Week 10 A Mission is Pure LIGHT

HEY :)

This week's been crazy :) .. As always.

Uhhhhh funny stories. Hah. Well last Sunday we went out on splits with 2 young women. And this young woman and I were walking around, knocking on some doors and we meet this 60ish year old guy. Seemed pretty nice... but I couldn't tell if he was drunk! I was struggling to understand what he was saying and he was going on a lovely rant about something so I was really focused on trying to find out if he was drunk cuz I didn't want him to snag this lil young woman and scare her or anything so I was really trying to focus but I was not paying attention to what he was saying. Then! out of the blue... he just bursts into tears!! and then... HE HUGS ME! Like rather aggressively too.... hahah. There was a split second where I was like MY GOSH HE'S TRYING TO KIDNAP ME... but then I got it. Hahah taught me to pay attention a little bit more in conversations. But we talked about how his wife had died and we got to share a bit of the plan of salvation :)

A member took us out to have RESPADOS!!!!!! Oh my WORD. My eyes have been opened to the beautiful world of respados...... it's like shaved ice on STEROIDS! They're like shaved ice with ice cream and fresh fruit and this other pure sugar syrupy thing. My goodness gracious. AH-MAZING. mmmmmmm. However, good must always be counteracted with evil... and last night we had double dinners. This happens every once in a while, and I don't want to sound ungrateful, but it's a rough experience. Our first stop last night was Golden Corral :) A member took us and 11 other elders out to eat there. Pretty good, but obviously she paid a lot of money so we had to eat a lot. Then we went to this other member's house and had Chichuron. mmmmmmmm It's like this dried pig's skin stuff and she made it kind of like noodles with some spices n such. mmmm. It was a rough one, for sure. It was the first time I haven't been able to finish my plate (which is a huge sign of disrespect) but I figured throwing up in their home would be worse :S One elder in our ward the other day threw up in the middle of a lesson with an investigator. And to make it worse seeing him throw up made the the investigator's 5 year old son throw up right after :P Yeeesh.

We've been really really blessed though. We have this couple investigating and they are just AMAZING. GOLDEN. INSPIRATIONAL. It is really an honor to hear about their desires and goals and to help those thing happen for them. We were teaching them last week about the Book of Mormon and Hna Ellis asked what we're supposed to do with the BOM and they thought about it for a bit... "well.... We should read it...... And then we should think about it, listen to what it's telling us to do............... and then WE SHOULD SHARE IT WITH EVERYBODY!!! :D" Hahahah it was really cute. But they've just got so much faith and fire and it really is an honor to be a missionary.

We've been seeing a lot of miracles. People who just happen to be home at a random time we felt prompted to stop by. People who just needed someone to listen. It's really amazing.

When we were parking and walking in here to email we saw this guy. We said hi of course :) He asked if we were missionaries. We said yes. He then asked if we could help him. He just started to cry. (We've had a lot of cry-ers this week, which is such a clear indication that the Holy Ghost really is softening their hearts and telling them to change). He's just had such a hard life. So many people have. They just want a fresh start.

I know that making the gospel a part of your life offers something that drugs, alcohol, going to church just on Sunday, and buying new clothes just does not replicate. LIVING the gospel brings LIGHT. We were studying together this week and I stumbled upon this scripture in Alma 32 where it's talking about faith as a seed. It's really interesting because I keep thinking that this whole experience just doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel like you guys are all back at home living your own lives. It doesn't feel like I'm finally a missionary, the thing that I've been building up to for 19 years. It just doesn't feel real. And then I read this scripture :) Alma 32:35

"O then, is not this real? I say unto you, Yea, because it is light; and whatsoever is light, is good, because it is discernible, therefore ye must know that it is good"

A mission is just pure LIGHT. I don't know how else to describe it. It doesn't feel real because it's just so good. I don't even know how to put it into words. But the gospel brings light into people's lives. People who feel completely immersed in the dark. Seek out the light. You know that it is good. And then go and share it with others. There's a quote I like by someone really smart... "A candle looses no light by sharing it with others." You know what you need to do to bring more light into your life and into the lives of others. Now just do it :)

I LOVE YOU ALL :) I pray for you every day :)

This week we're getting iPads and as a part of that we'll be able to READ emails during the week :) We can still only respond on P days but they used the logic that since we can read letters and stuff during the week, why not emails? So that'll be exciting :) I'm excited to see what changes come our way :)

Love you guys!! Thanks for all your support :)

Week 9 God Knows Best/ We're Getting iPads

AHHH!!! Such a crazy week!!! So much to say so little time to say it!!!

1) We had a last minute meeting with ALLLLLLL the missionaries in the mission yesterday......... and we're getting iPads!!!!! :D It's exciting and wonderful and scary and a lot of responsibility and obedience is gonna have to go down, but I couldn't be more excited to give it a try :) We should be getting them in the next few weeks :) Oh! and it also means I get to skype home now on Christmas and mother's day!! And even use facebook!!! yeeeeeeesh... craziness!

2) I found a Mexican food I CANNOT stand! :D hahah I know that shouldn't be exciting... but I feel like that's a right of passage as a missionary. It's called Mole. Like Moe-lay. And it's basically meat in this sauce with a whole bunch of peppers and CHOCOLATE. Yup. Most people love it! Including Hna Ellis, and maybe it's just because I haven't had the best kind yet... but I think it tastes like DIRT. This sweet old lady from the ward made it and oh man. She's awesome. But mmmm. hahah

3) As a zone we tried to hit Standards of Excellence this week :) Which means as a mission we have goals (2 investigators at church, 3 new investigators, 2 baptismal dates, 5 lessons with a member present, 2 investigators that are progressing) that every companionship should be able to hit. Our mission's been struggling a little in this department so we decided as a zone that we were gonna make it happen!!!! We worked so stinkin hard. Yeeesh. We're exhausted. But Hna Ellis and I, along with 2 other companionships managed to hit it :D And our zone had INCREDIBLE results. So many miracles. And SO many trials. The harder we work, the harder satan works.

We were out knocking doors one day and this lady opened the door. Nice lady :) From Hawaii, started talking about God, etc and 20 seconds in I just feel these little pinches all over my feet......... There were fire ants EVERYWHERE. And they were like ALL over me. On my wrist, on my arms, on my legs, all up in my skirt. My goodness gracious and they were biting the heck out of me. And I just smiled and kept going :) She wasn't interested, but it was a really good contact. hahaha After she closed the door we ran around the corner and Hna Ellis started whacking the heck out of my skirt trying to get em all off. :) I've got lots of lil bites all over me... but hey, we hit standards :) And we have 3 investigators who are going to be baptized on June 13th :') The Lord works in mysterious ways.

4) We also met a guy named LION!!! Yeah, like the animal! Big old black guy who was sitting outside his house :) He looked at me and was like... "wait! I know you!!!!!" After going back and forth for a bit he finally decided "Ohhhhh no, you've got that bible in yo hand so I know I didn't meetcha up in da cluuuub" hahahah it was pretty funny. He had some really profound ideas about how church is a lot more than a building. Couldn't agree more! We gave his number to the English elders :)

I always feel like I have to pick a theme for every week in these emails. This week... I guess. God knows best. We've gotta experience so many hard things so that we can see the miracles. God loves us. He knows what we want. One of my favorite scriptures is Proverbs 16:9 "A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps"

The Lord knows our hearts. He knows we want to be better. Look to him in faith and he WILL direct your steps and help you get there. I know it.

I LOVE YOU ALL :) Have an amazing week!!!
Hermana Lund

Week 8 She put it over her heart

Hey :)

It was really really great to talk to you guys yesterday :) I wish it could've been longer but it was really nice to hear your voices!! Sometimes it feels like my life before I came out here was a dream and that no one, friends, family, nada really exist. But it was nice to remember why I'm out here and who's got my back :) That being said, hopefully we'll get iPads before Christmas and we'll be able to skype :D

Funny story of the week :P This is a good one. So buckle up! Okay. So we have this recent convert that is moving trailers. She is so good to all the missionaries (feeds em every week, lets us play with her puppy, gives us pan dulce always :P), so of course we and the elders went over to help her clean her new place :) They had had this layer of floor something that they took out so the floor underneath had all this glue and nasty stuff all over it. Like WAY gross. and IMPOSSIBLE to take off. One of the elders (who is particularly enthusiastic about cleaning interestingly enough) said we should use GASOLINE! ......... yeeeeeeeeup! So we went out, got a big ol thing of gasoline! We dumped it all over the floor and started scrubbin.... and it WORKED!!!! Like really really well! That floor was sparkling :) .... However. As you can imagine... Inhaling gas fumes for an hour starts to get to you. Hahahahah we all got a lil loopy and giggly before we figured out that that proooobably wasn't the best idea :P but it worked!

On Saturday we did a Sunrise hike of A mountain with all the other Hermanas in our Zone :) A mountain is more like a hill... but it was cool :) The A is for the University of Arizona. We got up at 4:19 in the morning and had a blast :) it was nice to have time to ponder and look down on the city, knowing that there are people out there that we need to go out and teach :)

Later on Saturday we had a SUPER BLITZ!!! :D All the missionaries in our ward split up and we each went with a member to go knocking :) I went out with this girl who just got married. She served her mission in Argentina and she's a BEAST. Man. Her spanish. Her teaching skills. Dang. I learned SO MUCH! Anyways! We went out and knocked at this park :) We knocked on a couple of doors with no answers but then we came to this one trailer. We could see this lady through the window. Before we could even knock, she opened the door and let us right in :) She explained that when she saw us, she just knew that there was something special about us :) We had an amazing lesson and they agreed to learn more and read the Book of Mormon :)

OH! on Tuesday we got to go to the temple :D We went to the Gila Valley temple because that's the one in our mission. The Gilbert and Mesa ones are a little closer and a little bit bigger, but since they're outside the boundaries, we roadtriped up to the Gila Valley :) President Passey drove the big old white van and we had a blast :) All the new hermanas sat in the back and we just got to talk about how much we've grown, all we're struggling with, etc :) It was awesome! and the temple..... man. I can't even put into words how much I love the temple. It is one of the greatest blessings we have and I wish I could go every day :)

Okay... so this was one of the most heartbreaking moments of my mission so far. We just started visiting this 14 year old girl who hasn't come to church in a long time. She's excited to come back and get involved with young womens. But her mom is really sick. She has cancer and stays in bed all day. We stopped by to visit them on Saturday and all there family was there. They said it was doubtful that her mom would make it through the night. We stood in the room as the mom slept and offered a prayer. After the prayer and with tears streaming down his face, the dad pulled back the covers and pulled out a Plan of Salvation pamphlet, the one with Jesus on the cover. The mom had put it right over her heart. I know that families are eternal.

We found 7 new investigators this week! We had 5 member present lessons! and we had 5 investigators at church!!!!! Those are MIRACLES. We've been trying to figure out what we did differently, but when it comes down to it.... We found those people, they were ready to listen to our message and change because of pure chance! Right place, right time, right people. Man. Heavenly Father really wants to bless his children and he's putting us to work to get it done :)

It just keeps getting harder and harder and better and better and I couldn't be happier :)

Thanks for all the support and love.... you guys are wonderful! I invite you all to kick it up a notch. Whatever you're doing... do more! Be better! Try harder! The beauty of being a spanish missionary is that people are really honest and will tell you what you're doing wrong :) And even more so, if you ask Heavenly Father... he'll tell you too. Be better :)

LES AMO MUCHO!!!

These are some pic from the temple with Hna Ellis and our zone :) and from our sunrise hike.

Week 7 Beans

Hola Familia y Amigos :)

Today's my SECOND BIRTHDAY :D hahah I'm two months old in the mission :)

I feel like I haven't talked a lot about spanish and learning the language and stuff.... but Spanish is AWESOME! I'm feeling more and more confident every day :) There are still some humbling moments though :P Like we tried to call this one member to see if she could come to a lesson with us. I called her.... We got through the whole Hola, Como Esta? Muy Bien. Esta ocupada ahorita?.... and then she started to just talk and talk and talk and talk and talk.... and I got NOTHING. Not even a word. "Mande" (very important spanish word.... basically means "I have noooo clue what you just said..... wanna try one more time in simpler spanish and 1000000 times slower? please and thank you" :) ) And so she did the whole thing again...... and I still got NOTHING. Zip. Not even a word. So I just handed the phone to Hna Ellis and we got it all squared away :) hahah But it's a really beautiful language. I'm so grateful I get to speak it and learn it. It's just takes it to a whole other level when you communicate with people in their own language. It's like if you went to church in Tongan. Like, you'd still feel the spirit, get all the warm and fuzzies, and maybe understand bits and pieces of doctrine they taught.... but you'd get SO much more if it were in English :) I'm willing to sacrifice my own linguistic comfort in the hopes that our investigators can experience that comfort. I don't know if that makes sense... but oh well :)

The food's also been really good :) However. I am realizing I have this problem. Mexican food is good. Like really yummy about 99.9999999% of the time. And we're out working hard and such. So when we go to member's home's for dinner, I'm starving! And since it's really good, I eat really fast! And if a Mexican sees you have an empty plate, they IMMEDIATELY fill it with even more than before. And I obviously have to eat it (slash I also really want to) so I keep scarfing it down. But then it hits me. Usually half way through the second plate. Like I am FULL. Like NO ROOM AT THE INN full! ... but ya gotta endure to the end.

hahah this week we had dinner with this one member and she's AWESOME! LOVE HER! and she makes the BEST food! ... but I swear... She and Hna Ellis ganged up on me and somehow I ended up having to eat twice as much as them. Another important note about Mexican food.... Beans..... Let's just say that you gotta watch the beans or hope your car has some seriously good ventilation or you're gonna be driving with the windows down for a looooooooooooooooooong time :P hahaha That one meal though this week... Thought I was gonna die. I was going through all the steps of grief. Bargaining. Denial. Oh yeah. Wooo. That was a rough one.. But it's so worth it :) mmmmm

On the spiritual side of things we had a miracle last night :) We've been having a hard time having lessons with investigators with a member present. And these lessons are SUPER important!! Having members, real people share their stories and faith brings a spirit to a lesson that missionaries sometimes can't. Anyways. So last week we had ZERO. yup. Big fat ZERO. We tried! but either the member cancelled or the investigator cancelled or something fell through... So we tried again for this week cuz zero means you gotta step it up! So we took members out with us almost every single day! We had one lady (the same one with all the good food) stay out with us for 4.5 hours!!!!! woooweee. But yesterday rolled around and we STILL had not had a member present lesson despite all our efforts :( Long story short, we were determined to get this member present lesson!!!!! And we got it :) Last night we went out with this one member to see this couple who we met while we were walking down the street :) It was a beautiful lesson. This member had had such unique and special experiences in her life. And COINCIDENCE... this investigator had had very similar ones. They were able to share this connection of faith that neither Hna Ellis or I could have even dreamed of replicating. The couple wants to know more and we're going back later this week :)

The church is true :) I don't really know what else to say besides that... Being a missionary is such a privilege. I've never been happier :)

SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH EVERYONE :D

Les amo muchisimo! Que tenga una buena semana! Estoy animada a placticar con ustedes en el dia de los madres :)

Hermana Lund

Week 6 little "coincidences" (T2)

Hey :)

Hope you're doing well :) I survived my first transfer!!!!!!! :D Wooohoooo! Still got a ways to go, but it's comforting to know that there's some other missionary out there that a little more clueless than you are... (not by much though! I still feel clueless some times... but I'm learning :D)

Funny stories this week.... Mmmmmmm.... This week was kind of uneventful. Well, no week is ever uneventful but I can't think of any funny stories :( Sorry! I'll be funnier next week!

Our investigators though..... Man. So we're teaching a few 17/18 year old girls. They're both really quiet and they never have ANY questions so it's really difficult to build momentum and have them share their testimony and stuff. And then on the other extreme we're teaching these 2 guys. They're Uncle/nephew about 28 and 35 years old and oh my gosh! They just have this FIRE. Woooweee. They're in Tucson trying to set up a church right now, funny enough :) It's some Christian sect, but they're congregation has like 2 or 3 people in it, and one of them is there mom/grandma. She's been really sick but today is her birthday so we bought a picture frame and we're gonna put a picture of Jesus in it for her :) But they are just so passionate! They made us papussas (definitely didn't spell that right) last week!!! and MMMMMMMMMMMMM so good! They taught us the right way to eat em too ;) (you like peel em open and eat em like a pita pocket kinda deal, fun fact of the day!) ANYWAYS. They just have SO many questions and the energy in the room once they get going is just electric! When they pray they also pray very.... expressively. hahaha like, it just really gets you pumped hahah.

So we're working on finding a balance between our two types of investigators :)

We had this really really really amazing experience on Sunday. It was after dinner and we were gonna try and knock some doors and find some new people to teach :) so we got in the car and prayed to know EXACTLY where to go. After the prayer, Hna Ellis felt like we had to go to this one house. She and her old companion had found this house with this family a few months ago. The family is non-practicing Jehova's Witnesses (yeeeeeeeeeeup! Great combination with mormons :D). Their daughter died around 6 months ago and they had adopted her 2 year old daughter. So this couple was just having a hard time. The last time Hna Ellis went to see them, they told her "sorry, we don't want your help, don't come back." So. We showed up on Sunday :) This man gave us this look, like.... really? you're back? and we just had to say "We know you said you weren't interested in our help or anything but we just felt like we should come and see you tonight." This man just started talking about how the night before they had had a vigil for their daughter. They've been having a really hard time. He just cried and cried and cried. I can't even imagine what that must be like loosing a child. But we were able to share some words of comfort that he really needed to hear and we parted as dear friends. It's amazing to know that you're in the right place at the right time saying the right things.

God really is guiding this work. I have absolutely NO doubt about that. There are THOUSANDS of little "coincidences" we encounter every day.

Sorry this email's a little bit mushier...

OH! At service this past week we made FIVE HUNDRED SANDWICHES and put together SIX HUNDRED BOXES at the food bank :)

The church is true. Hard work will pay off :) I'll have better stories next week!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!

Week 5 Hermana Lumps

Hey!!!!

Stories!! First, this picture! Every week or so we have a Blitz :) It's where the 4 sets of missionaries in our district all go to an area and just knock doors for a few hours. This really helps get a lot done in a little amount of time, especially when the missionaries in that area are struggling or just wanna find some new investigators :) We took this picture while we were walking :) Those are our footprints :) It's a lil toasty here :)

Also this week we had splits! Since Hna Ellis is a Sister Training Leader, every so often we switch companions for 24 hours so we can learn different teaching methods n such! So on Thursday I think? I went with Hna Martin :) She's awesome!!!! She's a Yankees fan but we were able to overcome it. She has AMAZING spanish and so much energy and passion for the gospel. A story to illustrate her: One time she was teaching a lesson to someone just outside their trailer (classic Tucson) and she got the stomach flu. Like right there, while she was speaking, she was about to blow. So she finished her sentence... Walked around the corner of the trailer... Threw up in a bag... Put the bag in her purse... Came back... And picked up where she left off :) MAN. If that's not passion and dedication for the gospel then I don't know what is?

Mmmm OH! Hopped a fence in a skirt this week! We've been trying to read the Book of Mormon with this less active family a couple days a week. And this one night a lot of appointments had fell through so we were ready to get some teaching done! So we got to their house... and there was a lock on their gate... All the houses/trailers in Tucson have these like waist to chest high metal fences and most people lock em which is super frustrating. It's one thing if you knock on someone's door and they say "no" or "we're busy" but it's another thing when you get shut down by a lil baby lock! SO! I hopped the fence :) Not my most graceful moment... and I got pretty intimate with a large plant but it got the job done :) I knocked on the door and the grandma said they weren't home so I had to hop the fence back onto the other side.. but I waited til she closed the door :P

Oh! We have dinner with this less active family every Monday and they have a son who's 9 (hopefully getting baptized soon!)... He can never remember our names so we quiz him every time! Last monday he was trying real hard to think of my name... "hmmmmmmmmm Hermana.... L..... Hermana Luuuuuu.... HERMANA LUMPS!" :) yeeeeeup. That's me :) hahah It's funny cuz most people struggle with our names. We've got Hna Elleees and Hna Luuuun :) Dream team :)

Going back to the blitz, Hna Ellis wanted the chance to spend some time with Hna Martin so we split again for a few hours and Hna Adams and I were together for the blitz! Hna Adams and I came out together :) So we're both FRESH. like REAL FRESH. And she didn't know any spanish before she came out.. so we were both kind of like... uhhhhhhhh okay :D But she just had such a great attitude about it :) We ended up getting the most referrals out of any of the other missionaries! It was truly a miracle. There was a really cool guy we met. We had knocked on his house but no one was home. When we were on our way back to meet up with everyone we saw him getting home :) His name was Mario. We had a whole successful interaction in spanish where we got to teach him about baptism, talk about Jesus Christ. He kept on saying "I've seen those men in ties and white shirts all the time!! But I've never seen sister missionaries!!!!" It's awesome knowing that we each bring something different to the table :) He said that we could stop by any time and that he and his wife would cook lots of food for us :) So sweet. So kind. So amazing. The Lord really does prepare people who are ready and eager to learn and help you learn. That was the first time on my mission that I've really truly felt like a missionary and not just like a companion :) It was really special.

That's about it, but I love you guys so so much :)

We've each got something special to bring to the table! There's this killer quote I read in a book Hna Martin let my borrow:

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for what could have been their finest hour" - Winston Churchill-

BOOM! Preparation and worthiness is everything. Work hard, push yourself and God will bless you and will be able to bless others THROUGH you in amazingly unique ways :)

LOVE YOU GUYS!

And I haven't responded to a bunch of you... I'm sorry!!! I'm working on it!! But it's not cuz I don't love you and think about each of you and pray for you every day :) I'll do better on responding :)

Les amo mucho :)
Hermana Lumps

Week 4 "My coolness confirmed by a homeless man"

HEY :)

Funny story of the week: The other day we were walking and we had to send a text to one of our investigators... Hna Ellis is the designated driver (still haven't gotten green dotted yet.... but soon!!!) so I'm the designated texter. So I start typing away on our phone from 1999 and I WALK INTO A POLE. Well, it was a big old metal box attached to a pole. But yeah. Hurt my pride and my head a bit but we had a good laugh :)

Another funny story!! Last night we were driving to an appointment and we saw this homeless man in a wheelchair just cruising down the middle of the road. He got a lil stuck on a speedbump so we pulled over and offered to help him out :) Took about 3 seconds to figure out he was partially intoxicated and an absolute firecracker! We talked to him for a while, shared a quick gospel message and Hna Ellis said, "well, we should probably get going..." (cuz it was getting dark and two girls in South Tucson after dark is a death wish :D ) And this guy just looked at her and got really sad. And he said "You're not cool!!! You're not the cool one! SHE (pointing to me) is the cool one!!!!! I'm gonna put her around my neck and we're gonna go for a ride!" hahahah I told him maybe next time... He seemed to be okay with that :) So, if any of you had doubts about my level of coolness it's been confirmed by a homeless man from Tucson!

I honestly don't know where the time goes! We're always busy and have stuff to do, but I've never felt really overwhelmed or stressed. At least not stressed in the same way as I would get back home or at school. Out here it's all about "How can I help this person really by happy and be with their family forever?" It's a whooooooooole different level of responsibility but thus far, pretty stress free :)

During a lesson with our investigator Nadia (:D she's awesome!!), her boyfriend looked at us and said... "You guys are always smiling!" We were like "awww wow, thank you so much!" and he was like "no... like it's like an awkward smile though......" Welp. Thanks? hahaha It's kinda crazy though. There's no logical reason we should be happy and energetic and enthusiastic about the gospel. We wake up at 6:15 every day. We walk around and get doors slammed in our face. We pray and pray and pray and pray for these people to have a desire to come to church and to learn more and then they cancel appointments and we never hear from them again. It's horribly depressing! Yet I feel the complete opposite!!

Our mission is making a huge switch to have more effective Weekly Planning and Daily Planning. (Every week we talk about individuals and what we generally want to accomplish and then every night before bed we plan out the specifics of what we're gonna do). Sounds easy enough, right? Well. As a mission we've kind of been slacking off on this. So they're telling us to wake up and get to work! Weekly planning used to take about 2-3 hours....... This week it took 7.5!!!!!!!!!!!! My goodness. It was crazy! How can you talk about other people for 7.5 hours you may ask? Well. This new system of planning involves 3 steps. 1) vision 2) plan 3) scheduling. And I've been shocked about how applicable this system is to our lives. In trainings they said that this is an eternal principle.

1) vision. So apply this to yourself. What's your next big goal? Survive finals, make it to the temple, have 30 kids, whatever. Now what do you see as a part of that? Do you see yourself sitting in a library studying, managing your time well, getting lots of sleep, studying your scriptures daily, serving others. What do you see? What do you feel?

2) plan. Whatcha gonna do to make it happen??

3) schedule. When are you gonna do it??

This system is just so applicable to eternal life!! We can live with Heavenly Father again!

1) What do you imagine heaven looks like? Who are you with? What do you do? What do you feel? What have you learned?

2) How do you make that happen? How do you form those relationships with those you'll be with for eternity? What habits can you form now to change your life after you die?

3) DO IT NOW!

Change, learn, grow! I've talked about this before.. but I have been growing SO much! It's addicting and I've never been happier :) I LOVE Alma 5: 7-8, 26.

7 Behold, he changed their hearts; yea, he awakened them out of a deep sleep, and they awoke unto God. Behold,they were in the midst of darkness; nevertheless, their souls were illuminated by the light of the everlasting word; yea, they were encircled about by the bands of death, and the chains of hell, and an everlasting destruction did await them.

8 And now I ask of you, my brethren, were they destroyed? Behold, I say unto you, Nay, they were not.

26 And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?

In the midst of darkness, never loose your vision of light. Allow your heart to be changed by God himself. Pray to him for guidance and I know you will receive answers. And when those hard days come, "Can ye feel so now?" Can you feel the love and peace you have felt previously?

I love you all so so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stay amazing :) Thank you for all the love and support. I wouldn't be here without you guys...

TE AMO MUCHO!
Hermana Lund