Hopeful

     Well to begin with the week we had, it was wet. It rained maybe three days of the week during proselyting time. Missy can tell you how awesome that is. Once again, this week was hard but we received a huge boost of hope last Saturday. We were contacting in the streets last week and found this one lady from Brazil. She had many questions on what is the purpose of this life and how can we live in a world that bad things happen to good people. Well we read 2 Nephi 2:11 with her and we she wanted the Book of Mormon. We gave it to her and set up a return appointment with her last Saturday. 

     Well, Saturday came and we called her to confirm the meeting. She answered and told us that she would call us back. This term, “I´ll call you back,” means that, please don’t bug me but I’m too nice to say I don’t want anything. We gave up hope on her so we continued our day about an hour later we get a call, and it was her! She did call back! We met with her in a park and she accepted to be baptized when she comes to know these things are true. We have another day set to meet with her and we're just stoked to teach her again. 

     Moral of the Story: Never think that God doesn’t answer your prayers. He will answer them. Just place yourself in line to receive that shower of blessings he desires for you to have. I know that many of these answers come through others and through your thoughts and actions. 

I love you, 

Elder Broadbent. 

 

Long but fruitful week here in Spain.

 How to begin the week we had. Well we were only in our area for four days of the week because of zone conference. it was great. I sent a picture of a hike we did up the el Jesús in Oviedo. it was beautiful and it´s something that we´ll come and visit when I come back for visits. I will say the hike itself was hard, at one point we were going up what seemed to be a 40º slope in the pouring rain. Yes, I did slip a couple of times but Élder O´Boyle was there to laugh at me, so that made me feel better. On the hike I felt the scripture Heleman 5:12 come to me because there was so much rain and wind when we went up. I wanted to give in because I couldn´t see anything and I was soaking wet. But there was a clearing in the tree line for a moment and I saw that my destination wasn´t that far. We cannot see the future path may hold but if we have our desires set on Christ we don´t need to see it. He´ll make our path lighter and fruitful so long as we follow him.

 

I Love you.

Elder Broadbent

 

Helaman 5:12 

And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.

New Adventure

Well I'm leaving Ourense now. I'm going to be in a city on the opposite side of Galicia. It's named Ponferrada and my new companion is Èlder O'Boyle. I'm writing this on the train heading into Lèon. The last of Ourense was a hard battle but we won major victories this last six months. We finally were able to bring an investigator to church for the first time in eight months here in this branch. Her name is Mari and fell in love with Èlder Eyrings talk on Sunday morning. She has a baptismal date set for the 29 of October so I ask to continue praying that she'll receive an answer by then.

Ponferrada is the been the smallest area in terms of active members. It's also the smallest town I've been in with maybe 60,000 people. Elder O'Boyle from a ward in Greenville South Carolina but his parents are from New Jersey. He's been on the mission for 16 months now. 

This week we as a branch made desserts from our perspective countries. Well we made a lemon pie. Not sure if that's American or not. But interesting first week. We passed out six Books of Mormon and gained a new person to teach already. I've also been very sick for the last two days. Yeah it blows. I love you all.

Èlder Broadbent.