Duluth week 18

So today was transfer calls... and what we thought was impossible actually happened. Elder Zerkle..... IS STAYING IN DULUTH WITH ME!!!! WOOT! So this is pretty unheard of. Trainee and trainer staying together after the training is complete. Staying together for 3 transfers in this mission is also super rare and we call them "eternal companions." So we are stoked. Unfortunately, Elder Schmidt, my best mission friend, is being transferred. I am pretty sad. But, Elder Foggin is taking his place so that makes me happy. Father and son reunited :) I called that happening last week.

Anyway, Our week was quite solid. We went into a nursing home to visit a member and we got on an elevator with a man who had a cowboy hat on. Well it was a cool hat so we started talking to him and he was like, "oh, how are you doing elders?" turns out this guy is a lost sheep. what. gotta love that crazy inspired timing, right? So yeah. we are going to visit him weekly now.

We also had a great lesson with Brother PB. He is a less active that relapsed into smoking and we contacted him and he really wants to make some changes in his life. He has been humbled quite a bit lately. So we taught the sabbath day and i said the quote from PMG about how sabbath day observance decays, all other aspects of life are negatively affected. he spoke up and said, "you know. that is true. ever since i stopped living these things my life has tanked and gone to garbage." so yeah. He is ready to come back. :)

We had a pretty sweet night with a returning YSA we are helping out named DP. He is a guru at family history so we had a family history night with him and he taught us a lot about how to do it. Then he showed us his family line back to Adam and Eve. Trippy stuff.

We had a SWEET lesson with a guy named BG yesterday. He called the church looking for missionaries to come teach him. Naturally we were more than happy to oblige. It turns out he is blind and has been that way the last 18 years. But he is completely functional and lives on his own. he has conference calls with blind friends on weekends and most of them are lds and he has talked to them a lot. So he wanted to learn more. We shared a powerful restoration lesson and he said,"you know i like the way you view God. I have always thought He was a loving father and not a vengeful God." it was pretty cool :)

We also taught the K family a few times. They are the PM family that walked into church a few weeks back and the family wants to get baptized. We set a date for March 28thand Bro K was a little nervous, but he told us he is ready and he knows he is ready. he just wants to learn a little bit more. So yeah #miraclecity

I love you all! Have a great week. 

Elder Damron