The Student Did the Teaching, Accountability, Homemade Lasagna and The Destructive Power of Pride

Hey fam!
another week has passed and more adventures were to be had.

 This was a very busy week for us with a lot of moving up and down but we had some good times. Simon, our golden investigators is still going great and we are hoping to baptize him soon. We had a really great lesson with him the other day were once again he did most of the teaching. man I love that guy.

 Then I went on two exchanges with missionaries in my district and got to work with them and I also did two baptismal interviews for them. So it's great to see the work starting to pick up here in Kitwe. The Elders have been working hard for a long time and we're starting to see the blessings come.

 Then on Friday we had our Zone conference and it was great. We were looking at ways we can carry on the success we have been having and improve this year. We also focused in on taking accountability for our goals and plans of action for achieving them. 

 As a bit of a fun note I got to spent some time with Elder Almedia, an old friend of my mine from my early days in Lilongwe.He was up here with president for the conference so we got to talk and laugh about old times for a bit before he leaves in a few weeks.

 Best of all Elder Armstrong made homemade Lasagna last night but don't worry mom yours is still better) but after 18 months is was truly divine.\

 In my study this week I came across an old talk by president Benson about pride and man if you ever want to be humbled that's the talk to read as he taught about the dangers of the all too common destructive power of pride. Lots of great insight. Well Love you all so much hope this week treats you well. 

Elder Lusk

Inspired Date for Baptism, I Was Humbled and Had an Attitude Adjustment, Going back to Madagascar and Running

Hey fam! We had another pretty good week here as time is flying out the window. The biggest bright spot in our area is Simon.  He's so in tune to the spirit and can connect principles of the gospel together like he's learned them his whole life. We had a special experience with him where we gave him a date for baptism and it was one that Elder Tidwell and I felt strongly about and he was quiet for a minute or two and was getting slightly emotional. We were just sitting there like........what went wrong when he told us that the date we gave him was his late mother's birthday and how she had always been his spiritual guide and teacher....Whooah. Spiritual prompting to give him that particular date?....Absolutely. way cool experience for him and us to confirm truth.
We also had a bit of a humbling. We were trying to meet with this guy who had stood us up twice in the past and I was like "he doesn't show again I'm done" anyway he came and invited us to go back to his house and so we went and walked at least ten minutes into a very poor run down area and I admit my attitude wasn't where it should have been and so we sat down then he went into his house and came out with and old Book of Mormon. Apparently missionaries meet him five years ago and gave him a Book of Mormon and he's been reading with no one to talk about it with. That changed my attitude fast and so we're going to start teaching him this week and we'll see. Also in news Madagascar will be taking it's missionaries back soon. We don't know the exact timeline yet but that means there is going to be some major shuffling around in the mission and especially our district so we'll see how that goes. Funny story this week. The last few months I started running in the mornings with Elder Armstrong (from the Mada group) he was a top runner in High school and he's helped me get back into it. So we were out running outside our house and he's pushing super hard lapping me a ton as I eased into a nice jog and this lady walking by called me out for running too slow........yea we had a pretty good laugh about that in a self depreciating way. Good times. We also have Zone Confrence this week so we see what new direction president wants to take in 2018. Love you all.

Elder Lusk