Duluth week 22

Have I mentioned how much I love Duluth? This place is so great :D Miracle city all day every day!

So Elder Zerkle managed to get me onto the bike this week. It was 60 degrees and he loves being on a bike more than pretty much anything. So we biked to an appointment. It wasnt half bad! 

So we taught BG this week and we felt like we were getting away from teaching how the Lord wants us to be teaching by basing our lessons off of PMG, not trying to convince people this is true. So we talked quite awhile about finding out if the Book of Mormon is true and he admitted he hadnt put his efforts into the Book like he should be doing. So I am pretty optimistic for the future :D

We had a pretty sweet miracle where we went to go teach a returning member and we started talking to a woman right outside of his home. She had actually met with missionaries about a year ago and she asked us for a Book of Mormon because she couldnt find hers. Then the member we were visiting came outside and the woman we talked to was actually good friends with the member! So we all went inside and had a fantastic lesson. 

A 14 year old kid asked if we had holy oil and Elder Zerkle told him no we did not but we had consecrated oil. The kid was doing some profane things and I may or may not have threatened to use the oil to exorcise a demon out of him...

Sunday was a big day of miracles. The R family came to church!!! They are a part member family who we have been working with. Their daughter is 9 and she really wants to get baptized. They came for the first time in 14 months!!! On Saturday we had a really cool lesson with them. We made a pro/con list of church attendance and they listed off all of the things that hindered them from coming to church. Then we went through the blessings. Elder Zerkle stopped and said, "i thought of a really great blessing of coming to church." Then the father said, "let me guess, ER can be baptized?" we smiled ear to ear. Then i said, "yes! a great blessing of you all coming to church is having your daughter receive an ordinance essential to her salvation." That hit them nice and good. Them committed to church pretty quickly after that. 

We had a pretty sweet lesson with a man named PB who has been less active for over a year. We read out of the BoM of the cycle where people forget God in times of prosperity. Then he stopped us and broke down a little and told us that he was very guilty of that and he needs to change and he wants to change and be happy. Needless to say, for the first time in a year he came to church :D

I hope that you all took time out of your day to recognize and appreciate the glory of this last saturday. It was Pi Day!!!1 But not just any Pi day, the Ultimate Pi day! 3/14/15 3.1415 :D dont worry, i ate pie

  Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

I love this scripture! The Lord is with us always, even when we feel abandoned. Fear is the opposite of faith!

I love you all! Have a great week 

Elder Damron