Lightening Bolts From Heaven!!!!

I can't believe it has already been a week! This week has been so so busy! We have seen tremendous amounts of miracles! I am so excited to share with you my week, because it was fantastic!!!
Wednesday: To finish off the day, we wanted to see our friend Mudashiru (Muda)! He is a Nigerian man, who seriously reminds me off the guy off the Green Mile. He is so kind, and sensitive, and has a pure and innocent soul. But since he is a single man we aren't able to teach him without a female member present. So we were trying to call people, and no one was available. So we ended up just taking the bus with him back to Bexleyheath. We started talking about what we believe in and we were sharing with him that we have temples and that we were going to go on a temple trip on the 29th of October, and he was like " I'm putting a reminder on my phone, I really want to go." And then we started talking about church and how sister Montredon has a talk in sacrament meeting on Sunday, and he was like "I'll be there, what time?" Sister Montredon and I were like who is this guy.... he is GOLDEN he is committing himself to stuff, we don't even have to ask him haha.
Thursday: We had district meeting!! And we have a few new missionaries in our district. Our new district leader is from Logan, Utah. His name is Elder Tuft. Our district meeting was really focused on how yes, we do want baptisms. But our ultimate goal for our friends is for them to make it to the temple. I love this because it helped me to remember my purpose. We were supposed to have another lesson with Muda tonight but he texted us saying he had to work late. So we decided that we would go and visit our friend Pam. She has been our friend since I first got out to the field, but she has been progressing really slowly. She is one of the kindest people I have ever met, but she is working through a lot of things. We felt like we didn't do much to help her. She is really starting to open up to us and starting to understand that the gospel could really help her in her life. Everything fell through tonight, but we know that everything happens for a reason. Satan tries to make us feel discouraged, but he can't "rain on my parade" uh-huh! 😀
Friday: Today was a life-changing moment for me, And I will explain why!! We had weekly planning today, and if there are any missionaries past-present-or future... they know that weekly planning is great, but it can be really long haha. And I haven't really felt the spirit in weekly planning until today! As I said in an earlier email, our mission is striving for a goal to baptise 31 people this October (#31). We know that the Lord is preparing a harvest of souls here in England, but until today we didn't TRULY believe it. Our district leader Elder Tuft called us in the very beginning of our planning, and asked us if he felt one of our friends could be baptised this October. Sister Montredon and I just stared at each other and in our heads we were like NO WAY haha its way to soon, we don't really have many people that are  progressing.... but we told our district leader that we would pray about it. So we did, and I can't describe the spirit that was there because it I have never felt the spirit in that way before. But we both had this overwhelming feeling telling us that we needed to invite Muda to be baptized for this October 29th. When we closed the prayer we both were calm and we just knew that Heavenly Father was going to guide us. We haven't even taught Muda the restoration lesson yet, but we felt strongly that we needed to extend this baptismal date to him.
Saturday: Best day ever!! Miracles... and when I say miracles I mean LIGHTNING BOLTS from Heaven!!! We had a lesson with Muda today in the park in Bexleyheath by his house. We taught the restoration, and the spirit was so strong!! It was like the first time that I knew God was providing me the words to say, I didn't even have to think about what I was going to say!! We were all in tears (including Muda). When we finished the lesson we invited him to be baptised for October 29th, we sat there in silence for a couple of minutes until he said " I felt this piercing feeling in my heart, and a voice literally tell me "this is the time"". Sister Montredon and I were speechless. I didn't know whether to cry or smile or scream or jump up and down!!! I know that God works mighty miracles, and that we are the tools in His hands. This experience has helped me learn that no matter what prompting Heavenly Father gives us, even if they are scary or hard that we MUST follow them. Because this is His work!!!! Muda is getting baptised!!!!!!
Sunday: Today was absolutely crazy busy!! Muda came to church though!!! He was pretty emotional through sacrament meeting! And he told us, " I know this is true, there is no turning back, this is what I want". I feel like we don't even have to teach him, God really has prepared him haha 😀 we went to a member house for lunch today! I'm not sure what we ate. There was an assortment of meat, and pasta, and then this apple dessert thing. I've just gotten to the point where I don't ask I just eat it. I really am grateful though for the members being so kind and feeding us! Even though I'm picky 😂 I'm trying to be better though! Tonight was insane. We accidentally left our phone on the bus, but we didn't know it was on the bus, we thought we left it at Tobekas house. We searched and searched and couldn't find it. So we said a prayer, and immediately I felt like it was on the 229 bus. So we went to the bus garage, and the worker called the 229 bus company and they said that they had our phone.... but that they are in Dartford, which is the very bottom part of our area. Luckily it was still in our area! So we spent the rest of the night trying to get our phone! There is never a dull moment with sister Montredon and I. I mean you know me.... I'm really gullible and a little bit ditsy, and sister Montredon is the same. We always tell ourselves that people probably think we are drunk because we are always giggling and smiling, and people here think that is very strange!
Monday: we had flat inspection today with Elder and Sister McDonald! I love them! They are the best!! We got an A+ 😊 We texted Muda this morning to see how his Book of Mormon reading was coming, and this is what he said "It's been a little hard...I think I need glasses". 😂😂 we were laughing so hard when he sent us this text because he is so AMAZING! He said it was hard because he literally couldn't read it, so when we saw him tonight we had him download gospel libraries on his phone, so now he can easily see the Book of Mormon :) we taught the Word of Wisdom, and the Law of Chastity lessons. He accepted all of it, with no problems, he was like I'll throw away all of my tea, I'll do anything. I want to be able to go to the temple! He's like yes I really want to be baptised but I really want to go to the temple! He amazes me!
Tuesday: today we had a chapel tour in Orpington with Christian, so he can see where he is going to be baptised in November! He is so excited! It was fun to see him so excited! That took up a lot of our day, but the rest of the day we were super busy with planning Muda's baptism! We are moving like 1000mph here, but we love it!!
We have seen the hand of God in our week this week!! I can just say that I know that when we follow promptings, that GREAT things can come to pass! GREAT THINGS!! All things are possible through our loving Heavenly Father. I have seen that I really need to learn to LOVE what comes! I want to embrace the culture and people and everything! I want to find the JOY here! I want you all to know that I love the gospel, that I am truly happy because of the Gospel! The Gospel is what brings true happiness! I love you so much. Make it a great week!
Love your, Sister Lund

 Hugs and Kisses from England

 I caught my first cold!!!

 Chapel tour with Christian and his family

 Where we meet for church

MUDA!!!

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

This week was a good week! It had its difficult moments, but I loved it!
 Wednesday: it was our first district p-day. So we went to the Orpington chapel, and we played volleyball and chair soccer and fruit basket, and of course we had food! It was so much fun!! It was a not so fun night however haha. Sister Montredon lost her bus pass, while we were in Sidcup which is about 30 minutes from Bexleyheath. So we spent about an hour trying to get the bus's number to contact them about a missing Oyster card. But MIRACLE a really nice bus driver gave us a free "ticket-to-ride" (there's a Beatles song for ya pops) back to Bexleyheath! It really stressed out Sister Montredon, because those are not cheap! But luckily we have everything figured out now!!
Thursday: today was fabulous! We had zone training! It was like a "life-changing" day for me! We did a lot of different role plays and workshops. But the workshop that hit me the most was when we had our "individual interview with Christ". We basically just went in a room by ourself, and there was a picture of Christ with some questions that we had to answer. I'm not going to share any more of what happened because it was a really sacred experience for me, but I can say that it was one of the most spiritual experiences I have ever had. It made me really ponder on my personal relationship with Christ. To end Zone training I was chosen to give a talk on my favorite Book of Mormon story, so I chose to do 1 Nephi chapter 3. This chapter is what got me here on a mission! It seems like I am always the one that is called up to give talks or bear my testimony. Heavenly Father really likes to give me these types of growing opportunities.....haha yay for growth! I actually really love it! To end off the night we went to Brother Middleton's (ward mission leader) house, and had  correlation meeting!
Friday: Being bold is only hard when you start to fear man more than God. Today was really good. We did a lot of contacting and finding, because we are in our "harvest week". So sister Montredon and I made it a goal to be bold! I still sometimes get scared to walk up to strangers and talk to them about the gospel, but then I have to take a step back and realize that I am called of God to spread the Gospel, that it is his work not mine! And I need to be bold for Him! I'm not perfect but I'm trying.
Saturday: today we did banner contacting!! Haha it was a different experience, but it was awesome!! What we did was we went on the high street and set up this 6' banner and we sang hymns and we contacted people! It was great because we had our whole district there of 12 missionaries and so we all were singing and "running" after people 😂. Not everyone appreciated it..... some kids tried to explode soda on us haha, but hey I loved it!! And I felt the spirit, so it was a great experience. Later in the evening we went to P.C.'s house (the Thai lady) and yes she made Thai food. I think we ate something that she called seaweed and lily flower soup.... I'm not sure what was in it, but it tasted okay! And then she made us this really yummy green bean salad thing! Oh my goodness though! On our way home it was POURING...I'm starting to get a taste of the English weather, and it is very unpredictable! It can be sunny one minute and pouring the next!! Good thing we have umbrellas and rain jackets! 😊
Sunday: today we were sooooo busy!!!! Yay! We had a lesson with such a golden family! Their names are Sheni (dad), gBemi (mom), Shemi (the son), and Demi (the daughter). I love their names! We taught the restoration and the lesson went really well!!! The spirit was so strong and they were involved and had so many questions! After that lesson we went to a members house and did a Skype lesson, and after that lesson we stopped by Maureen's house and we were able to talk to her husband who isn't a member! MIRACLE!!! The whole day was just go go go but I LOVE days like that!
Monday: today was a different day! It was Elder Morelli's (district leader) last full day in the field. So we travelled to Croydon, which is almost two hours away by bus, so that we could do banner contacting. We went to lunch at KFC, yucky. I'm not a huge fan to begin with, and English KFC isn't very good! It was so fun to be in Croydon though! There are some really cute twins in that area! But since we went to Croydon, it ate up the whole rest of our day, because we got stuck in traffic on the way back! And then we got lost on our way to one of our lessons, and had to wait for 30 minutes for a bus! But it was such a great day!
Tuesday: we got our flu jabs today! They do them differently here, and you know me when it comes to making sure things are clean... that's all I will say 😂 but we were able to go see Christian today!!! We taught him the 10 commandments, and it was a really fun lesson! We switched his baptism to November 12th, because he wants to be baptized on his birthday! So we are really excited, and he is SO excited! Maureen is even reading the Book of Mormon, she is making so much progress! We are so proud of them, and I know Heavenly Father is too!
Wednesday: this afternoon I made moms white chicken chili, and I did pretty good, if I do say so myself! They don't have the same ingredients as mom uses here, but I improvised! So that was kind of fun to make something from home!!
I loved all of your emails! They are always exactly what I need! So keep them coming 😉 but I love you so much! I really want you all to remember who you are. We are all literally God's sons and daughters! How amazing is that! Don't let Satan tell you that you aren't special. We all have a purpose here in life. We all go through trials but as we stay close to our Heavenly Father he can make our burdens feel light as it says in Mosiah 24:14. God visits His people in their afflictions, He NEVER abandons His children. Make it a great week, and just know how much I love you. You are always in my heart and prayers! We can do hard things!!!!
Love, Sister Lund

 My attempt at Mom's Chicken Chili. YUMMY

 England's KFC...not so yummy

 We sleep under the same moon

 P DAY

 Banner Contacting

 The Crew

This place is so beautiful

The Harvest is Here!!

Fam fam!!! I hope you are doing well! I love you so so much! I love all the pictures you send me! The week here in Jolly Ole' England was great!
Wednesday: P-days are always great! But this evening we were able to go to Bishop King's house and have dinner with his family. Their family is amazing! His wife Sarah is actually from New York. But they have 4 kids! They are the best!
Thursday: We had some very interesting experiences today!! It's crazy what people think about Mormons! They hear the WEIRDEST things!! So it's funny to see people's reactions when we tell them who Mormons really are... they're like "wow, your like real people" haha... yes, yes we are!! We were able to go and see one of our friends. She was a referral from a less active in our ward. Her name is Victoria! She is so kind, and she is really interested in the gospel. She is especially interested in temples! So it has been really fun to teach her!
Friday: We had district meeting today! And I loved it! We did role plays to practice how we can help members with their goals! That is something that our mission has really been trying to focus on. We are really trying to get the members more involved in missionary work! But like always our district meetings never end on time so we got back to our flat later than expected haha. So we had enough time to finish our studies, and go  to one of our investigators house!
Saturday: It was so rainy today!!! And we don't understand how to turn our heater on so we just put on a lot of layers!! But today was a topsy-turvy day! We normally do weekly planning on Fridays but since we had district meeting yesterday we didn't have time to do it. So we started off today with weekly planning. After we finished with that all of appointments started to fall through! So we decided that we would go to one of our members house and do a  GROW (teaching) with her. MIRACLE!!! Normally she works but she had tonight off! But man oh man can she talk! We were there for about an hour and 15 minutes and we were trying to leave haha, but then her nephew walked in the door MIRACLE! He has been a less active for about 4 years and he is married and has two kids! And he said that he is really interested in meeting with us! So that was super exciting, God puts us exactly were we need to be at the right time!!
Sunday: So today was a day full of miracles.... I know I say that a lot, but I will probably continue to say it! God is a God of miracles!! So since we are meeting in Bexley Grammar school, we only had sacrament meeting today because a pipe burst and they didn't have any running water. But oh my goodness! Testimony meeting was amazing. Maureen has been a member for about 15 years and she has never born her testimony until today!!! She did so well ☺️ MIRACLE: a man we met on the bus named Jabulani came to church! We haven't ever met with him but we invited him to come to church and he came!!! We were freaking out, he said he really liked it, and that he felt the spirit and that he wants to learn more about the gospel! After church we had lunch at a members house with a couple of her friends that aren't members, they aren't interested, but we were still able to share a message with them and it was great to meet them. I love your selfie Sundays! Keep them coming!! You both look so good! It looks like you have both lost weight, what's your secret haha😉
Monday: Today we were on exchanges, so I was with sister Bove, I LOVE HER! She is from Honduras but she lives in Spain. She came out the same time I did. So let's just say it was an adventure today.... you know that I am not good with directions in Utah, and we have Mountains... so you can imagine how I am here haha. But it was really good, we were able to visit with a LA in our ward, and she fed us food. Really really spicy African food. We eat a lot of African (Nigerian food) here. I'm not a huge fan of Nigerian food, but I'm thankful for their kindness! The lesson went really well! She really likes to talk too! Then we decided that we would go to Thamesmead and go to one of our friends house that we tracked into the week before. She didn't end up being home, but we met her sister Abi, and gave her a card. But it was okay because we met two people on the bus that gave us all their contact info, because they wanted to learn more! It was a good day, we learned a lot.
Tuesday: I loved today! Today was the best!! We went to a Chinese restaurant really close to our flat. It wasn't bad, buts it's no Golden Jade 😉. After we finished our exchanges we went to our friend Pam's for a lesson. She REALLY opened up to us and asked us so many questions. I really feel like she is someone who is going to be baptized. She just needs time! The spirit we felt was amazing! Later in the evening we had a Skype lesson with another one of our friends Enrique. He is interested, but he loves his faith, so it's been a little difficult to teach him because he really likes to talk. Today was sooooo good though!!
This week is a finding harvest week... meaning we are trying to find as many people as we can to teach! And can I just tell you again that God IS a God of miracles! The harvest really is here. God is preparing His people all over the world. All He asks is that we open our mouths. He doesn't say that we need to be perfect, He just wants us to try! I love you all, and I loved hearing what you liked from conference! Have a great week! And remember how much I love you. We can do hard things! Attitude IS everything!
Love, Sister Lund

 Layering UP

We Sleep Under the Same Moon

We are on a Path of Diamonds...Don't Confuse them for Pebbles

Family, I love you sooo much!! This week has been so so so amazing, I don't even know where to start! I love all the pictures that you send me, and all the emails too! They really brighten my day!
THIS WEEK 😊
Wednesday: After P-Day, we had a lesson with Christian, Maureen's son. He is 9 years old, and he is the best! In our lesson we committed him to be baptized October 22nd!! He is so happy and excited. Today really was such a good day!
Thursday: Today we had Tri-Zone Conference! And oh boy, it was like the best thing ever! It was in Crawley! Crawley is about 2ish hours away from us! And we had to be at the church at 9. So it was an early morning. It was probably really funny for people watching us get on and off trains because we kept getting lost! Haha but we eventually made it there, and we were on time!! But tri-zone conference was so good, the messages that were shared with us really answered my prayers, and made me realize how LUCKY I am to be a missionary. We have a Facebook page for our mission, and elders and sisters had been posting "#31" and sister Montredon and I were so confused! But luckily, our confusion was cleared up at zone conference! #31 is the number of baptisms our mission is shooting for in October. We are all working so hard and we know that God is a God of miracles, that He is preparing His people here in England. And it is so true! We have seen so many miracles.
Friday: Our morning started off by going to Maureen's house for a cancer awareness thing. It was really fun, and we were able to meet a lot of people! We met a few of her friends that are interested in learning more about the gospel! So we were able to set appointments with them!! And they really want to come with us to our next temple trip on the 29th of October, so that will be really fun! Haha but Maureen wanted us to bring a dessert to the party.... so we were like okay we can bring a chocolate cake. But the cake didn't cook in time. So we thought we could save it by putting it in the microwave to cook it longer..... and then make cake pops and drizzle Nutella over them haha. We were getting really creative. But since we didn't have time, we didn't allow the cake to cool down before we put them into cake pops they turned into solid rocks! And I mean solid.... but the worst part is is that we didn't know that because we didn't try them before we brought them to Maureen's house. So we were just sitting on the couch and one of her friends went to bite into our cake pop and we heard this like big crunch!  Ughhhhhh..... we were so embarrassed but we were laughing so hard! And then later that night we went to one of our investigators house, her name is Pam! She is really nice. She made us SOOO much food. English people really like to feed you! But they especially like to give you sweets and baked goods! I think I've gained like 5 pounds.... ugh it's horrible haha! Because you like can't tell them no, because they put so much time into making stuff! But it's okay because we are going on a diet haha 😂
Saturday: This morning we went to one of the recent converts in our ward, Tobeka! She is the best. And we had brunch with her and taught her about family history! She wants to bring names to the temple. She is so excited to go! We were able to watch some of General conference today! It works differently here because we are 7 hours ahead of Utah. So we had to go to Orpington to watch it at their church because we didn't have a place to go here in our area. So we watched Saturday morning session here at 5pm! I loved conference! I went into conference with a few questions and they were ALL answered!
Sunday: We went down to Orpington earlier this afternoon and we spent the whole day there! We were able to watch Saturday Afternoon session online, and then we were able to watch Sunday Morning session Live at 5pm :) those were the only sessions we were able to watch, so we are trying to catch up on the other sessions during lunch and dinner! But really the messages from conference came at the perfect time for me. Heavenly Father definitely knows what each and everyone of us needs!
Monday: today we had a lesson with Maureen's whole family!!! MIRACLE! Maureen's husband isn't a member but he stayed for the whole lesson, and even said that we could come back and teach him! MIRACLE! And then he also gave us authorisation for Christians baptism!!! MIRACLE!! Haha. We saw a lot of miracles today!
Tuesday: Today was really a day of miracles. We spent most of our day in The Thamesmead area today. We were trying to go there to "heart- attack" (a bunch of sticky notes on the door) one of our less active friends, so we were able to do that. But on our way there we got lost... haha like always... and we went down this road and we realized it was the wrong road. We finally found her house. And then when we were leaving we started walking down that same wrong road! We felt a prompting that there was a reason that we kept walking down this road. So we decided to do some knocking on the first row of houses. No one answered until the last door, and her name was Clara! MIRACLE! She said she wanted us to come back, yay! It reminded us of President Utchdorfs talk "fourth floor, last door" haha but we said "first floor, last door". Heavenly Father gives us the spirit so that we can go where He needs us to go. And He needed us to go to Clara's house! The gospel is True!! 😀
I love being a missionary. It brings me true JOY. Seeing the change in people's hearts is amazing. People come from all different backgrounds and many have had really hard lives... but the gospel changes lives. I know this to be true! I want you to know how much I love you! I want you to feel like you are on this journey with me. I'm here to share the happiest thing I know! And I get to help bring families together for eternity! I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I love you so much and I thank you for the examples you have been for me! I'm so grateful that you are my family for eternity! Have a great week! We can do hard things! Attitude is everything! ❤️
Love, Sister Lund

 Rock hard cake pops

 The London Bridge

My Tri-Zone Conference