| Date: | Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:06:47 -0500 |
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| From: | Brett Hogg |
Hola familia!
The
awesome Guatemalan family I told you about last week, came to church!
It was awesome! The husband hasn't been to any church in years, because
he thinks they're all corrupt basically. And the wife just threw her
back out the week before, but they came! And I think they liked it! They
didn't sing the hymns (I think because they can't read particularly
well), until the last one, and the husband sorted thumbing through the
hymnal and was trying follow along and sing a little bit, it was
awesome! They're an awesome couple. And when we stopped by on Saturday
they showed us their pet Racoon! I didn't get a picture, but next time
I'll get one. He was just holding it and everything! They let it walk
around the house and they say it uses a litterbox like a cat haha.
Saturday
we helped at a funeral, were I translated (spanish to english) with the
the little headphone things, but only one person was actually using it
lol (it was a pretty small funeral). I did alright. The biggest problem
was the scriptures. They would read them off so fast that I couldn't look
them up to read in english, and scripture spanish is a little harder to
translate live. Sometimes they would just say "and the scriptures
say..." and not even give a reference! Lol, So I have some work to do to
get good at translating. And make sure that if you're ever going to give
a talk, tell the translated what scriptures you're going to use before
hand!
Also after the funeral we biked really far, all the way to the
part of our area that butts up against downtown. It had been raining all
day, but once we got over there it started coming down harder, and the
sun went down. So we had a looooong and scary bike ride back to the
Apartment in the dark while it was raining on major streets. We couldn't
really see what was in front of us partially because our glasses were
super wet and our lights didn't do much. The puddles were scary because
you couldn't tell how deep they were or if there were pot holes or rocks
at the bottom. I did fall once because of this huge crack in the road I
didn't see, but I was alright. Then I almost got hit by a car pulling
out of a parking lot. It sure was an adventure! We got home and we were
completely wet, from head to toe. A bunch of stuff in my backpack was
ruined even. haha.
Anyway, not much else this week. And unfortunately we never met the Mexican nun :/
Love y'all!
Also! Our
bishop got shot here in this area a couple years back! It happened just
down the street from where our Guatemalan family lives, and we bike
there quite often! It was actually on TV, if you YouTube Police Women
of Dallas, it's an episode with a black lady cop, it's at a tire shop,
with a guy that was shot five times, idk what the video is called
exactly. But you can see his son putting his hands on his head to give
him a blessing in the video. (See video link below! NOTE FROM MOM: Where is my son living?? Scary!)
Saturday about 5:00pm vs Saturday about 9:00pm:
Here is the clip from that episode Brett mentions.. Apparently that man that was shot is Brett's current Bishop in Mesquite.
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