Elder Blotter photos - 3/30

Unidentified missionary buddy of Elder Blotter's.  I think this was taken on the train or bus while they traveled to their mission conference in Osorno.  Not sure what all the hand gestures are about.  Missionary gang signs I guess.

Robert's first comp in Chile, Elder Simmons.  He completed his mission and Robert got to see him at a conference before he departed.  When a missionary leaves the mission they refer to it as dying.  It shows how missionaries really come to love their missions and hate to leave.

Elder Blotter - August 30

HELLO FAMILY AND ALL!!


But first mom ha-ha sorry to here your day was a humid one. I’d trade that day for any of the days I’ve had this past week for that one day. The whole week was just full of rain non-stop everyday, lots and lots of rain!! But the good news from Tuesday was the mission conference, it was amazing!!! The spirit was so strong because not only did we hear things from Elder Scott, but also from Elder Corbrage of the Area presidency of Chile of the Seventy and President Lovell. So so powerful, I wish I could hear it all over again. President Lovell bore his testimony of the gospel and to keep working strong and never quit. His testimony was powerful and the spirit just filled the room. Elder Corbrage spoke of the scriptures and how important they are and how we should utilize them in every lesson we teach. Very powerful man with the spirit and I gained a lot of personal revelation. Elder Scott was amazing with his teaching of the gospel and his testifying of that Christ lives and he is risen. I gained some very good personal revelation. But then Elder Scott took a turn on the doctrine and actually teaching on things of AFTER the mission for all missionaries about MARRIAGE whoa!! Ha-ha it was a great time he spoke of what we need to do as missionaries right after we complete our mission and asked if any missionaries had questions on things he spoke about in this topic and there actually were a lot of Elders surprisingly. But in everything the spirit was there. It was a great conference I will never forget. Two days after we had President Savios come and speak to the members of Valdivia and if we brought an investigator we could attend and we brought Roberto the dad and the spirit was very strong there I really enjoyed his talk on the Eternal life and how we accomplish it in this life. I think though that Roberto had a doubt in something in what Elder Savios spoke to us about because he didn’t really talk much after but we are going to see him tomorrow and talk to him about it and see if he has a doubt in it that we can resolve, because he and his son are good people and really love the scriptures. I think all will be well with that. I am glad to hear all is well back home with everyone. I am well in my spirits of the Lord and trying to keep excited in the mission work of the lord. I love you all and miss you all so much!!!

Love, Elder Blotter

Elder Scott Visits Osorno Mission Conference

This picture came from the Osorno Mission blog and shows Elder Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve on a visit to an Osorno Mission Conference on August 24th.  Elder Blotter is on the left end of the 2nd row from the top.  What a great looking group

Elder Blotter - August 23

Hola Familia,


HELLO!!! How is everyone doing or feeling for this coming week?? I am stoked for tomorrow on Tuesday because one of the 12 Apostles is coming to our mission to talk to all the missionaries. I cannot wait for tomorrow!! Richard G. Scott is coming and it will actually be the first time I have been outside of the Valdivia area in 6 months ha-ha but it should be a great mission conference. Also I did receive the package, a little confused about the Christmas card stuff cause we are in August?? Ha-ha but it was a great thought. Please tell everyone thank you for all the food. I also received a letter from Sister Anderson. I believe it was on a pamphlet from the day dad spoke and her thoughts and thanks for me choosing to serve a mission, please tell her thank you. The letter from Emily was a great surprise and the email I will write her back through letter so I need to get started on those either today or next week ha-ha. This past week has been a good one. Hard week on finding new investigators but good on Lessons which me and my companion are happy about that now just need to pray to the lord on where his choice people are for us this coming week. The rain is still here with the cold BUT the sun is showing itself a whole lot more than usual which is a good sign of spring. We did not have any of our investigators in Church. We stopped by one of ours to pick him up for church but when he opened the door he said he did not feel very well so we asked him if he felt well enough to go to church but we could see that that was a no but he promised to go next week. We will be visiting him this following week to see how everything is and to teach him a little bit more so that he is ready for his interview with the bishop in 2 weeks because he really wants to be baptized. Our other investigators are still having troubles with work and being able to attend but I hope in our lessons with them they will feel the spirit strong enough that they will want to choose to go to church to receive all the blessings that are waiting for them. We had a really amazing lesson last night with one of our great investigators the two Robertos. They had a ton of questions about the Plan of Salvacion but we just solved them all up with the Book of Mormon, it was so amazing!! They love the scriptures so much and they understand the Book of Mormon and understand now how necessary it really is. I love the Book of Mormon and the great power it has and along with all the answers it has for us in this life. I hope the very best for them and my companion and me are praying really hard for them to want to go to church and feel the spirit even stronger there. I love the work here and love the people they are so great! I Love you all and miss you all so much!!

Love, Elder Blotter

P.S. Laundry is good

Elder Blotter Photos - Aug 23

Also to explain the picture with my feet covered in bags.  It is because there was a HUGE rain storm with lightning and thunder and hail and EVERYTHING.  It was a crazy rainy day this past Tuesday and my boots have basically already broken and I had to wear bags on my feet to keep the rain out. Oops! ha ha

Care package from home.  Included some belated Christmas greetings from a Ward Xmas party

Elder Blotter - August 16

Hola Familia!!


Glad to hear your Sunday was a spectacular one and all is well with you at home. My past week has been a good one with one investigator in the church but with some really good new people that we are teaching that want to read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover and we did not even ask them to do it! It is just amazing that we have been led to some people that really want the gospel in there lives and want that calm life that they told us that they see in all Mormons that were just a calmer religion than evangelicos ha-ha. But there was a lot of walking but the Lord blessed us every time we taught his gospel with the power of the spirit in every lesson. It was so strong this past week; I have never felt it this strong in my life for a whole week!! My companion and I are already teaching basically in unison as a great companionship and I know we will do even more great work this week on finding more people to teach through the power of the Holy Ghost in everything we do.

Glad to hear your temple calling your loving I know the Lord is blessing you through it. As long as we pray to the Lord with a sincere heart with real intent of faith the Lord will help us through everything and give us personal revelation in all that we need to do. Do not worry about me on roofs, we are really safe up there on those roofs we know what were doing were strong big missionaries ha-ha!!! No I will sure to be safe dad, don’t you worry. Oh I also talked to the senior missionaries Elder and Sister Hamilton of our mission and well I talked to Elder Hamilton for a long time about me and him and we were just talking and I told him about that you served there in the Rome Italy Mission and he wanted me to ask you if you had ever had potato pizza?? His son served there in Italy don’t know what mission but he told me it was good and wanted me to ask you if you have ever tried it so yeah ha-ha!! I love you and miss you tons!! Hope all your work is going out and as always and ask the Lord to bless you.

Love, Elder Blotter

Elder Blotter Photos - August 18th

Recent photos of Elder Blotter with his Zone on P-day in Paillaco, Chile and on a split with his new ZL, Elder Flores.  Doesn't look too bad for winter time in the Southern Hemisphere.

Elder Blotter - August 9

Hola Familia!!


Glad to hear all is well at home and dad had a great birthday. Sorry to hear that summer for y'all is winding up that is really crazy because I just felt like y'all were in the middle of summer still that is just crazy to hear. Time is just flying by here and yes I am going to try to stay in contact with my friend Elder Campozano because he was a great Elder and inspiration to me and really made me a better missionary by his examples. I really miss that guy but I know he finished well. My new companion is Elder Osborn as I think I told you but no he is not the new district leader another Elder from our Zone is now our district leader so there was a change in which sectors were with which district leaders. My new companion is a really great missionary out of Rahue. He liked hiking the mountains before the mission and showed me some photos of the Colorado Rockies and everything so I found something else I want to do after mission dad ha-ha! His dad is a lot like you; he is really into Scouting and is on the Scouting Council in Colorado.
My sector here is still not doing the best but that is not stopping my companion and me. We had better success this week than the past but still not what we can get in the end so thank you mom for keeping us in your prayers. We are going to keep working hard and finding those people that are ready to hear the gospel and that want to come unto Christ. We actually found an eternal investigator which was really funny cause they talked to us all about all the missionaries that came to there house and taught them and just ended up being there friends always passing by and it was just sad to hear it all cause all of these missionaries we just disobedient missionaries that wasted time at these peoples house and never got them baptized so were going to try with them one more time and if they don’t progress we have to drop them so yeah hard to hear that about past missionaries that were here in my sector.
I gave a talk yesterday I forgot to write that in the letter to dad but I gave a talk on Hope and that we should give hope to others that are not of our faith and pray to God sincerely about particular people in our lives that we can share the gospel with that we would like to have the missionaries come. My companion also gave a really awesome talk on the scriptures on how we can apply them more to our lives and how we should come to church more wanting to be edified instead of just going to church and sitting there. So after we both gave our talks all the members thanked us and really enjoyed our talks. The chapel wasn’t as full as usual which wasn’t the best but we will pray for those who were not there and then also for our investigators to be able to come and hear and feel the spirit.
Glad to hear all is well with the girls and nice picture of the piano that we have now you just have to shine it up and give the other piano to one of the other girls!! Ha-ha cause my new companion is a musical person like me and he has a keyboard and a simplified hymn book so I play sometimes in the mornings when I get a little time and we talk about it sometimes so thanks to him now I regret quitting piano mom there I said it ha-ha so I want to reteach myself more when I get home =) I love you and miss you tons!!!

Love, Elder Blotter

P.S. Here are some pictures of me and my comp on the roof of our house when we cleaned our cumbustion which is our fireplace that was really dirty. and then pictures of me on our mamitas roof cleaning hers for service but what you didn’t see is I smashed my nose and made it bleed so now I have a bruise on my nose because I was trying to get a part of the cumbustion to clean off and yeah smart me right?? ha ha but its getting better no worries!! =) Love you guys!!

Elder Blotter Photos - August 9

Elder Blotter cleaning the chimney on their wood burning heater.  Looks exciting and dirty.

View from the roof top of their house

Elder Blotter Photos - August 2

Some photos from saying goodbye to Elder Campozaño (Rob's Zone Leader) as he finished his mission and Elder Welling (his comp) leaving for Chiloé and a picture with our mamita and papito´s family the night before Elder Welling headed out LOVE YALL!!

Elder Blotter and his departing ZL, Elder Campozano who has finished his mission

Elder Blotter and his departing comp, Elder Welling

Elder Blotter's Mamita and family

Elder Blotter - August 2

Hola Famila,
Hey Dad, Happy late birthday!! Sorry I did not wish you one last week. Mom even told me so I need to repent of that ha-ha! Hope you are having a grand old time at Scout camp. Fun thing actually, my new comp. was a Boy Scout like me and got his Eagle too. His name is Elder Osborn from Longmont Colorado, it is about an hour from Denver and just outside of Boulder Colorado so yea he is a big mountain climber. He has a camel backpack and everything so he is still hitting it up with the good old Boy Scoutness ha-ha. Probably a little thing I will learn from him this transfer ha-ha! He has about 2 transfers more than me so were not that far apart from each other in time in the mission. My companion Elder Welling left for Chiloé Castro as I think I already told you and Elder Osborn came from Rahue Bajo so not that far south. He’s a really good missionary and hope to do a lot of good work with him this transfer unless I am only here for half a cambio and then head somewhere else cause this coming transfer we have sobrecambios where in the middle of the cambio some people move in the mission cause the group that is suppose to leave next transfer for home is a group of 25 missionaries!! So President is splitting up the group, half of them go home in the middle of this transfer and then the rest go home at the end because about all of them that are going home next transfer are leaders in the mission so there will be a lot of drops in leadership and a lot of new missionaries becoming leaders so yeah its going to be a crazy looking transfer this one coming up. The rain is still hitting here but not as much. The sun is starting to come out more but it is still very cold here all day so I have my gloves and hat and everything on every time we leave the house ha-ha! My sector since Elder Osborn got here has been difficult, it is somewhat frustrating me. We haven’t been able to find any new ones and our progressing investigators have been busy all this week so our numbers have been really low, so we’ve been in the streets basically all week just contacting people and knocking a couple of doors so its kind of hard right now but I’m going to try to keep my spirits up and keep moving along in the Lords work he has for us here in Los Encinos Valdivía. I love you all and miss you all!! I am in Helaman 5 right now so good luck family!!


Love Elder Blotter