A Hopeful Future with Unfortunate Bus Rides.

  Well this was a week of a lot of traveling and meetings. That includes many stories that are both great and could have been better. We watched the missionary broadcast this last Wednesday and it was great. One of the many points I gained from it was that we forget that the gospel of Jesus Christ is one thing. Faith, repentance, baptism, gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. I'm not sure how to write out how I feel about it but yes, it is one. We must have a foundation on the savior to bring any of these things to pass. It's all centered in the figure that we consider to be the great teacher and Savior of the world who is Jesus Christ. If we desire to be one in heart, might, and mind with God we must place his teachings above all worldly things.

    In terms of teaching we've been helping members have desires to share the gospel this week. There's been a small amount of success within it. There's a member that has asked us for a Book of Mormon in Portuguese that she give to a friend who's going through a rough time. And another member has become friends with a less active who hasn’t been in contact with the church for several years. We are very excited for what is to come within the next couple of weeks.

    And a bus ride we had coming back from a meeting on Saturday was interesting. First a man who was a bit tipsy was on the bus with us. He began talking at us and blocking the aisle for others to get on. In short, he was mumbling nonstop for the space of 30 minutes. When he got off everyone was super relieved. We then ran into a crash on the highway and because of that we missed our next bus. We got home at 11:30 at night 😫.

 

That's all this week

Love you Elder Broadbent.

Good News

Well I have some good news and some even better news. Good news for the week is we found new people to teach and they seem to be very prepared. They were all taught by missionaries before so they know little bit and they want to learn more. We are excited for that because one has a family so we hope that we can teach a family. I'll have more information on how everything goes next week. 

Even better news, a member from one of my areas just got married and he will be sealed in the temple with his new wife in February! Hopefully I will be able to see him and his new wife before I leave. But that'll be a long time ahead, I will be coming back home within two months now. It is extremely weird to think that. Thinking will be doing but all reality I'm not thinking of that, at least I don't want to. 

There will be a world missionary broadcast this upcoming Wednesday. That's awesome but not awesome at the same time. Because we will need to take a bus for about 4 to 5 hours. So, happy missionaries.

Funny thing of the week was we ran into a cat lady. She had missionaries over at her house before hand and she has her house full of cats. She said that she has about 40 cats. And it was funnier because the momma cat was named Hitler. 

 And that was our week I love you all. I know this church is true is because I read the book Mormon, I've prayed and I felt it's true. 

Elder Broadbent.

 

Happy New Year

Today we had an interesting day. We took a nap well by that I mean Èlder Baerwaldt took a good nap and I wrote letters.

This week was how can I say this hard but we rewarding. Everyone is still in festivals and we have not taught any new people this week. Here in Spain they have something called los Reyes Magos. The week after Christmas is when they receive the presents and school is out and everyone is on vacation. So it's hard to get a hold of people and to get time set up with them. But we did find someone last week and we've found some good information. The father ends up to be a member. And within the week we've passed out seven Books of Mormon and had good contacts with the people that that we gave them to. We have a lot of hopes to start to teach new people this week. We will attempt to get stuff set up with them and we'll see who desires to have this gospel in their lives.

     I love you guys and I will wish you all the best in this world. I also ask those who read this that they may set the goal to read the Book of Mormon by the end of this year. I know many blessings will come from it because I have felt it myself. I know the Book Mormon is true and I desire everyone to read it. I will be doing it myself and I just promised you the blessings that will come from reading it you'll feel joy, peace, and surety throughout your life.

Con amor.

Èlder Broadbent.