Heading to Zambia, Not Sure if I'll see Malawi again, Where the Lord Needs Me is Where I'll Go, Listen With Love and An African Feast

Hey fam! So time has flown so fast and news came in and have been transfered to Zambia and I will be headed up to the Copperbelt to the city of Kitwe. (at least thats what we assume. I will get my offical assingment at the Mission offiice tommorow). The transfer came unexpected as they normally do but I was actualy looking forward to staying here in Beautiful Blantyre a little longer, but where the Lord needs me is where I'll go. I have really enjoyed my time here. This has been the most fun zone and companion. Shout out to my man Elder Day and the great times we had together. It's a little wierd leaving Malawi now after nearly a year and not being sure if i'll ever see this country again (we'll see what the next year brings). At the same time, i'm excited to serve in Zambia. I've heard good things about where i'm headed so this should be a good ride. As far as us this past week things went well. We had a great zone confrence where we focused on teaching individual doctorines. It was nice. you and your companion would be called up given the topic and an amount of time and would teach on the spot to another missionary then the whole zone and President would provide feedback as we discussed certain teaching methods and skills. Elder Day and I did very well. after 4 months together we had our teaching in unity down.  In the area we had some great lessons and decided to really LISTEN and HEAR what people's concerns are. I've learned that in life we hear a lot, but we rarely listen to what people are actualy saying. The great thing is as you show love you can hear across and cultrual, socail, or any other barrier we have created. We had two of our long time investigators pass their baptismal interview yesterday and they will be baptised on saturday (after i'm gone). They are great one is a 19 young man and the other is a hard working single mother of four. They have both gone through so much in life, but the whole time had this innocent sincere desire to follow Christ and they where so excited to get ready for baptism. We have been teaching the for about 2.5 months here and it will be hard to miss their baptisms. It's hard to leave behind the people you have served and come to love, but that's life for you people come and go as long as you learn from them the lesson that God wanted you to by putting them in your path then they are really never gone. For fun stuff this week had a fun dinner appointment with a guy in our branch who served his mission in South Africa and me and Elder Day proudly cooked everything ourselves and produced a mighty fine african feast that they where all impressed with. (when you watch the moms in the area cook for 12 months you pick up a few things. So with the coming changes I'm not sure what's instore but I know in whose hands the future is held. This is Elder Lusk signing out from Blantyre, Malawi for the final time. Keep the flame alive!

Love 

Elder Lusk