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