Hey Fam! This was a pretty great week and things are heading back to normal. On Tuesday morning, the zone leaders called me with the now all too familiar "you have two hours to get on a bus to Lusaka thing" Reinsert 8.5 hours of hot bus ride. Luckily this time good news was waiting for me there. The Lord knew I needed to learn from my mistakes of the first six weeks of being a trainer so he gave me a brand new missionary. My second new missionary is Elder Robbins, a good ole farm boy from Cache Valley, Utah. He's a great guy, hard worker (I will need a hard working companion since I have had two weeks out of the area and the rising heat wave temperatures) and he's dealing with the Africa transition a lot better than I did. We've gotten along great.
We went back to our flat, scrubbed it down and organized it and I have to say that Spirit of God was strong in our flat after that. Then we went and hit the dusty roads. We have a lot of potential new investigators. We also had a great lesson with a man that is a gardener for the church and he committed to baptism and then didn't come to church. We'll work on that but Elder Robbins did a great job in his first lesson.
It's definitely going to take some sore feet and barrels of sweat but we can get this area back up to speed. We had a great experience with our recent convert, Brother Sydney. He's lived an interesting, long life but seeing the changes in him in the month since he was baptized is amazing, just seeing how he glows now, his smile, and hearing him speak of how the gospel is blessing him and his family is really what the work we do our here is all about. He got his first dress shirt and tie so he can prepare to bless the sacrament soon! Can't wait for that!
Hope all is well with all of you! All of my love
Elder Lusk
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