A week of change. Something I used to be very not good at. But something that is now so refreshing and needed. I got the transfer news that I would be transferred to a small town named Lake Elsinore. I was actually very excited! I was packing everything up when I got the text saying "Sister Broadbent, you will be on bike this transfer" UH what? I looked at my comp and said "I don't have a bike" soo right then I knew this was gonna be fun.
Day 1: the goatheads
After about 3 miles on bike, we biked through a little dirt road of goatheads. Pop pop pop went all 4 tires. Good stuff. We didn't even make it to our area. It was really something. Luckily, we locked our wrecked bikes on a pole and knocked the house right by the pole. God is so good because a member opened the door and said we could store our bikes in her backyard so they wouldn't get stolen. Yes, bikes get stolen here. It was a tender mercy for sure. We knocked lots of doors and met two new friends. Our area is brand new, so we are starting from ground 0. There is a lot of work to do but I'm excited.
Jim and Jen
Woot woot! Jim and Jen got baptized on Saturday! It was so tender. I loved serving in the Temecula creek English ward! I met some amazing people there. Jim and Jen will do great things for that ward! I'm grateful I was able to take part in watching their conversion process. They are amazing!
Spiritual thought
I appreciate all who have reached out so much. This week was hard. It's going to be hard. The hurt isn't going to go away but the Savior is right alongside me and quite frankly, he carries me somedays. Grief sucks and I'm still trying to figure it out, but I know I am exactly where I'm supposed to be. I know I have a lot of work to do in the little time I have left out here. I was reading in my scriptures this week in Alma 62 and there is a lot of bad stuff going on and a lot of hardships. And as I was reading along with my institute manual had a little quote in it from Elder Dallin H Oaks and he said "Surely these great adversities are not without some eternal purpose or effect. They can turn our hearts to God... Even as adversities inflict mortal hardships, they can also be the means of leading men and women to eternal blessings" I believe this with my whole heart. I'm really trying to think Celestial and trying to trust that God has an eternal purpose for everything even if we don't quite understand it right now.
After reading in those scriptures, I went to a book I'm reading called "The Unexpected Deliverer" I love it. I was reading in a chapter that talks about the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ and I loved where it said, "Who would have imagined such a rough group would bring forth such a great cause?" This is talking about the 12 apostles and then it continues saying "God loves qualifying the unqualified, equipping the unequipped, increasing the capacity to those who seem incapable. There are miracles just waiting to be counted, his message waiting to be shared the way only you can". I AM unqualified. I AM unequipped. I AM rough around the edges, but I AM and always will be a disciple of Jesus Christ. I love Jesus Christ and know that he is qualified, equipped, and perfect around the edges and He's got me. And I KNOW that He's got YOU too.
I love my Jesus. My personal Savior. I know he lives. He is my unexpected deliverer always.
♡ hermana b
1. Halloclean
2. Besties
3. Jim and Jen!!
4. Sammy is my twinny twin
5. Ya all those in my tires RIP
6. More bike fixin
7. Hermana Allen my compa!
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