He Really is Straight Outta Compton, Fried Chicken, Grape Kool-aid, Watermelon, Socks and I Only Have Nine Months Left

This week was good. We were correlating with our senior missionary couple in the stake this week and we counted up all the people that we're working with and we've got 9 less-active families, which was a bit of a surprise to us. I guess we're working with more people than I thought we were, so that's a good thing. One of the families we're working with is the daughter and son-in-law of one of our ward mission leaders, who was also a stake high councilor before the stake was reorganized. She's a blonde-haired blue-eyed Utah girl and her husband is a black guy from south-central LA (straight outta Compton!). We've been working with them for about a transfer now, and I look forward every week to going over there. We've connected with them a lot.  The husband grew up in the hood and moved to Utah when he was 18 for work. We were laughing last time about how different it is here than there. He said he went to a party in Rose Park his first week in Utah, and someone warned him that it was a rough area and he should be careful, and he got there and thought the person was joking with him. I've been saying that, too. Rose Park is like Kent St. in Winchester. It's a rougher part of town, but that's totally relative. We're going over there for dinner and family home evening this week and they asked what we wanted for dinner. We texted him and said we wanted fried chicken, watermelon, and grape kool-aid. He texted back and said that made his day. 

So...for christmas, all I can think of for right now is socks. I hate socks, imma be straight up. But if I gotta wear them, I like to be comfortable I them, and when they get old and frayed it drives me crazy. As soon as they get a hole in them they're gone. I threw them out. A lot of my socks are getting old, so if I could get some pairs of plain black athletic socks, that would be great.

In the meantime, this work is amazing. I've only got nine months left to serve, I gotta give it all I got. The gospel's true. God's love is real. The atonement works. Love all you guys!

Elder Jake Lusk