Duluth week 1

So I was pretty apostate this week. Elder Rudd and I went to a movie...

JK im not apostate, but I did go to a movie :) Our mission president allowed us to go to theaters to see Meet the Mormons if we bring investigators so we brought PY and RH. It was AWESOME! boo ya. went to a movie on my mission.

So saying goodbye to everyone in dinkytown was pretty tough. I took a lot of pictures with members and said goodbye to people we were teaching. I was pretty sad.

Wednesday morning before transfers Elder Tseng and Chou came over. Elder Rudd was in the shower so I threw the keys to the apartment out the window of our apartment. ha ha. anyway, our zone leaders came to give us the car and they all sang God Be With You Till We Meet Again. I bawled like a baby. Elder Smith said, "elder Damron I didn't even know you knew how to cry." haha. so funny. im a softie at heart, even if my nickname in HS was Damronatron (because I have the emotions of a robot).

Duluth is BEAUTIFUL. Look up pictures on google. it is seriously ridiculous.

Our first day here we were tracting and my companion, Elder Wilcoxson (who is from Seattle Washington) sang happy birthday to a two year old. I was promising some guy on a doorstep some blessings about family and I accidentally said "your future kids" instead of "your kids." it was awkward since I don't think he wanted more kids... spirit of prophecy?

So they call the Duluth Zone "the Graveyard" since president doesn't send young missionaries up here in case they have a problem since we are so far away from the mission home. everyone in the zone has like 6 months or less left. My companion goes home at the end of this transfer. so I have had 6 companions in 7 transfers. Next will be 7 In 8. am I really that hard to deal with? ha ha

So sick miracle. It was like 8:50 at night and we were walking on a main street finding people to talk to. There weren't a lot of people but the last person we talked to actually walked up to us and stuck his hand out to shake our hand before we put ours out! Turns out he is a lost sheep who wants to come back to church! SO cool!

We also taught a resoration to this guy who is having the EXACT religious confusion that Joseph Smith had. We related the Restoration to his life and he loved it. He told us that he had prayed an hour earlier for direction. Sweet right?

Another sweet miracle is when we knocked on the door of a less active and found out that the less active moved, but a girl whose entire family back in Washington joined the church moved in! She went to church for a long time but never joined! It was sweet!

Well, I have to get running. We tagged along with some other missionaries and they need to leave...

I love you all! Have a great week!

Elder Damron