1.29.18 Friend Zoned with a Taco

1/29/2018    

Ayeee,

So this week was pretty chill. We couldn't work one part of our area because it was shut down due to a situation. AND almost every day some of our lessons fell through, so it was a pretty slow week.Last week I mentioned in my email about a guy named Amando who was "gold". Well needless to say there's a lotta fake Rolexes here and that boy was one of them. We went to visit him again and he hit us with a cold shoulder. and this one really hurt. I walked away soooo discouraged and a little frustrated. How can people have these awesome spiritual experiences and then turn cold? He friend-zoned us in one of the nicest ways possible and offered to feed us tacos (that kinda calmed the sting tbh). Such a good guy but not on the right path right now. I have to believe we are planting seeds for missionaries down the road. 

Soooooooooo one day we were out and about knockin doors, contacting people, the usual stuff when we walked passed a shop of one of our investigators. We kept walking and I had this feeling like we should go and see this member. so we went and sat down and the hna says to me,  I have a girl who works here who are interested in the church. And I was like heck ya, lets go boys. We talked to her and tried to set up a lesson and shes like well.... just teach me right now. Since all of our other lessons fell through we were grateful to have the opportunity to teach, so we took her up on it. We taught just about every lesson ahhah she had a ton of questions ahahahah. but shes super awesome. but  she was a very straight forward person. If she didn't like something she heard, she made sure to let us know hahaha. but shes awesome. We'll see if she progresses or hits us with that crossover. Pray for progress!!!!!

All its all good  here in Cuautepec. 

love yall lots!!!

-elder bhead

1.22.18 Shabbat experience.

1/22/18 

Well this week was pretty intersting. First we went looking for a old investigator, but when we got to the house, the dad of the investigator was outside.We went and talked to him for a little bit then he’s like so you want to talk to my daughter about religion? I was like oh dear... protective dads... and we were like yeah is that okay with you? Then he sits down and pulls out 2 bibles. Then i was like ohhhhhh boi were gonna bible bash at 9:30 in the morning?? Instead  he says, " these don’t make sense. How come they’re different??" and a light went on in my head... LESSON ONE... then he was like, "Where do we come from, whats my purpose, and where are we going?" then BOOM lesson 2!!! then he said. I want to take lessons too. but i want a lesson without my daughter. I want to be able to ask my questions. This guys gold. now lets hope he progresses. We plan on inviting him to be baptized the first lesson.

The second thing is we have a investigator who’s Jewish we planned out this super awesome lesson about Jesus Christ and the atonement, then when we went to go pick her up and have the lesson at her aunt’s house (the aunts a member) her parents came outside and were like we’re in the middle of our Shabbat, come in and join us. I called president and he gave us the green light and off we went. . . . . and what the heck. the sang these weird songs in Hebrew and then at the end everyone poured up shots of wine and took shots. needless so say i pounded my shots of water. i was super impressed when this 93 year old grandma took like 5 shots of the wine.  I wish I could say she had a future.  It was a super cool experience being able to be exposed to other cultures and customs. But the feeling wasn’t the same. There was no spirit. There was no purpose. singing  songs just doesnt quench my spiritual thirst. 

i love this church. and i love the lord and his work

Spiritual thought that i had when i was studying this week. "diligence reflects our love for the savior, and our obedience shows our faith"

love you all

-elder bhead

1.15.18 BAPTISM of Eloy

1/15/18

Hey fam, so this week was awesome and frustrating at the same time. We had 16 lessons planned for the week and ALL of them but 3 fell through so that was a big bust, and one of the members that we were working starting sippin that lean again so that was pretty frustrating. Now he’s gonna go get professional help... so thats goood. Also church attendance took a steeeeep drop on the charts ever since church started at 8:30 so now i think were gonna start working a lot with less actives. 

The baptism was awesome.. He was the only person who wasn’t a member in his family so it was awesome that he eventually came around to the gospel!  the other Elders brought a guy to the baptism. He was completely sloshed. He started clapping after Eloy was baptized then after the closing prayer he stood up and said, " I want to say a prayer...... will you guys pray for my mom?? Thats all. Good night" then sat down. there was a good 3 minutes of awkward silence. The spiritual highlight was while we talked about Jesus Christ while Eloy was changing. The spirit was so strong, even the drunk guy in the back leaned over to the other elders and said, I want to be baptized and be clean. but yeah thats Mexico . 

Until next week

-elder bhead 

1.8.18 Introducing. . . . .My new Comp. . . Elder

Sign of a bad hair cut is a good hat!

Jan 8^th 2018

Well today was changes and it looks like I'll be stayin here in Madero! (President is now keeping missionaries in the same areas for 5 changes) so I'll be here in Cuautepec for a lil while(: my new comp is from Cuiliacan Mexico and he loves basketball so right now things are going really really well!! 

           This week was frustrating, one of the members started drinking again after a month and a half of being sober, so we visited him and read some scriptures and roasted him, I mean shared with him some key scriptures (with lots of love of course). He started crying and thanked us over and over again then promised us he would never drink again and said hes was going to talk to the bishop Sunday and get on the right track again....... he didn't show up to church which is now at 8:30.  There was 19 people at Sacrament meeting..... and 4 of the people were missionaries. We already had a huge struggle getting people to church and now its only going to be harder so PLEASE  pray for us. 

            The other frustrating thing that happened was I literally couldn't speak spanish in one lesson. Everything I said was conjugated wrong and didn't make sense. so after the lesson our investigator said you need practice, so will you say the closing prayer? When I left, the family laughed at me when I walked out the door. Hummmm so yeah after that lesson  felt like the worst person ever. It was the last lesson of the day so I went home and I just sat at my desk staring at the scriptures thinking what the heck am I doing. It was hard! 

           The next day we had a lesson again and I prayed long and hard for help and guidance in the next lesson. When we arrived at the next lesson I did all the talking. I taught the whole lesson and the whole time they were in awe. When we left elder Aguilar said that was the best spanish hes heard me speak. True faith leads to actions and actions lead to miracles, which i am extremely grateful for.

Hope you all have a good week!!!

-elder broadhead