Mormon Missionary & Cancer Survivor!: Love-kin (and Fiesta de la Pascua)

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Subject:	Love-kin
Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:39:19 -0500
From:	Brett Hogg

Hola familia,

Not a whole lot new to report on this week. We are still finding some good people to teach, not a ton of progress from our current investigators. No great stories this week, just some Restoration and Book of Mormon lessons. I will say, sometimes they're not exciting, but wow I'm going to miss it when my mission is over. Anything pales in comparison to helping people get into heaven.

We had a Fiesta de la Pascua. It was great. The Branch met up in a park, made some awesome meat and hid some eggs for the kids. Just a good time. I've really come to appreciate church activities on my mission. Like a big 'ol family getting together to have a good wholesome time. The spirit is just so there, like an activity sanctioned by God. You just feel the real genuine love there too. Maybe it's just because I love the people here so much. I think when I get home I might have to just go to Spanish branches. There's a video someone took that I'm going to try to find for yall.

We are always out of the apartment by 10am, so we go do the rest of our studies in public, sometimes at a park, usually at the library, but sometimes at the Hospital. Particularly when the library is closed and we need Wifi or its just too hot or cold to study outside. Well this time we went we stopped and gave cards to a couple Hispanics sitting in a waiting room. And once they saw that we spoke Spanish, they asked if we visit people, we said we could, and they asked if we could go and visit the guys wife, who was in critical condition. So we did! Well the daughter took us up and she explained that she had a heart attack and has been brain dead for the last 3 weeks. We shared James 5:14, and offered to give her a blessing and we did! It's was pretty neat. Last we heard shes still in there, hope all is well with them. Neat experience though.