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!