I have a new companion. In our district, we had a guy who
was waiting for his visa to go to Mexico City. After interviews with president
last week, they decided to move him to Liberty Park and put him in the spanish
program to give him practice speaking his mission language. His companion, Elder }{
, from Hawai'i was put with us, and our areas were combined. He covered
the other half of the stake we're covering, so now we cover the entire stake.
It's pretty cool, becuase his area, now our area, includes the Layton 5th
branch, which is a Tongan branch, and the Syracuse 12th branch, which is a
Samoan branch. We went to both of those branches on Sunday. They spoke 50/50
native language and English, so I understood about half of it. If I was in a
spanish branch, I'd be able to get the jist of what people are saying, but when
it comes to polynesian languages, I know "talofa", which is the same as "ahola"
and food words. Either way, I'm excited to be doing work in those branches. I
just ordered a Samoan name tag, and got a Samoan copy of the Book of
Mormon.
Stef- Everyone in Utah has dogs, and I've met some of the coolest,
sweetest dogs ever. I'm totally in love with pit bulls right now. They've got a
bad rep as being mean dogs, but as long as they're treated right, they've got
the sweetest personalities. You ever wrestled one? They're crazy strong, and
you're not a man until you've wrestled a pit bull.
Dad- Sometimes the Lord will give
you a prompting just to test you and see if you'll follow it. Sounds like you
passed. There's a Mormon message video online of a story Elder Holland told
about going exploring with his dad in Southern Utah. Thhey came to a fork in the
road, and they were totally lost. They said a prayer and both got the strong
impression to go left. They went left and 400m later came to a dead end. They
turned around, and the right path ended being the right one (no pun indended).
Moral of the story is that God had them go left so they could understand without
a shadow of a doubt that the right path was the right way. IDK if that's
relevant to your situation or not, but it's a cool little story. As for using
the spirit in a lesson, we were teaching a recent convert family and going into
it didn't really have a lesson plan. After chatting for a bit, we opened Alma 36
not knowing what we were doing, and it ended up being exactly what they needed
to hear. It was an awesome reminder of what missionary work is all about.
I love all you guys. The Gospel is true, and the Atonement is real.
Love,
Elder Jake Lusk
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