Dinkytown week 10

So this email will probably be a tad shorter. Our Preparation Day was the 4th of July and so today is a normal work day with a very brief amount of time to shop and email. So I will respond to most emails next week. Sorry!

 

I met President Forbes this week! He is so legit. He is a tax attorney and he also taught at a law school for 7 years. I met him at the mission leadership council and he told us that he loves President and Sister Clements and all that they did and that everyone has their different talents and abilities. President Forbes wants us to remember and apply all that we learned from them and now he wants us to broaden our horizons on how we do missionary work. President Forbes is going to really focus on less active and part member work. They are the greatest source of finding that we have so we will be instituting plans in the mission to utilize the resources we have.

 

Going along with that theme, Elder Wall and I decided to take advantage of the texting age by texting all of the people on the ward roster that we did not know (most of them being less active). We had an astonishing amount of success. It took us the whole week to get through the list but we got 2 dinners for this week and about 12 appointments. One of the LAs responded and said that he had given his roommate a Book of Mormon and wanted us to come over dinner wednesday and teach his roommate. so sick! So we are having a lot of success here right now.

 

I was on exchanges in a bike area this week when we dropped by a media referral. This person was in a lock out apartment and she buzzed us in, but didnt answer her door... so we decided to tract in the building. (Note: despite many people's beliefs it is completely legal for us to knock on doors in locked apartment buildings. we are not solicitors.) So we knock on a door and a woman opens up. I knew immediately this was not going to end well. She immediately started screaming at us to get out, pulled her phone out, and called 911. I tried to explain that we were not breaking any laws in a polite manner but she got even more mad and started giving our description to the police. She followed us out of the building pretty ticked. We waited around for awhile to meet the cops and then contacted down the street but no cops came. the woman told them we were missionaries so i bet they didnt even bother coming. But i have now had the cops called twice on my mission.

 

The fourth of July was a good deal of fun! We weekly planned in the morning then we played kick ball with our district. it was nice to kick a soccer ball around. That evening we went and played ultimate frisbee with the other district. I literally got 10 mosquito bites on my right leg playing frisbee. We played right next to a mini lake/pond and a swarm of bugs would attack you if you stayed still for more than 4 seconds. but it was still a lot of fun! That is the most physical activity I have had in the last 14 months... i am still a tad sore.. ha ha.

 

So we taught his girl named B down in minneapolis on the street this week. She is actually homeless right now and she had been praying that God would send her a sign on what direction she should take. Then she met us! She recognized God's hand in her life and she committed to church. We tried to get her a ride but she insisted on taking the bus. Sure enough she showed up! And she got up and bore her testimony! She told us she would definitely be here every week. So that was sweet :)

 

This week we taught PB, a liberian girl who is 27. While teaching the plan of salvation we taught the pre earth life and she brought up Jeremiah 1:5 and said that no church really teaches that but it makes complete sense! our jaws dropped a little bit. I have met few people that have not read the pre earth life section in Preach My Gospel that has linked that scripture to pre earth life. It was insane. She committed again to her baptismal date in August! Molto bene!

 

Well, time is short. I am sorry!

Moses 6:52

 52 And he also said unto him: If thou wilt turn unto me, andhearken unto my voice, and believe, and repent of all thytransgressions, and be baptized, even in water, in the name ofmine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace‍ and truth, which isJesus Christ, the only name‍ which shall be given under heaven,whereby salvation‍ shall come unto the children of men, ye shallreceive the gift of the Holy Ghost, asking all things in his name,and whatsoever ye shall ask, it shall be given you.

 

I have spent some time in the PoGP recently and have LOVED it! I think a lot of people just link deep doctrine to the PoGP and dont give it as much time as it deserves. It holds an incredible amount of truth about the Doctrine of Christ and simple truths we need to live our lives upon. I particularly love this scripture and what it teaches us. The testimony of Christ along with the things we need to do to get onto the strait and narrow path. Last of all is the Gift of the Holy Ghost, one of the greatest gifts that we can recieve here in mortality. Through righteous living and the gift of the holy ghost whatsoever we shall ask will be given us! Have you really thought about how much significance that statement holds?

 

Anyway, i love you all! Have a great week!

Elder Damron