Elder Blotter - Feb 26

Dear Family,

Glad to hear all is well with you right now and with all the girls. I will keep Sayward in my prayers and everything. This past week there was a lot of sun but now in the mornings it’s a lot colder so that’s a show that the climate is starting to change. Probably by the end of this transfer in April it’ll start raining daily I am sure but we’ll see.  I am well here in San Pablo, we had great assistance in the church this past week with a lot of members that were less active attending and some other people that are family members but not members who came to church with them. We hope to see a lot of success with these people that came to church. Me and my companion are well this past week and hope to see lots of success this coming week with the members like we did a couple of weeks ago. Not much of new news this week because my companion and me are still together for another transfer. The AP that got bumped down is now our district leader in Rio Bueno Elder Riches and he finishes at the end of this transfer so it’ll be fun to be with him for one transfer more cause he was my Zone leader in Valdivía and I got real close with Elder Riches so it’ll be pretty sweet.

Today in the Noche De Hogar that the members are holding they want to do something small for my companion because he turned 20 yesterday so it’ll be interesting.  I know it won’t be something huge because I remember my 20th birthday here and it was nothing big but neither will my 21st birthday ha-ha.   That’s sweet that Elder Blotter comes home real soon from Korea but I am sure he doing really well there and loving it and is going to miss it just like I am going to miss Chile when I head home.

I am glad to hear that Braden is excited to leave on a mission.  It makes me sad to hear that there are young men not leaving on missions from our stake. I wish and hope that I will have the opportunity to speak to them and maybe Elder Louk and other Elders and sisters that have left on missions, we can speak about our missions and show pictures of our mission and explain the blessings that we receive from serving missions to the young men and young women cause I can already see in my whole mission the many wonderful blessings I have received and also to see the lives of others change because they have received the Gospel in their lives. I am so grateful to be a missionary in these days when Satan is trying to destroy the church with all his might.  But as Elder Boyd K Packer has said we will win this war.

I miss you tons and will all be in my prayers.


Love Rob

Elder Blotter pics - Feb 26

Elder Blotter said these pictures were from them cutting the grass in their yard because it had gotten long.   Seems like a lawn mower would have been easier but you use what tools you have.

Elder Blotter - Feb 21

Dear Family,
Glad to hear all is well with you back home and the weather is warming up a bit more at this point.  Everyone is telling us that fall is coming around the corner because when March gets here and school starts for the kids, then the rain will come so I’ll be here in San Pablo for the first part of winter I believe. Yes Brenda was baptized and I sent mom pictures so they are there. Brenda’s Son has blondish hair so everyone in the branch make fun of me because all of them say that he looks like me and that he is my son.  It's like the branch joke here, ha-ha.
 All is well this past week. We had a great Sunday where we had District Conference for all Chile.   Elder Christofferson spoke to Chile along with Elder Packer and a couple of other general authorities so it was really awesome!! They spoke to all of Chile through satellite but still first time for it and I learned a ton!! Elder Christofferson spoke to us in Spanish and that was way sweet because he kept his Spanish after his mission where he served in Buenos Aires so it was great. My companion and me will be staying together for another transfer and the only two places that transferred were the two areas that the missionaries went home and finished their missions so it won’t be much of a difference. I am well and hope to see a lot of success this coming week and this coming month because we are still getting all of our other investigators ready for baptism.  Their dates are in March so we are stoked for all of that to be in process because one of our investigators told us she’s never been baptized in any church so she’s PURE!! Ha-ha but its pretty sweet we’re both looking forward to it but my companion is stoked that he is staying here another transfer because he loves it here just like I loved my first area in Valdivía that I will never forget so I understand how he feels. There are also some pictures from this past week. I love you and miss you tons. 

Love, Elder Blotter

Elder Blotter pics - Feb 21

Elder Blotter and his comp Elder Camerena with their newly baptized investigator, Brenda.  

We assume these are some of the missionaries from Elder Blotter's current sector but he did not indicated who they are.

We assume this is the La Union Zone or District.  Notice how short the one Sister Missionary is compared to some of the Elders.  

Elder Blotter - Feb 14th

Dear Family,

I am well this past week.  The news to give you this week is no our investigator didn’t get baptized because she didn’t feel totally prepared. She wants to get baptized this coming Saturday so it has been moved and announced in church so we hope to have a lot of people at her baptism so we are all very excited for this Saturday. We asked her how she felt for this weekend for her baptism and she told us she feels better about her decision so we are content and not upset for the Lord has his time for everyone of his children.  We are just all the more excited for her.  This past week for me was very eventful visiting many people this week with members.  The members really helped out this past week and we almost met the standard this past week with members so we are very proud of our work.  We hope to make this last week of the transfer even better!  I am well here but hot, putting on sun screen on everyday that there is a lot of sun. It rained like once during the week but basically nothing. There were days during this past week that were REALLY HOT!! I was sweating like no other!! My companion said it was nothing for him but it was too much for me ha-ha.  I hope to see weather a bit more calmer ha-ha but Its crazy how fast this past transfer has gone by.   I feel like we’re only in our 3 week here in San Pablo but no its almost over. I hope I am with Elder Camarena another transfer because we have a lot of people lined up with baptism dates and really hope to see them progress into the next transfer so it is just awesome here. I love San Pablo because it is a very calm small town that doesn’t have a lot of movement going on and you can walk anywhere with out of problem. The only problem is that a lot of the people here are Evangelic so as the Chileans say about themselves they are Hard headed ha-ha But its OK I am happy here in the Lords work. But I hope to see a lot of success this next week. I love you tons and miss you lots!!

P.S. Our Zone Conference with President Lovell and Elder Amado was really good by the way and learned a lot in the Conference. But I love you guys 

Elder Blotter pics - Feb 14

Elder Amado of the Seventy visited the Osorno Mission and attended  Zone Conferences throughout the Mission.  This is the group photo for the missionaries from Robert's area.  Robert and his companion are on the right and 2nd row from the top.  Looks like a powerful group of missionaries

Elder Blotter and his companion on the bus traveling back from the conference.  Not sure what all the silly hand gestures mean other than they are happy and excited.

Elder Blotter - Feb 7

Dear Family, 

Hey glad to hear all is well back home and that the storm went through. I don’t think I can come home in January the next following year because I think the snow will be a shell shock ha-ha coming from a summer here in Chile to the Winter in the States I’ll. die ha-ha. That is crazy on how much you guys got, way sweet on one side and the other that people got stuck. I’d like to see pictures of that ha-ha.  I am well this week. Brenda had her interview and it went well with our district leader but now she needs an interview with our mission president so it’ll be just like when one of my earlier converts had an interview with President Lovell. Hopefully she’ll be able to have it this Wednesday because we have Zone Conference this Wednesday. And then after that she can still have her baptism this coming Saturday.  It all depends on President if she is ready because she has such a big wish to be baptized and if she does her part and goes to church.   Sometimes it falls on going to church but you can’t expect people to be perfect but also we’re in Chile too ha-ha.  Keep her in your prayers. I am well with my companion here in San Pablo, we get along very well.  Sometimes he struggles a little bit because he misses his family but I tell him he is doing something that the Lord is very happy and proud of him doing. He’s happy he is here but sometimes talks too much about his country and the things that are there and sometimes that can make a missionary trunky if he thinks or talks too much about home so it’s hard sometimes.  But he’s a good kid. I received your package and will be sending pictures. Thank you for everything family ha-ha.   I will try to write grandma as soon as possible. I know things are going well here and I am trying to be the best missionary I can. I love you and miss you tons!!!

Love, Elder Blotter

P.S. How are Shayla and Derek and all those guys?? Has Derek decided to go on a mission or not yet?? The photos from this past week are of me and some members that we made banana pancakes Panama Style. My companion did them they are really good. Another from today, we went to La Union and we wait on the side of the Highway for a bus to come that is going to La Union because buses don’t really pass into our town so its better for us to wait outside of the town. Another is of me riding a 3-wheeled bicycle that belongs to a member and we were messing around on it for a second. Chileans use them to sell things on for their family. They’re pretty funny and hard to direct ha-ha and the other with the Camel that mom sent me very creative and helps me a lot. 

Thank you all I love you!!