Denton & Kay Rogers & Family

Well, it is October 19, 2010 and it is my 64th birthday and we are in Guatemala serving a mission. Today we took 38 North American missionaries out of the CCM to go and explore a little bit of Guatemal City. We had lots of fun. Tonight and tomorrow we will welcome a whole new bunch of missionaries. The ones from Provo, Utah just arrived, they are tired and very excited. They will stay here for 6 weeks and then go to their missions. The Latins will arrive tomorrow and they will stay for only 3 weeks. We will be busy making sure they have all their shots, their dental work is done and then they will begin studying out of the Preach My Gospel. It is amazing how their Testimonies grow and how they learn to teach and find investigators in such short period of time. Tomorrow Denton and I will take the 38 North Americans to the Temple while all the new ones get settled. Then we will teach the new Latins a Temple prep course to get ready to go to the Temple for their first time. The North Americans have had many times to go to the Temple while in Provo so we will take them to the Guatemala City Temple for their first time next Wed. It is just one cycle that goes on and on and on. Wonderful missionaries in and wonderful missionaries out.

This is a picture of the Dental facility here. It was built by the Church and many retired Mormon dentists come here and volunteer their time. There is a Dental school right here in the Guatemala City area and when the students found out about this facility many of them come here in their 5th year and work on patients under the supervision of the Mormon Dentists. They say it is a GREAT experience for them.
There is a Dr. and Sister Fillmore from Mesa, Az. and a Dr. and Sister Tobler from Las Vegsas, Nevada Our friend Dr. Wayne Tompkinson and his wife Suzanne really were the ones who actually help set up all the equipment and getting it up and running.




This is a five chair dental office. It services only the missionaries and a Girls orphanage which is right behind the Dental Clinic. The girls from the orphanage are, by hand, pounding on the rocks that were dumped there for them to pound into red dust to be used on a baseball field. There just has to be a better way! There are also all kinds of Disney pictures painted on the walls of the orphanage to help make it a happier place. When I saw this picture of Snow White I had to take it for Elsie because this Halloween she wants to be Elsie Malinka Snow White!