Dinkytown week 13

We had a pretty good week! WE taught our investigator PB who has a date set! SHe is still good! But... she has a 4 year old son... and custody on the weekends... so we will be referring her to the local family ward. We all play on the same team, but it was a tad sad.

We taught a Korean guy the restoration on campus and after we showed a picture of the first vision and shared the account he was like, "WOW!!!!! REALLY??? THAT REALLY HAPPENED?????" ha ha. so good. His mind got blown. The Spirit can do that.

So in the institute they have a library at the back with all sorts of sweet books and whatnot. They also have binders with every ensign back to 1971 in them and conference reports in book format along with all of the CES broadcasts and quite a few BYU speeches in binders. So on wednesday we arrive at the institute and we see them throwing stuff away. The staff threw away all of that stuff i just mentioned!! All of it! Now since we cant get on the internet too much this stuff is a missionary gold mine. So.. Elder Wall jumped in the dumpster and we filled our entire car with every issue of the ensign to be printed and tons of good talks and stuff. we converted our back room into a library. We probably have the best apartment in the mission now :) studies are pretty entertaining now. The ensigns back in the day were pretty amusing. they have definitely changed a lot.

We taught JL this week, our hispanic investigator that President Clements humbled the heck out of right before he left. normally after she feels the Spirit she asks some question to change the subject that usually revolves around some factual detail about the Book of Mormon. well we brought two joint teachers and at the end they bore like 10 minutes of testimony, switching back and forth. It was pretty powerful. They talked about having the faith to overcome fear and how we cant know everything but we can know enough to follow in faith. At the end sister JL sat there for about 30 seconds stunned. Then she thanked them for their testimonies and thanked us for coming!! she didnt bring up any concerns or change the subject! So awesome :)

WE also taught MW, the liberian male we have been teaching. we taught him the plan of salvation and the things we taught about the afterlife really sunk into his soul. He had a lot of issues about there being only a heaven or hell (such as someone who barely missed going to heaven burning in hellfire with the most evil people in the world, things like that) and we challenged him to pray about the Plan. He cut us off and said, "I dont need to pray, i know this is true. The Spirit just told me this is true." Whoa. it was pretty sweet :)

We got a call from another set of missionaries who were with a distressed mother. Her child is in the university children's hospital and she asked us to go give him a blessing. We expected the worse because of the state of the mother. So we headed over into the prison, i mean hospital. I did not realize how much security and whatnot they had at children's hospitals! It is probably a good thing, though. We finally found the child after getting buzzed in a few locked doors and getting talked by a few employees and then being watched by all the workers to find that the little boy was quite fine. he was running around and having quite a bit of fun. So that was a happy ending to that story.

We had another somewhat amusing event happen this week. We recorded ourselves singing a unique rendition of happy birthday we found on lds.org(https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/feliz-cumpleanos?lang=eng&cid=email-shared  here is the link. we memorized the words then switched the audio to "music only." so good) and sent it to one of the assistants whom elder wall and I both served around early in our missions. he is a good friend of ours. anyway, at the end we were like HAPPY BIRTHDAY WE LOVE YOU. Later that night he still hadnt texted us or anything and so we were confused and called him. he said he never go the voicemail. turns out i sent it to the wrong number and that number was to one of our progressing female investigators.... awkward... haha.

anyway, time is up. i love you all! have a fantastic week!

Elder Damron