I had a really good week! I hope you did! I am sorry I didn't send a mass email last week, it was a bit crazy!
Thursday: We had an exchange, and I was with Sister Torgerson from Arizona and Sister Unga from Tonga. It was so funny! So we had a lesson with a referral that we got from another area in our zone (Epsom) and so we had a lesson with this cute family, Sidney and Mia. They are so sweet, and very open. But the buses here in Crawley don't run very often, and they drop you off in the middle of nowhere. So we traveled about an hour away from our flat into Horley, and the bus driver dropped us off not even at a bus stop but literally in the middle of this windy road in a forest. We got off the bus, and the sisters were like " Sister Lund, where are we?" haha it was so funny.. Even though it took us ages and we missed the last bus home, we had a great lesson with Sidney and Mia!
Friday: We finished up exchanges with the Eastbourne sisters! It was a great exchange. The rest of the day we just did a lot of finding which is always good to try and find new friends.
Saturday: Today we had a "Mission Finding Hour", which is where our whole mission at the same time tries to find new friends to teach. Let me tell you this was a little bit of a tough hour, We met a really nice woman about 5 minutes into this finding hour that said that we could come and teach her, and the other 55 minutes, no one wanted to stop. So that was a little tough, but hey we still had miracles!
Sunday: We were a little sad because none of our friends came to church today! We were really surprised Dave didn't come, but he had a family get together the night before in Woking which apparently is really far away, and his daughter Georginna was so tired she couldn't wake up in the morning! But Charlie a recent convert in the ward, came to church today, and it was the first time she came since I was here! So big miracle!! The other day we had a great lesson with her, where we sat in the chapel, and read the Book of Mormon with her, and we had her look around the empty chapel and asked her what she saw... She was like " I see no one", and we were like "Exactly!" And we talked to her about how when she comes to church on Sunday she shouldn't worry about what others think, that it is just between her and God. And that all that matters is that she is there now! And she was SO happy! I love experiences like this!! This evening we did Finding and Food in East Grinstead with the Office Elders and the Visitor Center sisters. It was so fun! We got to have a break the fast with all the office missionaries and some of the Temple missionaries which was fun. And then we did a scavenger hunt (finding activity) on the high street! SO FUN!
Monday: A lot of our friends have not been in contact with us which was really worrying us! So we decided we would make some cookies for them. When you don't know what else to do, serve! And giving cookies is always a great idea! It was hilarious though, because we accidentally put to much butter in at first (converting from American to English measurements can be so hard sometimes) and I was like "Sister Gates, why are these so greasy? And why are our cookies like broiling??" haha, and then we figured it out, and fixed ourselves, and the cookies actually turned out really good, and our friends really liked them! So miracles!!
Tuesday: We had a meeting with the Zone Leaders today, Elder Roper and Elder Armstrong. They have become like our best friends. They are great. And we just talked about how we can help our Zone coming into this next transfer, and we just reviewed the last transfer, so it was good! Last night we were supposed to have correlation, but we accidentally got stuck at this Less Active's house for an hour and 15 minutes, and she was sharing all this weird information with us. It was so weird! But she was nice.
Well this week was so good! Sister Gates and I during our dinner hour last night we watched "The Testaments". And oh my goodness it was so amazing! I literally cried. It just made me reflect on my testimony of the Book of Mormon. I know that it really is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. There is a part at the end of the video where Christ comes up to this man who has been waiting to see Christ his entire life, but he ends up going blind, so when Christ comes to visit the people in the Americas and he can't see Christ. But the way it ends is Christ coming to this man, and saying "Be healed". And it just hit my heart so hard! And it reminded me of this years Christmas video where Christ is healing the people. I know this church is true! I hope that if you are struggling with your testimony or knowing if Christ loves you, that you will take time to pray and read the Book of Mormon I know that you will get your answer!
I love you! I hope you have a great week!
Love,
Sister Lund
Beautiful Countryside
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