letter from Jon 8-25-08

Aug 25, 2008

Hey family,Thanks for all the wonderful emails today it was so good to hear from everyoneThis has been a long busy week, and kind of hard I just keep dealing with sickness and its hard for my companion too. Our area is just a little rough but we are trying to have good attitudes and we are working hard. My companion is the man and we really are working hard. Our companion studies rock. I’m learning so much and I feel pretty comfortable in my lessons.We are really getting people involved and we have family home evenings every week and Friday night activities. We are teaching over 6 families and we have plan a b c for baptisms totaling about 28people. We are regularly teach the 28 people, but none of them want to come to church so we have to literally hunt them down and bring them to church. It’s an adventure. We have 7 people with a date for 7th of September. I cant believe august is gone woof!We are working hard and its getting colder in Juaja. You can see the burnt faces of all the little kids playing soccer in the street and every time the ladies walks by with their babies on their backs you and see a little snot bubbler coming out of the cute little kids nose. I’m trying to stay warm!I’m not going to lie I watched the last five minutes of the USA redeem team beat Spain on a black and white TV at my pennisonta house. We HAD TO eat!! hehe We called it family home evening! I told President in my letter that USA owns b-ball! If he asks me I’ll just tell him-- it was awesome!!! Right now I’m studying “Preach my Gospel” like a donkey! (hehe burro is donkey and it’s my favorite Spanish phrase to say. We are working like donkeys! One day we contacted two fat old ladies and said how are you and they said were working like fat old donkeys! Then the two little old ladies looked at each other and laughed like witches! Then they looked at us and then back at each other, laughing!!! It was great Peruvian experience)But I love studying and filling my mind with the gospel! It’s so good and I feel the spirit so strong! P.S. I need more games I’m fresh out of ideas for games for 30 people to have fun after FHE lesson. We had 45 people at our last activity. There are almost as many in church, I’m still playing the piano and we have had 60,91,83 people in church the last 3 weeks word!I love you all and am always praying for you, thanks for praying for me Love you all your son JonCool story one Elder told me story on prayer. The Elder and his Dad were driving home late from the mountains and didn’t have enough light or gas to make a mistake and take the wrong rode. They came to a fork in the road. Should they go right or left? They prayed and they both felt they should go to the left. They turned left and just after mile there was a dead end. Then they had to turn and go down the other road to get to their home. They were upset and scared and barely made it home. They reflected and both felt that their prayer was answered and that they were to go left. They wondered why the Lord would do that. Then they realized if they wouldn’t have gone left they would have gone right and maybe doubted and turned back to go left and then they would have never made it home. So it was the right answer to go left, so there would be no doubt in their mind that they needed to go back and go right!It got me thinking of the accident that Elder JK and I were involved in. Maybe if I didn’t lightly roll the “MTR” I might have roughly rolled it with JK and I a ways down the road. I always wondered why I had such bad luck but maybe it was a small miracle and the protection of the Lord for what “J” and I are doing right now! Love you muahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!Share with “J”