Old People Are the Same Everywhere, When Christ Raised Lazarus and Stale Knock-off Doritos

Hey fam
The slow days continue but the weeks are flying by.
We had a pretty good week. We got to start it with an exchange with Elder Olson, one of our zone leaders who's a buddy of mine from back in Blantyre. We had a great day teaching together and reminiscing on old days and looking forward to the future.
The middle of the week was super slow and people were avoiding us like the plaque. We did get to go back and see our college professor friend and he talked our ears off for two hours about his life story....old people really are the same everywhere you go.
We had a bit of a miracle: One of our investigators disappeared a few weeks back then randomly came back to church on Sunday full of questions and we had a really awesome lesson with him and we're preparing to baptize him soon.
Then on Sunday, we watched a broadcast for the entire Africa southeast area with speakers from the Quorum of the Seventy and Elder Anderson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles presiding. One great insight was a talk about self-reliance...a big thing the Church stresses here. When Christ raised Lazarus from the dead, He had the people move the stone and unbind Lazarus when he was perfectly capable to do it himself but He was illustrating the principle that we have to act to the extent of our power with faith in order for the blessing of Heaven to be manifested. Beautiful insight to a favorite scripture story.
Tomorrow, I'll be heading out to Ndola, another city here in the copper belt, for a zone leadership council/training which should be a good learning opportunity.This Sunday we have our district conference with two members of the Area Seventy visiting Kitwe. We look forward to their messages.
Also, this week is the greatest holiday ever. Seeing as this is my last Thanksgiving on my mission and I spent my last one sitting in a dark flat during a power outage eating stale knock off Doritors, we're going way hard this year. We're going to buy a couple of chickens and create our own Thanksgiving dinner as best we can.
Love you all and thinking of you
Elder Lusk