10-20-08
Hey family, mom and dad and all my loved ones muah!!!!!!!!!!This week has been crazy fast and I got lots to report its so crazy! My companion is preparing me for being senior and its tough, but exciting. I went on an exchange with Elder Packer from California and successfully led 6 lessons and took charge the whole 2 days in Jauja and it got me excited but kind a nervous. Elder Packer only has only been in the field 3 months so I had to talk most of the time. I can switch back and forth from Spanish to English now. I almost want to ask people if they understand cause I still cant believe we just talk for 45 min in Spanish and they understand, but president said in my interview Rogers you are ready for future assignments so I said yeah. I don’t know what will happen this next change but am excited to learn and change. I like the responsibility of leading but still have lots to learn. It is so fun to hear from you all and I’m doing good. I love the mac and cheeses and so does everyone else and the peanut butter. This week I gave a talk in church and was just so proud of our converts they are all active happy and learning. I’m handing out pictures of Jesus and everything like crazy. I talked on service and am just full of love for the families that I now have as my friends in the church and we are best buds they will not stop talking about me and Benites leaving and we are all dreading it, but maybe one day I’ll come back and show you all these families that I know were prepared in this time for us to be instruments to help them .It still rains like crazy and it kinda makes it exciting and intense in the muddy streets.I also bought an Hawaiian punch last week I think it was miracle!!!!!! I’m going to drink it for my b-day it was made like 3 years ago and was sitting on the shelve. I’m so blessed. I was probly the only one that could or wanted to buy it!!!! Fine fellow gift!!One of my favorite things to do is ask families how they were baptized and hear there story they are all miracles and so interesting. The family of my penzinita started with her younger brother and then the elders were pulled for 10 years for terrorism and then her sister was baptized in Lima and 3 years later her oldest son... well Alina my penzinita went to baptism with her daughter and then her daughter was baptized 6 months later and then she said I want to hear what these boys say to convince my kids. Alina took the discussions and was baptized 1 yr later by her first son Michal. Michal is on a mission now and last year Eddy was baptized because of the good example of his brother Michal, and 6 months ago her hermano( brother) Jesus the hardest of all asked Elder Carpio to be baptized because of the blessings of his family that he saw. He was the only one that didn’t want anything to do with church was finally baptized in August wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It took yrs and yrs but now we have eternal family and there all my best buds especially my penzinita. I know it was all meant to be and started with one. We have two investigators brother of Hermana Liztte and 1 other boy and I told them this story. I love you all and if you have questions let me know until next week muah!!!!!!!!! love your son Elder Rogers!!!!hey PS please everyone tell Kylee girl happy happy bday on 25
Monday, October 20, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
10-16-08 letter
10/13/08
Hey fam !!!!!!! How is everyone and life in good ol St. George? It sounds cold! hehe Welcome to my life. I’m doing good and I got the protein packages mom. I started my work-out with my buddy Elder Benites. He loves “The-perfect-pushups” and I hardly get a turn, but we are both feeling better and trying to put some meat on our bones. I feel good and those vitamins are good too. I hope I got normal function and will keep you updated on weight watchers. My companion is doing good too and we just stated the protein so maybe next week I’ll weigh in at 190lbs hehe just kidding . This has been a good week, I’m sorry about the fishing and tennis loss mom and Dad but your still the best parents ever! Clint you know I’d love the dutch oven. That’s awesome Ang is expecting a little curly head and Lish is about ready to pop! I guess I’ll be a uncle again next week! Thanks a million for all the love and support.This week has been good week and I have really felt the spirit and progress in my testimony and also the ward. All of our baptisms are active and its so fun to be best buds with them all. We joke and see the new faces in church every week! Andy is passing the sacrament and Lizzette comes every week with her sister and the Book of Mormon. Carolina loves it all… and Brigham got the priesthood and his temple recommend. I am really happy being apart of all this.So a funny thing happened this week we did a church wide service with over 300 members in Huancayo. Its so fun to think after this life I will see all these people and we will all be there hopefully together in the kingdom…. But camera dudes came and filmed us and said here we have are friends from the U.S. so I talked on camera on Huancayo TV. I asked and made sure that it wasn’t going to church or Utah or the US. I would not like to see my skinny grill in between next conference in some touching story of Peru. Everyone else froze up so I just said hi and told who we are. I said we love to serve and are so happy. I think it was ok Spanish…I hope but it was fun we planted trees in a park. I was in my new favorite jeans yeah!!!!!!! It rains every day so hard your really going to love the videos I filmed. This week was also mission conference and it was so good. I love President but I think he doesn’t want problems cause every time he talks to me he is like; Rogers how are you? Great, that’s good! I’m so happy for you! Your gaining weight it seems. Yeah President, what ever you say and he’s off. But I guess I can take care of myself right? I have for 10 months! yeah!!!!!I love you all
Stay strong We all must go on in this great cause!!!!!!!!!!!Elder Rogers’Muah!
Hey fam !!!!!!! How is everyone and life in good ol St. George? It sounds cold! hehe Welcome to my life. I’m doing good and I got the protein packages mom. I started my work-out with my buddy Elder Benites. He loves “The-perfect-pushups” and I hardly get a turn, but we are both feeling better and trying to put some meat on our bones. I feel good and those vitamins are good too. I hope I got normal function and will keep you updated on weight watchers. My companion is doing good too and we just stated the protein so maybe next week I’ll weigh in at 190lbs hehe just kidding . This has been a good week, I’m sorry about the fishing and tennis loss mom and Dad but your still the best parents ever! Clint you know I’d love the dutch oven. That’s awesome Ang is expecting a little curly head and Lish is about ready to pop! I guess I’ll be a uncle again next week! Thanks a million for all the love and support.This week has been good week and I have really felt the spirit and progress in my testimony and also the ward. All of our baptisms are active and its so fun to be best buds with them all. We joke and see the new faces in church every week! Andy is passing the sacrament and Lizzette comes every week with her sister and the Book of Mormon. Carolina loves it all… and Brigham got the priesthood and his temple recommend. I am really happy being apart of all this.So a funny thing happened this week we did a church wide service with over 300 members in Huancayo. Its so fun to think after this life I will see all these people and we will all be there hopefully together in the kingdom…. But camera dudes came and filmed us and said here we have are friends from the U.S. so I talked on camera on Huancayo TV. I asked and made sure that it wasn’t going to church or Utah or the US. I would not like to see my skinny grill in between next conference in some touching story of Peru. Everyone else froze up so I just said hi and told who we are. I said we love to serve and are so happy. I think it was ok Spanish…I hope but it was fun we planted trees in a park. I was in my new favorite jeans yeah!!!!!!! It rains every day so hard your really going to love the videos I filmed. This week was also mission conference and it was so good. I love President but I think he doesn’t want problems cause every time he talks to me he is like; Rogers how are you? Great, that’s good! I’m so happy for you! Your gaining weight it seems. Yeah President, what ever you say and he’s off. But I guess I can take care of myself right? I have for 10 months! yeah!!!!!I love you all
Stay strong We all must go on in this great cause!!!!!!!!!!!Elder Rogers’Muah!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Letter from Jon 10-6-08
Letter from Jon 10-6-08
Hey family and everyone,
Wow.. another great week of conference! I loved every bit and I got to watch all 5 sessions. Conference started out a little rough, we watched through the Internet. This was the first time that I had ever tried to watch on the Internet. The church has really got a nice system. You can watch on the Internet just like TV but you have to have a nice computer which is very rare and hard to find down here in Jauja and I was so excited and prayed to get good computer and for the spirit. I was so excited and we left to go watch at 9:30 to get a computer up and running. Conference started at 11 here but I wanted to listen to the music. To make a long story short the adversary was working pretty dang hard. My companion and I were probably the only two people in Jauja that wanted to watch conference and 5 out of 9 places with computers were closed because there was a big party in central sat and sun. We had to walk the whole town to find one hole-in-the wall computer terminal. After an hour of trying to make it work, we left and went to another hole in the wall Internet shop. Still we could only hear conference we could not watch and it still didn’t work too well. At one point I started to tear up and then just cried in my little cubicle because I was so so so frustrated and it was 11:30 already. I finally got it to work and then for the afternoon session we were able to find a better store to watch the afternoon session from. I loved it and was so thrilled when it started working. You can guess the talks I loved. “God does love me” by Anderson and “Hope” by Uchtdorf. I’ve always loved the subject of hope and I’ve defiantly felt the grief and pain and stuff in my life so far on my mission. I felt the Uchtdorf talk was just for me.I also loved talk by Japanese girl about missionaries. It is cool being a missionary during conference you feel the support when people talk about missionaries, I like it when she says if you have a missionary write him letters of love and support. She knows she was one and she know that letters save you.I loved many talks and took really good notes. I also watched both the sessions Saturday on the computer in English yeah! Sunday we went to the stake center in Huanacayo. We watched the sessions in Spanish by the satellite. The power was out all day Sunday but the stake center had a generator hehe nothing stops us!I loved the stories of respecting wives and girls and marriage, and also the prophets stories. I love when he said the best feeling in this life is receiving a prompting and acting on it and then finding out later it was the fulfillment of someone’s prayer. If there ever is an errand that the Lord needs run I Tom ( jon rog )will run it! Conference was great! In Jauja life is good. We took an investigator Daniel to conference with us Sunday and he has committed to getting baptized this Saturday! He is 18 years old and is a friend of Brigham. We have like 13 boys preparing for missions. I’m so excited! I know when we save one we save many!We also had really good experience this week. Hermana Carolina and her daughter gave us three referrals; a couple of families with 2 children and single mom and her two sons. We taught them all together in Carolina’s house. She is excited to share the gospel know she has it and its amazing. I want to baptize a family so bad I hope her friends will see the happiness this gospel brings and follow the example of Carolina.The work is good and we got 6 close to baptism. All we have to do is get them to go to church.The drug problems are still here we got stopped coming to Huancayo just before church and the Internet. It’s way scary there always looking for someone and always packing the heat! But it’s all good. We got out and walked the rest of way. They know we got nothing but the Book of Mormon .I got 3 packages this week! It was like Christmas! I’ve already got to work on the lasagna in dried package. It should help my weight watcher plan. I also got the whey powder and snacks! Thanks so much! I’m so spoiled even now I love it its like birthday month for me. I got it all mom thanks! Muah! And I love the church movies and so do our investigators. They love Elder Rog and Benites cause we always got something fun to give or watch or play thanks to good a good family. You guys are big in the workI love it when the Prophet told the story of the circus. He said childhood wont wait! I cant wait to party with you when I get back! It’s so true and I had a great childhood and I still think I have a little left hehe!Well today we also rode on a bus and man got on from circus looking for some money and started doing tricks. Everyone was like o boy here we go again. This dude was desperate and I felt bad. He rolled up cigar and stomped on it telling us it wouldn’t break and it did. Then he like chucked it out the window. Then he did a card trick and dropped his cards and we all saw that they were glued together. I was embarrassed for him so I turned and looked out window and prayed for his dignity. It was a harsh crowd. Then he said wait one more trick and if you like it you must pay a sole… He said he would eat new cards and he did …and I was like what, a weirdo. Then he talked for like 3 min and then put his hand in the air and spit the cards all back out perfect but wet!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the happened!!!!!!!! The bus was in awe!! It was all part of his act. We were all taken in. ….wow. I saw him eat them and chew and swallow and talk…….. needless to say I reached for my billfold!Love you allYour son elder rogP.S. My heart was pounding with talk of Eduarado Gavvarett the general authority that told about Peru he was here 4 weeks ago. I shook his hand and talked to him he was taking about my mission in Lima Bayovar, canta rey!
(This is probably the GA that looked like he would speak English but only spoke Spanish when he visited the mission. )
Hey family and everyone,
Wow.. another great week of conference! I loved every bit and I got to watch all 5 sessions. Conference started out a little rough, we watched through the Internet. This was the first time that I had ever tried to watch on the Internet. The church has really got a nice system. You can watch on the Internet just like TV but you have to have a nice computer which is very rare and hard to find down here in Jauja and I was so excited and prayed to get good computer and for the spirit. I was so excited and we left to go watch at 9:30 to get a computer up and running. Conference started at 11 here but I wanted to listen to the music. To make a long story short the adversary was working pretty dang hard. My companion and I were probably the only two people in Jauja that wanted to watch conference and 5 out of 9 places with computers were closed because there was a big party in central sat and sun. We had to walk the whole town to find one hole-in-the wall computer terminal. After an hour of trying to make it work, we left and went to another hole in the wall Internet shop. Still we could only hear conference we could not watch and it still didn’t work too well. At one point I started to tear up and then just cried in my little cubicle because I was so so so frustrated and it was 11:30 already. I finally got it to work and then for the afternoon session we were able to find a better store to watch the afternoon session from. I loved it and was so thrilled when it started working. You can guess the talks I loved. “God does love me” by Anderson and “Hope” by Uchtdorf. I’ve always loved the subject of hope and I’ve defiantly felt the grief and pain and stuff in my life so far on my mission. I felt the Uchtdorf talk was just for me.I also loved talk by Japanese girl about missionaries. It is cool being a missionary during conference you feel the support when people talk about missionaries, I like it when she says if you have a missionary write him letters of love and support. She knows she was one and she know that letters save you.I loved many talks and took really good notes. I also watched both the sessions Saturday on the computer in English yeah! Sunday we went to the stake center in Huanacayo. We watched the sessions in Spanish by the satellite. The power was out all day Sunday but the stake center had a generator hehe nothing stops us!I loved the stories of respecting wives and girls and marriage, and also the prophets stories. I love when he said the best feeling in this life is receiving a prompting and acting on it and then finding out later it was the fulfillment of someone’s prayer. If there ever is an errand that the Lord needs run I Tom ( jon rog )will run it! Conference was great! In Jauja life is good. We took an investigator Daniel to conference with us Sunday and he has committed to getting baptized this Saturday! He is 18 years old and is a friend of Brigham. We have like 13 boys preparing for missions. I’m so excited! I know when we save one we save many!We also had really good experience this week. Hermana Carolina and her daughter gave us three referrals; a couple of families with 2 children and single mom and her two sons. We taught them all together in Carolina’s house. She is excited to share the gospel know she has it and its amazing. I want to baptize a family so bad I hope her friends will see the happiness this gospel brings and follow the example of Carolina.The work is good and we got 6 close to baptism. All we have to do is get them to go to church.The drug problems are still here we got stopped coming to Huancayo just before church and the Internet. It’s way scary there always looking for someone and always packing the heat! But it’s all good. We got out and walked the rest of way. They know we got nothing but the Book of Mormon .I got 3 packages this week! It was like Christmas! I’ve already got to work on the lasagna in dried package. It should help my weight watcher plan. I also got the whey powder and snacks! Thanks so much! I’m so spoiled even now I love it its like birthday month for me. I got it all mom thanks! Muah! And I love the church movies and so do our investigators. They love Elder Rog and Benites cause we always got something fun to give or watch or play thanks to good a good family. You guys are big in the workI love it when the Prophet told the story of the circus. He said childhood wont wait! I cant wait to party with you when I get back! It’s so true and I had a great childhood and I still think I have a little left hehe!Well today we also rode on a bus and man got on from circus looking for some money and started doing tricks. Everyone was like o boy here we go again. This dude was desperate and I felt bad. He rolled up cigar and stomped on it telling us it wouldn’t break and it did. Then he like chucked it out the window. Then he did a card trick and dropped his cards and we all saw that they were glued together. I was embarrassed for him so I turned and looked out window and prayed for his dignity. It was a harsh crowd. Then he said wait one more trick and if you like it you must pay a sole… He said he would eat new cards and he did …and I was like what, a weirdo. Then he talked for like 3 min and then put his hand in the air and spit the cards all back out perfect but wet!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the happened!!!!!!!! The bus was in awe!! It was all part of his act. We were all taken in. ….wow. I saw him eat them and chew and swallow and talk…….. needless to say I reached for my billfold!Love you allYour son elder rogP.S. My heart was pounding with talk of Eduarado Gavvarett the general authority that told about Peru he was here 4 weeks ago. I shook his hand and talked to him he was taking about my mission in Lima Bayovar, canta rey!
(This is probably the GA that looked like he would speak English but only spoke Spanish when he visited the mission. )
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Letter from Jon 9-29-08
I have a miracle story about a boy named Brigham that left for Lima. He wanted to get baptized and we were so bummed when he left. I went ahead and put him in our plans for the next week. We were just hoping he might show up. Well, we were walking down a street and there he was!!!! He said, “ Lima just didn’t work out.” He decided he wants to stay in Jauja. So, we told him we wanted to start teaching him and baptize him and he said he really wanted us to baptize him. His whole family is members in Lima and he came to Jauja to get a way form it all and to go to school. He also decided to go to church for one year here before going back home. He already has a testimony and we taught him the first discussion after church. We challenged him and he is so ready. He wanted the 2nd lesson and then we taught him the 3rd lesson on Monday. He was baptized Tuesday night after the interview. He asked me to baptize him and I was so honored. He gave his testimony after the baptism and said that he had been waiting for this day his whole life. He now knows the church is true for him self! He was so happy and clean! We will give him the Holy Ghost next Sunday and the priesthood. He says he wants to go on his mission next year after he goes to the temple for first time with the youth of Jauja to baptize for the dead. It is a miracle and I know I’m in the right place and god knows whom he wants in his church. Love, Elder Rogers I’m so excited for conference hehe yeah!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Letter from Jon 9-15-08
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
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 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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