11/3/08
Hey fam and everyone!!!!!!!!!How is everyone doing I’m doing great well its been a heck of a week and I’m just working my tail off and really into things now……….drum rollIm in Ate-Vitarte Lima!!!!!!!!!! And I took the 13-hour buss ride back down through the highest free way in the world and up past Cerro de Pasco in the high mountains and it was way pretty and way cool.It was really hard to leave Jauja especially with the new friends and families and my bud Benites....tears lots of tears. I gave everyone hugs and it was just hard. I felt like I was leaving the MTC again and that was hard but this time it might be for life. I might never see some of my best buddies again. I told them I’ll keep doing what is right and if I don’t see you again I’ll see you in the celestial kingdom. I was bawling and if that doesn’t sound like the cheeses thing. It was hard for me! Brigham game to my room pounding the door in the night I left sad, and Hermana Lina and Carolina both gave me hugs and told me to take care of myself just like mom would and then when I got on the bus I was choked to say buy to Benites it was good but really hard. I love them!Well I’m senior comp!!!!!!!!!! And I got a gringo from Bicknell, Utah?...hehe he was pulled out of group going to Bolivia and I’m pretty much training him cause he stayed in CCM longer until President put him with me...Its nuts and he doesn’t know much but its way fun to help him out. I got of my 13 hour bus and he was standing there all nervous and was like como...aa.aa.estasss elder um elder.... and I was just like what up bro, we’re going to be buds. We talked English all that night but then I said ok buddy now we work and we planned set some plans and I said we can only speak English when we are in the house at night or if you need anything just tell me...Its kinda way fun being the leader and way intense too but we get along good and its way strange. He put me with a gringo with 10 months woof!!!!!! Also my new house has hot water!!!!!!!!!!!!and that is enough to be happy about so I’m pretty stoked. I told him we aren’t going do any sleeping or messing around on the job were going to study hard were going to work hard every hour and we going to baptize with obedience and diligence. He got kinda nervous but I also said and we are going to have fun too....I’m trying to be the senior missionary I never had to him and we are really tearing it up. Yesterday there were 138 in church!!!!!!!! A little different then Jauja and we had 18 in the new members lessons! Yeah baby we have a goal of 3 baptisms this month pray that the two gringos can do it. I know we can but it back in the ghetto of Lima and things are going pretty good. Woof it’s intense speaking Spanish and leading it all, But I’m enjoying it and I love helping my companion. I explain all the Spanish into English for him. We talk until like 11:30 every night in our beds and he just laughs and laughs at my stories of my wild ride so far and doest believe it . It really is a dream what my life has turned into now and a lot of responsibility my President has given to me but I’ve made it a goal to show everyone why we have gringos in this mission. We are going to work! We do work our butts off, and we are so tired but I love it and he does too!…. heheIts a lot of responsibility and I have no time....but will always make it for my loved ones...and my own area but I know with the help of Lord and if we are obedient we will have success and I want to come out of this change better in Spanish too.I love you all …Pray for me Your son Elder Rogers
Monday, November 3, 2008
letter from Jon 11-3-08
11/3/08
Hey fam and everyone!!!!!!!!!How is everyone doing I’m doing great well its been a heck of a week and I’m just working my tail off and really into things now……….drum rollIm in Ate-Vitarte Lima!!!!!!!!!! And I took the 13-hour buss ride back down through the highest free way in the world and up past Cerro de Pasco in the high mountains and it was way pretty and way cool.It was really hard to leave Jauja especially with the new friends and families and my bud Benites....tears lots of tears. I gave everyone hugs and it was just hard. I felt like I was leaving the MTC again and that was hard but this time it might be for life. I might never see some of my best buddies again. I told them I’ll keep doing what is right and if I don’t see you again I’ll see you in the celestial kingdom. I was bawling and if that doesn’t sound like the cheeses thing. It was hard for me! Brigham game to my room pounding the door in the night I left sad, and Hermana Lina and Carolina both gave me hugs and told me to take care of myself just like mom would and then when I got on the bus I was choked to say buy to Benites it was good but really hard. I love them!Well I’m senior comp!!!!!!!!!! And I got a gringo from Bicknell, Utah?...hehe he was pulled out of group going to Bolivia and I’m pretty much training him cause he stayed in CCM longer until President put him with me...Its nuts and he doesn’t know much but its way fun to help him out. I got of my 13 hour bus and he was standing there all nervous and was like como...aa.aa.estasss elder um elder.... and I was just like what up bro, we’re going to be buds. We talked English all that night but then I said ok buddy now we work and we planned set some plans and I said we can only speak English when we are in the house at night or if you need anything just tell me...Its kinda way fun being the leader and way intense too but we get along good and its way strange. He put me with a gringo with 10 months woof!!!!!! Also my new house has hot water!!!!!!!!!!!!and that is enough to be happy about so I’m pretty stoked. I told him we aren’t going do any sleeping or messing around on the job were going to study hard were going to work hard every hour and we going to baptize with obedience and diligence. He got kinda nervous but I also said and we are going to have fun too....I’m trying to be the senior missionary I never had to him and we are really tearing it up. Yesterday there were 138 in church!!!!!!!! A little different then Jauja and we had 18 in the new members lessons! Yeah baby we have a goal of 3 baptisms this month pray that the two gringos can do it. I know we can but it back in the ghetto of Lima and things are going pretty good. Woof it’s intense speaking Spanish and leading it all, But I’m enjoying it and I love helping my companion. I explain all the Spanish into English for him. We talk until like 11:30 every night in our beds and he just laughs and laughs at my stories of my wild ride so far and doest believe it . It really is a dream what my life has turned into now and a lot of responsibility my President has given to me but I’ve made it a goal to show everyone why we have gringos in this mission. We are going to work! We do work our butts off, and we are so tired but I love it and he does too!…. heheIts a lot of responsibility and I have no time....but will always make it for my loved ones...and my own area but I know with the help of Lord and if we are obedient we will have success and I want to come out of this change better in Spanish too.I love you all …Pray for me Your son Elder Rogers
Hey fam and everyone!!!!!!!!!How is everyone doing I’m doing great well its been a heck of a week and I’m just working my tail off and really into things now……….drum rollIm in Ate-Vitarte Lima!!!!!!!!!! And I took the 13-hour buss ride back down through the highest free way in the world and up past Cerro de Pasco in the high mountains and it was way pretty and way cool.It was really hard to leave Jauja especially with the new friends and families and my bud Benites....tears lots of tears. I gave everyone hugs and it was just hard. I felt like I was leaving the MTC again and that was hard but this time it might be for life. I might never see some of my best buddies again. I told them I’ll keep doing what is right and if I don’t see you again I’ll see you in the celestial kingdom. I was bawling and if that doesn’t sound like the cheeses thing. It was hard for me! Brigham game to my room pounding the door in the night I left sad, and Hermana Lina and Carolina both gave me hugs and told me to take care of myself just like mom would and then when I got on the bus I was choked to say buy to Benites it was good but really hard. I love them!Well I’m senior comp!!!!!!!!!! And I got a gringo from Bicknell, Utah?...hehe he was pulled out of group going to Bolivia and I’m pretty much training him cause he stayed in CCM longer until President put him with me...Its nuts and he doesn’t know much but its way fun to help him out. I got of my 13 hour bus and he was standing there all nervous and was like como...aa.aa.estasss elder um elder.... and I was just like what up bro, we’re going to be buds. We talked English all that night but then I said ok buddy now we work and we planned set some plans and I said we can only speak English when we are in the house at night or if you need anything just tell me...Its kinda way fun being the leader and way intense too but we get along good and its way strange. He put me with a gringo with 10 months woof!!!!!! Also my new house has hot water!!!!!!!!!!!!and that is enough to be happy about so I’m pretty stoked. I told him we aren’t going do any sleeping or messing around on the job were going to study hard were going to work hard every hour and we going to baptize with obedience and diligence. He got kinda nervous but I also said and we are going to have fun too....I’m trying to be the senior missionary I never had to him and we are really tearing it up. Yesterday there were 138 in church!!!!!!!! A little different then Jauja and we had 18 in the new members lessons! Yeah baby we have a goal of 3 baptisms this month pray that the two gringos can do it. I know we can but it back in the ghetto of Lima and things are going pretty good. Woof it’s intense speaking Spanish and leading it all, But I’m enjoying it and I love helping my companion. I explain all the Spanish into English for him. We talk until like 11:30 every night in our beds and he just laughs and laughs at my stories of my wild ride so far and doest believe it . It really is a dream what my life has turned into now and a lot of responsibility my President has given to me but I’ve made it a goal to show everyone why we have gringos in this mission. We are going to work! We do work our butts off, and we are so tired but I love it and he does too!…. heheIts a lot of responsibility and I have no time....but will always make it for my loved ones...and my own area but I know with the help of Lord and if we are obedient we will have success and I want to come out of this change better in Spanish too.I love you all …Pray for me Your son Elder Rogers
Saturday, November 1, 2008
10-27-08- Post Birthday Thanks
Oct 27, 2009
Hey Family Thank you so much everyone for your wonderful love that you’ve sent!. There were so many letters of love and packages this month it has been so great!!I got three packages today and 2 letters from Kylee girl!! And one from lish and ty and grandma and a full board of emails! I’m going to have to do some printing this week. Thank you so much for the happiest b-day everyone muah!!!!!!!!!!I’m excited that little Bailey came!! and dad and clint are going to mexico without me? You’ll need a guide hehe!!!!!!!!! Yo puedo ayudarles ahora .Muah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Well I had a great b-day and opened love letters fun pictures and just had a great time. We had a family home evening this Sat. in my behalf and we invited all my best friends. (the recent baptisms in Jauja) Hermana Carolina bought me a cake and wrote Elder “Rogger” on it in blue frosting. We had pizza too! Remember I taught everyone how to make pizza. We took pictures and played some FHE games. I bought the Bob Marly CD to listen to. I think that’s ok for special occasions …. right?.... They threw the cake in my face pretty good, that is the tradition here. I’ll send pictures. We had about 12 people at the party that we have taught and reactivated and that was the most rewarding part it. My party ended with a 3 year old kid doing the Michael Jackson dance thriller for me!!!!!!!! He said he wanted to dance like Elder Rogers. I don’t know were he learned that? He danced the whole song it reminded me of Kason--- it was so funny. It was a little sad too we have changes today and I’m way nervous!It was a great b-day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I am really happy and just my self. It has been great week! I got letter from Bishop Greer and he said hi and good job. He also challenged me to be the missionary that Mom thinks I am. I sure am trying to! I thought that was a cool idea. I love you all and am working hard I feel so good and full of spirit I really do love the people here in Jauja! Even though things are still a little rough at times I’m getting used to it and sometimes I stop and think when I’m sleeping between 3 Latinos on the floor of some little whole in the wall house or eating crap they call food or riding on a buss with 37 people as big as the lume or watching a drunk dude fight or lay in street….. I think am I really here or is this real….. but I’m getting used to it.My companion has let me lead last week in everything to the point its almost annoying but its really helping me and there is no time to sit back and daydream or chill on the job we taught 45 lessons last week!!!!!!!!We are working hard and I’m way tense cause we have changes this week but they still haven’t come…….I will tell you as soon as I know what the changes are. Tell everyone thanks for all the love and tell them I’m doing great. I feel bad I spent some cash and I’m way spoiled but I’m so grateful! Thanks so so so much!Tell everyone to be safe in all there doing and I love you all so much!I’m sorry I couldn’t answer total today but I just got overloaded with lovealways your son in Peru!Elder Rogger
Hey Family Thank you so much everyone for your wonderful love that you’ve sent!. There were so many letters of love and packages this month it has been so great!!I got three packages today and 2 letters from Kylee girl!! And one from lish and ty and grandma and a full board of emails! I’m going to have to do some printing this week. Thank you so much for the happiest b-day everyone muah!!!!!!!!!!I’m excited that little Bailey came!! and dad and clint are going to mexico without me? You’ll need a guide hehe!!!!!!!!! Yo puedo ayudarles ahora .Muah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Well I had a great b-day and opened love letters fun pictures and just had a great time. We had a family home evening this Sat. in my behalf and we invited all my best friends. (the recent baptisms in Jauja) Hermana Carolina bought me a cake and wrote Elder “Rogger” on it in blue frosting. We had pizza too! Remember I taught everyone how to make pizza. We took pictures and played some FHE games. I bought the Bob Marly CD to listen to. I think that’s ok for special occasions …. right?.... They threw the cake in my face pretty good, that is the tradition here. I’ll send pictures. We had about 12 people at the party that we have taught and reactivated and that was the most rewarding part it. My party ended with a 3 year old kid doing the Michael Jackson dance thriller for me!!!!!!!! He said he wanted to dance like Elder Rogers. I don’t know were he learned that? He danced the whole song it reminded me of Kason--- it was so funny. It was a little sad too we have changes today and I’m way nervous!It was a great b-day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I am really happy and just my self. It has been great week! I got letter from Bishop Greer and he said hi and good job. He also challenged me to be the missionary that Mom thinks I am. I sure am trying to! I thought that was a cool idea. I love you all and am working hard I feel so good and full of spirit I really do love the people here in Jauja! Even though things are still a little rough at times I’m getting used to it and sometimes I stop and think when I’m sleeping between 3 Latinos on the floor of some little whole in the wall house or eating crap they call food or riding on a buss with 37 people as big as the lume or watching a drunk dude fight or lay in street….. I think am I really here or is this real….. but I’m getting used to it.My companion has let me lead last week in everything to the point its almost annoying but its really helping me and there is no time to sit back and daydream or chill on the job we taught 45 lessons last week!!!!!!!!We are working hard and I’m way tense cause we have changes this week but they still haven’t come…….I will tell you as soon as I know what the changes are. Tell everyone thanks for all the love and tell them I’m doing great. I feel bad I spent some cash and I’m way spoiled but I’m so grateful! Thanks so so so much!Tell everyone to be safe in all there doing and I love you all so much!I’m sorry I couldn’t answer total today but I just got overloaded with lovealways your son in Peru!Elder Rogger
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
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
Monday, October 20, 2008
letter from Jon 10-20-08
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
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
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. )
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