So
We had some pretty sweet miracles this week. We got in contact with a
LA who I have spent 2 months trying to contact but he has never been
home. He is super receptive and now we will start meeting weekly! Sick!
he also has a super nice non-member girlfriend, we dont mind that too
much either
We also had one of the craziest
miracles ever the other night. our 8 pm lesson fell through and our
backup at 8:30 was to contact on one of the main streets of Duluth. The
streets were absolutely barren. But we kept walking. We stopped and
looked around and Elder Zerkle asked if we should leave because the
streets were barren. I turned to him and said we had planned to be
there, so God would provide. Literally 5 seconds later a bus pulled up
and dropped a family off 15 feet in front of us. After i was done
picking my jaw up off the floor we went and talked to them. The father
has a son that is a mormon in Utah! They were pretty receptive and we
have an appointment with them tomorrow! #miraclecity
we
also had a cool miracle with the Share the Gift initiative. A member
we challenged to share the gift with shared the gift and his friend is
coming to church Sunday! woot woot!
Funny
story: we were at a members house sharing a message and out of nowhere
the 2 year old grandson ran up and slapped elder zerkle in the face with
a wet slipper. it took all my willpower to not die of laughter. It left
a shoe print on his face. ha ha
While on
exchanges with the district leader this week we went to an appointment
with a less active. I have been trying to set up an appointment with him
for a few weeks but he kept bailing. I quickly realized why... He
REALLY did not like a previous missionary. He told us about it for about
10minutes. He also really doesnt like a few members. he talked about
that for about 25 minutes. He told us how much he doesnt like mitt
Romney, which he spent 25 minutes to tell us about. And then we talked
for about 5 minutes. It was intense. But he is a really nice guy and we
are happy we are meeting with him now. All is well that ends well.
We
got back in contact with SI and RE. They are a couple from Chicago that
came to church last transfer but we lost contact. They are still super
interested just working 2 jobs causes a lot of craziness. We picked yo
RE from walmart at 9:30 for church. he had worked the day shift saturday
and the night shift saturday night/sunday morning and still wanted to
come to church. Then he and SI came to the Christmas Devotional Sunday
night! So tight.
So a few more funny stories, because we all like those.
We
had dinner with a Member, Mikki Taylor, and a YSA girl, Josie, and
another family yesterday. Funniest dinner of my mission. So Mikki is a
little bit of a jokester. So at the end of dinner we were all done with
clean plates and he started poking fun at Elder Zerkle and telling him
he didnt eat enough. So Elder Zerkle slapped another chicken breast on
his plate and stared him down. a few minutes later Mikki starts talking
about how you can trust people who eat all the food off of their plate.
Then he said, "For example, Elder Zerkle has been too busy staring at
Josie all of dinner to finish his food." Elder Zerkle about choked on
his chicken and Josie freaked. out. ha ha ha Elder Zerkle was like no no
no i swear I was not. and Josie freaked and was like "He is not! oh my
gosh he is a missionary he is not. he is looking at someone else." And
Mikki was quite adamant that there was no one else at the table who
Elder Zerkle would be looking at. Then, like 5 minutes later Mikki was
trying to think of the name of an ice cream shop in Vegas (where Elder
Zerkle is from) and he couldnt think of the name. Elder Zerkle kept
throwing out some ice cream shop names. Then mikki said, "no, the shop
was a woman's name.... no elder Zerkle it was not Josie! GEt her out of
your head!" Josie freaked again and was like, "He is NOT thinking about
me. He isnt even my type. He couldnt even get me if he tried." i was
crying i was laughing so hard. ha ha ha. oh man.
Fun
fact I learned at dinner this week and I will probably ruin a lot of
cool movies that you want to see: So we had dinner with a brain
researcher guy. I asked him if it was true that we only use a small
percentage of our brain's full capacity. He shot that down real quick.
He said that we use our whole brain, but just not all at once. When you
use all of your brain at once (meaning your whole brain is firing
neurons off at once) you actually are having a seizure. So this is not a
good thing. So the people in movies that "unlock" the full capacity of
their brains shouldnt actually be super geniuses, they should be
convulsing on the floor and then pass on to the realm of spirits, if you
catch my drift... who knew?
Well last week i
sort of talked about Sharing the Gift. The Church has produced a
brilliantly easy way to share the gospel and christmas spirit with all
of the people we associate with in everyday life. The Lord is hastening
His work and right now He is really utilizing the social media realm.
check out christmas.mormon.org
and take up the challenge! Print off a sign off when you will share the
gift by and stick to it! The Lord will lead His prepared children to
you.
I love you all! Have a great week.
Elder Ethan Damron
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