Duluth week 7

So i will probably keep this short today because i feel like i might die i am so sick, but i decided to come email anyway. And we bought super ugly christmas sweaters for the ward Christmas party. im pretty stoked :)

So this last Sunday-Wednesday I was with Elder Schmidt, who is part of the other set of missionaries in Duluth since we both didnt get companions till Wednesday. WE had a ton of fun! It was pretty crazy because we were covering two areas so we basically taught all day. No complaints :) A deaf couple that Elder Schmidt knows well drove through Duluth so we went and signed with them for about an hour. Im pretty rusty, but it was pretty fun. Elder Schmidt interprets Sacrament meeting each week and he wants me to get into it, we shall see. 

We had a crazy sick miracle this week where we found some lost sheep. We walked out of this apartment building in which we were dropping off something to a member and then this guy was walking by us. The Spirit told us to talk to him so we did. He was like, "you two mormons?" we replied of course. He was like, "no way! Me too! I was baptized in Midvale, Utah!" What the freak. Then he took us back to his house and we taught his family. They want to come to church! It was insane. :)

Wednesday night I met my new companion. Elder Zerkle! From Las Vegas, Nevada! My streak of having very little companions from Utah continues. He is such a stud. You really wouldnt be able to tell he is a new missionary very easily because he is confident in talking with people and speaking up in lessons. We are going to do some work here. im pretty pumped. The ZLs have a sauna in their apartment complex so he got here then we went straight to the sauna and had a conference call with the zone to introduce new missionaries. Welcome to the mission! ha ha

Thursday was.. COLD. We played the turkey bowl at about 2 degrees. But it was super fun. I caught a few TDs and had a few good runs. The first game i somehow ended up on the team with all the young kids and all the adults were somehow on the other team. So that was not too fun. Second game was more even. 

Then we ate dinner at the Davis family's house. WE joked around and had a good time. Elder Zerkle made a bet with the father (who is bald) that he wouldnt go bald or else he owes Brother Davis a coke. It was a pretty funny conversation. 

The rest of the weekend was nuts with appointments since i hadnt really been in my area for half the week. Sunday night we went over to a member's nieghbor they referred and we ended up upstairs in one of the bedrooms with the 23 year old son who makes music. He showed us some of the beats he has made (which were actually pretty sick) and then he basically opened up and told us about how he wants to make a lot of changes in his life. So we watched a mormon message and committed him to read the BoM. It was pretty sweet :D 

Well if y'all havent heard about the church's christmas initiative you should check it out! christmas.lds.org #sharethegift 

have a great week, Elder Damron