Hey
This week was great. A lot of prayers, a lot of prayers answered, and even some progress with our investigators. Last night we had dinner with one member family, and they invited one of their friends and after dinner we had a simple family home evening about families and happiness and the gospel then we committed her to hear the lessons. It was ideal with the members there to testify and provide encouragement. Pretty much textbook PMG missionary work. I know that there is a reason the prophets always talk about the importance of member referrals. For the first time on my mission, we were able to do that smoothly.
Besides that, we watched `finding faith in christ` with a couple of our investigators and it was really good.
We were challenged this past week at Zone Meeting to try more to understand the atonement. And so, we are trying to remember it everyday here. Starting to realize how it feels to be rejected by those whose salvation you desire. Just starting to.
Things are starting to really move here thanks to the members and Heavenly Father. In fact, time is pretty much running out for me we are soo busy!
So, Ill just leave this email a little short. Please forgive me.
Love,
elder Hogge
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
12 January 2009
Hey Mom! I always appreciate the email.
I am way excited for Adam! You know, I want to believe the old saying that for every door knocked here, another person receives baptism in S. America. When it pours really really hard when we are out working here, I like to say that they must be filling the baptismal font on the other side of the world! Haha. He will do great!
Of all the missionaries in Hiroshima, about half are from the states, a third are from Japan, and the rest are from Australia and Brazil. Theyre cool.
Its snowing right now. January and February are the coldest months here, and it shows! Ya know, I kinda prefer the snow to rain. Sure, its pretty darn cold, but at least we dont get all wet.
Ill get on the electric razor. I will make sure that its ready usable in the states.
My companion is absolutely amazing! The members here are lighting up with referrals, and we are soo busy visiting people, that weve got no time! Its pretty cool. Last week, I came down with a cold, but dont worry, Im over it. And yes, I rested a bit, drank lots of water, and all that fun stuff.
Im good! :-)
Well, thank you for everything. You are the best.
Love,
Elder Hogge
P.S. Will you be my valentine? Haha.
I am way excited for Adam! You know, I want to believe the old saying that for every door knocked here, another person receives baptism in S. America. When it pours really really hard when we are out working here, I like to say that they must be filling the baptismal font on the other side of the world! Haha. He will do great!
Of all the missionaries in Hiroshima, about half are from the states, a third are from Japan, and the rest are from Australia and Brazil. Theyre cool.
Its snowing right now. January and February are the coldest months here, and it shows! Ya know, I kinda prefer the snow to rain. Sure, its pretty darn cold, but at least we dont get all wet.
Ill get on the electric razor. I will make sure that its ready usable in the states.
My companion is absolutely amazing! The members here are lighting up with referrals, and we are soo busy visiting people, that weve got no time! Its pretty cool. Last week, I came down with a cold, but dont worry, Im over it. And yes, I rested a bit, drank lots of water, and all that fun stuff.
Im good! :-)
Well, thank you for everything. You are the best.
Love,
Elder Hogge
P.S. Will you be my valentine? Haha.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
5 January 2009
Dear Mom,
Yeah, you were right. There was no place to do email last week. Im still fine. All is well. Another week in Hatsukaichi! Yeah, the Japanese had their `Christmas season` last week. So, we worked hard none the less, even though sometimes not very many people were home or answered their doors.
My companion is Elder Goto from Gifu prefecture. Truthfully, I was a little apprehensive about becoming his companion, but he is awesome!!! He is one STUD of a missionary. He works hard, but has quite the goofy side -- just like me!!! Really fun to work with. We have really been working hard for the members, so we passed around sheets for everyone to fill out the names of their less active member friends, how we could help, and when we could meet them, and then we got to work. Elder Goto`s goal is to become the kind of missionary that a member would want to refer their friends to. I think that is excellent. So, in order to do so, we are working hard to help the less actives come to church. It was particularly effective this week because it was hard to do regular tracting. So, we taught a lot of lessons with less active members. And guess what? On Sunday, 3 less active and 1 kind of active members came! So, we saw that as a great success. We hope to continue that. That was probably the big highlight of the week.
Well, sounds like everything is pretty good out there! I cant believe my Mom plays the bass! Speaking of, a member played solo bass for us at a meal, and he was AMAZING! So yeah. Way exciting. I was also very happy to hear that Ben got his mission call! Yeah! Way to surprise me about Clayton! What about the other Galena guys? I dont really know anything...
Well, I hope everyone has a great rest of the holidays!
Love Yalls
Elder Hogge
Yeah, you were right. There was no place to do email last week. Im still fine. All is well. Another week in Hatsukaichi! Yeah, the Japanese had their `Christmas season` last week. So, we worked hard none the less, even though sometimes not very many people were home or answered their doors.
My companion is Elder Goto from Gifu prefecture. Truthfully, I was a little apprehensive about becoming his companion, but he is awesome!!! He is one STUD of a missionary. He works hard, but has quite the goofy side -- just like me!!! Really fun to work with. We have really been working hard for the members, so we passed around sheets for everyone to fill out the names of their less active member friends, how we could help, and when we could meet them, and then we got to work. Elder Goto`s goal is to become the kind of missionary that a member would want to refer their friends to. I think that is excellent. So, in order to do so, we are working hard to help the less actives come to church. It was particularly effective this week because it was hard to do regular tracting. So, we taught a lot of lessons with less active members. And guess what? On Sunday, 3 less active and 1 kind of active members came! So, we saw that as a great success. We hope to continue that. That was probably the big highlight of the week.
Well, sounds like everything is pretty good out there! I cant believe my Mom plays the bass! Speaking of, a member played solo bass for us at a meal, and he was AMAZING! So yeah. Way exciting. I was also very happy to hear that Ben got his mission call! Yeah! Way to surprise me about Clayton! What about the other Galena guys? I dont really know anything...
Well, I hope everyone has a great rest of the holidays!
Love Yalls
Elder Hogge
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