(This is last week's email that never sent apparently, ps. No word on transfers yet)

From: Brett Hogg 
Date: Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:09 PM
Subject: (This is last week's email that never sent apparently, ps. No word on transfers yet)

Hola Familia 

Not a whole lot new this week. On Halloween we had to be in our apartment by 6:00pm. BUT that morning we had Zone Conference, which was good. We got a ride there (because its all the way in FRISCO) from a really awesome member, but didn't have a ride home. The missionaries from one of the other wards here in the stake was able to get one of their members to come pick us up, but he hadn't called him until the conference was over, so we where stuck there waiting. They had a truck, and there where actually four of us that had to make it back, so the four us squeezed into the back of the truck. By the time we got back to our area is was at least 7:00pm, BUT, while at Zone Conference, we got permission to go to the branch Halloween party that was that night. So we went right over to that, and that was fun. On my mission I've grown to really love church activities. They're just so wholesome and pure. So that was fun, then we headed home for the night.

The night before the Waxahachie Elders spent the night with us so they could come up with us the next day. One of the Elders is from Honduras. He came out from Austin, but had only been living there/ in the United States for several months. His companion doesn't know a lick of Spanish and hes still learning English himself, so that's kind of funny. Hes a ball of energy that guy though. If you watch the video on the Facebook page of us singing, he's the one kneeling in front. He loves the gospel and that night, after we were all in bed, he spent about an hour probably, going off about the plan of salvation how awesome it is, and some other deep stuff he'd learned, and at one point was standing up and preaching whole we were all laying in bed lol

Then yesterday we had a Regional Conference. It was kind of interesting, because we started off with our own hymns prayers and a talk from someone from the stake presidency, then it was a broadcast from Salt Lake with Elder D. Todd Christofferson, and a couple other general authorities.then we concluded with our own prayer again, in the chapel. We watched in in Spanish, because our Branch Mission Leader asked us to be at the building where it was going to be broadcast in Spanish, to help set things up and stuff. Also we were hoping an investigator would show up, but they didn't.

Not anything new investigator-wise unfortunately. I am getting nervous that I'll be transfered. If I could have the desire of my heart it would be that they split the work, I stay spanish here and Elder Rodriguez goes English and we'd get new companions, bit still serve with each other too. The Spanish Branch especially needs a little TLC.

We will see what happens though!

Love yall

Elder Hogg

The other Elders here got permission to make these costumes, so Elder Rodriguez and I tried them on haha.