Week 75

sorrrryyy... i ddidnt really have time to send a really good email.

so this week was solid work kinda, wednesday to today. so last sunday like 10 days ago we got home a little early to study cause study time is during church and it was rainging so we used the time to do weekly planning cause being in the offices it doesnt make it easy to plan for the week daily planning yes but weekly we dont have time to dedicate to that, so sunday after noon, so we set a goal kind of a high goal of finding 10 new investigators and putting 7 fechas this past week, we started praying to know where god wanted us to contact in what part of the area, the road we felt and decided after like days of praying about.......... ya no one accepted us, but god gave us like miracle people who stopped us in the street or the less active sister who´s mom isnt a member we found. so we found a total of 8 inv. and put 2 fechas, a little lower but a huge improvement over two full weeks without a new inv. miracle and lots of the other miracle guys we didnt even find yet, now we just hagvfe to help thesee people keep learnign about jesus and work to go to church and read and pray adn receive testimonies.

another kind of cool exp. there is a family in our area the sister is a member of likke 22 years and the husband got baptised like 3 years ago has the melquisidec priesthood, is the ward mission leader and he doesnt read the scrips nor has family prayer goes to church in a t shirt adn jeans and does a bunch of stuff, and in his houe still has virgens and other catholic stuff like giant rosary beads.
 so we out of love have wanted to help him for a while. Sooooo we went the other day adn we are teaching his father, the father didnt show up to the appt. so norr my comp asks me so are we doing this, i say yup. so norr asks a question about like his alter then like really lovingly honestly we very bluntly and straight forwardly and i say we.... mostly me, i teach a little about example and how our example as members means a lot, and that we need to be examples in word and deed and appearance, then talked about false traditions then how using examples of like apostles wont have these things in their homes and taht we need  to model our lives after them....... it was a very blunt lesson, but the spirit was there and im like almost sure they werent offended. but we did it out of love. it was a cool lesson though, he thanked us for reminding him by a little yank of the ears... thats an expression hear.... i dont know how to say it in spanish....

loves you mom, and dad.

Elder Blotter

Week 74

so it looks like neither one of you has written me yet.....


And i dont have much to say so i figured id write you guys anyways.}

so since last wednesday in the evening we went and visited some less actives who at least the daughter used to be super active in the church and now htey are far from activity. we taught a lesson about peter walking on the water and faith and not getting distracted. great lesson spirit was there testified hard.

we did divisions that day cause we´re in a trio so a member came with us to split up so we got like six lessoons in 3 hours saweet.
thursday was  a noirmal day.
friday saturday
stayed in the house cause i had awful diharea sck and threw up. hate throwing up.
sunday was stake conf was a pretty good conference but i have a hard time listening to the patriarch here i dont know why his style of speaking just tunes me out.

monday was a good day busy adn everything go tot the area had plans felll through D meeting that wasnt too bad, then taught priscila our inv thats super cool but hadnt come to church in a while, cause work and this psat sunday she was sick.

yesterday we went to polanco, get there and they were like the computer system is down............ ugh no......... so wait for a while see if it turns back on like idk 45 mins later turns out everyting works out fine. then we had to stay for the afternoon, the hours are 9-1 in the morning to bring in papers and get finger prints and stuff like that, adn in the afternoon 3-5 or 6 so theres a lot of down time, we ate lunch at wendy´s one of like the two wendy´s there are. then went to an aquarium then back to migration everything went smoothly got back to the area around 7 pm and then found 3 new inv, taught a super powerful first lesson. adn then found a former inv. who seems pretty golden just that she wouldnt accept an appt. cause her dads geting surgery in like a month in a different state so she keeps going over there to visit him or something........ annoying sang a song prayed in the street while talking to her she cried and still wouldnt accept an appt.said she´d call............

lvoe yuo guys hope you had a great week.

Elder Blotter

Week 73

l love you mom, ill probably send you a better letter, in the afternoon, but last week there wasnt a whole ton of missionary work that i did to talk about,

we went to the pyramids wednesday thursday we went to the migration with pres to renew his green card then friday i went with pres to close areas had a great day talking to pres about boating and snowskiing, he said after the mission that me and another elder are invited to his house in august of 2017 to go boating everyday and the other elder knows how to fix cars and stuff and pres has cars he wants him to fix hahahahaha

love pres. hahaha

then saturday got back to the grind, doign a lot more contacting cause we need new inv. but still havent found those new chosen peeps yet.

love you ill complete the email adn send more fotos after

Elder Blotter

Week 72

weird movie ive never heard about that...........

ya they got married and the family got baptised. soo great. soo so great. honestly not much to talk about this week just that i was insanely busy.

thats cool that you saw grant he´s a cool kid.

arent you done with your job for the summer?

And crazy couple of days.
sunday: didnt start my fast till sunday morning after breakfast go to church and elections were in sunday ehre and so we weren´t allowed ot go teach, then at night im super tired and i try to go to bed lay in bed for an hour  but cant fall asleep cause im like thinking and hungry so i go play some uke, talk to the assisnents and finally am able to fall asleep at like 12-1ish
monday: drop off an elder going home that had back problemsnewbies get here, training, i have to do a lot of paperwork so the newbies can sign, then we kind of chill with them for a long time and then pres calls after ive changed into pjs and says hey blotter can you come to the airport right now, my fones about to run out of battery. so i change into missionary close in like 30 seconds and run out and get a taxi to the airport, get there and everythings fine i just get there in time for pres to drive me back to the offices, then i get back and have to finish doing some work and stuff and preppign tuesday get to bed like 2ish
tuesday wake up at 530 to get to the airport before 7 to drop off a kid who got sent home, and to pick up another elder and then take him to the changes meeting get our new comp, i have to take care of the bags for the elders who are going home adn took them back to the offices and then i had to do some visa stuff for teh peoples who´s green cards expiring, then we go to the area. come back and alll the missionaries going home are there, they stay the last night in hte offices. the also dont hardly ever sleep so talking playing stuff didnt end till like 1 ish
wednesday p day we went ot Teotihuacan hte super cool pyramids, the hitch is that they are like 2 and a half hours in bus and metro and stuff, so we did that today and we´re back home.
tomorrow we´re going to go to migration and its also goign to take all day. so thats going to be tiring adn the cherry on top to a very busy day.


the baptismal service on saturday was super cool, lots of members came the water was hot everything went rather smoothly in like a mexican sense of that word, started an hour late. and after the ordinances they asked the mom and the dad to bear their testimonies, the mom was super excited from the start and has been wanting this for a while, but the dad was like super quiet and like thinking solemn before the baptism and in his testimony he was like breaking up  about how th e 7 minutes that she got in a church tour has changed their lives forever. super super super cool

thats all love you have a great week

Elder Blotter

Week 70 - Pictures Only

Week 69

Soooo..... i decided i had better buy a new pair of shoes cause i needed them, but i didnt want like crappy mexican shoes, and if you bought me a nice pair of shoes they´d probably cost like 120, or more like the ones we bought nad then to ship them to me would cost another 40 and then id have to wait for forever to get them, so i went to like a super nice mall and found a johnson and murphy shoes store, they sell like hardy shoes for missionaries, like a lot of missionaries use that brand and i bought me a pair, they cost 2000 pesos, like 130 and they are nice shoes that´ll definitely last till the end of my mission, and beyond.  did i mention they were brown.....


What else....... well last Sunday, we had the potential of like 11 inv to go to church, so we were all excited, ya one came to church........... ugh why????? out family of five had to go work saturday night and the boss didnt let them leave till 6 am. ya so they couldnt wake up. and one i still dont know why he didnt come, 2 cause the uncle had to work, cause he´s unemployed so his brother lets him use his taxi on sunday cause the police like traffic police dont work..... so even though its illegal for his to drive his brothers taxi, its not illegal on sunday....... ya........ so he didnt come nor did his nephew.

anyways we had another great lesson with the family of 5, the dad the last time we taught told us that he works so much and stuff cause he has terrible nightmares and he can hardly sleep, so its not until like exhaustion when he can sleep, so we gave him a blessing and he said he didnt have a single nightmare all week long but then the didnt come to churhc.


then this week, well we worked on monday afternoon, like a normal day, but we had a family we contacted cancel on us and a lady that we found contacting wasnt home, she had left her 2 year old home alone.......
tuesday we went to migration and had to stay all day long, and so we ate panda express, pretty yummy bejing beef. then came back and we were planning on having two lessons in the afternoon and we got ot the area late with a bunch of problemias and today is p day and in the morning we had to help an hermano fix his roof, so i took a hammer to like the cement that had cemented the ceiling onto the back wall.... ya my hands are like pretty destroyed. i just put lotion on and holy cow did they sting i think my comp got a pic of us working so ill see if i can get those from him.

so the lady we contacted that i mentioned in the paragraph above, me and norr we like done the appt. had fallen through and it was late and about to rain and it takes like 30 ish minutes to get back to our area, but we decided to knock a few doors, and we were walking and i felt like we should go up one street, adn then i contacted the first guy- house we saw he was like ya but later and then we keep walking and get shut down a couple times and tehn someone else tells us im busy right now but later, ya ya ya  so we were about to leave we kept walking and i felt like we should go back and knock the hosue that we had just passed, we go and then i woman sees us in the window opens the door and then goes back in, we wait she comes out with the keys unlocks the gate nad says come on in, we shrug and go in. then she goes on to tell us she had talked with missionaries in the street like a year before and they never came, but that she wanted us to teach her and her family. saweet.  but then when we went back to find her the 2 year old was home alone so im kinda upset with her.

Elder Blotter

ps. thats a super cool story from dads mission that ive never heard.......

pps. also did i mention we went ot a super nice mall....?

Week 68 - Loooooooong letter this week

Sister Stutz bought us a new vacuum..