Elder Blotter - July 4

Dear Mom and Dad and Family,

I am well this past week here in Lanco. We have had a spectacular week this past week with a ton of lessons with member and found a couple of news but the best part of this coming week is were having 2 baptisms and I am baptizing them both. My first two baptisms in my mission that I am baptizing. I am baptizing 2 9 year olds named Isán and Nicolas. Isán is the grandson of Hermana Dina and he is just a ball of fun but so smart. Then also Nicolas is a 9 year old boy of a part member family well he is the last to be baptized in his family but never got baptized when he was 8 and his family moved from Santiago to here and the missionaries have been teaching for him for a while but now me and Elder Martinez are finishing it off and by surprise I have been chosen. Its weird but I am honored to baptize these two little guys. Then the other sweet thing we had happen this past week is that we found a new that is of GOLD like pure gold!! We’ve only taught him twice and once before Sunday and we put him with date for the 30th of July and came to church for testimonies and what not and we told him about what was going to happen in church before we got there cause we went and got him and he sat with my companion and then asked him if he could go up and he said yea go for it and the investigators FIRST SUNDAY GAVE HIS TESTIMONY AND SAID HE KNOW THESE THINGS ARE TRUE AND THAT THE CHURCH IS TRUE WOOOOAAAAHHH!!!! IT was insane I have never had an investigator do that in my life!!! The branch was left stunned and so were we. They are excited and they want to work hard with him now so that he gets baptized the 30th. Wow it was just awesome and we had 2 with 4 in church and an attendance of 46 this past Sunday so it wasn’t too bad like a normal Sunday here. But otherwise it has been an awesome week and my companion and me have the goal to have 20 with member this coming week and 8 with date we are just working this sector hard core. My companion Elder Martinez is a machine and we are machine here. By far he is going to be one of my favorite companions and already is in one sense. We get along so well and we are always laughing and messing around and just killing here in Lanco. I know Lanco will be a Sector I will never forget. It has so much potential and I hope to be here another transfer after this one here in Lanco.

Tomorrow we will get to know our new president and I am excited to meet him and talk to him. I have seen a couple of missionaries from my last zone that have moved up here to the North so it has been awesome to see a couple of them and also a couple of guys from my group have come up here to the North so now I know a couple people more. But no I am stoked for this transfer we are just going to kill it even more.  But I am glad to hear all is well with you guys back home. But its just weeks like these where I wish the mission would never end ha-ha but this p day we came to Valdivía and played bowling and it was a fun activity. By the time I get home al be an expert cause I’ve played it so much in the mission ha-ha.  The weather here has been very cold. Not too rainy but just cold. Every Sunday there’s always ice on the ground it’s so weird but that’s Chile for ya. But I am well here healthy, um a box?? Bueno. Oh yeah!! Before I get what is the address of President Peterson?? I got a letter from him but I can’t read his address.  I want to send a letter but I don’t want to mess up on the address and then the letter never gets to him ha-ha so if you could get that to me I’d appreciate it. But in the box I would like Socks ha-ha to replace all the socks I have that have holes so I only need like 3 pairs more because Amy sent me some. Um Gloves? I just lost my pair of gloves but I am going to look for them. Cheesetz Por favor. If you could find me two small little gifts or 3 that are like Chicago things for my converts here in Lanco like I don’t know key chains or something?? I don’t know l will leave that for you to decide.  I don’t really have anything else for now. But thank you for all the support and prayers you do for me. I Love you tons and miss you more!!!

Love,

Elder Blotter