Letter from Jon 7-6-09

7/6/09


Hey fam!!!!!!!!!Well its been another great week thanks so much for your fun emails and great reports i Thanks so much everyone for all the love and support they don’t tell us until the end so its kind of intense writing. Well this week Jose and his wife and little Jeremy all got confirmed and Jose received the priesthood I was so so excited for him he is priest and is reading a lot trying to get all his duties down last night we went to his house and he started crying and said he has a feeling I’m leaving and doest want us to go it was so sad we all started crying I love my converts and am so blessed to be such a great part in the change in there life one month ago he didn’t want to talk to me and know he is member with priesthood the spirit works so dramatically and its changing me being a part of it I have seen so many miracles with Salinas we don’t even want to talk about splitting yikes…
This morning was little tuff we sent one of my best buds home Elder Davis he completed two years and was such a good elder taught me so much and we had so much fun tearing in up in same district these last three months together and it was hard to see him go and It kind of scares me to I love my mission and feel so blessed even thought its been the hardest thing at times its only one shot and I really feel like these people and friends you make …..its going to be tuff …I’m scared to end … last night at dinner we all looked at each other and I was like Davis your gone man and this change is over we all almost started bauling heheWell yesterday in church we had almost 200 people there and we took a picture in our nebies class with all the people we baptized and it was awesome to have them all there they are really progressing so nicely hehe and I love teaching them with my comp we make nebies class fun.Well there has been some crazy strikes lately and some days there is no cars or rocks piled up in the street my comp and I just walk down middle of main streets while others play volley and soccer. There is some problems right now with junk. Life here is always an adventure. It seem like more people are listening to Michael Jackson now that he is dead. My companion and I were walking down street and I heard “just beat it”…. I started moon walking and he was laughing so hard. Then this little family picnic saw me too . I stopped but not before I mouthed beat it……. and smiled. They all stopped and stared …..Then just died laughing I got kind of embarrassed but it was fun. I was like lets get out of here. We just changed or pens to a lady who lives in Wisconsin. She was visiting her sisters a lady in our ward. She was only here for couple of weeks. We had lasagna, pizza, steak and mashed potatoes and fajitas. I was in heaven then she says I got to go back soon. My companion and I were so sad and now we had to go back to old pension. My expenses on my card might raise this month hehe. She has cutest little kids and that don’t speak any Spanish so while we ate with them I had the hardest time not laughing at what little kids had to say . One little boy was in his high chair screaming get me the heck out of here!!!! And know one understood him. I was laughing so hard and walked over to help him. I was translating for their uncles and it was way fun. Well I’ll tell you what changes are drum roll……………..
Stay and train another from the CCM--- can you believe it?

Love ya Elder Rogers