Clint Mission 99 #13 3/29/99
Dear Family,
Thanks for the letters and pictures I received this week. Aunt Shell, and the Norths, Hammers, Grandma Hafen and Grandma Talbot, Mom, Dad, Lisha, Bood-funk-a-rama, Angela, Andrea, and Jon!!!
Things are good here although very busy. I guess that is AP life.
I too look forward to Conference, we will get it on a video in a month or so.
Mangos, Mangos, Mangos!!!
Like I said this week has flown by I think it was because everyday is just packed. I don’t know if it is the heat or our schedule but if I sit still for a moment I do the bob thing. I have no trouble at appointments it is usually the last hour before bed.
I think I told you about some of the other Christian people we met. We have been praying for an opportunity to meet with some of them and just have been working with others. The Sounds of Sunday couple was scheduled for Monday today like I said last week. However on Friday we saw her home and paused to see if we were on for Monday.
Monday she was busy. We went to the church and grabbed 19 year old Ban Promoul a district missionary and went back. We just sat and listened as she went off about her church and all the stuff they were doing. We waded through this waiting for our chance. She began to ask how we were different. We began to tell her and focused in on principles 3rd & 4th of the first discussion. 3=God’s Plan for Revealing truth and 4 = Joseph Smith. Her main concern is that after the bible there is no more. We don’t need prophets, revelation, etc. She has never thought about the concept of priesthood authority. The discussion was intense as she really wanted to know and yet believes strongly in her church. It was not contentious though. An hour and a half flew by and more and more she listened. She committed to pray about Joseph Smith. As we were talking she at one point thought we weren’t understanding her, we were struck on a term that they use differently in her church. She went right to Promoul and he strongly bore his testimony. He said he really felt the spirit in the appointment. Her name is Dalyya ( Dal lee ya). She praised us saying I admire your courage and the way you talk with feeling. As we were leaving she talked about her family. She said her family had been Christian ever since her Aunt or someone heard a voice in answer to prayer. Also she said that her parents had both died and she was an orphan .
When she said this I asked her is she had ever been baptized for her parents. I knew she hadn’t been but asked to spark her interest. I then talked about 1 Corinthians 15:29 . Else why. . . and told her that through the Priesthood we can do this ordinance to help those who have passed on. It grabbed her attention and it came right from the bible.
DEAR VERN STUDY THE MISSION SCRIPTURE LIST!!!!---- Love Elder Rogers
We went back lst thing Saturday Morning to check on Dalyya’s answer. She had laid down to help her daughter get to sleep and feel asleep too. We are going back tomorrow at 12:00p.m., to follow up on her prayer. She obviously felt the spirit. I believe she knows it is already true. Her prayer will only confirm that. The hard part is that she is a paid employee for the New life Church. Our little branches do not have the radio station, membership, etc. However, we do have the restored and complete gospel of Jesus Christ with authority to perform the ordinances that allow us to enter the celestial kingdom. I know that this is true.
Love you all.
Your Son, Brother, Missionary, Elder Rogers