Monday, August 23, 2010

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

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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

Monday, August 16, 2010

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.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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!!

Monday, August 9, 2010

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

Sunday, August 8, 2010

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