7.18.16 #goulash

July 18^th, 2016

Whaddup Fam!!!

With all changes and emotions and new ideas/assignments, the only word that I can think to describe my thoughts right now is goulash. So, goulash it is! 

First of all, I'll give a back-ground of my assignment for the next 3 weeks. Elder Swindlehurst and I have been assigned as "FIT" men, what it stands for is Finding Investigators Team. Basically, are assignment takes us all over the greater Johannesburg area, visiting missionaries and training them about the keys to finding, trying all kinds of new ideas, and being innovative with the time that we have left. I'll share one innovative Idea that we had this morning. Elder Clegg served as a zone leader in a neighboring area called Krugersdorp and he noticed that every morning between the hours of 6-9 that there would be loads of traffic backed up for kilometerssssssssssssss. So low and behold, the group of 3 courageous (or crazy) FIT men awoke before 6 and took off.   The weather was like the 2012 State Champion game between D-hills and Hurricane minus the snow. It was like we were breathing fire as we were standing on all corners of a robot, trying to find those precious souls that Heavenly Father would place into our path.

As I think about it. What we share has to be the true and we all have a desire to share that light and truth with anyone who will pause for even a second. What in the world would convince 3 young men (20-21) to leave their homes and families to a foreign country to stand out in the bitter cold at 6 in the morning to be rejected and mocked (that gets a little hard) and eventually experience success. I can't formulate words to describe my thoughts other than a quote by James Freeman Clarke "Strong Convictions precede great actions."

Other than that there were a TON of Highlights this week. 

1) On Tuesday we had our departing Temple trip for the missionaries who would be going home. By coincidence, I received a name of the deceased brother to a missionary who is currently serving in our mission. After I got out of the temple, I called him and he verified that it was his brother who had passed away almost 20 years ago! Do you believe in Miracles????

Florence almost two years later!

2)Do you remember when I emailed about Florence almost 2 years ago??? My first area

See the picture below (she is in the relief society presidency now)

3)Do you also remember the email in Vereeniging where I shared about meeting a golden lady named Mpho???? (she is now married to a member and are going to the temple in 1 year from July 16th 2016)

Love you all!

love elder B!

7.11.16 Interviews and Endings

July 11^th 2016

Hey fam, The only way to describe this week is when you are having one of those
bad dreams where it feels like you are being chased and the enemy
continues to get closer and closer....OTHERWISE :) check the Dunns
blog for an activity that we had on Saturday.


 With the end of my time as a full-time missionary getting closer and
closer, I have been able to reflect on some of the great experiences
that I have had and the wonderful blessings that have come from
serving as a missionary. #1 The opportunity to do interviews! I feel
like that is my favorite time as a missionary to hear about these
wonderful experiences of how they met the missionaries and how there
life changed. I was able to do 2 interviews! both were girlfriends of
members who are about to get married.

Also, I'll share a highlight from a talk that I listened to from Henry
B. Eyring.
“ I have another encouragement to those who now wonder if their faith in
Jesus Christ will be sufficient for them to endure well to the end. I
was blessed to have known others of you who are listening now when you
were younger, vibrant, gifted beyond most of those around you, yet you
chose to do what the Savior would have done. Out of your abundance you
found ways to help and care for those you might have ignored or looked
down upon from your place in life.

When hard trials come, the faith to endure them well will be there,
built as you may now notice but may have not at the time that you
acted on the pure love of Christ, serving and forgiving others as the
Savior would have done. You built a foundation of faith from loving as
the Savior loved and serving for Him. Your faith in Him led to acts of
charity that will bring you hope.

It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is
always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for
forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you
can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it
wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel.”


Love the Mountains that you are given :)

Love you all
Elder Broadhead
Funny things

We received an online referral for the Book of Mormon from the church
headquarters, so we called it turns out that it was an elderly member
who thought she was downloading the Book of Mormon.....#dinosaurs

Drunk guy #1
He approached me and after everything I said to him he would say "and then"

Drunk guy #2
Approached Elder Ratsi and asked him if he could bring his eggs to church.

7.4.16 #blessed

July 4, 2016 #blessed

Hey Fam, 
I think this is the first time that I have been happy to hear that STG is HOT... It will be nice to get out of the ice-box here in Jozi.Besides the cold-spell here, things in Kagiso are absolutely wonderful. And In honor of our national holiday, I would like to share some experiences that help us realize our blessing.  Given, was baptized last week and was confirmed. He went to his cousins house the entire week, so we weren't able to see him until Saturday night. So we went by and he shared about his experience with his cousins and his attempts to share the gospel....The reason why this email is titled blessed is based on something that Given shared
with us in the short 20 minutes we had that really caused me to reflect and think. He said, " I am so blessed with the knowledge I know have."

For those that are members of the church, we are blessed by many things such as guidance from living prophets, additional scripture, temples....  (Relief society jello socials :) even potlucks lol  with each of those wonderful blessings requires our efforts to take advantage of these wonderful gifts from our Heavenly Father. I think of the Prophets latest address where he said these words:   "May we choose to build up within ourselves a great and powerful faith which will be our most effective defense against the designs of the adversary—a real faith, the kind of faith which will sustain us and will bolster our desire to choose the right. Without such faith,
we go nowhere. With it, we can accomplish our goals." #makethatchoice


How Blessed are we!
Elder Broadhead

6.27.16 #seek and hide

June 27^th, 2016

Whaddup Fam,
Another week in the books here in the goldmines of Johannesburg South Africa and as I thought about the week. I'd just like to share about an experience that highlighted the week for Elder Ratsi and I. It just happens to be about Given, who we are convinced that might be more "golden" then the chains of Puff Daddy. As we met with him on Saturday evening, just a handful of hours before he was baptized, we met to have a lesson with him. As we showed up and knocked on the back door, he opened and I don't think I have ever seen a bigger smile on some ones face. He invited us in and we began chatting, and Given shared with us his life story. (Seriously this guy is golden) He was born in Venda, South Africa. Somewhere in a village far-far
away from the hustle and bustle of the Johannesburg Area. He was raised by his grandma, who like Lehi, taught him in the ways of righteousness. When he entered into high school, one of his close friends gave him a book titled "Teachings of the Presidents: Joseph Smith" I have no idea, how or why that book ended up in the remote village of Venda, but somehow it got there. Given read it, pondered about it, but quickly got engrossed back into his studies. He later graduated, and felt like he needed to move in with his cousins here in
Kagiso. He did that and met missionaries and really that is all she wrote!

As I conclude this email, my thoughts this week have been drawn to the parable taught by the Savior commonly known as the "Pearl of Great Price" I'll throw in the verses and then add my thoughts.


45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking
goodly pearls:

 46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all
that he had, and bought it.


There are people prepared, our brothers and sisters, who are searching for this "Pearl". They are kept from the truth, only because they know not where to find it. #seekandfind

love you all!
Elder B

6.15.16 Its COLD Outside

Hey Fam,

Currently emailing and seeing my breath at the same time...I guess I
took growing up in the heat of Southern Utah for granted, but needless to say this week has been COLD! The work continues to go forward,
regardless of the weather. This week we were blessed with a baptism,

I'll tell you more of her story. Her name is Mamello Pinerose Sediti, she is the sweetest 14 year-old you'll ever meet. Both of her parents
are deceased, so she moved in permanently with her Aunty and Uncle who are both members of the church. We have been working on trying to help them get to the temple to be sealed, then Mamello came into the picture so it was a great opportunity to go through all the lessons with the family and her baptism was amazing! Despite the cold weather, the chapel has a geyser so the water was warm. I was tempted to float around in it after the baptism was over just to stay warm.

Other than that Given, who I mentioned in the last email, is doing wonderfully and even announced his baptism to the elders quorum on Sunday :) This week I have been studying about remembrance, which seems like it is stressed in every page of the Book Of Mormon.  I thought that I would remember some of the great people that I have been able to teach and help accept the gospel. I only way I
could convey my feelings of being an instrument in the hands of the
Lord is from the Hymn "How Great Thou Art" and the line reads....Then I shall bow, in humble adoration, And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!""

Even though it is cold, the warmth of the gospel makes it all worth it!
Elder Broadhead
Alma 28:14

6.6.16 Time. Goes. By. To. Fast.

Hey Fam!!!  

Sounds like things are heating up in STG and you'll have to send my love the Wagner way as they pick up Jake this week.
Time.Goes.By.To.Fast!!!  This week has just flown past, we had transfers and learned more about the pure basics of the gospel and how to teach it. As for transfers, our zone didn't see many changes. Only 2 out of
the 8 companionship switched and the best news is that...Elder Ratsi and I are together for another transfer :) The rest of the week went as such, I was able to study Alma 12-20 and was just reminded about how simple the gospel is and how simple we need to teach it! A great example is that of Ammon and King Lamoni. All through out chapter 19 Ammon is teaching simple the gospel and bearing his personal testimony of the truthfulness of the things he is teaching. Coupled with that, we listed to a talk given by President Uctdorf in which he said

"Let’s be honest; it’s rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They
flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia—even during times of stress and fatigue. Because they unnecessarily complicate their lives, they often feel increased frustration, diminished joy, and too little sense of meaning in their lives. Leonardo da Vinci is quoted as saying that “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication". When we look at the foundation principles of the plan of happiness, the plan of salvation, we can recognize and appreciate in its plainness and simplicity the elegance and beauty of our Heavenly Father’s wisdom. Then, turning our ways to His ways is the beginning of our wisdom."

My advice this week. Take it simple, Look at what matter most and do it!  The work here in Kagiso continues to grow and get greater and greater! A couple highlights. Mamello passed her interview so she will be
baptized this week! Both her mom and her dad passed away, so she moved in with her uncle and that is where it has began. Given, the 21 year-old from Venda, received his answer that the Book of Mormon is
true and will be swimming in the waters of salvation on the 26th. He wore a white shirt and a tie this week and looks like a member :)
Love you all!
#keepitsimple
elder b

5.30.16 Elder Foreman's Legacy

Good Morning Fam,                 May 30^th, 2016

Back on the grind for another email. Another Week, another exhausting but yet extremely fulfilling week here in the land of Kagiso. This week was packed with District Finding Activities and  exchanges and wait for it......................the return of the #FormanLegacy. letsget down to the nitty-gritty.
quickly let us in and got his cousin and we sat down and the first question was "Why did you stop coming, I read the pamphlet and prayed about the thing inside, and you never came back?" Elder Ratsi and I just kind of looked at each other and started from there. Needless to say in our lesson this week, Given, bore his testimony about the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and the positive change he has seen in His life. P.S. he quit smoking and drinking before being taught the word of wisdom because "it harmed my spirit." Again, I am amazed to be here in the sweet land of South Africa were the "Harvest is great and
the Laborers are few."

We began our week with a jaw-dropping lesson. At the beginning of the transfer, we were going through the area book and decided to follow-up on a member referral that the missionaries before had dropped. He

The next day we had a finding activity with the missionaries who are serving in the Florida Area (it resembles nothing close to Florida minus a pond) We contacted for about an hour and got back and they had
the hubcaps stolen off their car. #nothingissafe

After that we had another finding activity with missionaries from the MTC. It is becoming something that I look forward to. Every 3 weeks, we get to take the GREEN missionaries out for their first taste in the
mission field, needless to say South Africa. I need to buy a GoPro and video it. I think it would be a hit in Provo.

I got to spend time with an elder from England and Botswana and had some fun teaching people in
Soweto with them. Fast Forwarding to Friday, we got up at the crack of dawn and drove out to Nelspruit! They are still in our zone, so we got to go out there and do a training and exchange with them. Elder
Lambert and Nelspruit are doing wonderful! and last, but not least. Like mentioned in the subject, we had the
return of the #FormanLegacy. Turns out Elder Forman served here in Kagiso, and we met two of the people that he baptized. One is preparing for a mission and the other got involved in some gangs so we
are working with him. Long live Elder Forman’s legacy.

love you all!
Elder B