Taxi Rides with Strangers, Pizza, A Baptism After All, 6-7 A Day and 93 Degrees

Hey fam! We had a great week. First, we had a baptism but more on that later. On Tuesday, we were on our way home from the other side of Kitwe after doing a baptismal interview for the other elders. We decided to stop at Pizza Hut in the mall to treat ourselves. The pizza was great and we were heading home in a cab when we met the nicest man to ever wear shoes. He got in the cab with us and started talking to us and next thing we know, he's paid our fare and we are sitting at his table (he lived next to us) getting a second dinner with food to take home. He's a doctor with a large family and a wife that can cooooook! We are very blessed.
All went well with our baptism interview but then the night before his baptism, he called to say his grandfather dies and so we cancelled the baptism. Then we both spent a sleepless night tossing and turning over that turn of events only to be awakened at 5:30 am by him calling and saying he would still like to be baptized that day. We flipped out and we had a great baptismal service for him.
We have another man who just accepted baptism and is learning super fast. He just needs to work on keeping some commitments.
Then we had a guy call us who had found the church online and, after reading, told us that he had already made up his mind on joining the church. We are looking forward to teaching him and his family.
For food this week, in addition to the pizza, the avacados are ripe so I whipped up a batch of awesome guacamole.
Also, president just raised the mission standard to 6-7 pages a day in the Book of Mormon with a goal to finish every 90 days. Elder Robins and I started at the beginning again and, due to a competitive nature and lots of fall through lessons, we are now 100 pages in after one week and saw an increase of scripture use as we taught together which is an added blessing for reading.
All is well here and hope you are having a great week. If you're curious, the lowest daytime temp this week was 93 degrees....and we walk.
Love you all
Elder Lusk