Week 27 - New Mission President

Hey!

My president is President Stutznegger. so ya it was his wife. Hahaha hahaha my hair is too long for a mish, pres didn't say anything about it but I've tried to get it cut for like three weeks in a row, its been like 8-9 weeks without a haircut... my bad hahahahaha send me the photo so I can see what I look like. 

how sad that the grandma actually said don't seal me to him, and how sad that he never got active. seriously. hahaha i liked the summary of all the distant relatives but it went in one ear and out the other because i have no context — have no idea who these people are.... hahaha

Girls camp, how fun. Days of 47 royalty? What’s that…? Like I can understand what it is but I've never really heard of it before.... And by the descriptions of the girls they sounded like they had like 25 or more years. 

Eagle Idaho, pretty place. The low down on the nearest lake was that it sucked? So ya I wont be living there... Haha dad pushed Darlene in the water…  Hahaha that’s something you do and then feel bad about afterwards. 

Ya I went to the seven brides for seven brothers it was cool. I just thought Sundance was cool and the stage and where the play was.... hahaha

What happened this week. oh we had interviews with pres he´s really cool. i like him a lot, i think I'm going to get my area changed and a new comp in the next transfer, but who knows. pres was really surprised that I've been in the same area my whole mish and that me and my comp have the same amount of time. but who knows...... hahaha 

He gave a talk about exact obedience and then in the interview he asked me what I thought of his talk and I said it’s been a long time coming. Like I've been waiting for that talk all my mish. 

Umm.... What more oh I was proud that I got a couple more less actives to church, and my family that I want to get baptized before I leave my area came to church I'm proud of them.  One of the menos activos (less active) that came to church is an RM and was active and stuff when i got here in Ixtlahuacan, but he just dropped off the face of the earth and didn't come to church for like 9 weeks we visited him and brought him to church and he gave the principles of the gospel class on what theme? dia de reposo (Day of Rest). hahaha god knows how to make you feel bad for your sins. hahaha so perfect. i told you about the other less active that we brought to church last week and she told us before the member that offended her and the reason she is inactive, guess who spoke in sacrament meeting? the same hermano (brother) hahahaha how perfect.

I don't know...… I'm sure more happened.

Love you guys! 

Elder Blotter

Week 26 - A Note From The Mission President's Wife

Hello Blotter Family,

                I had the opportunity to spend some time with your son yesterday.  He is doing so well!  He is a great missionary and I want to thank you for sharing him with us!

Take Care,

Susan Stutznegger

Week 25 - "you rock elder"

Sooooooo this week…

First I’ll answer moms questions and stuff:

Ya, Juan Carlos is pretty sick, I'm pretty proud of some of my converts in this ward. Reinaldo is also super sick. Juan Carlos and Reinaldo have been blessing the sacrament recently. Because the youths in the ward have been screwing up recently. hahaha like 6 young men brought weed to a ward campout.... Ya. stupid children.

Who knows about cultural differences and the new pres. in relation to his approach.  I think the new pres. is a goof ball, hahaha.  I wrote the weekly letter to him and his reply was “you rock elder” hahaha. 

So the pics - yes we walked down the alley. I'm in the middle of the alley when the picture was taken.  My shoes are wearing well, I think, hahaha.  I kinda want to buy a third pair of shoes so I can wear the brown ones less, but who knows, haha.  Yes, Elder Tebbs from Bountiful Utah, and i took a picture and sent it to you, hahaha, is the brother of Haley, i played tennis with him too.

I’m pretty sure emailing you isn't disobedient ;)

Now dads email:

Ya I don't know what summer is like here in Mexico City, because it’s like sweater weather recently.  I don't think it gets hot.  They say that the hot part of the year is spring and I didn't think it was that hot. I was confused about what represented the summer-rainy season.  I thought it was going to be hot all day and in the afternoon it would pour, but no, it supposedly is just cloudy all the time and rains all day, hahahaha.  So thats my weather. It’s difficult to dry the clothes here in the summer time, cause the suns not out. 

Kidney out is like a phrase right? I remember camp hunt really well, hahaha.  We picked up the food from like a main camp in the middle and cooked it in our camps and it was always a little sketchy looking. The classes weren't that organized and we didn't get nearly as many merit badges as we did at Steiner, and i remember getting a letter halfway through the week from mom telling me to be nice to the other kids, and Blair Wolfe camp halfway through the week with his boat and we boated and i think that bothered Clark cause you weren't supposed to leave.... but it was sick hahahaha good memories but it wasn't my favorite camp.

About “Come Follow Me” and basics to prepare for a mish it doesn't mean that they are supposed to have a knowledge of the basics, rather they are supposed to be able to talk about the basic things in depth because of their own depth, not be able to talk about the basics cause thats where they are.

I haven't eaten anything that looked like steak in about 6 months. hahaha

Stories?

Idk nothing really happened this week. 

hahahaha we found like three ish new inv. which is always really cool. one of them is a señora named sandy she has one daughter who is like two-ish to give age ish of the lady. hahaha we asked what role religion has played in her life and she started to cry and told us about an experience with prayer with members of the church who right now are on missions. super cool that we knocked on the door of someone who like already knows what missionaries are and the rules of missionaries and has like really good examples in the church.

Haha I didn't tell you about snoopy did I? 

so we were walking up the street we knocked on the door of a less active, she wasn't there. we turned around and were about to cross the area and we heard someone yell help me, there was a combi-van that drives a route like a bus-like parked in the middle of the road and the driver was calling for us, he was having like body convulsions that he was down playing to major Charlie horses. we like helped him straighten his legs a little and we got someone to help us move his car out of the road, and he like laid him down on the front bench of his van and closed the doors and like hit his head with the door. hahahaha i don't know it doesn't share very good thought typing-this story-we asked him what his name was when we went to get help and he said “me llamo essnoopy´´ hahahaha, but I am pretty sure he died like today which is super crazy.  We helped him like three weeks ago and today on a combi from the same combi base-route as him had rest in peace snoopy you´ll be remembered, so ya we told him he needed to go to a doctor that he had more than charlie horses...… so theres that.

Hahahaha idk what else. A bunch more happened it’s been raining almost everyday. 

Love you guys!

I cant believe I almost have 6 months in the mish, in like 15 days.  One quarter of my mission has gone, how freaking nuts!  And, I still don't speak Spanish.  Hahaha.  Every time my comp says they are going to have me train next change and stuff, I always said I still don't speak Spanish, which is an over-statement.  I speak Spanish relatively well, just I'm still new and mess up all the time.  Hahaha, it’s still coming. 

later!

Week 24 - Thinking of Dad

Dad happy birthday yesterday I was thinking of you.

This week was good and hard and the life of a missionary.  A member that we used to visit all the time who is like active right now in the church but is she converted?  Who knows.  Anyway, we taught her grandson who is 20, and he got baptized his name is Juan Carlos, I'm a little prideful of him, he´s been blessing the sacrament these past couple weeks and he bore his testimony on Sunday. He's the kid who took off running after his baptism.  So funny.  Anyway, back to this week, the member who is semi-frito told us that the parents of Juan Carlos would like to listen to our message, so we made an appointment. We saw Juan Carlos before the cita (appointment) and he was really surprised that his parents wanted to listen.  So we had a lesson and it was a pretty cool lesson, his first question was something that normally no one in Mexico understands for a long while he said: “Why do you guys say that this is the true church?”  Most Mexicans are happy to be content with yeah all the religions are true.  he showed real intent and I think Juan Carlos has been talking with him about all the stuff that we taught him. So yeah I'm really hoping to help this family find the same truth that their son found.

We have another investigator named Moises, a Mexican version to spell Moses, anyway I talked about him earlier he stepped on a nail like three years ago and it still hasn't healed all the way.  He’s super cool the day we contacted him he was on his way to go and spend all his money on alcohol.  We talked with him on the street and put an appointment.  We learned that he hasn't gone and gotten wasted, like he normally would’ve, in like three weeks.  We haven't taught the word of wisdom yet, but the hard part with him is he´s afraid to accept baptism because he doesn't wanted to get baptized and then stop going.  The only hard part about teaching him is that he is only at his house Saturday and Sunday. He hasn't missed a Sunday at church or our appts. but he doesn't understand a ton so we have to teach him slowly, so he has three Sundays that he has come to church but we haven't even taught the whole restoration yet. Thats kind of a trial.

So about the area split: We got told about the split on Monday.  We were told to look for and find a house by Tuesday (we found one but that fell through), the missionaries got here Thursday slept on our floor until last Monday, which is when we helped them move into their new house.  Their area is on the bottom part of the ward.  The other elders got the middle half of my area and half of their old area and we stayed in our same house but we have the hill. To get to our area we have to climb a hill for like 10 minutes.  Ya its pretty ideal.  

New Mission President:

Who knows whats different, hahaha in the meeting we had it was pretty much we love you guys and have been praying for you for about a 3 years we interested in your obedience and your own conversion rather than numbers of baptisms...... but the goal to baptize every week comes from the area presidency of Mexico. So none of the goals have been changed yet, and pretty much everything is status quo right now.  President has been pretty sick his first week here so who knows if he hasn't just had time to do anything yet.

And no it wasn't hard to say goodbye to President Morales I liked the guy but he was super distant from us missionaries, like there was no mingling with us before the meetings or anything he came in spoke for a good long hour and the bounced to the next thing he had to do. His talks were always really great, but that was the end of the relationship I had with pres. 

yeah i remembered that you guys were partying it up at bear on the 4th, and i was here. but i forgot halfway through that it was the 4th of July, it gets like colder here in the summer, and it was cloudy and rainy and there were no american flags or fireworks so working wasn't difficult. it was the first like holiday away from home though, ever. i didn't have any holidays except for halloween at BYU and I've never really counted that as a holiday cause we don't really celebrate it haha.

Oh there was this buck-naked dude on the street corner of the stake center after meeting with pres. hahahaha he was like rubbing his thighs with news paper.... It was really funny.

and the other day a combi, which is a van that they fit like 10 people in, similar to a tiny bus, was stopped in like the middle of a street as we walked by and it had the door open and the driver was calling to us amigo, amigo. hahaha we walked over to him and he was having like major leg cramps and was in a ton of pain hahahaha we like helped him change positions in his car and lay down and we accidentally hit his head as we closed the door, and his name was ‘Esnoopy' hahahaha such a strange experience.

Thats about it.

pics  a super cool alleyway we found , a dog on top of a ghetto car, and me eating sabritones (its like lays chicharones), so good hahaha