Hey Fam
I am now serving in Lusaka in the Matero ward with Elder Mbile who is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been on his mission for about three months and has only been speaking English for about four months. He's great, though, and his English is pretty good, considering. He's helped me get the wind back in my sails and the fire in my gut to get out and work hard all day. Plus, he's been a sport about getting dragged out of bed so I can go running in the morning....Ok, he sits at the porch while I run up and down the street. We have a nice little house in a quiet, almost American-style neighborhood on the edge of Lusaka. The area, as a whole, is very big and very busy with lots of people moving around. It is also home to the infamous devils sreet that has the densest population of bars, night clubs, pool halls and other various people with questionable character. As this point, not much really phases me, though.
We met a few new investigators and three of them came to church and watched General Conference with us which was super powerful and one of the best I can remember.
Walking through the area the other day, we had a bunch of drunk guys start yelling Muzungu at me (pretty much a racial slur for white people that I've heard about 50 times a day my whole mission) and my comp asked why I don't get mad and confront them. The truth is that I'm sick of it but I learned long ago that taking offense is a choie and that with all that's going on in this crazy world and people bent on tearing society apart, a lot would change if people just chose not to react, not to take offense and just chose to move past anger. As Elder Bednar eloquently taught, "meekness is not weakness but a sign of inner power."
Anyway, love you all!
Elder Lusk
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