This week i'm not gonna lie i don't have too much to tell about. Its the same old same old as every week. Teach lessons, extend baptismal dates, save the world, kill anything other than missionaries that comes inside the apartment.... nothing new. The rain has started coming down... every morning about 2 to 3 the rain pours!! And rain doesn't travel downward here... the wind that comes with the rain is so strong that rain travels from side to side... so before you go to sleep make sure all the windows are closed.... or you get to mop during your exercise time in the morning.... anyways i don't know what else to say.. Elder Tanner and i are doing great and having a blast. We increased our investigator's pool by 7 this week and gave 4 of them baptismal dates... one of them being our very stubborn catholic investigator... the plan is to convert him and then use him to help teach his family. He's a sweet guy and i'll write more about him at a later time. Love you all!
-Elder Rogers
Monday, May 26, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
And the stew fights back!!!!
Well i hope you all heard about my stew but if you didn't here's what happened.... So when we cook here you cook a weeks worth of stew and then you heat it up every night and morning so it doesn't spoil because we live in SaLone.... Light no dae in SaLone. So anyways we forgot to heat it up on that night and the following morning and when i opened the pot the following night... fuzzy white stuff all over the top... so what do i do? Too expensive to throw it away and make another.... so i spooned out the moldy fuzz and the top skin layer that was rotting and cooked it real fine and added some stuff to take away any possible after taste. Well it tasted just fine... but it didn't sit too well with me.... Tuesday was a day of sitting on the toilet and trying not to cry because of the heat of... you get the idea... So that started at about 3:00 in the morning and continued on into the whole day and stopped at about 1:00 in the afternoon on Tuesday.... what a crappy day (hahahah crappy... get it? hahah) Anyways it wasn't bad... well it was but at least i didn't go hungry.
This week we had our second rejection of a baptismal interview.... nice to have a tough area once in a while... it makes you grateful for the areas that you go into and they just accept you... but it is making me adjust myself and sincerely look for the hand of the Lord to guide us to those people that are ready.
So rainy season is coming..... and boy do i already have some sweet, sweet stories for you.. but its a bummer because you wouldn't be able to understand if i typed them but i've written them in my journal and we'll be laughing hard next October, or November..... i have quite a few stories to tell.
Anyways not too much to tell about this week. Elder Tanner and I are having too much fun together... i pray for another transfer with him already... by the way its kinda weird if i put our tags together and put his over mine to cover up the Elder part of mine it says this...... ELDER TANNER ROGERS. And in case you were wondering its torture because i'll often say "Tanner" instead of Elder Tanner..... just habit... anyways gotta run! Love you all!
This week we had our second rejection of a baptismal interview.... nice to have a tough area once in a while... it makes you grateful for the areas that you go into and they just accept you... but it is making me adjust myself and sincerely look for the hand of the Lord to guide us to those people that are ready.
So rainy season is coming..... and boy do i already have some sweet, sweet stories for you.. but its a bummer because you wouldn't be able to understand if i typed them but i've written them in my journal and we'll be laughing hard next October, or November..... i have quite a few stories to tell.
Anyways not too much to tell about this week. Elder Tanner and I are having too much fun together... i pray for another transfer with him already... by the way its kinda weird if i put our tags together and put his over mine to cover up the Elder part of mine it says this...... ELDER TANNER ROGERS. And in case you were wondering its torture because i'll often say "Tanner" instead of Elder Tanner..... just habit... anyways gotta run! Love you all!
Monday, May 12, 2014
uhhh...
So i have really nothing to say this week. It was so nice to be able to talk to all of you and even to have a family prayer from so far away! Great idea Annika! For those of you who don't know, i'll be staying in American Corner as the District Leader and i'll be receiving Elder Tanner from Bo. He is from my MTC group so i already know him and am looking forward to spending at least 6 weeks with him! Love you all!
-Elder Rogers
ps... Annika elder bogh is in my zone again and i'll be able to go on an exchange with him.... ohhhhhhhh yaaaaaaaaaaaa;)
-Elder Rogers
ps... Annika elder bogh is in my zone again and i'll be able to go on an exchange with him.... ohhhhhhhh yaaaaaaaaaaaa;)
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Monday, May 5, 2014
it's here!
Well everyone the second phone call is now here. Its so crazy how fast time goes. This transfer has been the fastest transfer i've had so far. Saturday we will receive transfer news and Sunday i'll be able to tell you all about it! So other than that.... this week wasn't the worst week. We found some way sweet families this week! Also we were teaching brother Garrinche and i was feeling like "okay time to be bold and give this man a baptismal date." He politely declined. Buuuutt we're still workin on him.
Sunday was such an interesting trek to church... it rained almost the whole day and it was the worst Sunday morning.. just a down poor. New Road (the main highway) turns into a muddy river with cars driving through it when it rains boku! So here we are having to cross new road... so we find a way to cross the eastbound lanes and we get to the median and start walking up to find another place of just road so that we can cross without getting wet... well in the process... a Pota Pota (taxi/van thing) comes flyin down the road and hits a part of the road where the water is pretty deep.... he's in the lane that is closest to us as well... oh ya... we sure got it. Brown water comes in a waveform through the air and hits all 8 of us missionaries... so we were all pretty brown but we still hadn't crossed.... at that point we all were thinking the same thing and Elder Arhinful spoke it for us "well elders... forget yourself and go to work". In we went. mid-ankle high mud water with garbage and stuff that i don't even know what to call so that you would understand what i'm trying to describe.... wet feet all day long but we made it on time to church!! Honestly... it was to much fun.
So today is short because we are going to Bureh Beach again as a zone so i'm pretty excited for that. Rainy season is starting to come so it's real nice and humid around here but at least it's pretty cool temperature wise.... and the lightning and thunder here..... is louder than i've ever heard it.... SO SWEET!! Malloway!
-Elder Rogers
Happy Cinco de mayo!! WOOHOO go Mexicans!
Sunday was such an interesting trek to church... it rained almost the whole day and it was the worst Sunday morning.. just a down poor. New Road (the main highway) turns into a muddy river with cars driving through it when it rains boku! So here we are having to cross new road... so we find a way to cross the eastbound lanes and we get to the median and start walking up to find another place of just road so that we can cross without getting wet... well in the process... a Pota Pota (taxi/van thing) comes flyin down the road and hits a part of the road where the water is pretty deep.... he's in the lane that is closest to us as well... oh ya... we sure got it. Brown water comes in a waveform through the air and hits all 8 of us missionaries... so we were all pretty brown but we still hadn't crossed.... at that point we all were thinking the same thing and Elder Arhinful spoke it for us "well elders... forget yourself and go to work". In we went. mid-ankle high mud water with garbage and stuff that i don't even know what to call so that you would understand what i'm trying to describe.... wet feet all day long but we made it on time to church!! Honestly... it was to much fun.
So today is short because we are going to Bureh Beach again as a zone so i'm pretty excited for that. Rainy season is starting to come so it's real nice and humid around here but at least it's pretty cool temperature wise.... and the lightning and thunder here..... is louder than i've ever heard it.... SO SWEET!! Malloway!
-Elder Rogers
Happy Cinco de mayo!! WOOHOO go Mexicans!
Friday, May 2, 2014
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Proselyting on Monday...... what?
So some of you may be wondering why i'm emailing on a Tuesday... its because Sierra Leone's independence day was on the 27th so Monday was a holiday as well and the mission decided that more people would be home on Monday so it would be a very good opportunity to find more families. It was a good idea because we got a sweet new family to teach!!
So this past week we had our zone meeting for the transfer and i got to conduct..... conducting by the way is a lot harder than it looks.... Elder Sumrak and Elder Stanford (the AP's) attended as well and for the most part of the meeting we discussed finding Kingdom Builders, people who have families, are educated for the most part and will be strong members in the church. So right after that Elder Hamilton and i went out to find and boy to we find someone who's gonna make us work! We found a sweet guy who's relatively old and he's a pretty strong Muslim man. His name is Abduli "Garrinche" Sesay. The "Garrinche" name is a name that was given to him way back in the day when he played football for the national Sierra Leone team... the name followed him through his career as he moved from playing on the team to coaching the national team. Now he's a Football junky and that's all he does every day. I tell you what tho.... it's been a long time since i've been able to talk sports with someone, so we had a pretty sweet connection. He's a pretty strong Muslim but Elder Hamilton and i got him to pray "the Christian way" in our last lesson with him on Saturday. Sadly he didn't come to church on Sunday, but small small.
So yesterday i gave instruction in district meeting on weekly planning and the importance of setting goals. The AP's were also present at this meeting. I loved giving this instruction and i felt very inspired and i enjoyed having the AP's comments in the meeting since my district tends to be a little.... quiet. Tomorrow i'll be going to Kossoh Town for another meeting with our zone and Waterloo zone(my old zone), the AP's will be there as well... i tell you what... i think i see Elder Sumrak just as much now as i did when i was his companion, its so sweet!!! The meeting is about mental health.... we have been having many many missionaries going home lately from our mission and some is because they get in their heads that they can't last the two years in this rough of living conditions. It's really crappy to see so many go home... i'm proud to say that my MTC group of 26 (largest in this mission so far) still has all of the missionaries in the field! WOOOHOOO!
The picture you asked about mom is when we were waiting for interviews with President Ostler. We were in the Wellington Chapel... notice the barbed wire on the walls... that's to keep the bad guys out. That's a very very very common thing here... most places with compound walls have barbed wire on top and shattered glass cemented to the top of the wall and some even have guard dogs or a security guard.
Dogs here are so crazy... in Allen Town they are scattered around during the day and afraid of everything that moves, at night they pack together and they hunt things... people included. Elder Barrick almost got eaten one time.... that's a pretty funny story actually but it's for another day. So anyways i think that's about all for today. I love you all so much! Malloway!
-Elder Rogers
So this past week we had our zone meeting for the transfer and i got to conduct..... conducting by the way is a lot harder than it looks.... Elder Sumrak and Elder Stanford (the AP's) attended as well and for the most part of the meeting we discussed finding Kingdom Builders, people who have families, are educated for the most part and will be strong members in the church. So right after that Elder Hamilton and i went out to find and boy to we find someone who's gonna make us work! We found a sweet guy who's relatively old and he's a pretty strong Muslim man. His name is Abduli "Garrinche" Sesay. The "Garrinche" name is a name that was given to him way back in the day when he played football for the national Sierra Leone team... the name followed him through his career as he moved from playing on the team to coaching the national team. Now he's a Football junky and that's all he does every day. I tell you what tho.... it's been a long time since i've been able to talk sports with someone, so we had a pretty sweet connection. He's a pretty strong Muslim but Elder Hamilton and i got him to pray "the Christian way" in our last lesson with him on Saturday. Sadly he didn't come to church on Sunday, but small small.
So yesterday i gave instruction in district meeting on weekly planning and the importance of setting goals. The AP's were also present at this meeting. I loved giving this instruction and i felt very inspired and i enjoyed having the AP's comments in the meeting since my district tends to be a little.... quiet. Tomorrow i'll be going to Kossoh Town for another meeting with our zone and Waterloo zone(my old zone), the AP's will be there as well... i tell you what... i think i see Elder Sumrak just as much now as i did when i was his companion, its so sweet!!! The meeting is about mental health.... we have been having many many missionaries going home lately from our mission and some is because they get in their heads that they can't last the two years in this rough of living conditions. It's really crappy to see so many go home... i'm proud to say that my MTC group of 26 (largest in this mission so far) still has all of the missionaries in the field! WOOOHOOO!
The picture you asked about mom is when we were waiting for interviews with President Ostler. We were in the Wellington Chapel... notice the barbed wire on the walls... that's to keep the bad guys out. That's a very very very common thing here... most places with compound walls have barbed wire on top and shattered glass cemented to the top of the wall and some even have guard dogs or a security guard.
Dogs here are so crazy... in Allen Town they are scattered around during the day and afraid of everything that moves, at night they pack together and they hunt things... people included. Elder Barrick almost got eaten one time.... that's a pretty funny story actually but it's for another day. So anyways i think that's about all for today. I love you all so much! Malloway!
-Elder Rogers
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