Dinkytown week 23

So much to say, so little time. We are teaching a class at a university on Mormonism today so our P-Day will be a tad short. We are also dependent upon another set of missionaries for the car, so that makes things slightly difficult.

This morning our bishop took us to play golf. Elder Rudd hit PGA status right before he came on his mission and went to flippin work. I scored a 59 on a par 35... not bad, right? oh man. by the end I was doing pretty well, though.

Monday night we had a pretty sweet miracle. We tried to set up an appointment with our investigator DO Monday night but things just didn't work out getting ahold of him. We thought of a PERFECT joint teacher for him and really wanted to get them together. well, Mondaynight DO randomly walked into the institute and the JT we really wanted just walked up to us and was like Hey, need me for a lesson? Boo ya! So we taught DO and the JT testified of how he used to be a bum who was throwing his life away drinking. Then one of his friends told him if he didn't fix his life he would end up dead. so he cleaned his life up, got active in the church, served a mission a few years later, and is a beast now. Little did the JT know, but our investigator is in basically the same situation. It hit him pretty hard. It was powerful!

So I have waaay too many funny stories this week. where to start. First, the Chinese Elders gave each other haircuts. Let me just say hair cutting is not their strong suit... Elder Tseng has a borderline bald spot on one side of his head. sooo funny. I will email a picture out.

We also gave them cinnamon apple sauce. they have never had apple sauce before and they HATED it. oh man they did not like it. it was so good! A few days later we walk into the kitchen and it looks like they are simmering a pot of mud and they managed to convince me to eat said mud. elder rudd wouldn't do it. In reality it was sesame they had boiled or something. it had an interesting taste. but honestly, who doesn't like applesauce?

We were walking down the street going to get some food and this one girl was like "you all look very nice tonight" (we were in our suits before priesthood) then her friend a few feet behind her was like, "YEAH. YOURE ALL BABES!" well, I never thought id get called a babe on mission. ha ha.

Sometimes I have no idea how these conversations come up but us and the Chinese elders started talking about santa claus. Elder Tseng said that not even the 4 year olds he taught primary too believed in Santa. then we got into a friendly debate about the existence of Santa. Of course santa is real so I made a convincing argument that they lacked a lot of faith on the matter. then I was like, "elder tseng, by the end of dinner tonight I will show unto you that Jesus is the Christ and Santa is the Claus!" Later, Elder Tseng showed me a picture he has of santa kneeling next to Christ's manger and he was like, "Elder Damron! Santa is the Claus!" oh man. so funny.

We have a lot of fun here. maybe too much fun... we haven't burned anything down yet though, so I think we are good.

I really liked Richard G. Scott's talk. When he was talking about scripture study the importance of it really struck my soul. He said reading our scriptures daily is more important than school, sleep, and work. How many of us actually feel that way and do what the Lord has asked? The blessing is of peace.  A deep, abiding peace that can only come with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I love you all! have a great week.

 Elder Damron