Hope everything in Winchester is going well. Also, to follow up on your most recent letter, here's what's the
most recent with the guy I was telling you guys about who we were teaching who's
open minded to a fault. We actually missed our second appointment with him
because we had some other stuff to take care of during district meeting and
weekly planning (my comp's DL), so we went over the next day to apologize. It
turns out if we had showed up, he wouldn't have been there either because that
morning he ended up getting sent to jail. Seems like a common problem with
people around here.
On a much higher note, as much as it's hard in this area sometimes,
it's also great. One of our investigators had
her prayer answered by a dream (did I tell you about that one?) and is also
progressing towards baptism. And just by working hard and being faithful, the
Lord will sometimes hand you golden investigators on a silver platter, like
going over to visit a less-active and finding out half of their family are
nonmembers who want to be baptized as soon as possible. I love missionary
work.
I also cannot express to you just how much I absolutely love the Tongan people. We were biking through the park the other day and we called over by a huge Polynesian family who helped us pile on rice, chicken, watermelon, eggs, sausage, and some other stuff onto paper plates, then brought us water bottles, hot chocolate, bread, butter, and jam. As much as the food is great, sometimes it's hard not to feel slightly bad, even though there's more than enough food to go around. The only price we had to pay was opening their testimony meeting by bearing our testimonies for them. We had microphones and were speaking in front of an extended family about the size of an average sacrament meeting around here (so not terribly huge). I felt the spirit and it help me realize that as much as we're blessed by the generosity and hospitality and straight-up charity and love of these people, we bless them more than we know just by bringing the spirit with them as we join their feast. We are seriously blessed, though, because they gave us a couple more loaves of bread to take with us in our backpacks which was the Lord looking out for us because we had run of of bread that morning.
I also cannot express to you just how much I absolutely love the Tongan people. We were biking through the park the other day and we called over by a huge Polynesian family who helped us pile on rice, chicken, watermelon, eggs, sausage, and some other stuff onto paper plates, then brought us water bottles, hot chocolate, bread, butter, and jam. As much as the food is great, sometimes it's hard not to feel slightly bad, even though there's more than enough food to go around. The only price we had to pay was opening their testimony meeting by bearing our testimonies for them. We had microphones and were speaking in front of an extended family about the size of an average sacrament meeting around here (so not terribly huge). I felt the spirit and it help me realize that as much as we're blessed by the generosity and hospitality and straight-up charity and love of these people, we bless them more than we know just by bringing the spirit with them as we join their feast. We are seriously blessed, though, because they gave us a couple more loaves of bread to take with us in our backpacks which was the Lord looking out for us because we had run of of bread that morning.
I'll leave you with my testimony that I know this church is true and
that the gospel is real and that the Lord really does know us and look out for
us. Love all you guys!
Love,
Elder Jake Lusk
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