I Hope They Call Me on a Mission

Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:16:42 -0500
From:	Brett Hogg

Hola Familia!

It sure has been a slow week. We had busted our buns this week, biking all over the place in the heat, knocking all kinds of doors, you name it. Didn't seem like we accomplished a whole lot, but then BAM! Sunday. Sunday started off sad because our awesome Guatemalan family didn't make it to church :( but then after church a member of the church walked over to us to introduce us to her friend that had come to church. She's a student at the members Zumba class, and asked her what church she goes to. She has been searching for something, and looking for a church to go to. They gave her the info and didn't think a whole lot of it, until Sunday, she came all by herself! So that was awesome, we love finding people that are searching for truth!! That's definitely a huge lesson I've learned on the mission, is that the Lord's blessings are almost never (at least for me) a direct result of my own efforts, but when you work hard and are obedient to what he asks you to do, he can bless you in ways you never thought. 

Just a cool little scripture I heard from another missionary, that I've been thinking about lately:

"Thus God has provided a means that man, through faith, might work mighty miracles; therefore he becometh a great benefit to his fellow beings."

Mosiah 8:18

Other than that not a whole lot else. I had the opportunity to go do a session in the temple on Thursday. That was awesome. We got to do sealings! Then we stopped in the cafeteria, becuase neither of us have ever been to a cafeteria in a temple before (Elder Adams and I, we were on exchanges). So while we were sitting there enjoying our celestial Ham sandwiches, none of their than Brother Kay Brown walks up to us. We didn't didn't know who he was but, turns out hes the guy that wrote the hymn "I hope they call me on a mission." So that was awesome. We were going to get a picture with him but he reminded us that we can't take pictures in the temple, and just as mysteriously as he appeared, he vanished. We were a little star-struck to say the least lol.

From Mom: "I Hope They Call Me on a Mission" is a children's song in the Church and one of Brett's favorite. How cool this was!  

Anyway, that's about it for this week, hope to have more exciting stories next week!

Les Quiero!

Elder Hogg

Pics: 

An awesome recent convert here made us lunch, which was ceviche, shrimp and Mojarra (whole fried fish!!!!)!!! As you all may know I'm not the biggest fan of sea food, but I did indeed partake. The actual meat inside the fish wasn't bad, just a little salt and lime and it was actually pretty good. But everyone else was eating everything, skin, EYE BALLS (as pictured below), the brain, the CRISPY TAIL THING. I was a little disgusted. But these are the memories folks! Love these people!!