Oh my goodness. This week was pretty good. We saw a lot of miracles! I apologize ahead for this short email... 😜
Thursday: we had two dinner appointments today, one with the Batus, and one with the Kleins. The Batus are such a funny and cute old couple. They remind me a bit like Ray Barone's parents from Everyone Loves Raymond... only a little bit though haha. They have the biggest English house I have seen so far on my mission. English homes are quite small. I think it will be weird for me to come home and see big yards and houses. The Kleins are such a cute young family. Mathilde is hilarious, she definitely has English humour. 😂
Friday: we did a lot of planning and we did a lot of finding! I think that is where we have seen a lot of miracles this week is finding... granted a lot of our appointments flogged us... but hey we are able to find, and we are doing our part, now all we can do is leave it up to God.
Saturday: today was really fun. This morning we started a new activity! Football on Saturdays! I actually did pretty well... all us missionaries were so out of shape haha, but I can still do rainbows!
Sunday: we had a miracle! One of our investigators came to church! We had been trying all week to get someone to come, and we were really worried no one would come, but cute little Symphony came with her mama!
Monday: we went to the edge of our area: Portchester, and spent the day there. We were able to see a less active family: the Lowrys. They are the funniest. They are very unique, the wife has bright red hair, and she wears 50s clothing and the husband has a mustache that makes him look a bit like Captain Hook. But oh man they are so fun.
Tuesday: we were on exchanges with sister Walker and Sister Ripley. I was with Sister Walker, and we went to hedge end all day. We were able to see Heather, which is always good. I love Heather, we haven't seen her in a while, and she needed the visit. As soon as we got there and I asked if we could pray, she just looked at me and pulled me into a hug and started crying. She has had a really hard life, but it was such an amazing moment for me to be there with her and feel the spirit telling me "if your only role here was to help Heather, that would be fine for me". I think that was a lesson I learned today was that I am helping everyone I can, and Heavenly Father recognizes my efforts.
Wow. I cannot believe I hit my year mark... I know I always say time is weird, but it really is. It's crazy, now when people ask me how long I've been on my mission they are like "you are starting to get old"... haha but I have been able to reflect a bit on my mission, and ya know it hasn't been the easiest. I have had some growing pains. But I have learned that I really can do hard things, I was set apart by the Lord to do the things He needs me to do here on my mission. I have been able to learn more about myself... especially the fact that I am a spiritual being having a mortal experience, and he doesn't expect me to be perfect in this life. But mostly I have learned that this Gospel truly does bring eternal joy into my life... that the joy I have had in my life hasn't come from the world or anything the world "gives" me. The joy I have, came and comes ONLY from my Loving Heavenly Father. What a gift... men are that they might have joy. So yes, we will have hard times and we will face trials, but we can choose to find joy in these experiences.
I love you. I hope you have a great week. We got this! We really CAN do hard things! I love you so much.
Love, Sister Lund
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