9-15-08
Dear Family,
Today is changes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And I prayed long and hard with my health and with my great companion, and my Andes. I have been kind off in a bunch because I don’t want a new companion but also I have been sick and also I could have turned into a senior companion. Well I just found out I’m not going anywhere!!! And I have the same companion yea! I’m really excited and I could care less about going up as DL or anything like that and at best angles this is what is best for with me. My companion told me I’m going to be a machine missionary for the next change and I’m so excited to learn with him. I told him he will be my trainer 9 months yeah! I really am excited for one more round with my best bud, and whatever else happens can happen.This week we have been felling a lot better the President and the Doctor called us two times and put us on another anti biotic and then we took a worm pill yesterday called the bomb, I was so nervous but besides being ridiculously skinny I feel pretty good, (dad I eat and drink but just cant seem to gain, I have headaches a lot but they say nothing in the guts I hope I’m ok. my clothes sure don’t fit) I just want to say thanks to everyone who fastest for me and is praying on my behave I’m going to be fine and am excited for the future. Thanks mom and dad and my sweet Kylee girl I love you all. I really love all the blogs, and funny stoires it saves me… Jar’s perma pout ! I couldn’tbe happier I love you! Keep it coming hehe! I want video and pictures of all the little guys and stories. Especially of Kason and Jete, well everyone, please!!! This week has been really good I feel like we are receiving blessing of or labors we baptized 2!!! Yesterday the family Barsola mom and her daughter. It was really great and I have been working with this family since day one and have seen their doubt struggles and happiness coming in the gospel. Hermana asked me to baptize her and my companion her daughter and that was so great we are working with the rest of the family. We have a baptism tomorrow, this will make 4 in 6 weeks more then Jauja has had all year! I’m so happy for helping this family come to the truth! And we got lots more work to do hear in Jauja !!!Go BYU!!!!!!!!!! Yah!!!
Love you all Your son Elder Rogers!Muah
Monday, September 15, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
letter from Jon 9-8-08
9-8-08
Hey family and everyone,First I just have to say thanks for all the love and sweet emails!!!! I love you all so much muahhhhh!!!" This is skinny Elder Rogers down in Peru. It’s been another week and we are working hard back in Juaja and taught almost 50 lessons this week. It feels so good to walk the streets and speak Spanish. I’m still a little uneasy with my health but am praying everyday for my companion and I to shake this off. He is sicker then I am and just doesn’t look good. I feel so bad for him and I know its just a trial that we have to get through. We are feeling a little better and we have a date for a family of three this week so that’s exciting
This week I taught the Sunday lesson to all the youth solo and it went really well I was completely comfortable with the language but felt like a dad. I had to take away cell phones and split kids up and make kids read, but it went well. I taught the pride cycle in Helaman and felt the spirit strong. I kind of went off on the gift of tongues a little just like doing my best but in other language it was cool. We have been working hard and trying to help the ward out.I got a package from Carma tell her thanks and I also got 3 today from mom they said one got lost but I got 3 so that’s exciting. This week we watched a sweet movie at FHE in someone’s house about one of the apostles in Japan and he was in Nagasaki right after bomb and rebuild all the Christian churches and when they left all the other soldiers were making fun of people who wasted time making churches instead of fooling around with girls and enjoying themselves and as they got on the train to leave the soldiers that helped felt pretty down then the 200 plus Japanese’s people came up over the hill singing on-ward Christian soldiers and touched hands saying thanks so much as train left!I was bawling cause my mission has just been tough lately and I know it will all pay off in the end, my companion and I are still really sick he has lost 25 pounds and I weigh 165 its really kind of scary and we don’t know what to do. Mom and dad please pray and maybe even fast for me this next week. It is transfers and we are going to doctor again today. Please don’t worry I have so much left to give and all I want to do is work hard feel good and be happy. I’m comfortable with language now the only thing holding me back is this trial. I’m trying to have a good attitude and work hard everyday even when I feel terrible. I can feel the spirit so strong and he is comforting me I just have to get through this!Thanks so much for all love and support.This week has also been good growing week a lot of times I have to talk with bishop and others cause my companion really wants me to be ready if I go up as Senior! Yikes!Its also been good week full of drunk parties and I just amazes me how lost some people are.! One dude came up to me and said Jauja is the best climate in the world! And said what do you think I said have you ever been outside Juaja he said no why would I hehe…. I just laughed and said you know nothing else Jauja is miserable cold. Hawaii is the best climate in the world he said its not cold its perfect look in the stores there are no fridges cause they don’t need them cause its just perfect here.… I said wow! Buddy and I thought he might have few screws loose and lots of Jauja pride!I’m doing good and trying to stay upbeat I love you all and will talk to you all-next week thanks dad for backup!Your son Elder RogersMuahhhh!
Hey family and everyone,First I just have to say thanks for all the love and sweet emails!!!! I love you all so much muahhhhh!!!" This is skinny Elder Rogers down in Peru. It’s been another week and we are working hard back in Juaja and taught almost 50 lessons this week. It feels so good to walk the streets and speak Spanish. I’m still a little uneasy with my health but am praying everyday for my companion and I to shake this off. He is sicker then I am and just doesn’t look good. I feel so bad for him and I know its just a trial that we have to get through. We are feeling a little better and we have a date for a family of three this week so that’s exciting
This week I taught the Sunday lesson to all the youth solo and it went really well I was completely comfortable with the language but felt like a dad. I had to take away cell phones and split kids up and make kids read, but it went well. I taught the pride cycle in Helaman and felt the spirit strong. I kind of went off on the gift of tongues a little just like doing my best but in other language it was cool. We have been working hard and trying to help the ward out.I got a package from Carma tell her thanks and I also got 3 today from mom they said one got lost but I got 3 so that’s exciting. This week we watched a sweet movie at FHE in someone’s house about one of the apostles in Japan and he was in Nagasaki right after bomb and rebuild all the Christian churches and when they left all the other soldiers were making fun of people who wasted time making churches instead of fooling around with girls and enjoying themselves and as they got on the train to leave the soldiers that helped felt pretty down then the 200 plus Japanese’s people came up over the hill singing on-ward Christian soldiers and touched hands saying thanks so much as train left!I was bawling cause my mission has just been tough lately and I know it will all pay off in the end, my companion and I are still really sick he has lost 25 pounds and I weigh 165 its really kind of scary and we don’t know what to do. Mom and dad please pray and maybe even fast for me this next week. It is transfers and we are going to doctor again today. Please don’t worry I have so much left to give and all I want to do is work hard feel good and be happy. I’m comfortable with language now the only thing holding me back is this trial. I’m trying to have a good attitude and work hard everyday even when I feel terrible. I can feel the spirit so strong and he is comforting me I just have to get through this!Thanks so much for all love and support.This week has also been good growing week a lot of times I have to talk with bishop and others cause my companion really wants me to be ready if I go up as Senior! Yikes!Its also been good week full of drunk parties and I just amazes me how lost some people are.! One dude came up to me and said Jauja is the best climate in the world! And said what do you think I said have you ever been outside Juaja he said no why would I hehe…. I just laughed and said you know nothing else Jauja is miserable cold. Hawaii is the best climate in the world he said its not cold its perfect look in the stores there are no fridges cause they don’t need them cause its just perfect here.… I said wow! Buddy and I thought he might have few screws loose and lots of Jauja pride!I’m doing good and trying to stay upbeat I love you all and will talk to you all-next week thanks dad for backup!Your son Elder RogersMuahhhh!
Monday, September 1, 2008
Letter from Jon 9-1-08
9-1-08
Dear Family, mom and dad, and everyone else,Hey, let me tell you a little bit of what’s going on this week. This Tuesday my companion and I were sick. I started to realize we were in trouble. We have been getting sick too much, so we called president. (This time we skipped zls, cause I guess they just think its a joke) and he send us to the clinic in Huancayo. This whole week we have been in and out of the clinic. I took a stool test because I have been in Jauja longer. We got put on an all- liquid diet and antibiotics. Friday we went back to Huancayo and the results said I don’t have parasites but a stomach infection and so does my companion. The doctors said it was the food. I was happy that i didn’t have a snake in my gut. This is the second time that I have gotten real sick in the last while. I have had it so we talked with pres about the penz and the water and everything. We don’t have a choice or say in what we eat but I am trying to be careful, dad. They have a filter and she boils the water so I think I’m good there but thank you for your email today and I will pay close attention. I told prez my companion lost 7 kilos and he was as sick if not sicker then me. The President says to call him any time and he is going to keep a close eye on us the rest of the time and if we don’t get better he will be first to know. We finished are pills last night 6 day antibiotic and I went to the bathroom solid for the 1st time since Huanuco on Friday. I feel pretty good it fills like the pills might have healed us. We pray all the time for health and have both been really sick and we are skinny and weak. It’s been a long week and we didn’t get a lot of work done, but I feel better and hopefully its all up hill from here.
I love you all and thanks for support and prayersWell we had another conference with prez and its September already and I felt 100% better at talking this time then last and that was fun. It’s just like talking to anyone else but in Spanish, no more what is your name.......good. Now I can say lots of things and just talk.
We got word form Bayovar that the Catholics have had a revelation and that they are baptizing by emersion in Bayovar and the surrounding areas of Lima the catholic church!!!!!!!!!what!!!!!That is nuts man they want to be true church so bad they just cant keep up with a little thing I like to call revelation!This week one of the restaurants in Jauja was found out to be serving big amounts of tender meat at low price and really what it was was Dog! We were actually going to eat there. It looked way nice and legitimate and I thought it would be safe! haaa thank heavens we found out !!!Church was really good this week and we learned how the most important word in the scriptures is remember and I really liked that. It’s so true and we are so so blessed. We also taught the young men and women class. That keeps me on my toes and its so crazy. I am just a crazy kid and I am teaching kids.
I really had lots of down time this week and loved the August Ensign. It is so good even though it was just full of articles about how to get hooked up fast. Personally I don’t like reading about fun date ideas during my mission. hehe Sensitive stuff, but it was really good and I really liked Todd Christofferson’ s story about the new 12 and others. I encourage everyone to read it. Well this is all for this week. I love you all. Next week will be a better week! muahI’m doing great and learning so much!!! love you son Elder Rogers
Dear Family, mom and dad, and everyone else,Hey, let me tell you a little bit of what’s going on this week. This Tuesday my companion and I were sick. I started to realize we were in trouble. We have been getting sick too much, so we called president. (This time we skipped zls, cause I guess they just think its a joke) and he send us to the clinic in Huancayo. This whole week we have been in and out of the clinic. I took a stool test because I have been in Jauja longer. We got put on an all- liquid diet and antibiotics. Friday we went back to Huancayo and the results said I don’t have parasites but a stomach infection and so does my companion. The doctors said it was the food. I was happy that i didn’t have a snake in my gut. This is the second time that I have gotten real sick in the last while. I have had it so we talked with pres about the penz and the water and everything. We don’t have a choice or say in what we eat but I am trying to be careful, dad. They have a filter and she boils the water so I think I’m good there but thank you for your email today and I will pay close attention. I told prez my companion lost 7 kilos and he was as sick if not sicker then me. The President says to call him any time and he is going to keep a close eye on us the rest of the time and if we don’t get better he will be first to know. We finished are pills last night 6 day antibiotic and I went to the bathroom solid for the 1st time since Huanuco on Friday. I feel pretty good it fills like the pills might have healed us. We pray all the time for health and have both been really sick and we are skinny and weak. It’s been a long week and we didn’t get a lot of work done, but I feel better and hopefully its all up hill from here.
I love you all and thanks for support and prayersWell we had another conference with prez and its September already and I felt 100% better at talking this time then last and that was fun. It’s just like talking to anyone else but in Spanish, no more what is your name.......good. Now I can say lots of things and just talk.
We got word form Bayovar that the Catholics have had a revelation and that they are baptizing by emersion in Bayovar and the surrounding areas of Lima the catholic church!!!!!!!!!what!!!!!That is nuts man they want to be true church so bad they just cant keep up with a little thing I like to call revelation!This week one of the restaurants in Jauja was found out to be serving big amounts of tender meat at low price and really what it was was Dog! We were actually going to eat there. It looked way nice and legitimate and I thought it would be safe! haaa thank heavens we found out !!!Church was really good this week and we learned how the most important word in the scriptures is remember and I really liked that. It’s so true and we are so so blessed. We also taught the young men and women class. That keeps me on my toes and its so crazy. I am just a crazy kid and I am teaching kids.
I really had lots of down time this week and loved the August Ensign. It is so good even though it was just full of articles about how to get hooked up fast. Personally I don’t like reading about fun date ideas during my mission. hehe Sensitive stuff, but it was really good and I really liked Todd Christofferson’ s story about the new 12 and others. I encourage everyone to read it. Well this is all for this week. I love you all. Next week will be a better week! muahI’m doing great and learning so much!!! love you son Elder Rogers
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