9/28/17 Sprite and Oreo's

Ayeee whats good friends and fam,

Sorry if this email is a little short, every day seems the same so sorry if this email seems repetitive haha.

 soooo last pday was super sweet! I spend my pdays playing sand volleyball and basketball and emailing so its always a good day on pday

saturday- well about two bites into my bowl of frosted flakes we had ANOTHER earthquake. its getting ridiculous there has been an earthquake every week. this earthquake was south in puebla but it still was shakin a little here in the CCM. Today we taught christina again and it is such an amazing experience. shes 19 and her parents hate the church and she cant keep a commitment to save her life  but its whatever we always have really really good lessons. after we talked about baptism i invited her to be baptized and she said no hahahah. butttt i asked her if she recieved an answer in the next month if she should be baptized, would she be baptized? and she said YES so now she just needs to actually read her scriptures for once hahaha.

Sunday- elder christensen and i were called as ZLs on sunday so we got to go visit the new district and all the districts in our zone! we honestly have the greatest zone ever!! i also had to speak in sacrament so i got to give a 10 minute talk in spanish. I wasn't nervous for my farewell but boyyyyyy i was dying giving my talk. i talked about prophets, the apostasy, and revelation ( pretty much the first lesson) but it was terrifying. even though most of the zone is new and probably didnt understand a single word i said i was shaking sooo bad. it was super awesome tho. i prayed before that i would be able to have the spirit to be with me and that the holy ghost would testify and thats exactly what happened. it was such an amazing experience.

monday- another lesson with christina!!! we taught her about the Book of Mormon and it was sooo awesome. we read the last two paragraphs of the introduction (which i challenge all of you guys to do) and read some of our favorite scriptures out of the BOM. She started asking crazy questions like I dont think we need the Book of Mormon, and how was it  translated, and other random questions but somehow i explained in perfect spanish the purpose of the Book of Mormon and how it was translated. hahahahha i after i finished talking i literally sat and stared at the ground because i had no idea what just happened. sentenced formed in my head and then they would just come out of my mouth. Even elder christensen after the lesson realized how amazing that was. such a cool experience.

tuesday-teaching fernanda is a piece of work. she lives with her bf, has faith but cant keep commitments, and speaks sooo fast i have no idea what the heck is happening. we talked about repentance and the atonement with her and checked up on her law of chastity issues and brought up baptism. she said she had been baptized in another church and i said next lesson we can talk about authority and baptism. as soon as i said that christensen invited her to be baptized. i busted up laughing because she literally said she didnt understand why she needed to be baptized in our church and he said segirá el ejemplo de jesucristo al ser baptisado por alguin que posea la authoridad de sacerdocio de dios? ahahahh  ( first part of the baptism invite) . Later that night we were informed about some elders in the casa across the street from us . They're from the poorest part of peru and they have to have someone stay awake and watch the door before they fall asleep (because in their neighborhood back home their town was so dangerous that people would kill just for fun) so christensen and i pooled together all our drinks and snacks weve gotten in packages and dropped off a package to them. we knocked on their door and ran and from our casa across the street we could hear them yelling and cheering over a couple bottles of sprite and oreos. that night i just was filled with love and it made me even more excited to serve those people outside the walls of the CCM.

wednesday- wednesday was pretty hard. a new elder in the zone went home and i beat myself up  over it. as soon as he left the words " feed my sheep" echoed in my head for the whole day. although he was a new elder and had only been here for a couple of days i felt like i could've done something to help him out. so the whole day was super long and a little frustrating because i honestly have grown to love all of the elders in my zone and it sucks so bad to see one go. nothing much happened wednesday so sorry for the dry email hahahah

i just wanna close with a couple of my thoughts and challengessssss

all that is unfair in this life can be made right through the atonement. the atonement is such a blessing. the comfort, peace and love we feel through the atonement is some of the greatest feelings of joy and happiness we can feel in this life. Although its easy to get discouraged with the language and other stuff, missions are a journey of loving the people. I've found this to be true when i focused more on the needs of the elders and sisters in my zone, and less about me and trying to learn the language. I've found out as I've put others before me the lord will help me significantly more.

pleaseee read Ether chapters 3, 4 and 5!! its the story of the brother of Jared and its probably one of the greatest examples of faith, and one of my favorite stories!

love you all and have a good week!!!!!

Elder broadhead

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