Hey
family,
4/6/15
First
things first, I'll apologize for last week. It was pretty hectic from going to
meetings and dropping of other elders so this week you'll get an email. This
week definitely has been one to remember. The first Easter away from home
really felt like I was in the right nest lol. We had another amazing week with
the theme of "Week of Witnessing" where we spent extra time each and
every day specifically testifying of the Savior and His Resurrection. So I'll
get to the week!
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| Elder Ainslie |
Tuesday-Transfers, we dropped
off Elder Kolditz who will be returning home to Indiana after a crisp 2 years
and we picked up a new elder. Elder Tye from SLC. Turns out that he played basketball
for Viewmont and we played each other. We then saw our investigator Sam and his
mom who are preparing to be baptized this coming Sunday so pray please for them!
Wednesday- April Fools Day :)
Ainslie and I weren't fooling around but other people were, that what you get
when you’re the youngens’. Everyone was away so it was pretty slow and then at
night time we got a call from the other elders that a family all the way across
our area needed a blessing and they couldn't make it over and they had the car.
So we tightened up our bags and jogged for a half an hour across our entire
area to find out that it was...............April Fools Day- I’m trying to have
a sense of humor :)
Thursday- Weekly Planning and
we started off watching the restoration video with a less-active family. The
father, would asked me every time he saw a different animal, ,"which one
is that one?" In his high pitched voice. I’m not sure how much of the
video he got but we did get all the animals down. I can't tell you how hard I was laughing when Ainslie and I left. We’ll try again now that
we have the animals taken care of. We also had a tender moment with one of our
less-active sisters. We cut up Morojo for her and shared an Easter message
about the atonement with her. She told us how she knows the church is true, but
is just going through some difficult things in her life right now. She is a pretty
amazing lady.
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| Pres Dunn Leading by example! |
Saturday- I can’t remember right
now. . . . .
Sunday- Easter Sunday turned out to be a little disappointing. So we
show up to church at 8:30 and
it turns out that our bishop cancelled fast and testimony meeting the night
before and conference viewing wouldn't start until 11. So all of our
investigators and less-active people that we invited showed up and just left :(
pretty sad day, we work so hard to get them there and now they will have a
great experience To top it all off, conference didn't even work because they
forgot to download it and we lost signal as we were streaming it live. I was a
little sad about that, but we finished the Easter night at our Relief Society
Presidents home and had an awesome lesson with her and her daughter.
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| Cutting up Morojo |
Even though Easter
might have not panned out the way we planned, it was amazing to see the true
meaning of Easter. How are Savior lives and because He lives we can experience
the joys of the restored gospel.It truly changes lives and I am blessed to see
it and many other wonderful miracles as I serve the amazing people of South
Africa.
Love Elder Broadhead
D&C 15:6
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