10-08 Journal entries

10-12-08
The work is going good in Jauja, Peru. Jon is working hard and has a great companion, Elder Benties.
A couple of stories from Jon
He says he was so excited to get his bud Brigham, age 18, the priesthood and on his first trip to the temple. It took the youth 9 hours one way to get to the Temple and the Bishop forgot to make an appointment so they could not do baptisms. 9 hrs. to the temple and 9 hrs back and not one baptism. That is a great sacrifice.
The people here in Jauja really like to play Dodgeball. After FHE we were about to begin a game of Dodgeball, but first I gave everyone a famous “yummy” American candy a “warhead”. Everyone was supposed to put it in their mouth at the same time. We had about 23 people. I said 1…2…3.. eat them! It was absolutely classic! Hehe I wish I had a camera. They were all pretty brave and sucked and survived the sweating and suffering of the first 2 minutes of the warhead. After the first 2 minutes it is really kind of a yummy candy. Anyway after the activity we got 13 contacts and 10 neuvos in this one day. That is more than I’ve had in whole weeks. J
I pray many times a day, we can get these people to church and teach them and bring them to the truth and baptize them.
I really am so happy to be Elder Rogers