Mi Familia,
What a great week!! Definitely the fastest of my mission. It was so fast that I didn't even have time to think that it was going quickly before it was over. I had my first exchange as an STL on Saturday. We had a really good time and worked hard. We're going to have an even faster week this week: we have exchanges on Tuesday and Thursday (I get to go back to Riverside--my first area--on Tuesday!!), MLC (the monthly meeting for STL's and Zone Leaders with President..I am SO excited) in San Antonio on Friday, and a baptism on Saturday. We have a ton of lessons on Wednesday and we don't even have any room to do our weekly planning! It's going to be crazy and I'm so excited!
I LOVE Hermana Egbert. We have so much fun. And we work so hard. It feels incredible. We relate really well to each other, and we talk & laugh a lot. And our district is amazing. I've served with all but one of them before (he's brand new); it's like a mixture of all my favorite districts I've ever been in all in one. I'm just happy where I am in my mission. I'm not wishing time away (usually, haha), I'm just happy were I am. I love it.
Last week a man and his wife came to church randomly. He's a member but he's never been active and she isn't a member. They have a tiny baby. He's 35 and she's 19..which I guess is much more normal in Honduras. They live in a tiny, dirty, old RV on the property of some pretty sketchy men off of the highway..but they're moving into an apartment next week. Anyway, they just moved here a couple weeks ago and they looked up the church online and came. They said they'd been wanting to for a long time. Melvin (the husband) says he has a testimony of Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and of the Church being the true church of Jesus Christ. She just believes everything we tell her. She really wants to be baptized. They came to church yesterday again. Considering they really are married, she should be baptized in a couple weeks. She's so sweet and genuine and I love her!
The people here are so nice to us, and they feed us non-stop. At least the Sisters. They love us, for some reason. It probably doesn't hurt that Sister King was here last. Anyway, we have dinners planned almost every night, and on the rare day we don't have one we still don't plan a dinner at home because we ALWAYS find food. One day this week we didn't have a dinner planned but I said to Hermana Egbert, "God will provide." Haha, we had chicken soup (we asked for un poquiquiquiquito and she gave us a whole bowl with a drumstick just sitting in there) when we visited a less active. Then in our next lesson we had a full-on meal of two chicken dishes, rice, and beans. THEN we stopped by another member's house and she fed us MORE chicken, beans, rice, and biscuits. It was rediculous. And just to add to it, we had gone to Chik-fil-a with some sisters we're over for lunch that day. We definitely got our protein. And we got 100000000000x the necessary daily intake of oil.
I loved our mission Book of Mormon study this week. That book is powerful. It's purity and truth just ooze from it's pages. The Spirit is present every time I read it. I love it. There's so much material you can study, but all I ever really want to do now is read the Book of Mormon.
I love you all! Have a fantastic week!
Love,
Hermana Lund
