Choose the Path that Leads Back Home!!!

Hi Fam Fam! 100417
Conference was fabulous! We haven't been able to watch all of it yet, but I'm so excited to study these amazing talks for the next six months!! I hope you have had a great week. We have had a good week. We have learned and grown a lot which is great!
Thursday: We had the hot cocoa social, which was good because the ward hasn't done it in a few weeks. But today we traveled out to Fareham, and we had lunch with the Batus. They are a cute elderly couple in our ward. And we tried to do some finding in that area to make the most of the time in Fareham, since it is quite far from Bitterne.
Friday: we had a lesson with our friend Susan. We showed her the short clip the church put out for General Conference. She really liked it. Susan struggles with anxiety so she told us that she can't come to watch General Conference, and be surrounded by other people. And she also told us that she "will never become a Mormon, but appreciates what we do". I know she will get there one day. She truly is so lovely. We had district meeting, and it was great because Sister Walker and Sister Ripley (our STL's) came to our district meeting, so it was great to have sisters with us for once haha. This evening we had correlation, which consisted of us, and when I say us I mean everyone other than myself, 😂 trying to figure out the electrical stuff for General Conference so we can show it for our friends... haha that type of stuff makes zero sense to me... but that's fine 💁🏼
Saturday: guess who we had a lesson with this morning.... Nadine! Miracles are happening with her. She explained to us that she has fear with being baptized, she knows she needs to do it, but she doesn't know why she is so scared. I love Nadine, so much. The lesson went really well. Just thought I would share that miracle with ya 😘. This afternoon from 1-2pm our whole mission did finding, and as a mission for that one hour we found 507 people. How amazing is that!! This afternoon we went to the chapel to watch Conference, but one of our friends had an emergency so we were only able to watch the last few minutes of Conference. It was a bit of a crazy day, but I'm excited to catch up on the talks, I heard they were really good!
Sunday: Conference!!! 🙌 we watched General Conference basically the whole day today. And it was amazing! We watched it with Emilia and Patrycja, and Emilia actually stayed for two sessions of conference. That was a miracle for a 10 year old to do that! But I loved Conference, it definitely raised my spirits.
Monday: we spent most of the morning and afternoon helping Raffaella move houses. It's funny because her mom came over from Italy to help her move... and her mom kept talking to us in Italian... the funny thing is we think she knows that we can't speak Italian but that's not a problem for her 😂 she just kept on talking to us in Italian, I picked out a FEW words...haha
Tuesday: we had interviews and training at Presidents house today in Oxshott. Which is about a two hour train journey from Portsmouth. So it took the whole day. But it was amazing. I love President. I am so grateful for him and Sister Gubler and all that he does for me, they have helped me SO much. I will be forever grateful.
This week was amazing. I received so much guidance from Heavenly Father. I loved the talk given by Stephen W. Owen, about how repentance is always positive. He shared the parable of the Prodigal Son. I love Luke chapter 15, I think it has become one of my favorite chapters. I really encourage you all to take the time to read it. But I will do my best to summarize it.. in this parable it talks about a man who has two sons. The younger son asked for his father to give him his inheritance, and he took it and left home, and basically wasted all he was given on earthly possessions and insignificant things. He hit rock bottom, and lost everything. He realized he had no other option than to go back to his father, and to plead with him to forgive him. But in his mind he told himself that he would no longer be worthy to be his fathers son, and that he would need to be his servant. As he travelled the long walk home, which as Elder Owen said "probably consisted of a lot of faith to keep him moving" his father saw him, and as soon as the father saw him, the father ran to him and fell on him and kissed him. And the son said to his father that he was not worthy to be called his son, and that he had sinned against heaven and that he needed to be his servant. But the father did not listen, he gave him fancy robes and jewels, and threw a celebration that his "son was lost, but now he is found"... but while all this was happening the elder son had stayed with his father all this time and had been working in the fields, and doing everything he had been asked to do. And when the son had come in from a day of work in the fields he saw that there was a celebration and asked a servant what happened...and the servant told him that his younger brother was home and that their father was throwing a celebration. The elder son became very angry and wouldn't go and join the celebration, so the father came out and asked him what was going on, and the son told him he was upset because he has followed and done everything he has been asked to do, and he has not turned away from him like his younger brother had, but he never got a celebration like his younger brother had... and his father told him " you have always been with me, and all that I have is yours", but we needed to be glad and throw your brother a celebration because he was lost and now he is found...
I LOVE this parable.... so so much. Because I think at one point or another this situation has or will happen to all of us. But how amazing is it that our Heavenly Father loves us so much, that as SOON as we turn to him he will RUN to us... this is not to say that we will not feel sorrow for what we have done, because the younger son definitely felt sorrow, but through the atonement of Jesus Christ that pain will be wiped away.
I hope that you will have an amazing week. I love you so much. We got this! We can do hard things!!
Love,
Sister Lund