This week went by so quickly... p.s. I’m sorry I say that every week. But the time really is flying!
Thursday: we had a service project this morning at the Corrigan’s house. They are a cute older couple in our ward. And we helped clean their bathroom. Sister Corrigan’s health is really declining so she really needs the help. After, we went to Brighton for their district meeting! It was really fun. We came back and had a lesson with Joanna. Joanna is lovely. But we really are trying to help her keep commitments.
Friday: today was crazy! We had district meeting this morning for like 30 minutes, and then we had to leave early to go to my doctors appointment in Guildford. Let me tell you Guildford is such a beautiful town. Oh my days. So beautiful. Old architecture with cobble stone streets, with rolling hills. Very English! We had so many mishaps with our train. Haha all of our trains were delayed so the times were all mixed up. So we took about 6 trains (including the whole travel) and we missed every single one... barely. The train was there but, if they are leaving they lock the doors and they don’t let you in... haha so sad. But it was funny looking back on it.
Saturday: We had a work over in Eastbourne. And it was so fun. Sister Biesinger, and Sister Torgerson are in a tri now with Sister Unga from Tonga. Sister Torgerson is training Sister Unga, because Sister Biesinger is finishing her mission in a week and a half. Crazy! On the work over we did ballon contacting, where we had people pop a ballon with a question inside and we had them answer it. It’s super effective!
Sunday: Dave came to church again, and brought his daughter Georginna. They both really enjoyed it! We had a dinner appointment with the Hunts. They are such a great family. So something funny. Elder De Kock, one of the assistants, his sister is in the Crawley ward. Which I don’t know how all of the rules go but it’s so funny because they see each other every Sunday and Sister Ryan and her husband came to dinner at the Hunts so that was fun! An then we did finding as a Crawley district this evening.
Monday: So we did a bunch of planning with the Zone leaders to plan for our busy week of meetings. This evening we had a dinner appointment with Sister Sweetman and her friend Pat. And it was so great! Pat is a sweet little 90 year old woman, who is not interested in “converting” as she would say. But it was such a powerful lesson. We showed last years Christmas initiative video. Pat has had a very rough life. She has had horrible things happen to her, and she feels like she is to blame... but as we showed the video, I just looked at both Pat and Sister Sweetman and the smiles that came to their faces. Christ brought light into their eyes. And as the saying goes “the eyes are the windows to our soul”. And I literally saw the change in their eyes. And I can’t even begin to express the way it made me feel, because I have seen people change on my mission, but today was just a tender mercy to be able to see how even the little things we do matter.
Tuesday: We had MLC today. Which was really good. I have seen that I have changed since my last MLC. I have become more brave, and more willing to voice my opinion (in a loving way though haha) Missionary work will do that for you! But we have some really exciting things coming up in our mission. I’m really excited. I am so excited for the Christmas Initiative. It will be so so great!! This evening we had ward council, and our ward mission leader did an amazing presentation. He brought a HUGE tub of Lego’s and dumped them on the floor. He looked at me and was like “Okay Sister Lund, pick up these Lego’s... by yourself.” So I got on my hands and knees and started picking up the Lego’s and oh my days there are so many little pieces... haha. He went on with the Presentation and was like “Sister Lund you have to put them in the bin quietly...” haha so then I had to take tiny little handfuls and put them in the bin quietly. Meanwhile everyone is watching me do this haha. Then as I had almost put all of them in, he asked everyone else to help me put the Lego’s in the bin, and it went so quick! He related it to the fact that as members we are putting so much responsibility and weight on the missionaries. And how we should not give missionaries to do work that we or others can do. Missionaries are here to serve, but they also can’t do it alone. It was so great! Haha bishop Hewitt and the ward council got a kick out of it too.... 😂
This week was really good. And I got a bit of a spiritual slap in the face. As humans we can get into the habit of “coasting” or just going through the motions. But I don’t want to do that on my mission. I want to keep climbing... everyday! I want to make everyday count because this is so important. This is the work of Salvation.
I hope you have a great week. I love you so much. We can do hard things! We got this!
Love,
Sister Lund
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