Monday, May 10, 2010
Elder Blotter Photo - May 10
Elder Blotter Status Update - May 10, 2010scompanion
We got to talk with Elder Blotter on Saturday for his allotted Mother's Day call. He is doing great except for an accidental encounter with a nail in his foot earlier in the day. Luckily he had his tetanus shots before he left. We were able to ask him all sorts of question about his mission experiences and the area where he is serving. Unfortunately the hour passed way too quickly. He said the Chilean people are very friendly and outgoing and treat the Elders very well. He also has a new companion after transfers this week. His companion is one of triplets who are all serving in different Chilean missions. They were written up in a recent article in a Church News article.
Here's a link to the article. His companion is the one in the middle of the picture with the article
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/57626/Oregon-triplets-receive-mission-calls-to-Chile-on-same-day.html
Hola Familia!!
I hope everyone is doing well this week!!! I was so happy to hear all of your guys’ voices!! It was way weird to hear them all again but still way way awesome! I’m sure it was a great mothers day gift for mom and I was glad I was able to give that to her. My week has been really crazy lately! Tuesday I found out I get a new companion and that Elder Simons was leaving for another sector called San Jose and its only about 30 minutes from Valdivia so he didn’t get put that far away so all see him at Zone Conference in about a week from tomorrow. I have a new companion his name is Elder Welling he is from Oregon and he’s been out for about a little over 9 months so he’s got Spanish down pretty well and understands real good too. He is part of a set of triplets here in Chile! His two other brothers are serving in Santiago East and the other Rancaqua! That is way cool to hear that I’m working with an Elder like him. He really has a strong testimony and is a very hard worker when it comes to contacting people he is way better than me but then again he’s been here way longer than me so will see when I get there in about 4 more cambios I think ha-ha!! I’ve had to lead the sector the whole week and for another week I lead to make sure he knows the area very well. He’s already getting to know the sector very well and we’ve done A TON of WALKING EVERYWHERE!!! Our sector is one of the largest in the Zone so it’s pretty crazy! Some of the crazy experiences I’ve had this week is I saw some horses just chilling, walking down the street together! I don’t think anybody owned them cause nobody was coming after them it was really weird and way funny!! ha-ha!! This past Saturday while I was cutting wood I accidentally stepped back and a nail went through my shoe and into my foot and it hurt pretty bad! I was attached to a little piece of wood and I grabbed it and pulled it out of my foot! Thankfully I had a shot for this kind of stuff before I left for the mission so I’m pretty protected. I just got to keep it medicated and I couldn’t really walk on it for the past 3 days so its really hurt but today it’s doing a whole lot better. I need to do laundry soon because I haven’t in a while so yeah I’ll get on that ha-ha! The water lately in our shower hasn’t been very warm which stinks so I kind of don’t want to take showers sometimes but I know I should so I do it anyways ha-ha! I have interviews with President this Wednesday to see how I’m doing with everything and how everything is going so that’ll be good to talk to him since I only talk to him every transfer which is a month and a half long so yeah that’ll be nice. The rest of this week has been great and I’ve met all of the new missionaries in our Zone they seem like all good hard workers and I’m sure I’ll learn a lot from them. I love you all and miss you allot!! I hope everyone is well and mom has a fun Mothers day trip to Utah/Idaho to visit Amy and Sayward and Brittany and the boys!!! I pray for you all and for your safety!!
Love, Elder Blotter
Here's a link to the article. His companion is the one in the middle of the picture with the article
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/57626/Oregon-triplets-receive-mission-calls-to-Chile-on-same-day.html
Hola Familia!!
I hope everyone is doing well this week!!! I was so happy to hear all of your guys’ voices!! It was way weird to hear them all again but still way way awesome! I’m sure it was a great mothers day gift for mom and I was glad I was able to give that to her. My week has been really crazy lately! Tuesday I found out I get a new companion and that Elder Simons was leaving for another sector called San Jose and its only about 30 minutes from Valdivia so he didn’t get put that far away so all see him at Zone Conference in about a week from tomorrow. I have a new companion his name is Elder Welling he is from Oregon and he’s been out for about a little over 9 months so he’s got Spanish down pretty well and understands real good too. He is part of a set of triplets here in Chile! His two other brothers are serving in Santiago East and the other Rancaqua! That is way cool to hear that I’m working with an Elder like him. He really has a strong testimony and is a very hard worker when it comes to contacting people he is way better than me but then again he’s been here way longer than me so will see when I get there in about 4 more cambios I think ha-ha!! I’ve had to lead the sector the whole week and for another week I lead to make sure he knows the area very well. He’s already getting to know the sector very well and we’ve done A TON of WALKING EVERYWHERE!!! Our sector is one of the largest in the Zone so it’s pretty crazy! Some of the crazy experiences I’ve had this week is I saw some horses just chilling, walking down the street together! I don’t think anybody owned them cause nobody was coming after them it was really weird and way funny!! ha-ha!! This past Saturday while I was cutting wood I accidentally stepped back and a nail went through my shoe and into my foot and it hurt pretty bad! I was attached to a little piece of wood and I grabbed it and pulled it out of my foot! Thankfully I had a shot for this kind of stuff before I left for the mission so I’m pretty protected. I just got to keep it medicated and I couldn’t really walk on it for the past 3 days so its really hurt but today it’s doing a whole lot better. I need to do laundry soon because I haven’t in a while so yeah I’ll get on that ha-ha! The water lately in our shower hasn’t been very warm which stinks so I kind of don’t want to take showers sometimes but I know I should so I do it anyways ha-ha! I have interviews with President this Wednesday to see how I’m doing with everything and how everything is going so that’ll be good to talk to him since I only talk to him every transfer which is a month and a half long so yeah that’ll be nice. The rest of this week has been great and I’ve met all of the new missionaries in our Zone they seem like all good hard workers and I’m sure I’ll learn a lot from them. I love you all and miss you allot!! I hope everyone is well and mom has a fun Mothers day trip to Utah/Idaho to visit Amy and Sayward and Brittany and the boys!!! I pray for you all and for your safety!!
Love, Elder Blotter
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
More Lake Pictures from Elder Blotter
The Elders certainly enjoy showing the Chilean flag, they are obviously proud of their newly adopted country.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Latest Photos from Elder Blotter
Elder Blotter send these photos for the week of May 3rd. His Zone went on a P-day outing to their Branch President's home near a beautiful lake. He also sent some group shots of his missionary zone. We have published some of them here. As always, he is smiling, which is a good sign that he doing well.
Elder Blotter's News From Chile - Week of May 3rd
¡Hola familia! ¿Cómo están todos? Espero que todos estén bien y estaba muy feliz de tener todos los correos electrónicos que he recibido esta semana.
This week has been a long a tough and stressful but exciting week!! In the beginning of the week we have had 2 more people decide that they want to be baptized holy cow!! I am way excited for them and me and Elder Simons are just preparing them to feel more prepared to be baptized! We have also had a lot of rain this week but also a little bit of warm weather with sun which was nice but that was only one day the rest of the week has just been flat out rain!!! haha At the end of the week we had an intercambio with the zone leaders one last time for the end of the transfer which is this wednesday and I am very sad for it cause my companion gave his testimony in Sacrament on Sunday and basically gave his farewell speech and he told me he´s more likely getting moved out of the sector cause he´s been here for 3 transfers so if he goes it´s going to be really sad cause I love Elder Simons very much he´s such a great Missionary and a great companion to me. I look up to him with his great spanish speaking and such strong testimony and knowledge of the gospel. I hope I can become just as great as him!! We find out tomorrow in Zone meeting tomorrow who stays and who goes from our Zone so it will be a very sad day tomorrow to see who stays and who goes so lots of pictures will happen tomorrow thats for sure! Today for our last p-day of the transfer to Futrono which is that sector that me and my companion visited earlier this transfer. We went there with the Valdivia Zone which was awesome cause we had two zones up there ours which is Calle Calle and the Valdivia Zone so it was way fun cause we went to the missonaries branch presidents home which was way way nice it was right next to a massive lake thats up there and there were massive homes all around it!! Its a really rich area one of the missionaries told me and from all the nice boats and massive houses with nice cars I´d say thats a YES haha!! but it was way fun we played soccer and took pictures down by the lake but we didn´t go in the water cause were not suppose to but I´d love to come back to that sector after my mission and go boating in there or Kayaking in that lake cause it has islands in it and it way reminded me of the boundry waters trip I took with dad when I was 12 up in Wisconsion!! Otherwise its just been a normal week just serving the lord with all obedience to him and to my mission president. I am so happy and grateful for the opportunity to serve a mission for the Lord and so happy I did. I know I am being blessed for my service and that the lord has a great work for me here in Chile.
Sé que esta iglesia es verdadera. Sé que soy un hijo de Dios y que ama a todos sus hijos. Yo sé que José Smith es un profeta de Dios y que lo hizo restaurar la plenitud del Evangelio de Jesucristo y su iglesia trajo de vuelta a la tierra una vez más. Sé que el Libro de Mormón es verdadero y que lo que realmente es otro testamento de Jesucristo. Sé que el Presidente Thomas S. Monson es un verdadero profeta de Dios ya través de él que guía y dirige la iglesia de Cristo a través de la revelación. Sé que he nacido de buenos padres que son obedientes a las enseñanzas del Señor. Estoy tan agradecida de tener el evangelio en mi vida y estoy feliz que he hecho las elecciones correctas en mi vida para que yo pudiera servir en una misión para él. Digo estas cosas en el nombre de Jesucristo, Amén.
This week has been a long a tough and stressful but exciting week!! In the beginning of the week we have had 2 more people decide that they want to be baptized holy cow!! I am way excited for them and me and Elder Simons are just preparing them to feel more prepared to be baptized! We have also had a lot of rain this week but also a little bit of warm weather with sun which was nice but that was only one day the rest of the week has just been flat out rain!!! haha At the end of the week we had an intercambio with the zone leaders one last time for the end of the transfer which is this wednesday and I am very sad for it cause my companion gave his testimony in Sacrament on Sunday and basically gave his farewell speech and he told me he´s more likely getting moved out of the sector cause he´s been here for 3 transfers so if he goes it´s going to be really sad cause I love Elder Simons very much he´s such a great Missionary and a great companion to me. I look up to him with his great spanish speaking and such strong testimony and knowledge of the gospel. I hope I can become just as great as him!! We find out tomorrow in Zone meeting tomorrow who stays and who goes from our Zone so it will be a very sad day tomorrow to see who stays and who goes so lots of pictures will happen tomorrow thats for sure! Today for our last p-day of the transfer to Futrono which is that sector that me and my companion visited earlier this transfer. We went there with the Valdivia Zone which was awesome cause we had two zones up there ours which is Calle Calle and the Valdivia Zone so it was way fun cause we went to the missonaries branch presidents home which was way way nice it was right next to a massive lake thats up there and there were massive homes all around it!! Its a really rich area one of the missionaries told me and from all the nice boats and massive houses with nice cars I´d say thats a YES haha!! but it was way fun we played soccer and took pictures down by the lake but we didn´t go in the water cause were not suppose to but I´d love to come back to that sector after my mission and go boating in there or Kayaking in that lake cause it has islands in it and it way reminded me of the boundry waters trip I took with dad when I was 12 up in Wisconsion!! Otherwise its just been a normal week just serving the lord with all obedience to him and to my mission president. I am so happy and grateful for the opportunity to serve a mission for the Lord and so happy I did. I know I am being blessed for my service and that the lord has a great work for me here in Chile.
Sé que esta iglesia es verdadera. Sé que soy un hijo de Dios y que ama a todos sus hijos. Yo sé que José Smith es un profeta de Dios y que lo hizo restaurar la plenitud del Evangelio de Jesucristo y su iglesia trajo de vuelta a la tierra una vez más. Sé que el Libro de Mormón es verdadero y que lo que realmente es otro testamento de Jesucristo. Sé que el Presidente Thomas S. Monson es un verdadero profeta de Dios ya través de él que guía y dirige la iglesia de Cristo a través de la revelación. Sé que he nacido de buenos padres que son obedientes a las enseñanzas del Señor. Estoy tan agradecida de tener el evangelio en mi vida y estoy feliz que he hecho las elecciones correctas en mi vida para que yo pudiera servir en una misión para él. Digo estas cosas en el nombre de Jesucristo, Amén.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Elder Blotter's News From Chile - Week of April 26th
Hola Familia!
How is everyone??? I was happy to get emails from Amy and Brittany this week to see how they are doing along with Mom and Dad. Glad to hear the family is well and everyone is happy. Life here in Chile is starting to turn cold! Way way cold, with rain just about every day and a lot of cloud cover. My companion says that this is how its going to be for the next 6 months, holy cow!! Well, I´m prepared for it because I got a ton of winter gear to keep warm, so I think I'll be ok. Its just the mornings that are going to be hard because the whole house is always way way cold in the mornings! We are still having pretty good success here in our sector with our progressing investigators and also getting a couple of less active members to come to church, that was way awesome to see them there!! We did a 3 way 24 hour companion exchange this past Friday to Saturday and I stayed in my sector and had Elder Campozano as my companion again, but I led my sector! It was a bit hard because I answered our cell phone that we have to keep in contact with all the other sectors that my companion is head of because he´s District Leader and it was all Spanish!! But I did good and that day with Elder Campozano and it went well also. We talked to a lot of people and a couple of people as possible investigators. We taught almost the whole first lesson on a door step to a man, it was way awesome! But we didn´t set up a return time to come back and teach, so me and my companion will have to go by and see if we can talk to him again. My Spanish is getting a whole lot better and I´m doing better with my door approaches and street contacts. Actually with Elder Campozano he was on the phone talking to the other Zone Leader for a second and there was a man walking towards us and I had this prompting that I needed to talk to him so I did it all by myself! I was way proud of myself!! But, we only gave him a little pass along card, but at least we were reaching out to him. I was happy about that. Also this week, me and my companion went to a members home who is older and she needed our service of cutting down some trees and that was way way fun! Just using an axe and cutting up some wood and watching the trees fall haha!! Me and my companion Elder Simons also did something way awesome on our fire place that we have in our home. It has a pan looking type top of it to it so I thought of the idea of cooking food on top of it because it gets way hot And we did it haha, it was way way good. We made burgers and eggs and sliced up hot dogs holy cow!! So freaking good I am becoming a chef out here guys!! haha We also had some fun at a members home one night after we read scriptures with them and talked with them about how we can be more obedient to the lord. We made some grills out of gum wrapper and put them on our teeth like the gangsters have, it was way funny haha! Not much else really happened this week besides what I´ve told you all but I have really felt the spirit very strongly and I love it so much! I know that through my obedience to the Lord and to myself I will feel this feeling always. I love you all and miss you all very much! I pray for you all everyday for your safety and that the Lord will bless you all for my service to him and that he will help you all in your everyday lives with what ever you are needing help with that day. Again, I miss you all and hope you enjoy this weeks pictures!!
Love, Elder Blotter
How is everyone??? I was happy to get emails from Amy and Brittany this week to see how they are doing along with Mom and Dad. Glad to hear the family is well and everyone is happy. Life here in Chile is starting to turn cold! Way way cold, with rain just about every day and a lot of cloud cover. My companion says that this is how its going to be for the next 6 months, holy cow!! Well, I´m prepared for it because I got a ton of winter gear to keep warm, so I think I'll be ok. Its just the mornings that are going to be hard because the whole house is always way way cold in the mornings! We are still having pretty good success here in our sector with our progressing investigators and also getting a couple of less active members to come to church, that was way awesome to see them there!! We did a 3 way 24 hour companion exchange this past Friday to Saturday and I stayed in my sector and had Elder Campozano as my companion again, but I led my sector! It was a bit hard because I answered our cell phone that we have to keep in contact with all the other sectors that my companion is head of because he´s District Leader and it was all Spanish!! But I did good and that day with Elder Campozano and it went well also. We talked to a lot of people and a couple of people as possible investigators. We taught almost the whole first lesson on a door step to a man, it was way awesome! But we didn´t set up a return time to come back and teach, so me and my companion will have to go by and see if we can talk to him again. My Spanish is getting a whole lot better and I´m doing better with my door approaches and street contacts. Actually with Elder Campozano he was on the phone talking to the other Zone Leader for a second and there was a man walking towards us and I had this prompting that I needed to talk to him so I did it all by myself! I was way proud of myself!! But, we only gave him a little pass along card, but at least we were reaching out to him. I was happy about that. Also this week, me and my companion went to a members home who is older and she needed our service of cutting down some trees and that was way way fun! Just using an axe and cutting up some wood and watching the trees fall haha!! Me and my companion Elder Simons also did something way awesome on our fire place that we have in our home. It has a pan looking type top of it to it so I thought of the idea of cooking food on top of it because it gets way hot And we did it haha, it was way way good. We made burgers and eggs and sliced up hot dogs holy cow!! So freaking good I am becoming a chef out here guys!! haha We also had some fun at a members home one night after we read scriptures with them and talked with them about how we can be more obedient to the lord. We made some grills out of gum wrapper and put them on our teeth like the gangsters have, it was way funny haha! Not much else really happened this week besides what I´ve told you all but I have really felt the spirit very strongly and I love it so much! I know that through my obedience to the Lord and to myself I will feel this feeling always. I love you all and miss you all very much! I pray for you all everyday for your safety and that the Lord will bless you all for my service to him and that he will help you all in your everyday lives with what ever you are needing help with that day. Again, I miss you all and hope you enjoy this weeks pictures!!
Love, Elder Blotter
Elder Blotter latest pictures include; cooking eggs on the wood burning stove top ( he was quite proud of his cooking prowess this week), another scenic Chilean sunset ( he likes sunsets), he and his companion chopped some wood this week for a elderly member who needed some trees down, testing out all his winter gear for the impending cold weather ( Chile is in Fall right now and headed to Winter), and finally he and his comp showing off their silvery whites (apparently a gangster look in Chile), what a bunch of goofs!
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