This week went by really quickly. I feel like June just went by really quickly, haha. We saw a lot of miracles over here in England.
Thursday: We had the Hot cocoa social as usual at the chapel. We met with Vinh, and he opened up a lot to us! He is hilarious, and he really wants to get his patriarchal blessing, so he is working on some things he needs to get past so that he can get it!
Friday: we did a lot of finding today! We were able to find a family to teach, they are neighbors to a family in our ward, so we are teaching them next Saturday which we are really excited about.
Saturday: we had a lesson in the morning with one of our friends Oliver. He is a funny guy. He is very open to learning about life. He has a lot of Buddhist beliefs, but he says he is not a Buddhist. We aren't really sure what he is interested in haha... its been a bit of a sticky situation recently with understanding if people are meeting with us because they are interested in the gospel, or if they are interested in us. Haha Sister Velez was like Sister Lund we need to put a brown paper bag over your head. Haha 😂 this evening we got to see the Truter family and Emilia, which was really good. We missed Emilia, she was on a trip for the past week, so we were happy to see her!!
Sunday: Sister Velez gave her first talk as a missionary in sacrament meeting today. She did really well! Sadly none of our friends came to church, but the meetings were really good. We had a lesson with Emilia today about repentance... we asked her to squeeze out all of the toothpaste in the bottle, and then asked her to put it all back in. She was like " I give up, it won't go back in, it's too messy". When she said that, it just made me thin, isn't this how we all are sometimes?... like oh man this is too hard, it's too messy, so I'll just give up... but thankfully God had a plan put in place to fix these messy situations. Thankfully he gave us the gift of his Son, so that we could repent for our sins, and through our Savior we are able to clean up the "toothpaste" or our sins.
Monday: this evening we had an FHE with the Savickas family in our ward. They are hilarious. It was so fun. We were able to help them liken the scriptures unto themselves. We asked the question: if there was a zombie Apocalypse that hit England right now, and you had to take only what you could carry what would you bring if you knew you couldn't come back? They started listing off all of these things. So just like Nephi and his family had to take what they had and travel into the wilderness. Then we read in 1 Nephi 19:23 where it says we need to liken the scriptures unto ourselves. That we need to immerse ourselves in the Book. The Book of Mormon is SO important!!
Tuesday: it was such a great day today. We had interviews at Presidents house! Which means we got to travel through London. Man do I miss the city. But I loved interviews! It took the whole day travelling though, so not much else to say about today!
I loved my interview with President. He shared an experience he had with one of his sons. One of his sons had a pretty sour outlook on everything that was happening to him, and he murmured and murmured and kept on murmuring. One day President sat down with his son and opened up to 1 Nephi, and they began reading. All of a sudden his son stopped reading and began to cry. He said "Dad, am I a Laman?" And President boldly but lovingly replied "yes son", and his son replied "I don't want to be a Laman". From that point on his son made a conscious effort to change. The phrase "I don't want to be a Laman" really hit me. There are going to be hard times in our lives, it won't always be sunshine and daisies, but that doesn't mean we can't find joy in the hard times. It made me really think about how I have reacted to situations in my life, and how I want to react in situations to come... I don't want to be a Laman. I want to find joy and peace in my life, because I know it is a lot better to have joy than misery, and it is a lot better to give thanks than to murmur. It also just helped me see again that the Book of Mormon really does change lives. There is power in the Book. I invite all men to read it. It has CHANGED my life, and I know if you will begin a serious study of it, that it will change your life as well.
I love you. I hope you have a great week. We got this!
Love,
Sister Lund
Sister Velez killing a monster mosquito
It's so hot here, I only found relief in the fridge!!
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