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
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