I have officially been in Duluth longer than i have been in any other area. So it is a weird feeling, but i like it :)
My new companion is Elder Goertzen, from Eagle Mountain, UT. He has been out for one year and wants to be a chef! We are going to have a great transfer together.
So on Tuesday we went to go say goodbye to a member, Mickey Taylor, since he wanted to see Elder Zerkle and Elder Roose before they left. Elder Zerkle had been talking trash about beating Mickey in a benching contest for 3 straight transfers but we never were able to do it. So Mickey told us to get in the car and he would take us to lunch. Well, we drove straight to the gym and you better believe we had a benching contest right then and there (we lifted 185). Mickey smashed us. ha ha ha.
After that Elder Foggin and I were able to go and see Sister Macfarlane from the Andover ward! She drove up with her kids and some other families to spend the day in Duluth. It was quite fun to see their family again after a year. crazy how time flies...
So this week has been great with the Because He Lives initiative. We went to a member's home and a friend had stopped by. We told her we were going to share an Easter message and she was quite excited to hear it. Then he showed the Because He Lives video and bore powerful testimony of our risen Savior. Now she wants to hear more about the church :D
Conference was great, was it not? i took a few questions to conference to seek guidance on. One of them had to do with what i want to do with my life since i have been contemplating other options. Well during one of the talks a borderline vision came to my mind and the Spirit slammed me and i realized that the alternative routes to my career i had been contemplating were not in God's design for me. I dont even remember what the General Authority was speaking at the time of this spiritual experience but i just want you all to know that revelation is real and that God has blessed us with modern prophets and apostles because He loves us. and as we search their words we can find answers to our own questions.
We taught our 9 year old child of record after the first session on sunday about the Holy Ghost. after the lesson she said a prayer and thanked God for us teaching her about the Holy Ghost and she included a few things she learned about the HG. She told God she wanted that gift in her life. it was neat :) she will be baptized on May 3rd. her family has now attended church 4 weeks in a row. prior that that they had not come in a year. Miracle city up in Duluth!!
So a member asked us to come help them replace the faucet on their sink. So i crawled under their sink and they told me that the water was off. well as i unhooked one of the hoses i discovered a very important truth: the water was NOT off. i got pretty soaked. it got pretty real under that sink for about 30 seconds as i manned the war ship to go to battle with a hose flying around spraying water all over the place. But i defeated the hydra and got that water off and replaced the sink. take that!
I LOVED President Uchtdorf's talk on grace. I have been studying grace for about six months now and i have learned quite a bit on my own. it was cool for me to be able to realize the Holy Ghost had revealed to me many truths that he spoke about, and the talk filled in some gaps i have still been trying to fill. Here is a quote:
“Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth.”
“We obey the commandments of God out of love for Him,” he said. “Trying to understand God’s gifts of grace with all our heart and mind gives us all the more reasons to love and obey our Heavenly Father with meekness and gratitude. As we walk the path of discipleship it refines us, it improves us, it helps us to become more like Him, and it leads us back to His presence.”
Let us all accept the grace of God into our lives and serve Him not just because we have to, but because we want to out of love for Him.
have a wonderful week! i love you all!
Elder Damron
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