Hey family!
Hey sorry about that I bet you were pretty dissapointed haha. I accidently
hit send when I was typing the first half of my e-mail this morning. so here is
the rest.
So it has been a really great week here at the MTC! Thanks everyone for all
the letters and kind words it really means a lot to me and I still love getting
mail it's awesome. Sorry about the questions Dad I like them I just don't have
time to answer all of them but feel free to ask them I just can't gaurantee they
will get answered haha. and I'll think about working on my capitalization ;)
also thanks for the package mom that was really nice of you. I shared everything
with the zone and they all loved it, especially your cookies. I'm definitely not
starving here. It's good to hear everything is going well at home. Sorry about
that transfer dad, I'm sure you'll do great at patrol. Change is usually good.
It's also good to hear that you replaced the toilets haha. now maybe they can
hold up to tara ;) Sorry about that chicken ash.
Time is really flying I can't believe another week has gone by. the quote
around here is that the days feel like weeks and the weeks feel like days. It is
so true. Also sorry I didn't explain the investigator thing. It is actually a
paid teacher that we don't know that just makes up a story and acts like an
investigator so we can practice. But we treat them like they are real. E.
Wirthlin and I are actually picking up two new investigators this week.
E. Wirthlin and I got the chance to bless the sacrament yesterday, in
spanish of course. It was weird but good practice and pretty cool. Oh yeah, I
guess the big news of the week is that E. Wirthlin and I have been called to be
the zone leaders. Pretty crazy I know. It feels weird to us because we feel like
there are elders that have been here longer that are better suited for the job.
but if there is one thing I have learned it's that the Lord doesn't call the
qualified, He qualifies the ones he calls. This is true or I wouldn't be on a
mission! I know He will help us out with this new calling as well. All it really
means is that we have to do a little more work and be a little more obedient and
be a little bit better of an example. So we'll do what's asked of us.
We have two main instructors here, one of which actually started out as our
investigator, then became our teacher so he could critique and help us. They are
both really great and I am learning a ton from them. Elder Wirthlin and I got a
really spiritual lesson from Hermano B. that he just gave to the two of us. It
was really great and he pointed out a quote in PMG from Elder Holland that said
if you truly love your investigators and listen to them, the spirit will tell
you what to say. So me and Elder Wirthlin are trying hard to have enough faith
in that promise. I know that if we really listend and care, the spirit will help
us overcome any language barrier. I'm confident that I won't have any more
problems with my lessons from here on out. Hermano B. showed us that everybody
needs the gospel, they just don't know why. Our job is to show them why they
need the gospel in their lives, and the spirit will do the rest.
The devotionals here are also amazing. they get hands down the best
speakers to come to the MTC. One of my favorite parts of the devotionals though
is the hymns we sing at the begining. This week we sang come thou fount of every
blessing and it brought me to tears. It is my new favorite song, i felt the
spirit so strong when all us elders sang that, it was really awesome.
Other than that it has been a really great week and I am loving life here!
It's tough but sooo worth it. I really love my district/zone and I'm glad we'll
get to serve them a little bit more now being the zone leaders. We're all just
counting down the days till we get to go to Mexico. I also know that I still
have a long way to go before I am ready for that though. I love the gospel and
at this point I'm so thankful for the opportunity I have to share it. It will
make people so much happier. I know that the atonement is the center of God's
plan for us and that Jesus Christ can get us through anything we could ever
imagine.
Well I gotta go lb some more food before class! Have a good week guys, I
love you!
-Love Elder Broadhead
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