So I'm absolutely loving it up here in Layton. Once again I'm repping the
west side, so the part of Layton I'm in isn't the super rich part. Even then,
it's not ghetto by any means. It actually reminds me a little bit of Winchester,
except there's no old downtown part. It's right next to Hill Air Force Base, so
you can hear (and see, but mainly hear) fighter jets flying overhead all the
time. Some people don't like it, but I think it's pretty cool. There's more
trees up here in the northern part than there are in the Salt Lake valley, so
it's looking pretty nice with right now being fall. There's also a lot of Utah
State alumni up here, as opposed to SLC where everyone's Ute fan. We've got some
pretty solid people we're working with and I'm totally pumped to be working up
here.
Elder {} is pretty cool. He's from Minnesota and even if he
hadn't told me, I would've guessed from his accent. I'm also really excited
about the how the apartment played out because when I got there I put my stuff
down, turned around, and got grabbed in a hug by a guy named Elder {}.
Elder {} is from Fresno, California, and he came out the same time I did
(we were in different MTC districts because he's Spanish speaking). We met each
other on the UTA FrontRunner coming up to SLC from Provo. Thirty seconds into
our conversation, we found out that we were both into{similar music} and were
immediately best buds. The guy reminds me a little bit of Mike, but that's
probably just because he's into the same bands and played for a band
before his mission. We were in the same district our first transfer, but we've
never been in the same apartment until now. After our missions, we're planning
on jamming together because he said he's probably going to BYU-I, but he's
looked into USU and he's still thinking about it. Good stuff!
My last night in Glendale, we had dinner with a less-active Samoan couple
that we had gotten pretty close with.[] , the guy, told me he's sure that
there's people in Layton who are waiting for me and that I'm going there for
them. I'm pretty sure he's right. My second night in Layton we visited a
middle-age less-active couple named {} and{}. I spent a while
talking to {} and found out that she shares my passion for not only good 80s
music, but also for sports and sports medicine, for cooking, and for dogs*. She
grew up in LA and was raised playing basketball on the streets of Compton, so by
her junior year of high school had been offered a bunch of Division 1
scholarships. She played D1 college ball and had the same Pre-style, do-or-die,
losing-is-not-an-option, do-or-die mentality in sports. We talked for a while
about crazy hard, long workouts we've done and that crazy mentality you get in
during a competition, and we talked about performance enhancement, and sports
medicine, and all that good stuff. I feel like she's someone that I've been
prepared to help out.
Like I said, I'm pretty excited to be serving here. This is a really good
area. I know that this work is amazing and that God knows what he's doing, and
that the power of the Atonement is real if we put our part in and let it
work.
Love,
Elder Lusk :)
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