Hey!
Thanksgiving: James Bond & football, haha, sounds fun.
This week I got to eat a tamale with bacon in it. Be jealous, because it was delicious.
So day one here: I got to the changes a little late because the member that was driving is like deaf or has selective hearing. I think I know what it's like to have a teenage son. We finally got to changes, got my companion and accidentally left one of my bags in the van. Ugh... on to the new area.
The house that we live in is large and two companionships live there, but they had the house filthy and the landlady is super annoying and is a great fault finder, haha. So we, as of yesterday, were on the point of getting kicked out of the house. We talked and have till the 3 of January to find a new house, or in other words i don't have to worry about moving, haha.
But the house was filthy dirty. We cleaned it. It's sick (a good thing) now. Like we have three or four couches sick, haha.
The ward is cool. We have lots of less actives to visit and members that like the missionaries, and investigators that are progressing. We had three baptismal dates for the weekend before I come home but two of them didn't come to church so I wont be here for two of them, lame. But, there are some pretty cool people here.
Idk, I get along with my comps. One of them loves cooking, so I'm stoked because he enjoys making us food.
Ummm, idk. We visited a bunch of less actives and 19 came to church on Sunday so that was sick........... there are two different families here that the sister has like 32 years old and her son is 18......... other words had a kid when she was 14. two different people. wow. or a 23 year old with 4-5 children.
ummm idk I'm doing fine out here in la perla. or the pearl. hahaha have fun before i get home cause I'm going to come home and sleep for like a week. hahaha I'm tired all the time.
apart from sister Stutz having Facebook she has a blog http://stutznegger.blogspot.mx/
her blog is a hilariously different perspective being the mission presidents wife.
you'll probably like that.
hahaha love you tons mom
have a great week.
Elder Blotter
Monday, November 30, 2015
Monday, November 23, 2015
Week 96 - Last week of changes
Last week of the changes. We spent a lot of time in a pueblo called Apipilhuasco.
Super, super cool place with only like three different members of the church. And one investigator
The investigator is super cool but super like flakey...…Idk.... One day he'll get baptized and all his family. His wife is already a member, when she got baptized they had like marital problems now that everything is better cause of the principles of the church she comes less cause she spends more time with her family...…
But, slowly but surely the husband will become a member of the church and their like 5 children.
The other family is a family that got baptized a long time ago, but they never really or don't want to say they felt the spirit. So.... We are teaching them as if they were new inv. its pretty cool.
we also had an activity to go to the visitors center and we invited all the ward all the less actives, we've been planning this activity for like a month or more. we rented full bus to go. 1300 pesos which is like a little under a hundred bucks. at 10 which was the planned leaving time. no one shows up. nobody. at 1115 we had 8 people. in a bus that seats 32. ugh...... so we went anyway with those people...… and one was an investigator i have and she closed her heart and wanted to fight about the money used to build the visitors center and a bunch of stuff instead of learning and feeling the spirit. after the wonderful video of the family that they have she pulls her phone out and takes a pic of the tv. cause its huge. but seriously strong spirit present and hard hearts.
What else. Not a lot ,more, have changes. Lame......................
My last 4 weeks in the mission in a different area. Um not going to get to know anyone. That stinks. And its cause president wants me to end my mission as a ZL.........… for four weeks.
I'm not really into missionary titles and I'm not too excited to be in a new area for the last four weeks in my mission.
Ugh more reporting... more talking to leaders every day.
Nothing more. Really. I had to wash two weeks of dirty clothes cause I don't know how but I accumulated white shirts and garments for like two weeks.
Love you tons,
Elder Blotter
See you soon.
Super, super cool place with only like three different members of the church. And one investigator
The investigator is super cool but super like flakey...…Idk.... One day he'll get baptized and all his family. His wife is already a member, when she got baptized they had like marital problems now that everything is better cause of the principles of the church she comes less cause she spends more time with her family...…
But, slowly but surely the husband will become a member of the church and their like 5 children.
The other family is a family that got baptized a long time ago, but they never really or don't want to say they felt the spirit. So.... We are teaching them as if they were new inv. its pretty cool.
we also had an activity to go to the visitors center and we invited all the ward all the less actives, we've been planning this activity for like a month or more. we rented full bus to go. 1300 pesos which is like a little under a hundred bucks. at 10 which was the planned leaving time. no one shows up. nobody. at 1115 we had 8 people. in a bus that seats 32. ugh...... so we went anyway with those people...… and one was an investigator i have and she closed her heart and wanted to fight about the money used to build the visitors center and a bunch of stuff instead of learning and feeling the spirit. after the wonderful video of the family that they have she pulls her phone out and takes a pic of the tv. cause its huge. but seriously strong spirit present and hard hearts.
What else. Not a lot ,more, have changes. Lame......................
My last 4 weeks in the mission in a different area. Um not going to get to know anyone. That stinks. And its cause president wants me to end my mission as a ZL.........… for four weeks.
I'm not really into missionary titles and I'm not too excited to be in a new area for the last four weeks in my mission.
Ugh more reporting... more talking to leaders every day.
Nothing more. Really. I had to wash two weeks of dirty clothes cause I don't know how but I accumulated white shirts and garments for like two weeks.
Love you tons,
Elder Blotter
See you soon.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Week 93 - Halloween
I almost forgot to shoot you guys an email.
How are you doing? Didn't snow on halloween?
Speaking of halloween, Mexico's weird cause they've adopted a ton of stuff from the states and so now in addition to day of the dead they celebrate halloween. And I don't know why but we were instructed not to leave on halloween but i'm nearly positive the largest parts of the festivities were today and yesterday. But who knows.
so last week, Monday was mission conference. with elder Nelson, Tuesday was p day and then they cut Saturday in half making it useless to me so i had Wednesday Thursday and Friday to work this week so that was kinda hard. we found some new people to teach and we have a lot of important appointments this week. we had a ward activity on Friday too, it was like a talent show, some people came dressed in costumes but instead of showing talents they did like an evening of improv. they assigned songs and had costumes.... they assigned us the village people in between macho man and ymca...... haha pretty crazy
This morning we played soccer with the young men in the ward, cause they didn't have school.
umm...… we've decided to use the phone a lot more to schedule and verify a lot more, cause holy cow its horrible to go to a pueblo for an appt. and they're not home...…
Not a whole ton to share, we had an investigator at church yay! Marcus, he's the husband of a recent convert we're going to the visitors center with them on Thursday.
ummm.....
Love you guys tons!
Elder Blotter
How are you doing? Didn't snow on halloween?
Speaking of halloween, Mexico's weird cause they've adopted a ton of stuff from the states and so now in addition to day of the dead they celebrate halloween. And I don't know why but we were instructed not to leave on halloween but i'm nearly positive the largest parts of the festivities were today and yesterday. But who knows.
so last week, Monday was mission conference. with elder Nelson, Tuesday was p day and then they cut Saturday in half making it useless to me so i had Wednesday Thursday and Friday to work this week so that was kinda hard. we found some new people to teach and we have a lot of important appointments this week. we had a ward activity on Friday too, it was like a talent show, some people came dressed in costumes but instead of showing talents they did like an evening of improv. they assigned songs and had costumes.... they assigned us the village people in between macho man and ymca...... haha pretty crazy
This morning we played soccer with the young men in the ward, cause they didn't have school.
umm...… we've decided to use the phone a lot more to schedule and verify a lot more, cause holy cow its horrible to go to a pueblo for an appt. and they're not home...…
Not a whole ton to share, we had an investigator at church yay! Marcus, he's the husband of a recent convert we're going to the visitors center with them on Thursday.
ummm.....
Love you guys tons!
Elder Blotter
Thursday, October 29, 2015
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
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
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
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
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
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this was at a fair, we paid like 10 pesos to take a pic with this cool snake
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
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
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
Monday, October 12, 2015
Week 90 - Look who's coming home!!!
Look who's coming home!!!! 😇
Sent from my iPhone
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. JardÃn Balbuena, Venustiano Carranza I México DF, 15900
Celular 5554315074 I Oficina 26120223
Sent from my iPhone
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. JardÃn Balbuena, Venustiano Carranza I México DF, 15900
Celular 5554315074 I Oficina 26120223
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