3.26.18
Aye fam!
So this week was awesome and terrible at the same time. Wellllll our investigators mom got in a fight w her parents and moved out and they don’t have contact with her sooooo our baptismal date for the next next Saturday probably will be put on hold haha. other than that this week FLEW BY. I had two really cool experiences that really help change my attitude about my mission.
First, we had a lesson with some less actives that we found. We brought a youth in the ward with us to help prepare him for his mission. When we arrived everything was chill. We talked and they were a really nice family, but as soon as we talked about the church, the light switch turned off. He turned cold and said really hurtful things about the church. He kept talking about how other churches rob your money and the Book of Mormon is fake and all kinds of other things. My comp kept bashing and bashing with him and I just sat silent, seeing it was going nowhere. When it comes to bashing I hate it! Its contentious arguing that prevents any opportunity to have the spirit there. The youth in the ward that we invited put on his backpack and said "come on Elder Broadhead lets go" and I told him to wait. I had a strong feeling to testify, calmly because it would be the spirit that would change his thinking, not us because whatever we said he would interrupt us by saying all kinds of silly stuff. So when he finally closed his mouth for .035 seconds I testified of a few things he had made some negative comments about At the end of my testimony I asked him if he would read the Book of Mormon again. This time with his wife, and before every time they read it together, pray to Heavenly Father and ask if this book is true. He then accepted our Book of Mormon and the invitation. LESSON TO LEARN: You will never go wrong testifying. Never. Now we need to pray he will really do it!
The second experience was with this dude that we found in the Tianguis. The week before we invited him to play basketball with us, but he didn’t show up, so we found him again in Tianguis (such a blessing because you’re packed shoulder to shoulder with people) and we talked with him again. This time he was like I talked with missionaries before and I really felt something special. We started talking to him some more and I invited him to be baptized. and he accepted! he doesn’t live in the area but he lives in the stake and he said hed like to go watch general conference!! that was a pretty sweet experience. LESSON TO LEARN : Don’t fear the people. I know this sound like day one stuff but when you hit the field inviting someone to be baptized sometimes is a touchy, scary subject. Especially here where everyone is a proud Catholic. It was a pretty solid week!
I’m going into the last week of this change and I’m pretty sure I’m gonna leave, but I’m torn because this place is like home.
Hope you all have a good Easter week!
Elder Broadhead
Mosiah 7:33
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