Elder Blotter Pics - May 16th

Elder Blotter, his comp and some of the young men from the San Pablo Branch went on another local river adventure and cookout for their P-Day.  They seem to have lots of beautiful waterfalls in Chile

A San Pablo Branch Family Night activity

Elder Blotter and his comp making chilean sweet bread.  A missionary favorite

Elder Blotter Pics - May 9th

Elder Blotter and other members of his Zone on a P-day outing to an area lake.  Looks like a beautiful area.  No coats yet so they are still in Fall

Elder Blotter with his package from home.  Note the Chicago Cubs t-shirt

More from the Zone P-day trip.  What a great looking group of missionaries.

More P-day vistas

Elder Blotter and his care package.  Missionaries love their care packages.

Elder Blotter - May 2

Hola Famila,

Yes we have electricity back it is awesome but this week has been an interesting one and a fast one I can’t believe April is gone and now we are in May holy freak and as mom has said and many others have said I am "Old" in the mission holy cow I feel old even with President Lovell in the end of next transfers leaving the mission. I have really come to know him and trust him and feel like I could talk openly with him like he was my bishop/dad ha-ha but I guess to all the missionaries here he is our dad and Sister Lovell is our mom ha-ha but it’ll be a sad day when they go. But

Yesterday in church attendance was low and no investigators but its OK we’re doing our best.  We lost our best investigator Saturday morning because we went by her house and found her and her family moving all of their stuff into a moving truck to move out into the countryside in Rio Bueno.  So now we will be giving all of our information to the Elders in Rio Bueno and hopefully they can baptize her before I leave San Pablo because there are only 2 and a half weeks until the end of the transfer because transfers are the 18th of May.   She only lacks one attendance and has all of the lessons done and it would be awesome to see her get baptized. I found her in my first transfer with Elder Camarena and she is just of Gold. It would be sweet to see someone I had found get baptized because I have never been in a sector and seen someone I personally found get baptized.  I always left and then heard that they got baptized. But the attendance of church has gone down more and its more for winter here because its not like back home where everyone has cars and we have electric heating inside.  Here in our chapel its a fire place with mobile gas heaters so its a bit different so less people come because they say its too cold to go out walking to the chapel so its kind of frustrating.  But that’s life I guess, we got to help some people change their way of life in this concept. I have NO info on Mothers day right now but I hope to receive during the week or something to be able to contact you guys during the week or come to a cyber and write a short letter of WHEN, NUMBER and Etc, I hope to see more success this coming week even though its getting colder here we will change the mind of our investigators and make them investigators of Gold that they will want to follow the lord in every foot step that they make and be faithful until the end of there days. Thank you dad for all that you do for me. I love you tons and miss you more!! 

Love,

Elder Blotter

Elder Blotter pics - May 2

Elder Blotter and his Comp checking out the City Offices in San Pablo.   Very picturesque building. 

Elder Blotter wrote that this is their Landlord's dog Lua.  Look's like she likes missionaries.

Elder Blotter pics - April 25

This was the picture Elder Blotter sent from their 5 days without power this week due to all the rain.  They had to use candles for  most of the week for their lighting.

Elder Blotter - April 25

Dear Family

I am well this past Easter Sunday.  Funny it didn’t feel like Easter Sunday but then again they don’t really celebrate it in the branch here like we do back home. I did get some little chocolate Easter eggs from our recent convert’s son Antar who had a little Easter basket he got from in school.  So he shared them with my companion, and me, which was nice. Here Easter Sunday is more powerful in the Catholic Church and evangelic churches where they celebrate the full 3 days with the walking of the cross and a bunch of other stuff. They call Good Friday and the whole weekend Semana Santa that means Holy Week.  It’s interesting to see the culture difference in this holiday especially in a small little town. My companion is adjusting well just a little shocked from this past week because it rained here in the south for more than 72 hours STRAIGHT!!!   It was nuts not going to lie ha-ha and during the whole time until this afternoon we haven’t had power in the house so it was interesting being in the dark with a bunch of candles throughout the house lighting the place.   I guess it gave us a feel for how it must have felt for the pioneers in the old days where electricity didn’t exist at all so it was fun.   But it was sure a week of miracles in the rain because people stopped to talk to us more than usual so it was awesome and it’s always on those really rainy days that we find awesome new investigators!!!   So now we have a couple of new people to teach so maybe when the winter season gets here for real we won’t be walking so much in the rain and be more in houses ha-ha.  Wow it’s been a roller coaster this past week with rain. No power. Traveling to Rio Bueno a lot. Having our LAST interviews with President Lovell.  It’s a shame that he is ending his time as my mission president.  It’s going to be really weird to have a new mission president for the last 6 months of my mission. I'll barely have time to really get to know him. But it’s what the Lord wants. I know Sister Lovell is really sad to be going because I can see that she has really come to love the mission and we have all as missionaries come to love her a lot for what she does for us and brings to the mission. Thank you for all your love and support you give me even though I am a 1000 miles away from you. I love you tons and miss you more!!!

Love,

Elder Blotter

John 8 verse 12

"Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the

world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have

the light of life."

Elder Blotter pics - April 18

This is Elder Blotter and his missionary companion's new quarters in San Pablo after they lost their previous housing.   It was quite the saga if you read his April 18 letter.

Freeway shot from the highway outside of San Pablo. 

Elder Blotter and some San Pablo members