Pueblo que visitamos hoy. ¡Qué bonito es!

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Ourense Galacia Spain.

Spain is so hot!

 

(This is from email on June 13)

 

Father's Day here in Spain is one of the biggest events in Europe. Everyone is watching soccer and that's it. We've ran into bars and pubs that have been packed to the opposite side of the road. And my companion is just insane right now. Some how he's been receiving what the scores are, who's playing, and who's in the finals. He said it's so we know what to say to the people on the street. So I'm in this moment where he can speak more Spanish than I can which is really good for him.

     This week we've hit a dry spell, both physically and emotionally. This week we hit record temperatures here in Ourense. It's been 47 degrees Celsius (that's 116 degrees in American) here for the last two days. And because of that not many people are out in the streets now. And the beginning of this week Èlder Liptrott sprained his ankle playing soccer. So we've taking things slowly for the week. He has crutches now but that's it. The adventures of being a missionary here in Ourense.

     We've had to drop a person we were teaching this week because he refused to pray for help with his questions. It broke both our hearts to decide that but we will find someone to teach once again. I love this life here and even though I'm coming home in 8 months. And look forward to seeing you all. I honestly feel that this has been the best decision of my life to this point.

 

 

I love you
Èlder Broadbent.

I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.

    

We've been receiving miracles from our father in heaven. We've gained a huge amount of branch support now and we're gaining different ways to teach also. We started teaching more object lessons, we saw the members begin to open up more with their feelings and thoughts. We've not received many people to teach but the Rama here in Ourense is being strengthened. And another miracle is we were walking down the street and someone pulled up on the side of us. We both thought it was someone to yell and cuss at us but that wasn't the case this time. It was someone that the missionaries from 2004 were teaching. Him and his family lost contact with the missionaries due to a sudden change of work and they left for Romania. We have his info again and we're going to set something this week to come.
     Other than seeing miracles we've seen the temperature rise and rise. We've had three days in the upper 90s now. It's been hard but who cares. The weather doesn't effect me anymore. We can always control the weather that is in our heads and weather we are doing right or not. We decide who we are and where we are in this life. The life to come is based on our hearts in this life. So we are the masters of our fate. We are the captains of our souls.

¡Cocinando por muchos personas ahora!

¡Hola chavales!

 

A lot happened this week that was pretty funny. Me and Èlder Liptrott were talking to people on the street and some things happened. Èlder Liptrott said hello to an older lady and she pinched his butt as we passed by her. It was super funny. We also did the Cinnamon Challenge. Don't have a video of it but it was pretty good. This week not much passed in terms of our area besides that Èlder Liptrott was sick on Thursday. During that time I made some awesome Spanish Rice. I'll make it again and send a video to you guys. I'm making food for some of the members this week to come eat with us because Èlder Liptrott says I cook pretty good. That's all I got today.

 

A scripture I've been focused on this week has been Mosiah 3:19: "For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."

 

I love this scripture and we can fully understand the meaning behind it it'll make repentance much easier for us.

I love you guys.

Èlder Broadbent.

Rain shower of blessings.

New Haircut

This week has been hectic. No it was pretty tranquil. We've had transfers and not much happened. Me and Èlder Liptrott are staying here in Ourense for another one and we're both happy with that. This week we also received a ton of rain. To the point where there was one road had maybe 5 inches of water on it. Other than the weather we've been receiving more people to teach now. We've been working with a menos activo family here for a while now and he gave us info on his brother. His brother is menos activo also but we met with him and we see much potential in him. Him and his family of two daughters recently moved from Venezuela about two months ago. He's member but his wife and two daughters aren't. So we have a family to teach now!
Love you
Èlder Broadbent.