Duluth week 2

So i will only have an hour to email today... yesterday was mission conference and Elder Carlson of the 70 came! So we met him yesterday and we have P-Day today. 

This last week we didn't have a lot of lessons, but we built a good foundation for this week. We are really focusing on ward unity and so we have set up meetings with a bunch of members to get to know them and establish ourselves in the ward. 

We did have a pretty sweet miracle this last week! An appointment canceled so we knocked on a few doors and we met a young woman with one kid and another one on the way. She said she wanted to come to church sunday with her boyfriend. So we show up sundaymorning and she and her boyfriend came to church! And they loved it! We will be meeting with them again this week and they want to come to church again. woot! Family to teach. 

I also had the opportunity to go on an exchange to Ashland, WI this last week. It was fun being in Wisconsin! They are an hour and a half away so it was a lot of driving. I felt like I was driving out in the middle of no where back in Montana. Ashland is a small town and then a bunch of farmlands. For dinner we drove 45 minutes out into the woods to have dinner with a farmer. The stew we ate was made with ingredients all off their farm. It was pretty sweet :) 

Then on Sunday we drove 2 hours to stay the night and then we drove another hour to New Brighton Monday morning. Then we had mission conference with Elder Carlson! He is a 4 star general in the airforce. He talked a lot about how at this time all the tools necessary to truly hasten the work are on the earth. There are few hindrances to truly hasten the work. The technology available now allows the Lord to spread the gospel much quicker. Then he gave us a bunch of stuff to improve. 

anyway, time is basically up now.. so i am sorry! I will write more next week. 

 

One thing Elder Carlson talked about is how we need to talk to everyone about the gospel. Members and missionaries alike. Far too many people think sharing the gospel is taking a whole year to befriend and then finally invite your close friends to hear the gospel. yes this is important, but we can also use the church in the media to bring up the influence the church has to people will want to learn more! 

I love you all! HAve a great week! 

love, Elder Damron