Let Him Heal You!!

Hi Fam Fam!

I hope you had an amazing week! Ours was pretty good!!

Thursday: We had DLC today, which was fun. Elder Hardy got mixed up with the schedule and forgot who was given what presentations, so he accidently said that we were giving a 15 minute presentation... It was okay though we just went with it and winged it! It actually went really well. I am so grateful for the spirit! DLC was fun though! This evening we had a dinner appointment with the Stewarts. They are a cute family. Although Sister Shumway and I got a little sick after dinner, but that's okay! Then we had a lesson with Hannah, Peter and Jo's daughter. It went really well. We extended a baptismal date to Hannah for February 24th. She totally could make it, however it really is going to depend on her parents.

Friday: We had District Meeting in Crawley. Our whole district has changed. But it was also really fun because our sweet senior couple the Wallaces were able to come. And Sister Wallace can lead the music so she got me off the hook which was really nice... considering the fact that I have NO IDEA how to read music, but people always ask me to conduct, I know how to wave my hand, but that is about the extent of my abilities! haha

We were supposed to go and see Joanna, but she cancelled our appointment, which is pretty frustrating considering her baptism is on the 3rd of February. But this afternoon we went and read the Book of Mormon with Sister Senior. Bless her, she is wonderful! She is struggling understanding, but she is a trooper, she just got out of the Isaiah chapters! Tonight we had a dinner appointment with the Marcos family. They told us their conversion story, about how they were just trying to get their DVD player fixed and Jonathan Marcos ran into the missionaries, and invited them back, but he was going to play a joke on them... and then Debbie Marcos ran into another set of missionaries, and invited them back, and they got baptized like 3 weeks later. Amazing what Christ can do for people. Then we had a lesson with Charlie Hodby's grandmother. She isn't very interested, and I think she felt a bit overwhelmed, but all we can do is just share our message, and let people choose for themselves.

Saturday: We dropped by Joanna today, and her partner Aidan was there. So we met him... We talked with her about her baptism, because she wasn't planning on coming to church tomorrow, which is sad because she is so so close. But by the end of the conversation she told us she would come. The ward even bought her kids car seats, and we coordinated a ride for her. So we will see what happens. But today we had a Skype teach with Izzy and it went really well. We have been praying  a lot about Izzy and we really felt that God thinks she is ready for baptism. SO we extended a date for February 17th... and she said she would pray about it. So miracle! This evening we had another lesson with Peter and Jo and Hannah. It went pretty good. We reviewed the Restoration. And Hannah said that she is willing to prepare for the 24th of February, again it really will depend on Peter and Jo.

Sunday: Today was absolutely insane! We were like running around with our heads cut off! Oh my days... Long story short, Joanna was supposed to come to church...but she didn't. A few members in our ward went to pick her up but she wasn't ready, so they went back later and she left a note on the door that she will walk to church. So she was like lost... or something like that... Who knows, I still am so confused! So Sister Shumway and I went to go find her and to get her to come to church but we couldn't find her, and it was just insane! Anyways... we felt super sad, so we called Elder Armstrong and Elder Hardy and talked with them for a little bit. But it was good because Elder Armstrong is like my best friend, so he helped us! And then we got a miracle text from Izzy! She was like "Sisters, I got my answer... I need to get baptized." AHHHH! So she chose February 24th because Michael's family will be intown and can come and support her! Which is amazing! I can't think of a better way to finish my mission than to watch sweet Izzy get baptized. Bless her, she is the cutest! That was a MIRACLE!!

Monday: We had a lesson with Izzy and she came to the Chapel, and we went over the baptismal interview questions with her to help her prepare for her interview and it was like a role play. She like answered these questions, and passed with flying colors. My goodness. And then we showed her the baptismal font, and she loved it, she was like "It's massive!" and then we looked at baptismal clothes. She hates the jumpsuits, so she told us she is going to buy a dress, and she found one. Oh Izzy! Then we had a dinner appointment with Josh and Demi Craggs, a young couple in the ward. They are so nice. And then we got on a train to Eastbourne for exchange.

Tuesday: I was with Sister Rathinam for exchange. I just love her! She is such a great missionary. We saw so  many miracles as well. We were able to put two of their new friends on date! Woohoo! So exchanges were great.

This week was fabulous. It went so quick. The weeks are just flying by! Ahh!! But something that I really loved this week was a talk I read by Patrick Kearon called "Come unto Me with Full purpose of Heart, and I Shall Heal You". It basically just talks about how all of us have the power to change.. not on our own but with our brother Jesus Christ. He can heal us. I love the part where it says: "If we have strayed from the track, we can change, we can return, and we can recapture our joy and our inner peace. We will discover that returning to the track from which the land mines have been removed brings enormous relief. No one can find peace in a minefield. Our Savior is the Prince of Peace, the Great Healer, the only One who can truly cleanse us from the sting of sin and the poison of pride and change our rebellious hearts into converted, covenant hearts. His Atonement is infinite and embraces us all. The invitation given to the Nephites, when He ministered to them as the resurrected Christ, is still in force for you and for me: “Have ye any that are sick among you? Bring them hither. Have ye any that are lame, or blind, or halt, or maimed, or leprous, or that are withered, or that are deaf, or that are afflicted in any manner? Bring them hither and I will heal them.”14 Not one of you has thrown away your last chance. You can change, you can come back, you can claim mercy. Come unto the only One who can heal, and you will find peace."

I love this. No matter what, Christ and his Atonement is infinite and it embraces us all! My invitation to you this week, is the invitation Christ gave to the Nephites... Let Christ heal you.. You don't need to hold onto your wounds any longer.

I hope you have a great week! I love you so much! We Got This!!

Love,

Sister Lund

Smile and Do It !!!

Hi Fam Fam!                 

This week has been a crazy week. I am staying here in Crawley for my last transfer, Sister Gates moved to Bath. I am really going to miss her. But my new companion is Sister Shumway from Rexburg, ID. She has been in her mission for 3 months. But she seems nice!
I'll try and sum up this week for ya, bear with me.

Thursday: We had exchanges with Eastbourne. I was with sister Torgerson. She goes home in a couple of days. So this is her last transfer. She is so amazing. A goal she had was she wanted to say "God has sent us here to talk to you" to someone on the street that we contact. She has wanted to do this her whole mission so I was like "okay sister Torgerson we are going to get on our knees and we are going to pray to have the courage to say this in the street to someome you feel has been prepared" so we prayed and we went out and talked to Carina. She wasn't really interested in what we had to say. But the spirit I felt as Sister Torgerson said those words was so powerful. How amazing is it that we are representatives of the Savior. I take it for granted. It was amazing though because Sister Torgerson had tears in her eyes and after the contact she turned to me and said "Sister Lund... I did it. I have wanted to do that for so long and I did it." I started crying because it made me so happy she was happy and that she fulfilled her mission goal.  Now she can go home with no regrets.

Friday: we finished up exchanges with Eastbourne. Sister Torgerson and I taught Joanna this morning. It was good. Joanna just has a lot on her plate right now. She wants to be baptized on February 3rd but we will have to see how things go. She is so cute though. We love her. After exchanges we went to East Grinstead to do finding and food with the Zion district. It was great. We did whiteboard contacting where we had people write down their answer to a question on the board. We got some pretty interesting responses. But it was good.

Saturday: We found out moves today which were so bittersweet. But today we got to go to Brighton to go see a Baptism. Peter and Jo and Hannah came with us, so that was great. And we had dinner with them after. Hannah told us and her parents that she really wants to be baptized and her parents gave permission. So we are going to start teaching Hannah. That was a big miracle!

Sunday: A day full of goodbyes for sister Gates. But it was good we had a dinner appointment with Brother and sister McLuckie and The Ryan's. So that was fun. Then we just did some finding this evening.

Monday: We spent most of our day in Horsham. We got to go to Sabrine's house and we helped her set a missionary goal. And then we went into town and got hot chocolate with Izzy. Izzy is so funny. She is dating a member who is on a mission right now so a lot of the conversation turns into her talking about Michael... so it can be hard to keep her focused haha. Then Elder Roper and Elder Armstrong came to Horsham to do accounting with us and we were sitting in Kokoro and we sat next to these two chinese women, Ping and Margaret. They are going to meet with us this week so that is excitng. They then started to tell us their first impressions of us. They looked at Elder Roper and they were like you are a Lawyer. They looked at Sister Gates and said you are a writer. They looked at Elder Armstrong and they hesitate and Margaret says You are a playboy! Haha we like burst out laughing, and Margaret goes "I sorry my English bad... you just pretty that's why you playboy".  It was hilarious. So then Elder Armstrong was like who is Sister Lund and Ping goes "she is my princess! And margaret goes she is an artist". So funny We had a dinner appointment with the Craggs this evening which was great. And then Sister Gates packed.

Tuesday: Sister Gates left pretty early this morning and Sister Shumway got here not too long after she left. We had a good day. Did some finding, and we had correlation and ward council this evening. It was pretty good.

This week was good. It was a bittersweet week. I am excited for new opportunities, but a bit sad to lose some of my friendships for a time. All in his plan though. I think something I learned was a quote I think dad shared with me "some grin and bear It, others smile and do It". There is bound to be hard times in our life and we are going to have to go through some things but we might as well find joy in it.

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

Love,
Sister Lund

Our Divine Identity!!

Hello Fam Fam!

I had a really great week! I hope you did as well. I am currently writing my emails on a bus, so I left my journal at home... so bear with me as I try to remember my week! I probably will just share some highlights.

This week we started teaching this cute less active family the Naye's. They are from India. The dad, Manoj, is really wanting to work on some things so that he can baptize his 9 year old daughter Ishika. We saw them twice this week. And they are really eager for us to come.  It seriously makes me so happy. We are seeing a lot of miracles with this family, and I know we will continue to!
We also were able to get back in contact with Joanna. She has been going through a tough time, so it was really good to see her. She told us that she still really wants to get baptized. So we set another date with her.

We had our zone conference yesterday. Which was so great. With it being a new year the theme was "New Year, New You". So we talked a lot about change. And what we can do to make changes in our lives to come closer to our Savior. It really was exactly what I needed.

This week was great. I think one of the biggest things I learned this week was that we are of divine identity. We are children of the most high God... So why do we so often forget this? Because we all have the natural man in us or a.k.a we are human beings. I think it is good for us to remember that we all have a divine identity. We are all his spirit children that chose to come to this earth to follow him. But more often than not we forget who we are and start making decisions that pull us away from him, and our spirits are dying for us (the human part) to set them free. We all have to make sacrifices and decisions that are not easy. Just as Christ said in the Garden of Gethsemane "not my will, but thine be done", we too will have to sometimes swallow "the bitter cup"... But if we can remember that if we make the harder right choice than the easier wrong choice He will bless us in ways we can't even comprehend, it makes swallowing that cup that much easier. I KNOW that to be true!!

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

Love,
Sister Lund

Chasing Jesus in 2018!!

Hi Fam Fam!                                                                                                                               010318

Oh my goodness I have exciting news!!! My dear sweet friend Richard Dolan got baptized this past Friday! Words cannot even begin to express how happy this makes me. He looked so happy and I was just amazed at his growth. President Gubler gave me permission to Skype him, so I got to talk with him for a little bit. From the man I met in Woolston in September to the man who just got baptized... man oh man... completely different. He is so happy!! I am still on cloud nine. I can honestly say nothing makes me happier than to see people come closer to Jesus Christ and to experience his miraculous healing power. I could ramble on and on about Richard. He is an eternal friend of mine that has impacted me forever.

Thursday: We had MLC which was good. Haha however I got the flu, so I was going in and out of the meeting. But we set a lot of great goals for 2018. So that is exciting! It will be great to see what happens!

Friday: We didn't do much today! But we did a lot of planning which was good. And I got to Skype Richard! Which let  me tell you again, seeing him was so great!

Saturday: So sorry I can't remember what happened today! Not much happened because I have been under the weather.

Sunday: We went to church! And we had a dinner appointment with the Coughlans. It was so fun! They are such a cute family. Their kids are the cutest! It was a pretty quiet New Years Eve.

Monday: 2018!!!! So we went to the Corrigans for lunch. They are such a great couple. Then this evening we went to the Vowels...and let me tell you a story. It was so embarrassing. So I have been sick this week, and I have been having coughing attacks. So we were sharing the spiritual thought after dinner, and when Tony (The Grandfather) was bearing his testimony I started to have a coughing attack but my water was across the table. Side note: Adam one of their younger boys was playing with a Whoopie Cushion... You probably can see where this is going... Another side note, I want you to know that the Vowels remind me a lot of the Ashton family. I can just imagine the Vowels and the Ashtons being like twin families. Anyways so I was having a coughing attack so I leaned across the table to get my water and at the exact same time Adam put the whoopie cushion on the table...So I don't know if i pressed it or if he did, because neither of us were trying to press it on purpose, but the whole table went silent for like 5 seconds and then they realized what happened and they were like "Sister Lund!" I was like "I swear that was not me!! I promise" and I turned bright red... Oh my goodness so embarrassing. But low key hilarious!

Tuesday: We had DLC today. Which was fun. We went to Nandos to celebrate the New Year and the success and miracles of 2017. But something that I loved that we did in this meeting was we showed "A silent interview with Christ" I don't know if you have seen it, but it is so good so you should watch it! It is so powerful. Then we went and visited Charlie, she had a harder week, so we just talked about how through Christ we have been blessed with the gift of change and becoming better, and that we don't need to constantly beat ourselves up. This evening we had ward council and correlation, it was good, but honestly not much for me to tell ya about haha.

This week really was so good. I was reminded of a talk dad had me watch back when I was in Welling... "The Perfect Lie". I was reminded about a few parts of it. One of them is where Tiffany Webster talks about Christ and how when you study his life he takes things and he transforms them to be better then what they were. And the other part was at the end where she says " I no longer am chasing perfection... I'm Chasing Jesus". That part hit me so strong. I think a lot of my life I try to chase perfection because I lose sight on what actually matters. So I decided my slogan for 2018 is "Chase Jesus". I am so excited for this New Year!

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

Love,
Sister Lund

I Skyped with Richard!! He got baptized!!!!!

At Least God Is Perfect!!!

Hi Fam Fam!                                                                                                               122717

This week was so good! I was so happy to see your faces! You all looked and sounded great!

Thursday: we had district meeting, and it was focused a lot on charity. It was so spiritually uplifting. We studied in 1 Corinthians chapter 13. If you get a chance you should read it! It's really good. Then we went up to Brighton to take the Christmas picture for our zone, so we could deliver our Christmas Gift to our zone. So that was fun. And then we had interviews with President and Sister Gublers over Skype which was good. They are the cutest, I love them. This evening we had a dinner appointment with the Vowels, which is always fantastic. They are preparing to go to Australia for 3 weeks. We will miss them! And then we taught Richi, and we talked about him preparing for the temple. So that is so exciting. 

Friday: today was really fun! We went and did some caroling in Epsom. And it was so fun. So Epsom isn't in our area but it is in our district. And so we wrapped copies of the Book of Mormon, and handed them out to the people that passed us caroling in the mall. It was so fun, but man my voice hurt at the end.

Sunday: we had church only for an hour today, and it was so fun. The church service was amazing. Lots of pretty music. Then we went to Diego Volpe's house and he made us Italian food... Lasagne. Then we had a dinner appointment at the Craggs house. They are so sarcastic, but they are really funny. So it was a really good Christmas eve.

Monday: this morning we ding dong ditched Peter and Jo, one of our investigators, with a present from the ward. And then we went to a lunch appointment at sister Stamps house. She is the sweetest. She is from Italy, and she had two of her daughters with her. So it was great to spend time with her. Then we went to the Corrigans and Skyped home and had some pudding with them. It was the best!!!

Tuesday: Today was Boxing day. England loves their boxing day. Haha. We went over to the Grahams house. They are so funny, they are crazy funny! Haha. After that we went and heart attacked Evie Mueller's house. Then we had accounting and some planning. So it was a good day.

This week was so great. I absolutely loved seeing you!

Elder Holland gave a talk in General conference in October 2017... And I absolutely love the part:

"I believe that Jesus did not intend His sermon on this subject to be a verbal hammer for battering us about our shortcomings. No, I believe He intended it to be a tribute to who and what God the Eternal Father is and what we can achieve with Him in eternity. In any case, I am grateful to know that in spite of my imperfections, at least God is perfect—that at least He is, for example, able to love His enemies, because too often, due to the “natural man” and woman in us, you and I are sometimes that enemy. How grateful I am that at least God can bless those who despite fully use Him because, without wanting or intending to do so, we all despite fully use Him sometimes. I am grateful that God is merciful and a peacemaker because I need mercy and the world needs peace. Of course, all we say of the Father’s virtues we also say of His Only Begotten Son, who lived and died unto the same perfection."

We can achieve great things WITH God and WITH our Savior Jesus Christ. I know miracles are happening all around us. We don't need to beat ourselves up for not being perfect. This is the time to prepare to be like God. One day we will get there. I love you all so much. Have a great week. And a Happy New Year! We got this!

Love,
Sister Lund

P.S. I found out some AMAZING news today!! Richard is getting baptized this Friday!!!! I am so excited. And President gave me permission to Skype him on Friday. I am soooooooooo happy for him!!! Oh my goodness.