Hey family,
Hi guys thanks so much for all of the letters and the package that you
sent!! It means a lot to me that you are thinking about me and praying for me. I
have gotten the most mail of my district so i'm feelin pretty confident right
about now. Granted, all the elders think the mail is from girls but I don't have
the heart to tell em its all from my family and guy friends haha. Pops i didn't
know that bishop wanted updates, did he say that or are you just assuming? if
it's the former, send me back his address.
Well the first couple of days here at the MTC were pretty crazy! It is a
great experience though and I am loving every second of it! Our nametags have a
red dot on them the first day so everyone knows you are new and they go out of
their way to help you and make you feel welcome. But i took it off as quick as I
could cause I didn't wanna be labeled the 'new guy.' My companion is Elder
Wirthlin and he is from Arizona. He is a really good guy and i'm so grateful I
got him as my companion. He is the only one in my district that is willing to
work hard with me and not waste one second. We are studying as much as we
possibly can. I have learned so much already and it has only been like five
days. Everyone keeps telling us that things get easier once you get into a
routine, so i'm looking forward to this week when our schedule gets finalized
and we can really get moving. I really love my roomates as well. they are E.
Johnson and E. Davis (redhead) and we all get along really well. All four of us
are going to Veracruz and then there are four in our district going to Oaxaca
Mexico, and then two in our district that are going to Peru. The two that are
going to Peru leave us in three weeks for the Peru MTC. I'm way jealous. But we
have had some great times and I really love my district. we love to work but we
also love to laugh. They had us start teaching an investigator who only speaks
spanish, on Friday! It was really hard cause we knew no spanish and had to rely
on the spirit. E. wirthlin and I prayed for the spirit to be there right before
we went in, and the lesson didn't go too bad. We have been teaching him every
day since then, except sunday, but it is really tough. Spanish is frustrating
but I know the lord will help me so i'm confident that it'll come. We also say
all our prayers in spanish. I guess this is the best way to learn but it is
kinda tough.
We have really good instructors that care alot. we also have a great branch
presidency. every week we have to write a talk in spanish then he randomly calls
on two people from our zone to speak. So i wrote a talk for yesterday but
luckily i didn't have to give it. the idea is that when we get to mexico we will
have a whole slew of talks at our disposal. Probably the most important thing
that I have learned since being here is that my mission has absolutely nothing
to do with me. Everything that I do from now on is completely about the people
in Mexico. all my studying and work is so that I can help invite others to come
unto christ, which is our purpose as missionaries. they really pounded this into
our heads and it has changed my focus a little bit. everything that I right now
is for my lone investigator, David, who we're teaching right now. we actually
are going to teach him in about an hour so wish me luck. our lesson this time
will be about the first vision. all in spanish of course gosh dangit.
How are things at home? keep me updated with everything! oh also I can't
really attach pictures to this thing so i'll print them out and send them to you
and you can scan them into the computer or whatever. I know it's lame mom, but
hopefully the prints will satisfy you. i'll keep them on the sd card and flash
drive as well so I can keep em all.
I feel like there is a lot that I am forgetting to tell you and i'm sure i'll realize it later but they only give us a half hour to write these things. oh yeah i'm getting even pudgier cause all we do is eat, sit at class, study, eat, sleep, repeat. granted they do give us fifty minutes five days a week to work out. but it doesn't feel like enough and my belt notch is showing the consequences. the food isn't bad though. well speak of the devil i gotta get off to dinner, so thanks so much for the letters and kind words, I love you guys all sooo much. Keep the missionaries and investigators in your prayers. The gospel is true and the atonement works!
Love Elder Broadhead
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