Mormon Missionary & Cancer Survivor!: Street preachin' in the Church

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Subject:	Street preachin' in the Church
Date:	Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:49:55 -0500
From:	Brett Hogg

What a week!

Actually nothing super spectacular, but we were blessed with 9 new people to teach! Including 2 families/couples.

One is a young guatemalan family! They are awesome, and only speak Spanish! We had a good lesson with them about the Restoration, and he had a ton of questions afterwards, love them!

The other was this cool family, that we've taught the Restoration to, and the Plan of Salvation. Every time we go over there we have been able to have short powerful lessons with them. The wife speaks 8 languages!! She's Filipino so she speaks Tagalog, and then also a bunch of other languages from the areas around that, including marshallese! Anyway they're a cool family, I love all the people we've been able to meet!

On Sunday we had someone bear their testimony in Marshallese, and then someone else in Spanish, then of course English, so we had 3 languages in spoken in sacrament meeting! Then at the end of Sunday school, where we talked about developing our talents, a recent convert here was so full of the spirit after reading the parable of the talents in Mathew, he couldn't hardly settle down. You see, however many years ago, before joining the church, he was called to the ministry, by God, to be a street preacher. Since joining the church hes been able to bring that fire with him. During the third hour he was in the hallway giving us our personal sermon. He wanted to go to the next set of Sunday school but he couldn't hardly contain himself, so we stepped outside with him and he said a kneeling prayer, asking God to help him settle down, and save it for when he went out with the missionaries. It was awesome, we got a picture with him too, see below.

We were also able to go to Arkansas again! So the boundaries of the branch stretch clear out there, but the chapel is actually in Idabel itself. For people there to come to church, its at least a 45 min drive. They used to have their own branch, but too many people moved away and things that it got too small. They have their own set of Elders over there. Someone the Elders over there are teaching is getting baptized! So we had to go over there and interview her. We are so happy for her! Anyway, we got some other good pics with the Arkansas and Oklahoma signs.

We also had to drive down to Frisco for another mission meeting, which was awesome (the meeting, not the drive), and have another meeting down in Sulphur Springs this Wednesday. For that one though, we will be meeting up with someone in Hugo, OK and driving down with them.

Anyway that's about it for this week,

Love y'all!

Elder Hogg