He is the Physician!!!

Hey Fam Fam! 091317
This week flew by. I feel like I was just writing an email to you like it was yesterday... scratch that.. like it was this morning 😂 time is crazy.
Thursday: we went to Kleins for dinner. But not much else happened, we just did a lot of finding! 😊
Friday: we had district meeting which was good! We had a surprise... our mission got smart phones... crazy! I actually really liked our little dinosaur phone. But I guess in a couple of transfers the church is going to start sending missionaries to our mission with phones rather than iPads or Samsung tablets...which will be really weird. But I have no idea if that is worldwide or just my mission! We had a lesson with our new friend Richard, the one we met in Woolston. He is really struggling. He isn't sure what he wants right now, but he know he needs to change. We hope he will let us help him, but he has his Agency.
Saturday: what an eventful day! We played futbol this morning, one family showed up but they had to leave early. It was Des's baptism!! And I am really sad we weren't able to get a picture with him... anyway, we were able to help the elders fill up the font... haha kind of. So the Elders called us in a panic saying "Sisters, we can't get the boiler to work, so the font is filling with freezing cold water, we need your help!" So when we got to the chapel, they were boiling water on the stove, for us to dump into the font. It actually worked... well a little bit. 😂 We only had one accident! Sister Gaston burned her finger, and got a pretty bad blister, but thankfully it is going away! This evening we had a dinner appointment with the Bishop and his family. They are so funny. It was a mad house, and there were a few tears 🙈but it was great to be with them! 😊
Sunday: church was good, Although no one came. All of bishop's family and sister Gaston and I wore JoJo bows. Haha it was funny. I felt prompted during sacrament meeting that we needed to go outside to find someone to come to church... sadly no one wanted to come, but it was a testimony to me that God has consecrated our efforts. Maybe not at the time we want him to, but he will consecrate them! This evening we went to the Sheppards for FHE, and Patrycja came! It was really good. We studied Luke 15, about the prodigal son.
Monday: this morning we were supposed to have a lesson with Nadine. About a week ago she sent me a message, saying that she wanted to meet with us, so we set an appointment for today, and she didn't show up... which is really sad, but hopefully one day she will make the step. This evening we went to Naomi's and helped her make dinner for her family. Naomi is so sweet, she really just needs friends and people to talk to. We were able to show her the Mormon message "Fragile" which she absolutely loved. If you get a chance, go watch it! It's amazing.
Tuesday: this afternoon we had a lesson with Ron. Haha oh Ron... thankfully the elders in his area were able to come on the teach with us, so they were able to create a friendship, so we can transfer him over to them. But it will probably take some time because he is really close to us. But he has a lot of questions of Christ visiting the Americas, so we gave him some chapters to read in the Book of Mormon. He loves the Book of Mormon... I'm telling ya, there is POWER in the Book. This evening we had dinner with Sister Hollis, and talked about why prayer is so important, and having faith to receive an answer. And having faith in Christ, not outcomes. So important. Then we had ward council, which is always an interesting event that happens in Hamble River 😂 but it was good.
This week went by so quickly. It seemed like my week was focused a lot on healing. I love the quote " In the same way a physician might lead us to physical wholeness, the Savior, who is the perfect physician, can take away the burden of shame, worry, guilt, and even feelings of frustration and anxiety and show us the way to be spiritually whole again. That's his job, and he performs it perfectly". It just made me think of how every person in this world is looking for healing in one way or another. Not only healing but relief... but the fact is, is that relief from the challenges we have may come slowly or quickly, but sometimes full relief doesn't come at all until after this life. But the fact is is that Christ is the only one we can receive healing from, whether on this earth or in the life to come. I think this is amazing. That yes we all have to go through hard things, but we ALL will receive healing, and be made whole.
I hope that you will have a great week! I love you so much! We can do hard things. We got this!
Love, Sister Lund