I hope you have had a good week. Our week was pretty good!
Thursday: today was pretty cool! Sister Gaston and I were able to participate in the Portsmouth Stake beehive camp. We were asked to help them with their service project. And they asked us to talk about the Book of Mormon, and tie it in with this years theme "Ask of God". Wow this was such a powerful experience. We were able to bear our testimonies of the Book of Mormon, and how if we go in with a specific question written down, and search the Book of Mormon, that we can receive answers... I have a sure testimony that the Book of Mormon truly answers questions of the souls, and that it brings us closer to God. So this was amazing... the Young women wrote their testimonies in the Books of Mormon, and gave them to us to hand out to investigators. We were also asked to help in their faith walk, so I was able to talk about Emma Smith and the value: Divine Nature. I shared the scripture in D&C, where Emma is called an Elect Lady. That was really fun for me to talk about Emma. She truly was an elect lady.
Friday: haha so we bought a monthly bus pass, that we thought covered our whole area... yeah we were wrong. It only covers the Southampton part, not the Hampshire part... and we had a lesson in Fareham today, but it was a miracle because the bus driver was very kind and gave us our tickets half price! So so nice. We had a lesson with our friend Debbie. We are really really trying to help Debbie. She is very unique, and is hard to teach at times, but we really are trying to do all we can to help her. We had correlation with Brother Handley this evening. He lives out in Gosport, which is the very edge of our area, but it is beautiful there. They have the D-day beaches there. We know that fall is coming, because it is starting to get darker in the mornings and night!
Saturday: We had interviews with President in Portsmouth today. We also had our zone training. We focused on faith, obedience, and works. As a mission we are really trying to be exactly obedient, because we know that obedience brings blessing, but exact obedience brings MIRACLES.
Sunday: Emilia came to church today! Yay! I love her. The Wrzeszcz family have changed my life. I will really miss them when I leave. We had a meeting with Brother Sheppard at his house, since he is in the bishopric. He really wants to help us move the work forward in the Hamble River Ward. We are really trying to move the work forward.
Monday: We did A LOT of finding today. This area needs a lot of finding!! But that's okay. We also were able to do some service for Alcina, so that was fun!
Tuesday: Today we had a lesson with one of our friends Ron. Oh my days, he is the sweetest little man. He is 83 years old. Sister Gaston and Sister Ripley found him while we were on exchanges last week, and they gave him a Book of Mormon, and he said that he would call if he was convinced... and guess what today we got a call. He told us he wasn't convinced, but that he wanted to meet up. So we taught him in a pub.... we had no where else to go. 😂 but hey the lesson was amazing. All three of us were in tears. He shared how he wants to know how he can be with his sweet wife Antonia again, since she passed away, and he misses her dearly. When we started the lesson he said that he didn't believe there was a God, and he thought the Book of Mormon was a good "story". By the end of the lesson he was in tears, and told us that there is power in this book, and that he believes there is a God, and that he wants to be baptized in two weeks! WHAT??? We are so happy for him. We found out that he is just outside of our area, so we had to refer him to the Elders in the city centre. But it's okay, we want to do Gods will, and be obedient. Ron told us that every night before he goes to bed he says " goodnight Jesus, goodnight Antonia, I hope I see you in the morning". Awwwh. Oh my goodness I hope when I am 83, my husband will love me as much as Ron loves his wife. So cute.
This week has been really good. It has been hard, because literally every solid investigator we found isn't in our area so we have had to refer quite a few people. But we know that Heavenly Father has a plan. I read a conference talk called "Summer with Great Aunt Rose". And there was a part that really stuck out to me... " I decided I had a choice - I could hang my head and drag my feet on the dusty road of self-pity, or I could have a little faith, put on a bright dress, slip on my dancing shoes, and skip down the path of life, singing as I went". It made me think of the song "I hope you dance". I think one of my biggest desires in life is that I want to live my life to the fullest and be happy in the NOW, and do this on God's path. I don't want to be caught in the trap of "I wish I did this, or if only I did this, or when I have this or when I do this I will be happy" because I am here to tell you, if we don't CHOOSE to be happy now, we are robbing ourselves from so many amazing experiences and blessings.
I hope you will have a great week. I love you so much. We got this!
Love,
Sister Lund
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