Best Week of My Mission, Road Trip to Blantyre, Songs, Skits, Santa Hats, Powerful Missionaries, Most Beautiful Place I've Ever Seen and Man, I Love My Mission

Hey family! Man, this was like the best week of my mission.. So we started the week great with a lot of lessons and we got one of our investigators interviewed which is great since  he is an awesome kid and a referal from my first baptism. Then on wednesday night since the bus to Blantyre left super early all the elders slept over with the zone leaders and we had a big african style BBQ to kick off the fun. Then we woke up super early and took the bus down to Blantyre thursday morning. It was a  very beautiful drive down to Blantyre through the southern highlands and man Blantyre is the most beautiful place i've ever seen in my life. Tall rugged majestic mountains everywhere, green grass and trees and it's a lot more developed than flat dusty Lilongwe. But yea it was great to see Elder Chauke and Sister Porter again. It was so crazy to see how different we all are after three months in the field. Man we are all some much stronger, confident, mature, focused, and just better. It was alot of fun to see them and swap all the mission stories together.
Thursday was our Christmas celebration and man it was a blast. We have some super goofy missionaries. Songs, skits, santa hats, water melon relays (showing water melon in your face super fast) and our white elephant where I got a super nice lion print chichenga (like a multi perpose bed sheet) and then president Kupu made a pig which was nice and we feasted hard.
Then Friday was our zone confrence/training which was super spiritual. Sis Kupu is such a great teacher and we also gave her a suprise birthday party. We talked about quality finding and teaching, Book of Mormon, Area goals for church growth, and it was great. We have some very powerful missionaries here but we also know how to have a fun time and get goofy.
Then saturday we where suposed to get on the bus at 7 but something came up so we spent the morning proselyting in Blantyre. I got to go on splits with Elder Chauke and man that guy has grown powerful since the mtc and i want to be like him. haha we also met the drunkest guy i've ever met here (saying a lot) and i was like hi im Elder Lusk and he was like oh Edward Lust...........yea now half the mission is calling me that. Oh well it was funny. We left after lunch on saturday and my comp and I were riding in the ZLs truck and we took the back roads route through the bush in the highlands and ended up pulling off to the side of the road in the middle of nowehere and us and the STL,s went bushwalking and climbed up this big hill to take pics. On sunday we Baptized a great man we had met on the streets back in september and we are really happy about how much he has changed. We ended the day with 3 great lessons and happily went to bed early, tired but  satisfied. Man i love my mission. And i hope to get down to Blantyre again because i've missed the mountains but it was a very fun and spiritual week and to end with a baptism is the best feeling. Love you all 

merry christmas

elder lusk