Dinkytown week 24

Well... the history of my mission has repeated itself once again. I have been 4 transfers and out in my last two areas, and it has now held true here too. I am going to Duluth, Minnesota for the winter. Wowza. I am going to freeze. 

Anyway, so last monday we taught a class at the Hamline University on Mormonism. It was got pretty western. So we taught about the restoration and Plan of Salvation pretty briefly. Then Elder Rudd started explaining something and then some faculty lady who came, who was a member, then cut him off and said, "Elder, I completely disagree with you" and then absolutely ripped into him. She completely misunderstood him. He didn't say anything wrong. Then of course there was a daughter of two ex mormons there who brought up a question about us being polytheistic. It got wild. But we managed to calm it down and ended up handing out 8 books of mormon and getting some numbers! woot. 

So our investigator PY got pretty anti'd this last week. So we showed her Neil L. Anderson's talk "Joseph Smith" and then asked her what she thought about Joseph. She bore a powerful witness of him being a prophet and of the BoM's divinity. It was pretty sweet. 

Our mission president came and showed my district Meet the Mormons Thursday night! That was pretty cool :)

We had a super cool lesson with DF this week. Over the last few months she has gone from complete atheist to having a desire to believe. It has been really cool to see. She still thinks she has no belief, but her actions show otherwise. She is pretty faith filled. It is pretty sweet to see. 

We took PY to a fireside by the temple presidency. Something that I really liked that was said was that we are in a covenant church, not a commandment church. yes we have commandments, but we get so much in return for what we give. He compared it to a father telling his child if that child works really hard to get good grades, he will pay for that child's education. It is a win win! The child gets good grades, and has no debt! He also said, "you know, im getting old. and as i look back in my life i really don't have many regrets. I mean, who says, 'i really wish i would have had that child out of wedlock' or 'i really wish i would have gotten addicted to heroin.'" ha ha. 

well, sorry this is short but since im getting transferred i will have so much to do... 

I have been studying grace lately. 1 ne 3:7 really took on a little more meaning for me. 

" 7 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will goand do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I knowthat the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men,save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish thething which he commandeth them. 

So the Lord prepares a way for us to do the things we are commanded. We do this through Jesus Christ's grace, or the enabling power of the Atonement. When we have trials or hard tasks to accomplish the Lord does not take these trials away, he gives us the grace necessary for us to overcome it by our own efforts. Although sometimes he does lift this trial, but often times he provides the strength and the way to succeed. The key is that we must act in faith to get the strength. If we are not acting in faith, we will not succeed. 

I love you all! have a great week!

Elder Damron