Week 21 (21 t/m 27 mei)

We had a very unusual sunny week, this hole week was like a dream coming true: sun all the time, IN ENGLAND! It feld like I'm serving in France! Our investigator Steven is amazing! He told us yesterday that he feels like the church has already improved his life a lot. Although things don’t always get in immediately, he is very determined to be baptised and loves to learn from us. He is doing is best to stop smoking and has already quit drinking. He said that Saturday evening, some of his friends came to ask him if he would come out to drink a few beers with him and he refused. He is unwavering and already came three times to church now! Oh and he got really sunburned :p

week 20 (14 t/m 20 mei)

Jheeeeej! We hebben een hele goede onderzoeker genaamd Steven Smith. Hij is nu twee keer naar de kerk gekomen en wilt graag gedoopt worden. Hij genoot erg veel van de kerkdiensten en probeert nu om te stoppen met smoken en drinken wat erg moeilijk voor hem is. het leven is goed!

Week 19 (7 t/m 13 mei)

I enjoy my mission so much with Elder Stubbs. I learn much from him about the scriptures. Yesterday I learned from him where you can find in the bible that we should pray to God the Father in the name of Christ (Colossians 3:17). And this morning a learned about why the bible doesn’t clearly mentions the people in the America’s (3 Nephi 15:15).

Last week we found Steven Smith. After that we were not able to teach him more but he came with us to church last Sunday. He really enjoyed the lessons and the members were very kind to him. He is also struggling to stop smoking but when he got to church his desire to smoke was vanished and he had no problems for a time. In the time that he normally smokes 10 he only smoked 2 cigarettes. He is very open minded and I just have this feeling that Steven will be baptised for sure.

Groetjes!

Elder Methorst

Week 13 (26 maart t/m 1 april)

Deze week vroeg de zendingspresident om mijn conversionstory te schrijven en de rede waarom ik op een zending wilde. Omdat veel mensen dat niet weten (waaronder mijn familie:S), hier dus de rede waarom ik in God geloof en lid ben van deze kerk en de rede waarom ik op een zending ben:

When I was seventeen I went to a birthdayparty of a friend of mine. When we were talking, religion came up at some of his friends asked me why I believe in God. They said that they think that no one can know but also that no one can say that he does not exists. I had no idea how to respond on his question.

When I came home I pondered about what had happened and came to the conclusion that I did not know if God was truly there, but, I did want to know. I decided to pray every night to ask God that I might know. The first night, nothing happened, I felt totally nothing. The second night, the exact same happened and so the third but the forth night I prayed to know if God was there and if the Book of Mormon was true. When I said “amen” to that pray this amazing feeling came over me! I felt so close to him, so warm inside and so peaceful that I felt the tears rolling over my cheeks.

I did not change much, unfortunately, but after a few years I had other questions about if Thomas S. Monson was the prophet, the apostles, the Pearl of Great Price, the Bible and if these things were of God. Every question was answered the same way, by this amazing warm feeling inside.

The reason why I wanted to go on a mission, well, I always wanted to go on a mission, even when I was around 9 years, I took the missionaries once to my primary school to tell them about it! (als ik het me goed herriner? is dat waar mam/ pap?) But when I was fellowshipping the missionaries while I was studying I had an amazing experience with one of the investigators. The missionaries always took me to the same lady, I’ve seen her progress from the beginning until the time that she was baptised. I saw the great change that the gospel brought her and the increased happiness that came into her life. That made me want to go on my mission so that I could do the same to others around the world.

Groetjes!