Exchanges and the Temple

Subject:	Exchanges and the Temple
Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:58:22 -0500
From:	Brett Hogg

Hola Compadres!

Its been a pretty good week.

On Friday we had exchanges, and I spent the day with Elder Goff, while Elder Rodriguez went to Irving. Elder Goff is English speaking, and just got done serving in the DeSoto area (basically covers the parts of south Dallas that we don't cover, as well as some of its rougher suburbs) for 6 months. Pretty much all of our appointments canceled, but it was a good day nonetheless. We found these two cool hispanic ladies in the park. I had to talk to them by myself, and usually I can kind of lean on my companions when I forget how to say something, as pretty much all of my companions have spoken better spanish than me (they've all been pretty much either out way longer than me, or hispanic lol). But we got through it haha. We got to end the night by talking to our multitude of 3 kids. We taught them about the preexistence, and you can tell they were really into it, and it gave them some more perspective on life (Idk if you want to add this to the blog but it's super funny teaching them because they'll say things like "that's pretty bad a**" lol). 

Then on Saturday we got to visit the temple. The spanish branch primary does a thing twice a year where they go to the temple and walk around the outside and sing childrens hymns in the lobby (the lobby here is a little bigger than Chicago's haha). We turned into a missionary opportunity and invited a couple part-member families. Unfortunately none of them came, but the coolest part was that that one inactive family that we have been reactivating came. They were a little late so they missed the part inside the lobby, so we went inside with them with Hno. G (The the Italian guy) after everyone left and sat down and chatted for a little bit. The husband has been having a lot of health problems lately and just a bunch of stuff going on, and you could tell they could feel the peace and the spirit in the temple, he said "No me quiero ir" (he didn't want to leave). We talked to them about making getting sealed a goal for them, and told them we want to come back for when they do get sealed. It was a cool experience being with them there, and feeling the spirit with them. 

After the temple Bro. Gloria took us out to Gelato, and the place was run by actual Italian people. So they were speaking italian to each other and we got to kind of explain mormonism to them, it was pretty cool.

Otherwise nothing else really noteworthy. Just trying to talk to everyone, and finding those that are ready!

Love,

Elder Hogg

 

Ill send more of the temple next week when i get them from all the people that were there. 

Elder pattee found this can of tuna at the food pantry they help out at! They think it looks just like me haha. (They added the "Hogg" on the picture)  And notice the Brett on the hat.