Week 92 - Note from Executive Director of the Missionary Department

Dear Brother and Sister Blotter,

My wife and I just concluded a tour of the Mexico City Southeast Mission.  During our time there we had the opportunity to meet your wonderful son, Joshua.  He has been an outstanding missionary.  His President and wife speak very highly of him.  I was able to interview him during our zone conference and found a very mature young man with a strong testimony of the gospel.

Thank your for sending your son and thank you for raising such and outstanding young man.

May the Lord bless you and your family as he continues to serve.

Sincerely yours,

Elder Brent H. Nielson
Executive Director of the Missionary Department

Week 92

Hello.

how are you guys im doing great.

I´ve been punching it out here in texcoco without like any visible success. we arent getting discouraged though. we had zero investigators in church again. that is just sooo painfull to have.

but sunday was ward conference. which is nice cause lots of people come to that, and the stake pres talked and the bishop. the stake pres gave a good talk he just didnt take his talk to application it was just a feel good talk.

And monday we had a zone conference with elder nielson and his wife. it was a really cool experience and i like the sister nielsons talk she talked about how what is being a nielson, then she talked about how in laws change and she said ruin but as a joke, the dynamic in the family and how to accept and more than just tolerate people but really to learn from them. i really liked that cause i feel like in the mission i had thought that it taught me that but i realized i have just tolerated some of my companions, tolerated very well, but never really got to the center and loved them adn made them my best friends.-on some of my comps yes- she went on to talk about her sons and their character adn some comps they had in the misino and how they learned grew and applied it to us.

elder nielson talked to us about the atonement and the enabling power and the doctrine of christ and he helped us apply it to missionary worka dn hwo to teach better contqct better certain principles that he thought we could do a better job teaching and stuff like that. it was a truly choice experience.

the meeting was in the stake center, whichis like 90 mins from my area, so we got permissino to stay over at the zone leaders house, actually they told us to do it so we didnt have to wake up at 5 am to be there. but at the zone leaders house they had like 2 extra blankets and no extra mattresses and there were four of us that slept in their house. i had brought a blanket, but it got chilly, and the cement floor was cold. so i slept all night on a a cardboard box that i laid out on the ground like a homeless person, it was terrrible. hahahhhahaha

idk we went to siome lame ruins today in my area, i bought a chess board to teach my comp how to play chess. hahaha to keep the brain active in between study sessinos.


not much more. i sent an email to a dude about my job, he still hasnt replied if chels could contact him, i sent an email to kyle.
when is registration for classes? and i dont want an earlier class than 9 am please and thank you. also about the apartment, if you could find one where i only have to sign a semester contract? cause after a semester i probably will have friends i wan tto live with again.



UMMMMM did i forget anything? chang my major no?

love you

Elder Blotter



The first two pictures some super lame ruins in the middle of the city of texcoco, my area

this was at a fair, we paid like 10 pesos to take a pic with this cool snake

Week 91 - First Week of Last Full Transfer

Hey,

This week we did a ton of service. We found a couple of lost less actives and we found a bunch of new investigators, but the all put the return appt. for this week.

ummm... I'm honestly pulling a blank for what happened this week. hahaha

I love you guys tons. It's freaking me out having to sign up for classes at byu. I don't want to think about that at all, hahahaha but I know that I have to... and it stresses me out a lot.

I still haven't had a ton of success in this ward where I'm serving, but we're still trying hard. We're still working, working, working.  It's such a super large area that makes it's so hard to effectively work. There aren't a ton of members in a centralized place, so we have to go and visit the one or two members that do live in an area, and contact and look for maybe a less active if we are lucky and then that's like the afternoon. It makes it really hard. hahahaha

We had a super cool less active come back to activity and then like a week ago he had a stroke, I think, and now from what I know he can't speak. It's super, super sad, because he was wanting so much to be an active member of the church after like 54 years of getting baptized.

Ummm I re-did a chicken coop at a members home. As we dug up the ground three rats ran out and got on me... it was super super cool. Hahahahahaha we also went to a birthday party of a two year old. It made me remember how old-ish Tanner was when I left.  Hahaha. He was half talking and stuff.

Hahaha I love you tons seriously. I'll write a better letter next week, and I'll have more success this week.

LOVES,

Elder Blotter

Week 90 - Look who's coming home!!!

Look who's coming home!!!! 😇

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Joshua Blotter <jblotter@myldsmail.net>
Date: October 12, 2015 at 2:58:19 PM MDT
To: Shauna Blotter <shauna.blotter@gmail.com>, michael blotter <blottervet@hotmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Flightz


Que onda homies. Here´s your flight!!! Let your parents, bishop, and stake pres know. If there are any questions, concerns, or complaints they can be directed to my companion, Elder Orchard. Thank you.



Elder Olson I Secretario Ejecutivo I Misión México Ciudad de México Sureste
Avenida del Taller 540, Col. Jardín Balbuena, Venustiano Carranza I México DF, 15900
Celular 5554315074 I Oficina 26120223

Week 89

hey family

hahaha mom you ask me every conference if i watch it live. yes. haha where we are in mexico is like a massive city, currently on the outskirts of that city but everything is moderna dn i think we´re like an hour behind salt lake in the time, and that hour just cause daylight savings is different here.
i really really like the conference and felt like i received a lot of answers, about how to have more success be happier and lots of things. through the spirit.

hahah so ya i fell into a river. the water was only like a foot deep but it was sand and very loose sooo like the watery sand stuff was like 3-4 feet deep. haha my notebook it was where i had taken my notes when D. Todd Christofferson came and last general conference adn had the lists of members i had made, so ya it was important. hahaha it totally got ruined but the writing and stiuff was fine.

yup it was like pottery on point references to the gospel.  did i throw a pot, the answer is not yet.
can you send me the recipies mom.

this week was good. idk normal missionary work we found family of three on like tuesday and then we dropped them on thursday. that was cool, not. we did find a really cool inv. on friday, a reference from a sister we hadnt ever gone to visit nor had she come to church the entire time ive been here. the inv. is a single mother of 25. we decided here in mexico that is honestly the best group of inv. they want and need help in their lives, theyre normally willing to read the scriptures and the couple well with wards normally. she was going to come to conf but for an unknown reason didnt-couldnt


honestly this last week was super fast cause of conference that gets rid of normal saturday and sunday working.

something really cool about this area and ward is that for some reason there are a lot of foreigners, and by that i mean from out of mexico and out fo teh state.
there is a venezuelan, from sinaloa, from veracruz, from guerrero, michaocan, form jalisco, we met some member in the street yesterday from el salvador he was on his way to illegaly enter the united states. ahha
so the other day we got to eat some fish prepared like sinaloan style. twas pretty yummy. last week we ate like venezuelan food, they were like corn pancakes that you ate with cheese instead of sweet.

well idk. ill try and kick butt this week. we all need to be better at listening to the spirit.
love elder blotter.