Letter from Jon 2-23-09

Hey family this is Elder Rogers down in Peru!This week was awesome we had two marriages and had a baptism yesterday. It was my companions first. We are working hard and temperatures have really gotten sweaty hot and miserable. We are busy and we have 14 people with fecha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited and we are trying to do all we can to get them all in. Everyone has their little problems but we got some good buds that can get baptized. We married a family with two kids. I’m so excited and they have fechas for 21 of March! ,Maria and David. I was in at a marriage again yesterday. Marriages are so so stressful but so awesome. I can really feel like we making a difference down here. My companion is getting lots of cool experiences; his first baptism yesterday of a lady named Jaklikn and it went really well. I’m happy just to be able to go after it down here. We have two more baptisms this next week. It’s hard to explain the stories of all of them but there all great people.
I love little kids! Many of you now know Bruno, with a name of dog. He is a nut, he is like Kason on drugs that speaks Spanish. He is my bud for life. Everyday he climbs through my bedroom door window to wake me up. Everyday he makes a candy picture to tell me how hot my girlfriend is. He really is something else but my buddy. He talks so so so fast! I should be pretty sharp. Everyday I have language study with Bruno from 11 to 11:15 then that’s about as much as I can handle and I’ve got to do something else.
This week we were contacting and I contacted a dude with blue and white jersey on and I read it and it said …..DIXIE! What!…. I said,” hey were did you get that shirt?” He said his family sent it to him. I said, “ that’s my high school no way what a small world!!!” I wanted to buy it from him and I reached for my wallet but decided not to. I didn’t want him to walk away with no shirt just so some rich American could have a Dixie shirt. I was so shocked. Cool uh! Dixie High in Peru!
Sorry about the 100 sole charge last week we went to Chiles and I splurged. It was so amazing and one of highlights of this last year of my life! I got a cookie, a brownie and ice cream and a chicken fried steak! It was great! Thanks dad for making the happiest lunch of my life possible! I dedicate this song to dots…..remember Uncle Mike on the houseboat. I miss that guy!I love you all
I’m making best of my two years!Love Elder Rogers!!