Madrid is Awesome!

Hi. Sorry I havn't been sending much. P-days are hectic and the server we have for the computers doesn´t help out. 

 

Elders McMillan, Broadbent, Fairbanks,

 El Presidente Lovells, Anderson, Horrocks,

Eklund. My companion is the shortest

 one on the right, Elder Anderson.

This week was a little tough. Just came to the realization that in two weeks I´ll be out in the streets of Madrid. My Español is better but not speaking perfect Spanish. But we have teachers that play as investigators and they say I speak very broken Spanish.  But they all say I speak from my heart and invite the spirit when I speak. My Companion Elder Anderson does most of the talking and he´s great at speaking and understanding the language.

 

Today we´re going to a parade about Christ when he bore his cross in the streets of Jerusalem and eventually his crucifixion. It´s amazing how faithful the people of Spain are to their beliefs. But it makes me depressed that the majority of people we talk to claim there is no god or say the bible is a good fiction novel.

 

 

But my highlight of the week was the park again. I love going to the park and talk to people about the restored gospel. I was paired up with Elder Pemburton again and had success after success. We met this group of Romanians at the park and the spoke little Spanish like us. Two of them were listening to Pemburton and I was off on the side listening to them. One came up behind me and wanted to know more. He sat down on a bench and I started talking to him. He cut me off and said no, you sit next to me. I sat next to him and talked to him about the Book of Mormon. I didn´t talk much just listened to him talk about how he loves god so much and wants to know more about him. His name was Chirachi and he basically stole the Book of Mormon from us. As I was walking away I looked back at him reading the book. I then noticed he was smoking while I talked to him. There was a bill board up in front us that was not desirable. And the two Pemburton were talking to had liquor on the space I was before.

 

I never would have thought I would be in that situation in my entire life. And I was in that situation and didn´t even question to sit next to Chirachi.

 

We do have Easter conference in English because its gospel study. German comes in handy when we get transfers from Russia and they only speak Russian or a little German.

 

That’s all I can type.

Love Elder Broadbent.