her for the past couple days, so i really do hope the appointment goes through.. It's heartbreaking when you find someone so prepared and have such a spiritual expirience with them, and then lose them for one reason or another.. it hurts inside =O I don't know if I ever told you about Dirk, but had an amazing first couple appointments with this man, he loved the book of mormon, read in it, testified of the truthfulness of it, said he felt goosebumps when he was talking to us, lost contact with him for two weeks, got back into contact with him, and he was just amazing, set a baptismal date with him, then that sunday, supposed to come to church, and texted us and said he recieved an answer from god and that he's going to stay protestant.. so sad, and he won't pick up or anything so we can't talk it out with him.. We had good appointments with Christiana as well... she is not going to be baptized this coming sunday however, she doesn't feel comfortable being baptized so soon after giving birth, an african culture thing, so she's going to wait out the "period of uncleaness" in there culture, and so she'll be baptized at the end of January now.. still really positive, and so i'm happy that i'm still going to be here! 

Kwame and Elizabeth, we invited them both to come to church, but they partied to hard, and weren't able to come =0  Teaching them is going slower, they just don't understand alot!  We have to teach using pictures, and object lessens which i haven't done my entire mission.. it's interesting, but they should also get baptized this coming transfer.. Well.. I already shared a little of the story with Tiffani about her refferal she gave me, it went really well, had a good conversation with the kid, and he dished out 70 euros treating us to lunch =0 And he texted us after saying his mom wants to cook for us.. so cool, return appointment, and we'll see how it goes! 

Well.. I suppose that's about all.. made my goals for this coming year, and number one on the list, is finishing my mission strong!  I figure the way i finish my mission will be a huge indicator how my life will go after the mission, finding drive to do things and what not, so there it is, written down now and official!  I will finish these last 8 months strong! =)  You all are my witnessess now!

Okay, let you know how everything is next week!
Chow (as they would say in brazil)

Elder Mohrman

Re: happy last week of 2011!

Hoi famlie!!

Well.. it was great and wonderful, fantastic even, being able to talk and to SEE most of you yesterday!  I don't really know what to say or talk about, we covered a wide range of things yesterday in our chat!  Umm.. Well after the chat, we went spend a little more time at the El Salvadorian family's place, played some games, fed us hot chocolate and waffels, which was just great because it filled us up right before our dinner appointment with a ghanian family!  Ha ha We didn't play that very smart, they gave us a bunch of food, and it was super good, but trying to force it down.. oh man, i knew i was going to burst, and that was definitely without question the fattest i have ever felt in my entire life! =P  But like i said it was really good, tasted great, and I had a wonderful christmas! =) Today, what are we planning on doing, i think were going to go to the chirstmas mart here in antwerpen, probably look around, panic a little and buy stuff.. you know that sort of thing, and then i've made a goal, that i will write back everyone who has sent me a letter that i still need to write back by the end of the year!!  And so since this is my last p-day of this year, i only have today to do it.. so that's what my day is looking like, shopping, and writing letters.. classic missionary p-day i think!  But then, it will be great, as we have a familly home evening with Isaac and Christiana, were going to teach them about the organization of a ward, going to draw it all out, with pictures and everything!  Well i'm attaching some pics of my past adventours this past week, some ghanian delicasies, and some pics of antwerpen and anything else i choose to send you!  Love you all, thanks again for everything, your love your support, your words of wisdom, stories and updates! 

Your son, bro, and friend.

 - Elder Mohrman

Maandag 19 December, 2011

Familie!

 

Hello!  Or better, Prettige Kerst! 

It's christmas.. again!  Unbelievable.. It's starting to sink in that it is indeed christmas as well, yesterday we went caroling at this senior citizen home.. not sure really what you call that anymore, but it was really neat, as with every song that we sung, the crowd was invited to participate, and to see these older belgiums get so excited when the next christmas song was announced, as they sung along with us there was just a joy in there eyes.. It's interesting, we sang most of the songs in dutch, naturally, but this christmas i really started paying more attention to the words that we were singing, the message of these classic christmas songs, there beautiful.. as I was singing i truly felt like, wow.. i'm praising my god.. I just love the hymns, my goal is to memorize a hymn in dutch a week, starting with the christmas ones.. it's a goal, see how long it will last, but when else will I sing these songs in dutch if I don't memorize them?? =)   Also we went to the christmas devotional for the stake last night brussels, chance to leave mission boundaries, always fun =)  But it was really well organized, really powerful, the missionaries in our zone were able to perform a song, and other more musically talented missionaries and individuals even said that we did a pretty good job.. Before every song that was performed they gave a little history about the composer and where it came from, Silient Night.. what a great song, written by, Joseph Mohr.. it was fun to hear a little about him, and his life, and the inspiration that he received to write this classic song.  So last couple days, busy with christmas type activities, this coming week, it will only intensify.. Were having dinner appointments with members for both Christmas Eve and also Christmas together with the sisters, so were all taken care of! =)  And also after much stress, we organized our whole skype situation, so i can now give you the time so i can see your wonderful faces!  It'll be just swell and dandy, and the best christmas present I can think of!  On that note, thanks for the package and the envelope, i don't know how many packages you sent, but i received one box, and one envelope.. i hope that was everything, the sunny delight, is all gone.. what a wonderful, inspirational choice of drink to send me =)  Also thanks for the oreo's, love oreo's.. 

Also this past week, went to a zone conference up in rotterdam, which is right by Spijkenisse, so i worked up the courage again to ask president, if i could swing by and say hello to Fam. De reus.. and he said yes!  We were going on exchange so brought 3 other random missionaries that they don't know to there house, but it was super neat to be able to visit with them.  Amazing change in there lives.. I say it with all my wonderful expiriences, but one of the best moments in my mission, they set up a missionary wall where they have the pictures and a little paragraph that the missionaries write of the missionaries that they know and become close to, so Elder Da Cruz was there as well as Elder Brown who took my place when i left, Also the other two elders in R'dam south, and they were waiting for me to send my little paragraph to them, so i was able to write my testimony to them, just wonderful, what missionary work is all about.. what a mission is all about.. with it being christmas and all, i've been very reflective this month, thinking back on all my different stages of my mission, how much i've learned and grown, all the people that i've met and built friendships with.. i've been extremely blessed, probably more blessed than what a 20 year old deserves, but i'm not complaining =)  And i just know as i look to the future, and the 9 months that i still have left, i'll be blessed even more, and the best is yet to come.. Thank you all so much for all your support and love, not just you family but also all my friends, i was looking at all my letters i've recieved, and i have a pretty good stack again =0 I'm horrible, but i hope that people realize that i appreciate them so much and there friendship; the people who i've been around has shaped me into who i am.. =) 

Love you all, and wish you a very merry christmas!  

Isaac and christiana is doing great!  She will definitely be baptized the first week of january.. 

Til Sunday familie!  

Love you loads once again,

-Elder Mohrman     

December 12, 2011

Hoi familie!!

I'm so happy that you all were able to be together this past week!  Sounds like it was a great time for everyone!  Especially the little munchkin!  Man, i think he's already more spoiled than i ever was!!! =P ha ha thank you for the pictures, they are saved on the good ol' memory chip and i will print them off as soon as I can!  Love pictures =) 

This past week.. hmm.. it was good.. but slow.. really good with a few investigators that we have, mainly our chinese friends emily, and ling.. had seperate lessens with both of them, and taught about the nature of god and also Jesus Christ.. it's exciting to see there excitment and more exciting to see that there beggining to understand.. it's been slow, especially with ling, but we

made huge progress with her, and i'm really excited for our next lessen with her, as it will be on alma 32 and the faith cycle.. i love that chapter, i've had many wonderful expiriences sharing that chapter with people.  I had, once again another confirmation about the love that heavenly father has for all of his children, and how EVERY single person has there own needs and concerns.. With Emily and Ling, there both from china, same background, same everything really.. and so we were planning to pretty much share the same lessens with both.. but through the course of the different appointments, as we really listened, the direction of the lessens went different ways, and we were able to understand a lot more clearly what they needed as individuals.. it was neat, hard to try to explain through email.. but anyways, it was awesome and a neat expirience for me, just wanted to let you know! =)  Christiana.. wife of Isaac.. doing wonderful, we had three appointments planned with her this week, only one actually went through.. the other two we just talked with Isaac, that man is on fire, and he's hungry for more knowledge.. he was hit this past week with every single major anti matarial you can think of.. Blacks with priesthood, polygamy a few other things i don't remember.. and he has taken everything in stride and is just progressing so rapidly, it's amazing.. We were planning on teaching christiana about the nature of god.. and that was last monday, but she was busy with the kids so we just taught it to Isaac instead.. turns out he still beleived in the trinity, but we explained it to him, invited him to pray about it, and he was totally great.. and then later in the week when we shared the same lessen with christiana, isaac was a powerful joint teach.. and really helped christiana.. it was just wonderful.. Isaac, he talks a lot about religion with everyone now, and especially with his close friends and family.. he exclaimed to us that he doesn't understand it but when he's engaged in these conversations he just gets these ideas of what to say to these people, and he doesn't understand it as he never studied the subjects before.. it was neat to then tell him, that's the gift of the holy ghost that you just recieved giving you the words and leading you to what to say.. when we told him that he thought for a moment and then a big smile came on his face.. and he said " that's good.."; truly a remarkable man.. They fed us also this week, traditional ghanian food.. super good, but super hot!! man.. I've gotten Ghanian food a lot here in this city, and all of it is so spicy and hot!  They just laugh at me as i eat, since my white face turns red, and theres tears in my eyes.. but i'm managing!  I can now eat a full plate of "mild" ghanian food =P 

Life is good, like i said this past week was a little slow, and we need to pick it up and do better, which were both committed to do.. so yeah, other that what i've already shared, nothing else to report.. Found out who were going to dinner with on christmas, a family in the ward, they've also invited th sisters, so.. it's going to be pretty crowded and not a lot of time, as we all need to talk with our families, but the family does have skype i believe, and i would love to skype this christmas.. so.. probably next week or something i'll give you the information, because i don't have it yet, and if skype doesn't work out, then the phone works as well, no problem =) 

Love you all, thanks for everything, have a wonderful week!

Your son, bro, and friend

Elder Mohrman

Another great week filled with miracles and blessings

Hoi Familie!!

Thank you so much for the emails, I know and realize that it was a super busy and exciting week for everyone!  Our family is growing!  Two new additons past few years, not bad!  I wonder who the next addition will be?? =) 

Well this past week, we had a lot of meetings, that sucked up a lot of our time, but still managed to have some great expiriences, A lot with members, which was really great.. Last monday we went to a chinese buffet with some youth here in Antwerpen called the Wok van (of) Antwerpen, I won't tell you how much it cost per plate, but it was really neat to spend some time with them! 

We had a really great lessen with Isaac and Cristiana this past week. Isaac recieved a picture of the temple of Den Haag, from the ward, and he had hung it up on his wall, so we talked a little about temples with him, told him of goal that we have of getting him the priesthood so he can baptize his wife!  He was pretty excited about that possiblity, and what was even better, we had a plan to teach christiana about Pres. Monson, and we found out there are a couple of sessions of conference that have been translated into twi!! We picked a random talk by president monson so they could listen; and what did he talk about.. Of course, temples.. It was perfect, and Cristiana really understood!  Making progress.. Also got in re contact with some old investigators and that also went really well, jimmy don't know if i talked about him, but we had lost contact for about two weeks, but we got another appointment, and it went really well.. he came to church with his daughter, and both I think really enjoyed it!!

Well today, were off to a city called st. niklaas to celebrate a holiday they have here called St. Niklaas!  Pretty much the same thing as santa claus, but different.. so get to expirience some culture this P-day!! I'll take some pictures for sure! 

Well I sure do love you all, thanks for everything all the emails and what not, sorry that the emails are getting shorter and shorter, a member came in and distracted me.. sorry I panicked!! 

But take care, and Fam; De Reus is getting baptized this weekend!! So excited!  Nico got the priesthood, everything is set and ready to go.. I asked my president if I could go back to spijkenisse to be there with them, but i live to far away so i won't be able to go, but it's been wonderful being able to stay in contact with them!

Okay love you all!!
Elder Mohrman

some new photos...dec 5th

Just  a few pictures.. Thanksgiving dinner.. ate at a chinese buffet called the Wok van Antwerpen.. A member who is a train conductor that let me where his hat and tie.; and then a picture of me in the now!  5 minutes before I sent this =) 

 Elder Mohrman today....Dec 5th :)

 As a train conductor...

 Thanksgiving dinner...

At chinese restaurant...funny thing this picture...sure looks like when joseph was a little boy and would sway as he was learning to walk...he would hold my hands and bounce side to side when he heard music...the belly looked just like this and hmmm, look at how similar the faces are :)...oops sorry Elder Mohrman for commentary...

Hoi Hoi

Hoi familie!!

Another week, almost another month.. and things are still just going great!  Isaac was confirmed, and he asked me to do that honor.. it was great, first time that i have given someone the holy ghost who wasn't dead!! It was a neat expirience the spirit was strong, and it was neat to talk with him a little afterwards about it.. He's on fire, we had an appointment the day before he was confirmed and we focused on his wife Christiana, she understands but doesn't speak english really.. just the native Ghanian dialect (one of them) twi, so we brought a twi speaker with us, and long story short, it went great and we set a baptismal date with her for the first week of 2012.. It was great, she is super excited, and wants to follow the example of her husband.. there two little girls just love church!  They participated in the primary program in sacrament meeting yesterday, did absolutely great!   Our other family were teaching Kwame, who also has a baptismal date with his 10 year old daughter Elizabeth, doing awesome as well, came to church again, for the second week in a row.. Elizabeth participated also in the program with her little siblings, and then a recently baptized family with also a bunch of little children, that we have been working with, they came and those kids also participated in the program!  Half the kids there were from those three families, me and my companion couldn't help but feel good knowing that through our efforts, half the kids who go to primary are from families were working with!! 

It was another great week with new investigators, our other investigators have all caught the missionary bug, and keep bringing there friends to our appointments!! Ling our chinese student, she brought two of her friends to our last appointment, appointment made for this coming tuesday.. it was great.. Kwame, that brother is trying to convert the world, his uncle waited two hours at there house before our appointment to meet us, to let us know he wants to sign into our church.. So were going to share the restoration with them this coming week!! These are just a few examples, isaacs daughters with there husbands we met with this past week; all agreed to hearing more, just a great great story!!

But gotta go, getting kicked off the computer,

Love you all!!

Peace love

Elder Mohrman

Photos from Nov 21 email...Isaac baptism with family...former district photo and playing squash

Happy early Thanksgiving!

Hoi familie!!!

Transfers.... and... yeah i'm staying, no big shock there =) So christmas in belgium, looking forward to it! Elder Frahm, he also is going to stay with me, we both thought that he was gonzo.. but his prayers were answered and he will now be my second companion that i will have for longer than 1 transfer =O And we are on fire right now, blessings up the wazoo!! it's been absolutely crazy here.. Isaacs baptism did indeed go through, what a great expirience.. humble man.. and he brought all his family to church to see him get baptized! We had a scare though, mid-way through church our ward mission leader comes to us and says that there is no water in the font, but that there's a foot and a half of water in the church basement!! the hot water pipe busted and was spraying water all over the place.. the ward wanted to cancel the baptism, and of course we didn't want too.. were scrambeling to try and find a solution and finally we figured out we could still fill the font, but just with ice cold water.. Well our ward mission leader really wanted to cancel the baptism, but we had him ask isaac, and isaac said "i'm ready, i will be baptized".. amazing.. and so isaac was baptized in ice cold water with his family all watching.. powerful, the spirit was very strong.. I had my first opportunity to translate, i translated a couple of talks that were given at his baptism into english.. interesting expirience!! But it was good.. Isaac shared his testimony after he was baptized, and bared powerful testimony on the book of mormon, and also his expirience a couple weeks ago.. he likened the cold water like how he felt that day.. super neat.. Then he said his next greatest wish is to see his family also be baptized into this church.. it was great, after it was all over, isaac's wife, who just had a kid so we haven't really taught her, she told elder frahm that now that isaac is baptized we can focus on her.. so neat, and the daughters are also super excited and were going to be going over and visiting with them this week as well, with isaac as the joint teach!! It's just miraculous.. that's a good word. =) We have two other baptismal dates at the moment, kwame and his daughter, both came to church also, both loved and had a great time, and kwame knows a member in the church really well, and told us that he will come every week, this is the church for him!! That was super great, as now he has a foundation we can build on, and also a friend in the church who is also super excited and said he wants to help us teach kwame's family! Ultimately, these past two weeks have been hands down the best in my mission, in terms of success seen, production all that.. we had 9 people come to church last sunday! Three times the standard of excellance for my mission.. absolutely crazy and great, and things are just continuting to roll here.. Not much is changing in my zone, the sister companionship is changing though in antwerpen.. an old friend is coming, sister kraemer.. that's going to be crazy, haven't seen or been around her since my first transfer!! It should be fun, everywhere in the zone miracles are happening, it's been so fun being the zone leader and seeing all the different miracles take place! I'm not even scratching the surface of what i could be talking about, but i suppose this will have to do for this week.. life is good, i'm going to try and send you some photos.. this fancy computer at our church has a slot for my memory card!! how cool.. well okay, thanks for everthing, i guess the next email, i expect i'll have the news that i'm an uncle =0 Unbelievable.. in a good way of course =) I'm going to have a great thanksgiving this year, going over to a members home, and they said not to eat lunch before we come over.. theres going to be a lot of food, it's going to be great!! A lot different from last year that's for sure!!
Love you all loads!
-Elder Mohrman

De tijd vliegt voorbij...

Familie!! Vrienden.. Kennissen.. buurmannen en vrouwen.. Hallo =)



I can't beleive that it's already close to the end of transfers.. next week we find out!! Not that i'm worried that i'm getting the boot already.. just crazy to think i'll be on transfer 10!! Craziness.. but it's good.. we had a miracle week this week.. We had a zone leader council once again this past week, and our mission president told us, that as zone leaders we need to be getting standards of excellance every week, as an example for the other missionaries.. You don't know what standard of excellance probably means, but in a nut shell it's numbers that if you reach, your doing really well, in fact excellant.. hence the title.; go figure right =P Well.. on my mission i have never hit standards of excellance in every categorie in one week.. not many have.. put things into perspective a little bit, and the past few weeks we haven't even been close either.. but this week, literally by the grace of god, we made it.. saw so many miracles.; we had people show up to church that we had no idea who they were, but were able to make appointments with them.. it was just great, and obviously a mission isn"t about the numbers, but the numbers represent people, and the people that we have representing our numbers are solid, and Elder Frahm and I are both really excited about the coming weeks.. Isaac, is super excited about his baptism.. he can't stop talking about his "miracle". in fact to his friends and family as well! He's already talked to many people and many people will support him and come to his baptism.. the potential is great.. and that's just the potential from this one man.. we have some other really amazing people that we have met and are teaching/ beginning to teach.. Jimmy I have no idea if i've talked about him yet, but we had a powerful lessen with him this past week.. such a spiritual lessen.. we really took the time, to plan out the restoration lessen, based on his needs and focused it on the scriptures, one of the best lessens i think i've had on my mission.. what a wonderful feeling to know, that you taught to someones needs, and it really touched them.. his biggest concern, was why isn't this message the story of joseph smith being told to people??!! people need to know about this! We did assure him that we were doing our best.. we have a lessen this coming wednesday, and we are, at least for now, planning on extending the invitation to be baptized.. but for him i'm really optimistic.. and of course, he has a family.. a wife and kids.. and if he comes the family will follow.. that's what were really being blessed with right now, is families.. we are teaching many, many families.. and we set a baptismal date with the head of a different family, his name is Kwame, he's also from ghana.. and he's committed to coming to church as well.. we'll see, these people have a long way to go, but there on the path, and it's really looking good.. I was laying in bed last night, after gathering all the numbers and what not from the zone (zoneleader responsiblity =P) and i was just thinking about all these people, and all the potential we have with these families.. little overwhelming!! I'm not used to having to keep so many people in my thoughts and trying to juggle them and plan for them.. this is easily the busiest time of my mission, and my last city i was pretty busy as well =) I guess i'll learn (be forced to learn) a lot of valuable skills, of planning and priortizing.. these next couple months will definitely be a time of much growth for me!! But.. it truly is amazing to see gods hand in the work, to see these people to teach these people that have been prepared by god.. it's humbling when I take a step back and think about it.. 20 years old, and this is what i get to see and expirience.. =)

Ward relations are going great, really have seen a lot of progress, and building friendship and trust in the ward.. i don't know what more to write about.. life is great.. still alive.. driving here hasn't killed me yet.. wow.. driving in utah will be nothing when i get back!! =) i'm going bowling.. after this, should be great.. okay, i think that's about all!!

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

-Elder Mohrman

Another week on this mission thing =)

Hoi familie!!

Week was one of a lot of joy and a lot of frustration as well.. saw so much success at making appointments with people, and planning was so enjoyable this week!! My compnion and i tried to focus on the small things, confirming appointments finding joint teaches, building relations with the ward.. and it was great in that regard!! peoples free agency though.. frustrating at times, confirming appointments the night before, even day before!! and them not going through.. going to peoples houses to get them to church, and there not there.. unbelievable!! but you know.. its okay; because we were blessed with all our hard work, with one of the busiest weeks i'm going to have on my mission.. we have some solid positive investigators now; that the appointments will 98 percent go through.. and we have members assigned to go with us like never before, really positive investigatrs that we found this last week.. one man is a headquarters referral; he is the most doctrinally prepared man i have ever met.. knows that Jesus christ is his savior but has done research on the bible, and found out how it was formed, and that shook his faith, so he wants to read every book about jesus christ he can find to solidify his faith and find out what the truth is.. loved the book of mormon, were going over there again tonight.. isaac, had a really powerful expirience with him this week, he has arthritis, and it was acting up on him this week, when we met with him he couldn't move out of his chair it was so bad.. felt like we should throw a curveball in our plans and taught about the preisthood, and offered a blessing, we were on exchanges, so it was me and another elder, and we gave him a blessing, after we said amen, he just sat there for a moment, and then started to cry, spirit was so strong.. when i was giving him the blessing; i have never been impressed to say before "be healed".. scared to say those words, that's intense, but during the blessing felt it come so strong; and i tried to fight it, but the words came out.. like i said pretty intense.. we leave come back another day and he tells us when we left he got up, and with his arms outstretched called his daughter into the room and said "i can walk!!" and he was better, so he could go about doing his work and chores.. amazing.. he said that after i said amen with the blessing, he felt this warmth and energie working in him, and he couldn't control it and the tears came out.. pretty neat expirience to see a man overwhelmed with the spirit that it brings him to tears.. Isaac it ready to be baptized.. i've had some pretty amazing expiriences with blessings on my mission, looking back.. there is a line in my patriarchal blessing that says i'll see the gift of healing in my life, and that is definitely true, i've been blessed to see the power of the priesthood in action on my mission..
Well.. life is great, things are really looking good here, we've persevered and were getting blessed for it, we have nothing but a positive future ahead of us.. that was a weird sentence.. pretty dutch =P
but love you all, and thanks for all the emails, i'm thinking of you, and appreciate you even though i don't have time to write back to all of you this week!!

-Elder Mohrman