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
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