Cause that my Eyes may be Opened!!

Hi Fam Fam!

This week flew by. But it was oh so good.

Thursday: so I went to go look through my journals and planner to see what we did today, but I honestly can't remember... Haha sorry! 🙈

Friday: We got to see cute Charlie a recent convert in the ward. She is so precious. Oh my goodness and so smart. She majored in cancer cell biology. This afternoon we did transfer planning with Elder Roper and Elder Armstrong. It was really great. We have some really fun things to do in the zone this transfer. I am so excited! This evening we had a dinner appointment with the Vowels. They are the cutest family. They have 8 kids, along with his parents and one of their business colleagues that live with them. So every night they have 13 people around there dinner table! Wow! And they feed us a twice a month. How sweet is that?! After dinner with them we had a lesson with Dave. Oh Dave... he is lovely. But is struggling with urgency to prepare for his baptism. His Date was for the 16th of December, but he doesn't feel ready. So I will keep you updated on him. He is a great guy though!

Saturday: Such a great day! We had a lesson with one of our friends Laurie-Anne. She is 17 years old. She brought her friend Madison on her lesson today. It went okay. She is pretty apprehensive. We will see how things go with her. This evening... made me SO happy! I got to see one of my bestest friends!! Francesca went to visit the Temple today and came to see me in Crawley. I cried! My goodness I haven't seen her for 9 months. She is doing so well. She is so amazing. And she brightened my whole week!

Sunday: We have had Stake Conference this weekend. It has been so good. There was a bit of an emergency in the chapel today though. A sweet little old man during the middle of the meeting had what we thought was a stroke, but it turns out his blood sugar was just off. Miracle though, we think that because the whole stake was sitting there praying for him as they got him prepped for the ambulance that Heavenly Father heard our prayers and healed him. It may sound weird but I just had that overwhelming feeling that the power of prayer, if it is according to God's will, can heal anyone and anything. So amazing! The rest of the day we just did a lot of finding. Which was good. Although it is getting a lot colder!

Monday: This evening we went over to the Fagan's house (our ward mission leader) and shared the Light the World video with them. Sister Gates is a trooper. Bless her haha. As we were travelling to the Fagan's who live in Horsham (far away in our area from where we live) she was walking up this hill and like flew into this pile of mud. She was COVERED. Like sooo bad. Haha she popped up so fast though. But the poor thing had to walk around the rest of the evening with mud all over her because we couldn't go home and change. Haha she had a good attitude about it. She just used me as a shield the whole time we were traveling so no one could see her. 😂

Tuesday: We dropped by a lot of our friends today that have been dodging us. And tried to make contact with them. One of our friends wasn't home, the other one was and invited us to come back so hopefully things will get better with them! Then this evening we just had correlation. Which was great, not much to talk about though!

This week was so good. I absolutely loved it. I think it wasn't necessarily about what we did during the week, although we did great things! It was just that this week was a week of remembrance for me. I read a really good conference talk called "Lord will thou cause that my eyes will be opened". And I loved this part:

" On May 28, 2016, 16-year-old Beau Richey and his friend Austin were at a family ranch in Colorado. Beau and Austin climbed into their all-terrain vehicles with great anticipation for a day of adventure. They had not gone far when they encountered precarious conditions, at which point tragedy struck. The vehicle Beau was driving flipped over suddenly, pinning Beau under 400 pounds (180 kg) of steel. When Beau’s friend Austin got to him, he saw Beau struggling for his life. With every bit of his strength, he tried to pull the vehicle off his friend. It wouldn’t budge. He prayed for Beau and then frantically went for help. Emergency personnel finally arrived, but a few hours later Beau died. He was released from this mortal life.
His heartbroken parents arrived. As they stood in the small hospital with Beau’s dearest friend and family members, a police officer entered the room and handed Beau’s cell phone to his mother. As she took the phone, an audible alarm sounded. She opened the phone and saw Beau’s daily alarm. She read aloud the message her fun-loving, highly adventurous teenage son had set to read every day. It said, “Remember to put Jesus Christ at the center of your life today.”
Beau’s focus on his Redeemer does not lessen his loved ones’ sorrow in his absence. However, it gives great hope and meaning to Beau’s life and life choices. It allows his family and friends to look beyond only the grief of his early death to the joyful realities of the next life. What a tender mercy for Beau’s parents to see through their son’s eyes the thing he most prized."

Even though this story is so sad... I was just reminded that when Christ is at the center of my life... that is when I am the happiest. I know that if we want more happiness in our lives we need to make sure we are putting Christ in the center!

I hope you have a great week. I love you. We can do hard things! We got this!

Love, Sister Lund