Dear Family,
Late Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Glad to hear everything went off with a smash there in Utah. The Christmas holiday came and went and it didn´t really feel like it was Christmas just another day in the Lords work which is better that way. On Christmas we had dinner with the members and they fed us LAMB. It was really delicious because they cooked it on a really long stick and it was really really good!! It´ll be shown in the pictures. Then they also gave us a stocking which was nice of them and desert in the afternoon on Sunday which is Kuhen. Kuhen is a German desert that's really huge here in the South of Chile because of all the German population that came here but . It was way good. I love the members here they are so nice and so funny. They really enjoy having us missionaries in the Ward and some are pretty sad to see Elder Service go home in less than a week. This past week the work was difficult to do because we had to set really set appointments and if we didn´t have them we couldn´t knock doors. We did the idea of giving little gifts to our investigators and some of the members and the faces of the investigators just lit up when we gave them the gifts. They were so happy that we thought of them. It was also fun to spend more time with Elder Patton and Elder Service. This week will be a lot like this past week but I hope we set a lot of appointments so we can be out working more than in the house doing nothing. I am praying for this week to be a good one. We are off today to go play baseball out at a members farm/field so it should be a fun day. I love you and miss you tons!!!
Love, Elder Blotter
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Elder Blotter Photos - Dec 26
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| The Elders had Christmas dinner with some members and they cooked lamb on a spit. Elder Blotter said it was really good. |
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| One of the members in Elder Blotter's Ward works for a Salmon farm and they got to sample the product. Looks pretty good. |
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| Elder Blotter and his missionary comps celebrate the holiday at a member home. |
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| Elders Blotter and Quintero with one of their investigators. He is an American who married a Chilean and plays basketball in Chile. |
Elder Blotter - Dec 20th
Dear Family,
Hey glad to hear all is well in UTAH. Gve my best wishes to Uncle Mike and his family and Geoff for his wedding. I had received an invitation from him this past week for it so it was fun to receive. I did not tell dad in his letter but we went to Volcan Osorno again. It was really fun and me, Elder Ciquero, Elder Service and another Elder, hiked almost to the top of the mountain. With the time we had we turned around and went back down but I felt like I had lost like 10 pounds hiking. So if you want to loose weight really fast wear 3 jackets and hike a mountain ha-ha. But it was a really fun time and I went sledding on my back down the Volcano with my rain jacket because water does not get through so I used it as a sled and it was really fun. My past week has been excellent with the Lords work. We have found a ton of people this past week and some great news. One of the pictures I am sending home is of the Christmas choir we had in our ward this past Sunday. We had a devotional of the Christmas story with the Primary of the ward it was so cute and the spirit was so strong in the chapel. We had an amazing turn out and I think we had more people come to the activity than church on a regular basis it was pretty funny not going to lie. They sang beautifully and we had success with the members bringing their friends and we hope to see the fruits from this activity with more investigators to teach through the New Year. The sad thing was that we had no investigators come to church but we hope to pass by this coming week to help them come to church in the following week and over come their doubts or difficulties coming to church so we will see with them. Anaís the girl we baptized left for vacation in the North to visit her grandparents but she is very happy and she will never leave the church I know that for a surety. We are working with her mom to complete the goals and arrive to baptism so we shall see. I love you and miss you tons and cannot wait to talk to you all on the 24th
Love, Elder Blotter
Hey glad to hear all is well in UTAH. Gve my best wishes to Uncle Mike and his family and Geoff for his wedding. I had received an invitation from him this past week for it so it was fun to receive. I did not tell dad in his letter but we went to Volcan Osorno again. It was really fun and me, Elder Ciquero, Elder Service and another Elder, hiked almost to the top of the mountain. With the time we had we turned around and went back down but I felt like I had lost like 10 pounds hiking. So if you want to loose weight really fast wear 3 jackets and hike a mountain ha-ha. But it was a really fun time and I went sledding on my back down the Volcano with my rain jacket because water does not get through so I used it as a sled and it was really fun. My past week has been excellent with the Lords work. We have found a ton of people this past week and some great news. One of the pictures I am sending home is of the Christmas choir we had in our ward this past Sunday. We had a devotional of the Christmas story with the Primary of the ward it was so cute and the spirit was so strong in the chapel. We had an amazing turn out and I think we had more people come to the activity than church on a regular basis it was pretty funny not going to lie. They sang beautifully and we had success with the members bringing their friends and we hope to see the fruits from this activity with more investigators to teach through the New Year. The sad thing was that we had no investigators come to church but we hope to pass by this coming week to help them come to church in the following week and over come their doubts or difficulties coming to church so we will see with them. Anaís the girl we baptized left for vacation in the North to visit her grandparents but she is very happy and she will never leave the church I know that for a surety. We are working with her mom to complete the goals and arrive to baptism so we shall see. I love you and miss you tons and cannot wait to talk to you all on the 24th
Love, Elder Blotter
Monday, December 20, 2010
Elder Blotter photos 12-20
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| Another roof shot. The Osorno missionaries love their rooftops! |
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| This is the family of Anais, Robert's recent baptism. Rob said she is headed to northern Chile to spend some time with grandparents for the summer. |
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| Another Anais family shot |
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| A birthday party for one of the Elders. Not sure who was the lucky fellow. Rob said they smashed an egg on his head for good luck on his birthday. Apparently a Chilean custom. |
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| The Puerto Montt Ward Christmas choir. Rob said the program was wonderful and well attended by investigators. |
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| Rob and his comp went for another visit to the Volcano. Rob said they slid back down on the snow. |
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Elder Blotter - Dec 13th
Hola Famila,
Glad to hear things are going well back home and that the ward Christmas party thing went well. I remember helping out at that thing 3 years ago, if I remember right. But very sweet we’re getting newbie´s in the ward heck yeah!! I am sure the work is just going strong there in Chicago. Oh have you heard from the Tolmans or about Chris Reynolds? Just thought I’d might ask because I sent out a letter to Kevin right before I went into the MTC so I didn’t know if he got it or not. My Sunday was a good Sunday, full in the chapel despite a bit of rain but it is always great to see our ward building filled especially when its summer here and all the kids are almost out of school. A lot of them are in their last week or 2nd to last. The baptism was great and me and my companion got to help confirm her in Sacrament meeting and it was really cool because I have never helped confirm someone to be a member of the church before. The spirit was really strong with us. I would love to write Bishop Koch, I just need his address please. The baptism was a success we had a good amount of people show up and also a couple of our investigators showed up for her baptism and really enjoyed it and then we passed by and they told us they felt something special in the church so THEY FELT THE SPIRIT!!! My companion has been out almost a year and a half and then Elder Service is the Elders name ha-ha but he feels good about it and he will be celebrating the New Years on the plane ride home ha-ha!! But I feel content coming up to my year mark. I went on an intercambio with one of my zone leaders named Elder Hansen who is really awesome. He was born in Chicago and lived there until age 4 or 5 and he told me his family had lived pretty close to Wriggly Field where the Cubs play so we reminisced a little when we were on the intercambio. He told me for not even have reached a year in the mission yet that he is impressed with my teaching and the way I speak so I think I am where the Lord wants me in this moment and that I am progressing well. Well about the phone situation I need to know first what day you want to call because we get to call the 24th, 25th, or 26th and I think the 26th or 24th would be better because other missionaries have told me that in the years past the phone lines are REALLY busy on the 25th so chose one of those days and I will get you the number for the following p day before the day you guys chose. And really I don’t know what were going to do but we can work on these days or the NEW YEARS so it’ll be like the 18th of September for their day of Independence so yeah. But thank for all you do for me and the support you give me. I love you and miss you tons!!
Love, Elder Blotter
Glad to hear things are going well back home and that the ward Christmas party thing went well. I remember helping out at that thing 3 years ago, if I remember right. But very sweet we’re getting newbie´s in the ward heck yeah!! I am sure the work is just going strong there in Chicago. Oh have you heard from the Tolmans or about Chris Reynolds? Just thought I’d might ask because I sent out a letter to Kevin right before I went into the MTC so I didn’t know if he got it or not. My Sunday was a good Sunday, full in the chapel despite a bit of rain but it is always great to see our ward building filled especially when its summer here and all the kids are almost out of school. A lot of them are in their last week or 2nd to last. The baptism was great and me and my companion got to help confirm her in Sacrament meeting and it was really cool because I have never helped confirm someone to be a member of the church before. The spirit was really strong with us. I would love to write Bishop Koch, I just need his address please. The baptism was a success we had a good amount of people show up and also a couple of our investigators showed up for her baptism and really enjoyed it and then we passed by and they told us they felt something special in the church so THEY FELT THE SPIRIT!!! My companion has been out almost a year and a half and then Elder Service is the Elders name ha-ha but he feels good about it and he will be celebrating the New Years on the plane ride home ha-ha!! But I feel content coming up to my year mark. I went on an intercambio with one of my zone leaders named Elder Hansen who is really awesome. He was born in Chicago and lived there until age 4 or 5 and he told me his family had lived pretty close to Wriggly Field where the Cubs play so we reminisced a little when we were on the intercambio. He told me for not even have reached a year in the mission yet that he is impressed with my teaching and the way I speak so I think I am where the Lord wants me in this moment and that I am progressing well. Well about the phone situation I need to know first what day you want to call because we get to call the 24th, 25th, or 26th and I think the 26th or 24th would be better because other missionaries have told me that in the years past the phone lines are REALLY busy on the 25th so chose one of those days and I will get you the number for the following p day before the day you guys chose. And really I don’t know what were going to do but we can work on these days or the NEW YEARS so it’ll be like the 18th of September for their day of Independence so yeah. But thank for all you do for me and the support you give me. I love you and miss you tons!!
Love, Elder Blotter
Monday, December 13, 2010
Elder Blotter Photos - Dec 13
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| Some local Puerto Montt color |
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| A recent Zone Conference group photo |
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| Baptism day for their investigator Anais |
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| Pride in a job well done |
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| Enjoying some Chilean pineapple |
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Elder Blotter - Dec 6
Hola Family,
Yes I am still here as I predicted in Puerto Mont. Same companion, same sector so I am excited to make some miracles happen here in this transfer. We are preparing to help Anaís feel totally prepared for this Wednesday for her baptism; she is so excited for it. This past week has been a good one with numbers normal. We did not reach the standard this week but we are working for it. We did reach the standard of people with a baptismal date so it is pretty sweet to say we reached the district standard. We want to reach all the standards so we are working on doing that this coming week doing everything possible. The last week of the transfer we passed the standard of some of the goals for sectors and I was really happy because it is always amazing to make the standards but also to break the standard goal cause that means that were doing something right and we are being obedient here in Puerto Montt. I am grateful for the opportunity to be with Elder Ciquero again for another transfer and learn from him and also work really hard with him here in the Lords work and to help others progress. A story from this past week happened yesterday with our ward mission leader. We were planning the baptism for Anaís and then we left from the church and ran into a man named Favito who was admiring our chapel. We asked him if he would like to go inside and he got really happy cause he did not know he could enter so we walked through the chapel showing him all the paintings and explaining them to him and then all of a sudden he asked if he could be baptized. Me and my companion looked at each other like is this guy for serious, we just found him on the street walking by ha-ha but then he was like "Yeah I have never been baptized and I’d really like to be baptized" and we were like well first you need to attend church this next Sunday and pray about our message and if you receive an answer you will be baptized the 8th of January and he accepted!!
I still don’t know if the man is just crazy or has a problem in his brain or if he was serious, but we will see tomorrow when we visit him at his home because he kept saying can you baptize me now? We were like what?? Ha-ha, but we showed him the baptismal font too and he was like; can’t you fill it up right now and baptize me right here?? It was very weird and very awesome at the same time. Just goes to show you that the Lord guides us in very different ways to find his chosen sheep for this time so we are praying for Favito that he actually really wants this and is ready to complete everything the Lord wants him to.
Elder Ciquero and I are preparing Anaís for her baptism this Wednesday and she is really excited as we are for her. She is so smart and just loves the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Her mother is not a member but supports her in her decision. We went by there home yesterday and shared a lesson on the scriptures on how we need to read them everyday. I could just see the light of Christ in Anaís that she Is the example of that household for her and her mother. I hope her mother Paula will open her heart unto the father and really ask in sincerity if these things are true and will change her life not just for her daughter or members but for her and her Savior Jesus Christ to work together to become an Eternal family with her daughter. But that is one of the great miracles I received this week from the Lord, thank you for all the things you do for me and the blessings I have received here in the mission.
I love you and miss you tons and hope you have a great new week with lots of work and blessings.
P.S. The picture of grass was when me and my companion went to go do service for a member in our ward and she doesn’t have a lawn mower and actually lawn mowers are very rare to find here. They actually used large scissors but she didn’t have any so me and my companion cut all that grass BY HAND WITH KNIVES so it took a while but it was fun.
Oh yeah, to explain the pictures; one is of me doing the thumb to go to Chilóe, Another we slept on the roof last night so that was fun, Another picture is of the fake tree we are borrowing from our mamita that I put pass along cards on, and then also a picture with me and Elder Welling who was one of my companions back in Valdivía where now he’s a Zone leader and he’s heading down to Punta Areña. So yeah that should be all the photos LOVE YA!!!
Yes I am still here as I predicted in Puerto Mont. Same companion, same sector so I am excited to make some miracles happen here in this transfer. We are preparing to help Anaís feel totally prepared for this Wednesday for her baptism; she is so excited for it. This past week has been a good one with numbers normal. We did not reach the standard this week but we are working for it. We did reach the standard of people with a baptismal date so it is pretty sweet to say we reached the district standard. We want to reach all the standards so we are working on doing that this coming week doing everything possible. The last week of the transfer we passed the standard of some of the goals for sectors and I was really happy because it is always amazing to make the standards but also to break the standard goal cause that means that were doing something right and we are being obedient here in Puerto Montt. I am grateful for the opportunity to be with Elder Ciquero again for another transfer and learn from him and also work really hard with him here in the Lords work and to help others progress. A story from this past week happened yesterday with our ward mission leader. We were planning the baptism for Anaís and then we left from the church and ran into a man named Favito who was admiring our chapel. We asked him if he would like to go inside and he got really happy cause he did not know he could enter so we walked through the chapel showing him all the paintings and explaining them to him and then all of a sudden he asked if he could be baptized. Me and my companion looked at each other like is this guy for serious, we just found him on the street walking by ha-ha but then he was like "Yeah I have never been baptized and I’d really like to be baptized" and we were like well first you need to attend church this next Sunday and pray about our message and if you receive an answer you will be baptized the 8th of January and he accepted!!
I still don’t know if the man is just crazy or has a problem in his brain or if he was serious, but we will see tomorrow when we visit him at his home because he kept saying can you baptize me now? We were like what?? Ha-ha, but we showed him the baptismal font too and he was like; can’t you fill it up right now and baptize me right here?? It was very weird and very awesome at the same time. Just goes to show you that the Lord guides us in very different ways to find his chosen sheep for this time so we are praying for Favito that he actually really wants this and is ready to complete everything the Lord wants him to.
Elder Ciquero and I are preparing Anaís for her baptism this Wednesday and she is really excited as we are for her. She is so smart and just loves the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Her mother is not a member but supports her in her decision. We went by there home yesterday and shared a lesson on the scriptures on how we need to read them everyday. I could just see the light of Christ in Anaís that she Is the example of that household for her and her mother. I hope her mother Paula will open her heart unto the father and really ask in sincerity if these things are true and will change her life not just for her daughter or members but for her and her Savior Jesus Christ to work together to become an Eternal family with her daughter. But that is one of the great miracles I received this week from the Lord, thank you for all the things you do for me and the blessings I have received here in the mission.
I love you and miss you tons and hope you have a great new week with lots of work and blessings.
P.S. The picture of grass was when me and my companion went to go do service for a member in our ward and she doesn’t have a lawn mower and actually lawn mowers are very rare to find here. They actually used large scissors but she didn’t have any so me and my companion cut all that grass BY HAND WITH KNIVES so it took a while but it was fun.
Oh yeah, to explain the pictures; one is of me doing the thumb to go to Chilóe, Another we slept on the roof last night so that was fun, Another picture is of the fake tree we are borrowing from our mamita that I put pass along cards on, and then also a picture with me and Elder Welling who was one of my companions back in Valdivía where now he’s a Zone leader and he’s heading down to Punta Areña. So yeah that should be all the photos LOVE YA!!!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Elder Blotter Pics for Dec 6
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| The Missionary Christmas tree with pass-along cards for ornaments |
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| More hitchhiking silliness |
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| Rob said the Elders decided to have a sleep out on their roof. He said it was great. Missionaries have fun doing the most simple things. You would never know they are heading into Summer judging by their apparel and sleeping gear |
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| Robert with Elder Welling who was his 2nd comp in Valdiva. He is now a Zone Leader in Puenta Arenas way down south. They looked like they could be brothers. Elder Welling is one of a set of triplets who are all serving missions in Chile albeit in different missions |
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Elder Blotter - November 29
Hola Familia,
Glad to hear all is well at home and just feeling the Christmas spirit. The people here have put a couple of lights up but there are not too many people with lights out. I am sure more will start to come out but here in Chile. School is starting to let out so the streets will be filled with teenagers and everything very soon so it will just be a little worse with contacting cause there will not be too many adults out and a lot of people traveling to Santiago and people from Santiago to here so there will be many tourists. I am sure the work will just keep moving forward. I don’t know if we will be having a conference soon but I know we have interviews next transfer since transfers are this Wednesday and we find out tomorrow if I am staying here or my companion is leaving or not. So will see what happens. I am well this past week, working really hard and finding many people to teach and putting many appointments in areas where we do not really knock because they are really far away areas. But it is good to see that people are interested in our message. Right now we are preparing a girl to be baptized the 8th of December named Anaís who is just great. She is 13 and has a desire to be baptized. Were working with her mom on being baptized too but she says she just has not totally felt the need yet but we challenged her to pray and we hope she keeps the commitments. We have an appointment with her on Thursday and hope all goes well. We have others with dates too but there not really progressing because there not coming to church and some are off working all the week so it is tough but were moving forward and doing all we can. I do not really know what to say cause this week has just flown by its crazy. But I just hope for the best that the lord will guide me in this next week if I am to stay here in Puerto Montt or leave to another area and serve him there. I sent a picture of what I had for thanksgiving so happy late thanksgiving!! I love you and miss you tons!! Thanks for everything.
Love, Elder Blotter
Glad to hear all is well at home and just feeling the Christmas spirit. The people here have put a couple of lights up but there are not too many people with lights out. I am sure more will start to come out but here in Chile. School is starting to let out so the streets will be filled with teenagers and everything very soon so it will just be a little worse with contacting cause there will not be too many adults out and a lot of people traveling to Santiago and people from Santiago to here so there will be many tourists. I am sure the work will just keep moving forward. I don’t know if we will be having a conference soon but I know we have interviews next transfer since transfers are this Wednesday and we find out tomorrow if I am staying here or my companion is leaving or not. So will see what happens. I am well this past week, working really hard and finding many people to teach and putting many appointments in areas where we do not really knock because they are really far away areas. But it is good to see that people are interested in our message. Right now we are preparing a girl to be baptized the 8th of December named Anaís who is just great. She is 13 and has a desire to be baptized. Were working with her mom on being baptized too but she says she just has not totally felt the need yet but we challenged her to pray and we hope she keeps the commitments. We have an appointment with her on Thursday and hope all goes well. We have others with dates too but there not really progressing because there not coming to church and some are off working all the week so it is tough but were moving forward and doing all we can. I do not really know what to say cause this week has just flown by its crazy. But I just hope for the best that the lord will guide me in this next week if I am to stay here in Puerto Montt or leave to another area and serve him there. I sent a picture of what I had for thanksgiving so happy late thanksgiving!! I love you and miss you tons!! Thanks for everything.
Love, Elder Blotter
Monday, November 29, 2010
Pics from Elder Blotter - Nov 29
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| I guess Elder Blotter thought this wall graffiti looked cool. |
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| Elder Blotter's Thanksgiving feast (not)! |
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| Pretending to hitch hike to mission headquarters in Osorno |
Friday, November 26, 2010
Elder Blotter - Nov 22
Hola Familia,
Glad to hear you love the temple and the awesome news that Uncle Robert is now the new Bishop in his ward. He will be such a good Bishop. For some reason I thought he had already served as Bishop but I guess not ha-ha. I will not be celebrating thanksgiving here because it does not exist here but maybe we will buy a chicken to celebrate it anyways ha-ha. My p-day is going well. The p day of last week was at a place called Saltos Rio Petrohue. It is a tourist area and I actually forgot to tell you all that we talked to many people up there from a ton of different countries. Some people from Italy I talked to said they were studying in Santiago and some Israeli people that were visiting Chile also. We also talked to a man from Switzerland who was visiting Chile with his wife just for fun ha-ha. It was very funny for us to hear that but he really liked talking to us and asked many questions about the church and we responded and he was very interested so we invited him to listen to the missionaries when he goes home. And then lastly, we talked to a man from Germany. So just people from all parts of the world were up there and more people also I am sure. It was a really fun time last week I really want to go back there some day it is very beautiful place and they have a hotel up there also with a TON of things to do there so maybe one day.
This past week for me has been good. Sadly we did not have anyone at church for our sector which was somewhat sad but we hope to have all of our investigators in the church next week. It rained here a little bit which kind of stunk and kind of put our spirits down but we tried to get through it all and actually got some good contacts in the streets. We put a date of baptism with one of our older investigators that we have in the Registros and they accepted!! I hope and pray now that they will complete because we were preparing them for baptism yesterday of all that will happen and how they will feel. We also found a 65 yr old woman who loves to exercise and does karate so it was very funny to talk to her and teach her because she was very open and accepted our message and told us that we were her first missionaries that entered her home and can’t wait for our next visit so we left a good impression which is awesome!! We have had many small miracles happen during the week just showing us the lord is guiding us in the work. But I know we are just going to be the best missionaries in our last week in the transfer to try to help all of our investigators get to church.
We really hope to have a lot of success in this last week of the transfer. I have really enjoyed it and time and days have just flown by, it is unreal. I have enjoyed the time with Elder Ciquero and hope to have another transfer with him because I only have 2 transfers here and that is 3 months, not a lot of time in one area. I also love this ward, it is just full of many good people but if the lord sends me its ok I will live and move with the Lords work where he needs me.
What my companion and I are going to do today is hopefully make bread with Hermana Lindana our recent convert and then also teach her husband so I will send pictures next week.
I love it here in Chile. I love you and thank you for everything you do for me.
Love,
Elder Blotter
Glad to hear you love the temple and the awesome news that Uncle Robert is now the new Bishop in his ward. He will be such a good Bishop. For some reason I thought he had already served as Bishop but I guess not ha-ha. I will not be celebrating thanksgiving here because it does not exist here but maybe we will buy a chicken to celebrate it anyways ha-ha. My p-day is going well. The p day of last week was at a place called Saltos Rio Petrohue. It is a tourist area and I actually forgot to tell you all that we talked to many people up there from a ton of different countries. Some people from Italy I talked to said they were studying in Santiago and some Israeli people that were visiting Chile also. We also talked to a man from Switzerland who was visiting Chile with his wife just for fun ha-ha. It was very funny for us to hear that but he really liked talking to us and asked many questions about the church and we responded and he was very interested so we invited him to listen to the missionaries when he goes home. And then lastly, we talked to a man from Germany. So just people from all parts of the world were up there and more people also I am sure. It was a really fun time last week I really want to go back there some day it is very beautiful place and they have a hotel up there also with a TON of things to do there so maybe one day.
This past week for me has been good. Sadly we did not have anyone at church for our sector which was somewhat sad but we hope to have all of our investigators in the church next week. It rained here a little bit which kind of stunk and kind of put our spirits down but we tried to get through it all and actually got some good contacts in the streets. We put a date of baptism with one of our older investigators that we have in the Registros and they accepted!! I hope and pray now that they will complete because we were preparing them for baptism yesterday of all that will happen and how they will feel. We also found a 65 yr old woman who loves to exercise and does karate so it was very funny to talk to her and teach her because she was very open and accepted our message and told us that we were her first missionaries that entered her home and can’t wait for our next visit so we left a good impression which is awesome!! We have had many small miracles happen during the week just showing us the lord is guiding us in the work. But I know we are just going to be the best missionaries in our last week in the transfer to try to help all of our investigators get to church.
We really hope to have a lot of success in this last week of the transfer. I have really enjoyed it and time and days have just flown by, it is unreal. I have enjoyed the time with Elder Ciquero and hope to have another transfer with him because I only have 2 transfers here and that is 3 months, not a lot of time in one area. I also love this ward, it is just full of many good people but if the lord sends me its ok I will live and move with the Lords work where he needs me.
What my companion and I are going to do today is hopefully make bread with Hermana Lindana our recent convert and then also teach her husband so I will send pictures next week.
I love it here in Chile. I love you and thank you for everything you do for me.
Love,
Elder Blotter
Elder Blotter Photo's - November 22
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| Most of the photos on this posting are from a Zone p-day trip to a Chilean National Park in the area called Saltos Rio Petrohue. Rob said in his letter this week that he thought it was beautiful place and would love to visit it again after his mission. |
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| This appears to be Elder Blotter and his district mates who live together in Puerto Montt enjoying a meal together. The white board they are pointing at looks like their performance numbers for the week or month's missionary work. They must be doing well since they are all smiling. |
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| Elder Rob clowning with another missionary in his Zone on their p-day outing |
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Elder Blotter - November 9 Pictures
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| Rob sent these pictures this week from their latest p-day adventure. Unfortunately he didn't tell us where these were taken. It looks beautiful wherever it is. |
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Elder Blotter - Nov 8 letter
Hola Family,
Hey mom glad to hear you felt better and that doctor Hampson put you on new medication I am sure it is really helping I will keep you in my prayers to feel better and to progress with your health. I am well and happy here in Puerto Montt. Yes our investigator Lindana did get baptized, it was so great and she was soo happy and we are so happy for her that she took this step in her life. Her husband and granddaughter were able to come to her baptism. Last night we went by their home to see how they were and how she felt. She says she feels so calm and with the spirit. Her husband was the big surprise to us. He said the closing prayer in our visit with them and in his prayer he said he wants to follow in the path of his wife in the future so it was like a huge whoa in our minds!! The baptism of his wife opened the door to him now and now he has a bigger desire to be baptized. Our goal now is to help our other investigators prepare and have a larger desire to be baptized.
Dad was correct that we did have a ton of rain this past week and it kind of stunk sometimes but its all good. We moved through it and found new people that we can teach. It has been a hard past week of finding new people to teach but the Lord has guided us to some of the people that he wants us to teach in this time who are ready for our message. Thank you for receiving my letter to Peter and I hope the kid gets it soon. My companion wants Snickers and I do to so if you could put that in there that would be great!! Hopefully I am with him one transfer more because I really enjoy teaching with Elder Ciquero he is a great missionary and a good example to me and I know if we are together another transfer we will learn so much more from each other. Thank you for everything that you do for me mom I hope to make you and dad very proud of me in this next week and I will be sure to keep you both in my prayers and the whole family. I love ya and miss ya tons!!
Love, Elder Blotter
Hey mom glad to hear you felt better and that doctor Hampson put you on new medication I am sure it is really helping I will keep you in my prayers to feel better and to progress with your health. I am well and happy here in Puerto Montt. Yes our investigator Lindana did get baptized, it was so great and she was soo happy and we are so happy for her that she took this step in her life. Her husband and granddaughter were able to come to her baptism. Last night we went by their home to see how they were and how she felt. She says she feels so calm and with the spirit. Her husband was the big surprise to us. He said the closing prayer in our visit with them and in his prayer he said he wants to follow in the path of his wife in the future so it was like a huge whoa in our minds!! The baptism of his wife opened the door to him now and now he has a bigger desire to be baptized. Our goal now is to help our other investigators prepare and have a larger desire to be baptized.
Dad was correct that we did have a ton of rain this past week and it kind of stunk sometimes but its all good. We moved through it and found new people that we can teach. It has been a hard past week of finding new people to teach but the Lord has guided us to some of the people that he wants us to teach in this time who are ready for our message. Thank you for receiving my letter to Peter and I hope the kid gets it soon. My companion wants Snickers and I do to so if you could put that in there that would be great!! Hopefully I am with him one transfer more because I really enjoy teaching with Elder Ciquero he is a great missionary and a good example to me and I know if we are together another transfer we will learn so much more from each other. Thank you for everything that you do for me mom I hope to make you and dad very proud of me in this next week and I will be sure to keep you both in my prayers and the whole family. I love ya and miss ya tons!!
Love, Elder Blotter
Elder Blotter photos - Nov 8
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| Elder Blotter seems to have a fascination with roofs. We assume they were cleaning their chimney and decided to be silly |
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| Another roof shot with a vista of Puerto Montt |
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| Some Elder hijinks for the camera |
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Elder Blotter Photos - Nov 8
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| Elder Blotter and his companion Elder Ciquero with their investigator, Lindana, her husband and a granddaughter at her baptism this past weekend. |
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| Another photo of Lindana and her family with an undentified member who performed the baptism |
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| Elder Blotter and Elder Ciquero strike a casual pose. Not sure what this is about other than being silly missionaries |
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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| Elder Blotter on his recent P-day. It was the first sunny day after a week of rain and there were two Chilean warships in the harbor. He thought they were pretty cool. The other pictures are Rob and his fellow comps doing one of missionaries favorite things, eating. Looks like some good cake that a member gave them. |
Monday, November 1, 2010
Elder Blotter pics - Nov1
Elder Blotter walking the steep hills of his area in Puerto Montt. This would be good exercise everyday
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| Elder Blotter with Puerto Montt in the background and several volcanoes in the distance. This was one of the few sunny days after a week of constant rain. |
Elder Blotter - Nov 1
Hola Famila,
Happy late Halloween!!
Hey how are you all feeling?? How are the allergies?? I talked to Hermana Lovell, we had a conference this past Friday with President and she asked if I was all right and I said I have been sick for a while and she prescribed some things for me to go look for and give a try and see if it’ll clear up my sinuses because I think its just sinuses. Other wise I am well. My week this past week was good but a TON of rain everyday besides today which is a nice sunny day. It has just been pouring everyday in the morning and then about at 7 at night it stops or is slow to fall. But its just pure rain until today where it is a nice sunny day here with military boats docked again here in the bay. There are 2 and they are both huge!!
Our investigator just had her interview on Friday that will be baptized this Saturday and confirmed this Sunday. It is great, we are all really excited for her and she is really content and happy for her decision. She came to stake conference where Elder Corbrage spoke to Puerto Montt and then also her husband came to church, it was sooo awesome!!! We are trying to work with him now and use his wife as our member missionary because she is just amazing!! She wants to leave with us and visit investigators and we did not even ask her to leave with us and she is not even a member yet. It is insanely awesome!! She will stay faithful in the church the rest of her life I know.
We are trying to find new investigators but its just killing us we cannot find many. We are trying our best here but will just keep moving forward. At the end of the week we had a capacitación with President Lovell where I guess in all the mission work throughout the world they are adding 8 new principles that we as missionaries will focus more on in the work and how we can improve these attributes to have more success down here in Chile. It is very interesting and we have it like every cambio or two cambios,
There is not much else that is new here just moving along in the work of the Lord trying to be the best missionary I can be for the Lord and do everything possible to be better. Halloween down here is celebrated like in the states I believe because I saw ghosts and witches and all sorts out last night trick o treating, so it is pretty similar to the states. Today is like a free day like a festival for the Chileans but I do not know what it would be.
Thank you for everything you guys do for me I love you and miss ya tons!!!
Love, Elder Blotter
Happy late Halloween!!
Hey how are you all feeling?? How are the allergies?? I talked to Hermana Lovell, we had a conference this past Friday with President and she asked if I was all right and I said I have been sick for a while and she prescribed some things for me to go look for and give a try and see if it’ll clear up my sinuses because I think its just sinuses. Other wise I am well. My week this past week was good but a TON of rain everyday besides today which is a nice sunny day. It has just been pouring everyday in the morning and then about at 7 at night it stops or is slow to fall. But its just pure rain until today where it is a nice sunny day here with military boats docked again here in the bay. There are 2 and they are both huge!!
Our investigator just had her interview on Friday that will be baptized this Saturday and confirmed this Sunday. It is great, we are all really excited for her and she is really content and happy for her decision. She came to stake conference where Elder Corbrage spoke to Puerto Montt and then also her husband came to church, it was sooo awesome!!! We are trying to work with him now and use his wife as our member missionary because she is just amazing!! She wants to leave with us and visit investigators and we did not even ask her to leave with us and she is not even a member yet. It is insanely awesome!! She will stay faithful in the church the rest of her life I know.
We are trying to find new investigators but its just killing us we cannot find many. We are trying our best here but will just keep moving forward. At the end of the week we had a capacitación with President Lovell where I guess in all the mission work throughout the world they are adding 8 new principles that we as missionaries will focus more on in the work and how we can improve these attributes to have more success down here in Chile. It is very interesting and we have it like every cambio or two cambios,
There is not much else that is new here just moving along in the work of the Lord trying to be the best missionary I can be for the Lord and do everything possible to be better. Halloween down here is celebrated like in the states I believe because I saw ghosts and witches and all sorts out last night trick o treating, so it is pretty similar to the states. Today is like a free day like a festival for the Chileans but I do not know what it would be.
Thank you for everything you guys do for me I love you and miss ya tons!!!
Love, Elder Blotter
Elder Blotter - Oct 24
Hola Famila,
Hey sorry for last week but we were just rushed with time when we got back from the volcano to finish writing but I am well this week except that I have been sick for about 5 days and can’t get rid of it. I have take Sudafed and it has done nothing for me and also a powder called Tapsin with water and it still has not shaken it. I think I also have an ear infection or something because I cannot hear very well out of my left ear. It feels clogged with something and I have a nasty cough and a runny nose so I am thinking about calling Sister Lovell this week or today to see if there is something that she could give me or if I should go to the doctor. So will see what happens. My past week with my new companion has been great. His name is Elder Ciquero from Peru from Tacna which is about a 45 min drive from Arica where that mine collapsed. So it is like on the border where he lives. He has family from Japan, Italy, and Chile so he is just all over the place. He a tall guy, like 6-2. He a very humble Elder and I know I will learn a lot from him. He has 14 months in the mission so he is not so new in the mission. We had to change the date on our investigator Lindana in order for President Lovell to give her interview but she is still really excited for her baptism date and everything so we are just passing by every couple of days to see how she is doing and how her reading is going. She has attended church every single Sunday and it is amazing how much she loves the church. I know she will be just a great member and the Lord has so much love for her. We are working on finding other investigators that want to progress in the steps back to our Heavenly Father. I am striving to be a better missionary everyday and just keep at it and never lose the excitement of the mission and of the work of the Lord. Thank you for all you do for me I love ya and miss ya tons!!
Elder Blotter
Hey sorry for last week but we were just rushed with time when we got back from the volcano to finish writing but I am well this week except that I have been sick for about 5 days and can’t get rid of it. I have take Sudafed and it has done nothing for me and also a powder called Tapsin with water and it still has not shaken it. I think I also have an ear infection or something because I cannot hear very well out of my left ear. It feels clogged with something and I have a nasty cough and a runny nose so I am thinking about calling Sister Lovell this week or today to see if there is something that she could give me or if I should go to the doctor. So will see what happens. My past week with my new companion has been great. His name is Elder Ciquero from Peru from Tacna which is about a 45 min drive from Arica where that mine collapsed. So it is like on the border where he lives. He has family from Japan, Italy, and Chile so he is just all over the place. He a tall guy, like 6-2. He a very humble Elder and I know I will learn a lot from him. He has 14 months in the mission so he is not so new in the mission. We had to change the date on our investigator Lindana in order for President Lovell to give her interview but she is still really excited for her baptism date and everything so we are just passing by every couple of days to see how she is doing and how her reading is going. She has attended church every single Sunday and it is amazing how much she loves the church. I know she will be just a great member and the Lord has so much love for her. We are working on finding other investigators that want to progress in the steps back to our Heavenly Father. I am striving to be a better missionary everyday and just keep at it and never lose the excitement of the mission and of the work of the Lord. Thank you for all you do for me I love ya and miss ya tons!!
Elder Blotter
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Elder Blotter - October 18 Pictures
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| Elder Blotter and an unidentified missionary from his District |
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| Elder Blotter and his comp Elder Paita from Bolivia |
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| p day we went to Volcan Osorno which was way freaking awesome I had a blast one of the best p days ever |
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