Lufkin week 3

Subject:	Lufkin week 3
Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:53:55 -0600
From:	Brett Hogg

Hey Fam!

Another week here in Lufkin. We've been seeing small miracles here lately. Our Branch President and his family here are awesome. After stake conference with Elder Stevenson, his (the Branch President's) wife asked us to come by and share something for a Family Home Evening. Well we get there Monday night, and there's this inactive family there that missionaries have tried working with in the past, and the Branch President and his wife start talking about how important it is to come to church and baptism (one of their kids isnt baptised) and it was awesome! They wanted to have another Noche de Hogar, that explained baptism better., and the one daughter said she was going to invite her friends.

Then the next night we stopped by a potential investigator we found looking for an inactive member. She wasn't there but her son answered the door. He said he wouldn't mind hearing our message, then he was like "I think my friend is a missionary" and we were like whaaat? Turns out his neighbor friend is on a mission in the Philippines. We didn't know about it because it's a hispanic family that attends the English. We talked to the neighbor, and she has been working with that family for a little bit now, even talking the younger girl to church already! So we're pretty stoked to work with the family now. She even gave us another person she's been working with, it was awesome!

We did run into a really cool guy, knocking the neighbors of a less active. He really liked the Book of Mormon and everything, but then he told us he was moving to Houston :(

Then we had zone conference up in Longview again. It was a good meeting, but its like a 2 hour drive. We have to go back up this Thursday for interviews.

Other than that, a pretty normal week.

Love you all!

Elder Hogg

This is Pan de los Reyes Magos (King Bread, literally Bread of the 3 Wise Men). They make it for Christmas, then who ever is eating it and gets the baby, they have to make Tamales/food for the party. 

A member gave us a bunch of it, as well as Buñuelo (not sure how to spell it?). They're fried tortillas with cinnamon/sugar and honey. They are pretty darn good.