Motley Crue, Cancer, Three Sides to Every Story and We Gotta Forgive

What's up guys?

This week was decent. We met and started teaching a guy named {}. We've been hearing about him for a long time but this past week was the first time we've actually met him. This guy was a roadie back in the day for a lot of bands. In addition he had been a guitar tech for Mötley Crüe and was friends with Nikki Sixx (their bass guitarist) and had been a guitar tech for Kiss and hopped onstage and played a set one night when Paul Stanley got sick. This guy knows a lot of people and he's been around and seen a lot and done a lot. Unfortunately, he has a lot of physical and mental health issues (brought on in part by seizures and a stroke, which were probably withdrawal symptoms from all the dope he was doing back in the day, and partly from sustaining several massive concussions from high school football). He can't play the guitar anymore, and so he went from touring with rock stars to living in a trailer park in Layton, Utah with nothing to do and no one to visit him much. He's pretty bitter about that. He's a cool guy, but reactivating him will most likely be a long process. 

We met another guy this week whose name is {} and he's a lot closer to being reactivated. He's got an interesting story as well, in a different way. The story that he told was this. He used to live in {} with his wife and kids and the whole family was active in the church. He got cancer and then his wife divorced him. He moved out here shortly after. His cancer was in remission, but there's a high chance it's coming back. He wants to come back to church but he has some struggles. { In summary}, there are three sides to every story. Your side, the other person's side, and God's side, aka what really happened. What it boils down to is he's gotta forgive her and move on. The good thing, once again, though, is that he has a desire to come back to church and be active again, so that's good.

That was my week. Any questions about anything? Love you guys. So does God. The church is true.

Elder Jake Lusk

Good things and bad things, Jail Time, and Living Under a Tree

Hey guys!

This week's been kinda crazy. Good things and bad things. Transfer news is that Elder D and I are staying here another six weeks together! This is my favorite comp/area combo, so I'm happy about it. Hopefully all the people we're working with can continue making good progress and get baptized. {} probably will. He's doing great. He still doesn't have a solid date, but he's praying about it. We've had some really good lessons with him, and he's shared a lot with us. He's at a point where he's pretty in tune with the spirit, and good at recognizing what thoughts come from the devil, and he's working hard to put God first in his life.

On some not as good news, {} is in jail. We don't know what happened yet. We found out late last night. So, even if he gets out, he'll probably be on parole, and it's a really long, difficult, and complicated process to get baptized while on parole. He was one day away from getting married, and a week away from baptism. It blows hard. We're just praying for him. He's a great dude, and he'll probably get baptized but it won't be next week.

 Brighter note, though, let me tell you about a recent convert in this area. His name is {} and he was baptized back in December. He's 26, and when he got baptized, he was a homeless guy living under the trees across the street from the stake center. One day he was going to walk over to his buddy's apartment to go smoke spice with him, but got a prompting to not do that, and walk into the church instead, and it happened to be right when sacrament meeting was getting out. The high councilor over missionary work pounced on him and introduced himself, and he ended up getting baptized a short time later. Now he's got his own apartment and a solid job. He's doing good and keeping the word of wisdom, and he's a genuinely happy dude. He needed some help from the bishop in terms of getting a food order a couple weeks ago, and he decided to sell his XBOX so he could prove to the bishop he was willing to do his part to help himself out. We need more people like him. He also called us up and asked if he could go out teaching with us, so he's come to a couple appointments with George and he's rocked it. He's an awesome dude, and I love working with him.

Love you  guys! This work is amazing. God loves us, and this is His church. 

Elder Jake Lusk

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