Yikes

Life is normal right now. We continue teaching, contacting, helping the district, and growing. I learn more each day and try to help my companion. So far the closest baptismal date is Faustín, who is planned for the 30th of October, who is essentially the Mexican "Albert Einstein", as my companion calls him. He is a marble sculptor and also is inventing a perpetual-energy machine...and yes, he has the crazy hair. He feels he needs to change his life and bring it in line with God before he gets too much older, and he enjoyed church this Sunday. Hopefully everything turns out alright, and hopefully we can find all the other people who are waiting for us and do not join the truth only because they do not know where to find it.

We also ate yesterday with a family of a mother and two sons (due to divorce). The 21 year old son is planning on going on a mission and the 18 year old is trying to decide. We all shared testimonies and had a very spiritual discussion about the blessings that come from missionary work. I`m very grateful for the opportunity here, and I know it is influencing things back home as well. It is honestly the best thing a young man can do for his family. I hope they come to understand that and go on to bless the lives of many other families as well.

Interviews are this week, and I think the Mission President is planning on coming to our area to work tomorrow afternoon...we´ll see how that is. I also turn a year on thursday. Yikes. It´s hard to believe I´m at the halfway point, especially because there is so much else I need to do and can do here. I plan on eating well and working hard that day, no more. That`s all I could ask for. I hope things are well at home...I need to take off. Know that I feel much closer to all of you now that I`m way over here than when I lived just downstairs. This is where I belong. One year more.

Much Love,
Elder Lund