Duluth week 15

We had a pretty interesting week here in Duluth. The two sets of missionaries in my district are going to have baptisms pretty soon so I will need to do some interviews. So i spent a lot of time teaching their investigators this week. it was a lot of fun.

One investigator of theirs is Brother K. He grew up in an LDS home but told his parents he didnt want to be baptized and fell into drugs in high school. He has had a wild life and then he and his wife showed up at church one day to fix their lives. The wife is set for baptism and he is super happy for her and supports her, but he is really struggling with testimony problems. We gave him a blessing for some guidance and afterwards you could see on his face he was feeling something different. We brought it up to him and he denied it and changed the subject. It was pretty cool. Gotta love the Spirit!

So on Thursday our WML called us and asked us to go give a blessing to a member who was in the hospital. on wednesday he had been to the ICU with a blood sugar of 1500!!!! By the way, normal sugars is roughly 100 from what i am told. That is insane! He was facing organ failure. We gave a blessing to him and on Saturday he got released straight from the ICU and went home. Flippin insane stuff right there

We also had a super fantastic lesson with the G family. Bishop had asked us to teach a lesson on Ether 12:6 and 12:27 and how trials of faith take time. Faith isnt built overnight. At the end i bore my testimony on God's will and talked about my experiences learning to accept His will, even when we dont want to. I told him we need to set goals and work after we learn what God's will is. Apparently that is what the Spirit wanted me to say because the goal thing hit him and he told us that is why he was slipping with his testimony. He hasnt set any spiritual goals. So he made some with us right on the spot and asked us to keep him accountable! it was pretty sweet. 

Thursday night the Sister Missionaries in Carlton called me and said their male investigator who is a date set is really struggling with family opposition and they wanted me to call him and use a football analogy to help calm him down. I was more than happy to oblige that request... ha ha. It worked!

Sunday night we had a great lesson with Brother M. He is about to head down to the cities for cancer treatments. We werent sure what to share with him but we ended up reading moroni 10:32-33 with him and I bore testimony on how i used to be a hardcore perfectionist and i felt like i needed to be perfect before Christ could help me. Then i bore testimony on how the process actually works. He told us he felt the exact same and he was struggling with it. Then his girlfriend (who isnt actually a member so that was cool) bore powerful testimony of that truth and the Spirit was pretty strong. It was a great lesson and i think he will be able to move forward now. 

well, time is up for the week. i love you all! Make this week the best week ever!

Elder Ethan P. Damron