Yet another week in Oak Cliff!

From: "Brett Hogg"Date: Nov 20, 2017 4:33 PM
Subject: Yet another week in Oak Cliff

Sup fambam!

This week we taught a new girl. We stopped in a gas station last week, and one of the girls working there asked Elder Rodriguez if he was running away from home because he was wearing his back pack lol. He explained that we were missionaries and we exchanged information and stuff. We met up in the park earlier in the week we talked about religion and stuff and shared the Book of Mormon, and usually we leave the Introduction to read because it explains it better than we can. Well we met up a couple days later and asked how her reading went, and she read! but she kept going too, like she read all the testimonies and other stuff after! Then she had really good questions too, like, why did Joseph have to wait to receive the plates? Why are there 3 witnesses, and 8 witnesses? And we were kind of stunned, because usually people don't read, and if they do, they don't really have any deeper questions or anything. We taught her The Restoration even set a baptismal date with her! Unfortunately she works on Sundays, so that might delay her, but she's super awesome!


On Tuesday we had district meeting in a mini bamboo forest at a local park here. Usually we just have district meeting at the church building, but we want to start doing destination district meetings. We always try to bring snacks to district meeting, thus the food in the photos haha

Then on Saturday we had a crazy day. We decided to bike. Originally it was a horrible idea, then we put some air in our tires and it was a lot better lol. It actually felt really good to bike. We did have to bike to the hospital to give a blessing to a man that is doing really not well, from this really cool family in the Spanish branch. His daughter and her family are in our branch, but came from the Grand Prairie ward, and the remembered me! Anyway cool family.

Then the branch had Thanksgiving dinner. It was pretty good!

Towards the end they had the primary kids dressed as Indians sing a little song and people got up and said what they were thankful for/bore their testimonies, and of course, like any other fiesta, ended with karaoke ranchos (Mexican country music (in general, Mexican music is either country or polka in nature)). Towards the end Elder Rodriguez and I got up with a member and sang a song about a horse lol (it was hard to find a song not about romance and stuff haha). It was "El Caballo Cantador" by Antonio Aguilar if you want to look it up.

Then on Sunday Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard had a YSA Face-to-Face, and they asked missionaries to watch it as well. So we got to watch that which was cool.

Anyway, thats about it, otherwise, same 'ol same 'ol, and I love it!
Love yall,
Elder Hogg