13 October 2011 Mission Complete!!!

(This entry is written by Mom - Kris Bloomfield)

Elder Bloomfield arrived home on Thursday Evening.  Kara flew in from Salt Lake City just a little bit before Kyle, so we all headed out to the airport and awaited both of their arrivals.  They were both right on time!!  It was so great to see Kyle as he came around the corner to where we could see him.  Of coarse we were all excited and screaming and crying.  It was an awesome sight to have him return home after completing a very successful 2 year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  I have to admit, he looked a little worn from the well dressed boy we sent out 2 years previous.  His shoes were worn out, his shirt was discolored (yellow in the armpits with a brown tint to it), he had on tan pants that were not fitted and a black pinned stripped suit coat that was a little large for him, but he had the "Kyle Smile" that we all knew.  He also had a "New Smell" about him.  In fact the first thing the girls said is, "Kyle you Stink".  I think two years of eating beans and rice and what ever else they found had settled in on his body, but smell or no smell, we were sure glad he was home.  It was such a awesome feeling having us all (Mo also came to the airport with us) back together again.  We took a few pictures while waiting for his suitcase to come out from baggage claim at the airport.

Mo, Kyle and Travis posing for a photo????

Cassi, and Olivia happy to have their oldest brother home.

Once we got Kyle's bags, we headed for home.

So good to have him back!!

We decorated the table and house with a Flag from Nicaragua and Blue and White decorations (the colors of the flag).  We of coarse had Chicken and Cheese casserole (Kyle's favorite dish) in honor of Kyle's return.

We all loved just sitting around and listening to the adventures of the last 2 years of Kyle's life.

We missed this face around our home!!!

And this one too!!

And this smile!!!!

After dinner, we all loaded back in the car and headed to the Stake Center where Kyle was released by President Speirs as a Full-Time Missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Pres. Speirs shared some thoughts with us and then had members of our family share thoughts as well as Kyle. It was a very bitter sweet night.  Kyle was a little more quiet as I am sure he was contemplating what this all meant.  His life would never be the same after the experiences he had just had over the last two years in all aspects of his life!!!!  He now has the challenge to decide what will come next in his life!!

Before doing anything else, Kyle wanted to go to the Temple and talk with the Lord about his last two years and what directions he should head in for his future.  Steve, Kyle, Kara and I all awoke early Friday morning and drove 2.5 hours to the Houston Temple.  We did a session in the Temple and then spent some time in the Celestial Room praying.  Kyle went off by himself for a period of time and talked with the Lord in Prayer.  It was a very tender time for all of us.  It was such a blessing to be in those circumstances with our two oldest children who had successfully completed their missions and were now ready to move on to the next stage of life - school and what ever it may be.

10 October 2011 Last Email and Pictures from Managua, Nicaragua North Mission

Well here is my last email as a missionary in Managua, Nicaragua.  It is hard to believe more than 2 years has gone by.  Wednesday morning at around 4:00am, I will go to Managua and hang for the day with all the other missionaries that are going home.  We will do some shopping, have a devotional/testimony meeting and go to dinner, then on Thursday I fly home.  I could go to Managua today if I wanted but I am going to try and get 3 or 4 more baptisms in before I get sent out of here. They are all basically members already but have never had a reason to be baptized so we are going to help them out.  All the other members of their families are members but they are the hard ones but it looks like good is going to win the battle. We had 2 baptisms yesterday.

For my last P-day today, I have no real big plans. There just aren't many sights to see.  Only on occasion but it is hard to go sight seeing cause basically every where is prohibido. We will do the usual, just play soccer in the morning and hang out and eat and stuff like that nothing exciting.            

Since I have been out on my mission for 25 months, my email ended and my mission credit card was cancelled already, but don't worry they put extra money on my companions credit card for me.

I guess that is all.  I am off to family home evening see you on Thursday!

The following pictures were taken on the last night of Kyle's mission.

Elder Lundquist and Pres. and Sis. Arredondo

Elder Bloomfield (Kyle) and Pres. and Sis. Arredondo

The group of missionaries that are going home.

The missionaries that are going home, the office elders and Pres. and Sis. Arredondo

Elder Bloomfield (Kyle) and Elder Ball

Notice Kyle's nice suit.  Everything was stollen a few weeks back, so this is what he came up with from the second hand stores to get him through the last weeks of his mission.  He has on tanish pants with a black (to big) pinned stripped jacket.  

"The Last Supper"

Kyle will truly miss these 2 people.  They have influenced his life forever!!!!!

The Arrendondo children with Elder Lundquist and Kyle

Elder Stark and The Arrendondo's

26 September 2011 Pretty Cool Week

This week was pretty cool, as a zone we baptized 9 families this month and that is pretty good considering that the most baptized in one month here is 10, so we did good.  We will see how next month goes, because things aren't looking to good.

We also had 8 investigators in church on Sunday.  It was pretty cool.  

On Wednesday, a missionary from my ward came home from his mission early and the stake president was at the temple and could not release him, so the elder had to stay with us.  He was way funny and really excited to me a missionary but real sad to be home (He came home for health problems but leaves after he is operated on).  He was only in his mission for 6 weeks and then was sent home.  It was great working with him cause he still had so much energy and stuff to be a missionary.  He gave us a ton of references and leads,  so it was a good week.  

I am really excited for this next weekends  General Conference.  It is going to be sweet.  

I am not sure what else to say.  

Hope you have a great week making decisions.  I am going to have a good week preaching the gospel and learning from the spirit of God.  

Love you,

Elder Bloomfield

3 October 2011 Only 10 days left!!!!

So Cali. huh?? (Steve just accepted a new position with a company in California.  He was also offered a position  in Utah, so there was much fasting and prayer to get an answer. Kyle just got the news.)   I knew we were going to California, it just felt like the right decision to me.  You never know maybe there is some kind of special mission for you there.

As for the PlayStation, I just want to say that it is not all bad (there was a talk in conference that referred to it as the Satan Station and as the mother, I agree).  What is the one thing that brings all your boys together on a daily basis?  Yes, that is the PlayStation. Maybe it doesn't look like any thing good to you, but some of the best bonding times Mason and Travis have are playing that thing together.  It can bring the family together.  As we know there is something good and something bad in all things.  

Well this week went faster then ever and I am hating it.   I want things to slow down so I can enjoy my last little time here on my mission.  Every day we did lots of work.  Thursday was interesting.  There was a group of people that were suppose to come with us to teach and help out but one of them was beat by her mother so we gave her a priesthood blessing and helped her out.   After we taught a really spiritual lesson to a lady that her husband is member but she isn't.  We asked her to pray with us and she just wouldn't do it.  The spirit was so strong but she just denied the opportunity to accept the blessing of the Lord in her life even though it is so clear that we could be really blessed for following them.  We as members still do that but to not such a great extent, we have the opportunity to do so much more and we just lay back and stay with the normal,  but when we leave the normal and are uncomfortable is when we will receive the blessings.  

It sounds like you had your own personal experience (Coming to the decision to move to California) this week that really helped build your faith. That is good.  Things are so different when the Lord tells you what to do then when just a normal person tells you what to do.  That is why he has the spirit to testify to us.  

As for conference it was absolutamente amazing.  I learned so much and took so many notes.  The Saturday Priesthood session was amazing like usual.  There was even a talk just for me by Elder Waddell.  He talked about what missionaries should do when they get home, it was great.  Now I have so much to study for the next 6 months.  I am so excited.  

Only ten more days like you said.  I am not to excited about that.  The closer it comes the more I don't want to go.  Today something great happened,  I saw the first family that I baptized here in Nicaragua.  They are doing great and are still active.   That made me real happy.  

Well guess that is it for this week.

Love ya,

Elder Bloomfield

19 September 2011 Nearing the end of my mission

This week was way frustrating, we had a great week and great spiritual lessons with the investigators, but none of them came to church it was really annoying but that's life so we are moving on.

That is cool that they are so excited about missionary work back home.(Gladis Night did a performance in our area as a missionary tool).  

It was weird at church, we had 4 gringos from Utah attend.  In fact one of then was Elder Francis uncle.  Just talking to them made me not excited to go home at all.  The way they acted made me frustrated.  Don't get me wrong they are way nice people and stuff -they weren't mean or any thing but just the whole cocky I am better then you vibe was coming off and I am not excited to get home and live with people like them again.  

Also at church I gave a talk on the Book of Mormon.  It went pretty well.  I based it off a talk by President Ezra Taft Benson.  

It's  good that you got some rain,  we got like 20 feet of rain and almost struck by lightning every day.  I would get home and put my boots and shoes by the fan so that they would be dry for the next day.  One day it was so bad we just put on sandals and rolled up our pant legs and went out to preach the gospel.  Great times here in the mission field.  

As for what to eat when I get home,  I don't really care.  Eating Wendy's or P- Terrys would make me happy or good old Chuy's  or just a sandwich and a bag of Doritos.  I don't really care.  You know me, I don't care about any thing.  I am just happy to receive things. 

I have some bad news, I am pretty sure I lost all the photos from my mission.   I have really bad luck these days.  Haha   I had them on my hard drive but I think it has a virus. I am pretty sure that the virus just made all the folders invisible or other words hid them so usually I would just go to the search bar and find them but this time there weren't any when I searched but it is probably the computer as it is a piece of crap.  Hopefully                                                       our computer back home works with the hard drive.  Since my camera was stolen, I can not take any more pictures.  Elder Bott has a camera and he takes more photos then you can imagine so don't worry about that. I have tons of photos from these last 3 months.  I am going to buy a memory for 10 dollars so I should be good on the whole memory thing that way I can get the Photos from my companion.

For the last few days of my mission, I will have Elder Lundquist to take pictures, he is like my brother or I could buy a camera just to take pictures of Mom when I get to the airport in Austin. That would be a       photos that I would never forget.

       

Well we are leaving to Managua in just a bit, so I will write a little later or tomorrow maybe. We are going for conferencia de lideres.  My last one.  Woo Hoo    We are going to sleep there. It takes like 2 and a half hours to get there.  We will take like a 15 person bus (like the van that the packers had)  to get there and we will sleep in the house of the office where I use to live.  

My companion is just finishing the slide show of what we did this month then we are out of here  but he is one of those people that just sits for hours staring at the slide show, so it could be a while or it could be in just a moment.  Well actually, he just stood up so we are out of here.  Love you all.  Have a great week see you soon.

Love,

Elder Bloomfield

12 September 2011 "The Lord comes in and does miracles"

Well first off, about the whole music thing, lets just say you can go to a country that knows nothing about music and try to sing and no one knows you can't.  They think it is pretty good. All singing ability I had is now gone,  I might even be worse then the Nicas at singing.   So as for singing in church when I get home, I will have to tell you - um no...

Yes, Elder Lundquist got his ticket changed so every thing is good.  We will fly until Dallas together then he heads to Utah and me to Austin.  That will be cool to travel home together since we went out together.                                                           As for our last day, we go to the changes meeting and give our last testimony in front of the whole mission then we go to the market to buy our last little things to take home.  After that, we have our last interview with                                                           Pres. and  then we go to dinner and sometimes you go back to his house and have a spiritual meeting and some times you don't. It just depends on the day.  

Alright, I think those are all the questions you asked so as for my week it was rather frustrating because the zone had some many baptismal possibilities and all kinds of stuff happened and after every thing a ton of them didn't get baptized but like always we say a ton of miracles took place.                                                

The lady we baptized 2 weeks ago is amazing.  She can't read but she makes her in recently activated husband read the Book of Mormon to her so she is just super converted and her husband is doing so much better.  It is great to see the gospel change peoples life's.  

The mission assistant to the President came and was my companion for 2 days also this week.  That was fun he helped me go do baptismal interviews.  This week I probably did like 5 or 6 interviews.  I was thinking this week I have probably taken part of like 500 or so baptisms in my mission that is amazing the things that just one person can do with the help of the Lord.  

Haha    Well my companion has gone insane.  He got a 15 foot chain and he chained his new suitcase to the bed it is way funny.  I will show you a picture of it when I get home.  Now I figure if they break in again it is cool with me. The pillow case is still there with out a chain.  You will think its funny until you see me on the airplane and all I have is a pillow case in my hand with brown pants and a black suit coat.                                      I gave away all my other pants.  

We got a big metal barrel and we filled it with water so the sink is no longer needed that the robbers threw through the door so don't even worry.

Just so you know when I am missing a tooth don't be worried, same thing when I have like 30 parasites.  It will be all normal that is how life is here.  I am doing pretty good and not so sick.  I don't eat much these days.  I have only spent 2 dollars all day on food. I think I am down to like 150lbs or so these days.   I feel so skinny and week.  I can't wait to work out for real and run. I will put my ipod on and just run for hours.    I really want to play college soccer so I want to get into great shape.

My mission has taught me if you do all you can the Lord comes in and does a miracle.  That is why it rocks to be a member of this church.  

Well love you all,

Elder Bloomfield

5 September 2011 No real Birthday celebration

Well to answer your questions about the robbery,  "Did they take our furniture"?  That is a funny question because to steal furniture you have to have furniture to steal and we only have 2 chairs, 2 tiny tables and 2 mattresses on cots and that is our furniture.  They did take one fan.  As for clothes they took our normal clothes but they didn't take my missionary clothes.  Yes, they took my guitar.   Also they took  my deodorant, what kind of sick freak steals used deodorant.  That is what I am wondering.  We had bags of refried beans and they took all of those also.  We have no idea who took our stuff and we will probably never figure out who did it.  As for me I just lost the food I had in the house, 2 USB memories, sandals, gel, bag, shirt, shorts, one or 2 ties, sunglasses, and I think that is about it. I am going to burn all my garments when I come home cause I have been using the same garments for 2 years now and they aren't white at all any more. I don't know what kind of drugs they were on but its all good.  I go home in 5 weeks and don't need that stuff any ways.  I don't think I will be needing any more money.  I should be good.

To be honest, no I didn't celebrate my birthday.  But the lady we baptized and a young woman that gave us the reference of the girl that we baptized also gave me a tie. So I have 2 new ties.  It's kinda funny cause I gave some ties away and they gave me new ones.  We cooked a cake for the wedding so I was able to eat cake but it wasn't really for me.  It was for the wedding and baptism.  That is about it for my birthday.  .

As for my future it is looking like I will be going to UVU, but we will not know until I go to the temple when I get home and then we will know every thing for sure.  The AP and Elder Lundquist want to live with me at UVU so we will see what happens with that.

I am so excited for General Conference again.  It is only 3 weeks away.  It will be here so soon.  These next 5 weeks are going to pass so fast.  I am worried to go  home.  For 2 years you wait for this moment and it finally gets here and you don't want it to be here.  I am not excited for my last days of the mission.  I am going to be a mess.  I will cry like a child.  Just thinking about it makes me sad but that's part of life.  Yeah it is weird being in the mission, you are ready to move on but at the same time you want to stay and be a missionary forever.  It will be good to move on with my life and take the next step.  I am excited for that.  It will also be sad to see what my friends have done with there life's when I get home.  It will probably hurt to see every one and the kind of lives they are living (partying etc) when I get home.   I kinda don't want any one to know that I am home when I get there.

Whow  whow, we are not selling the house in Austin if Dad gets a job some place else. Can't you realize I am a child without a home.  I am going to need a  home somewhere and the place is what you make it.  You think Nicaragua is any better then hell....  I don't but,  it is my little piece of heaven. 

Did you look into things about a apple mac book pro computer??

To answer your other question, it is crazy to think that I am actually 21 years old.  The last time I thought about it, I was just a little boy enjoying my life but putchika now I guess I am a full grown man.  That is pretty crazy to me. 

The work is coming along great we have 4 familias already baptized this month in the zone and it is looking like we should get around 12 this month.  We are hoping to baptize another family in our area but things aren't looking to good at the moment.  We don't really have any familias unless we can find a miracle in the next 3 weeks which is totally possible.

Well Elder Lundquist just called me and his flight plans say he is going home on the 12th of October so I won't even be able to fly with him.  That is a huge bummer. 

The car is looking good these days. I heard Travis backed the Denali into the Frontier what a tard.  I don't know how that is possible either.  It has a camera and sensors and every thing he is a true champion to be able to pull that one off.

Well have a great week.

Mom,  I love you!

Elder Bloomfield

5 September 2011 Itinerary for Travel Home

BLOOMFIELD/KYLE STEVEN  170645-R

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CHURCH TRAVEL CWT                          DATE 05SEPTEMBER11

50 EAST NORTH TEMPLE ST                    AGENT VH/LK BOOKING REF 5S2K37

SALT LAKE CITY UT 84150

TELEPHONE: 801 240-5111                    BLOOMFIELD/KYLE STE 170645-R

FAX      : 801-240-5115

 

  MISSIONARY TRAVEL

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M ECONOMY

           NON SMOKING      FOOD FOR PURCHASE             NON STOP

                            RESERVATION CONFIRMED         2:35 DURATION

                  AIRCRAFT: BOEING 737-800

                            SEAT 24A NO SMOKING CONFIRMED

 

AMERICAN AIRLINES     13OCT MIAMI FL       DALLAS TX      200P    405P

AA 605             THURSDAY MIAMI INTL     DALLAS FT WORT    

Q ECONOMY

           NON SMOKING      FOOD FOR PURCHASE             NON STOP

                            RESERVATION CONFIRMED         3:05 DURATION

                  AIRCRAFT: BOEING 757

                            SEAT 31F NO SMOKING CONFIRMED

 

AMERICAN AIRLINES     13OCT DALLAS TX      AUSTIN TX      605P    700P

AA 411             THURSDAY DALLAS FT WORT BERGSTROM INTL

Q ECONOMY

           NON SMOKING                                    NON STOP

                            RESERVATION CONFIRMED         0:55 DURATION

                  AIRCRAFT: BOEING (DOUGLAS) MD-83

                            SEAT 27E NO SMOKING CONFIRMED

 

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2 September 2011 I've been robbed again!! but the Batman pillowcase is still safe!!!

I know I do not normally email except on Mondays, but we have had an emergency and we needed to email.  My comp., Elder Bott has to write his mom about a package right now, so I figured I will tell you what is going on as well too.  We just baptized a family right now and we are getting ready to baptize in our area tomorrow.  Satan is pissed (sorry for the word)  he is real angry cause we are doing so good.  He convinced some fools to break into our house and rob a ton of stuff while we were at the church doing the baptism.  They took the giant concrete sink from the backyard and threw it through the door.  It probably weighs like 300 pounds, so it took off the door pretty good.  I don't have much any more.  They took most of my belongings.  Luckily they left my hard drive and all my important stuff is in Managua so I don't have to  worry about that. I just wanted  to worn you when I am in the airport with a pillow case over my shoulder and that is all I have, that's why.  

I think my flight plans are in. I was thinking if I have a lay over in Houston then I will just stay there and you can pick me up there and we go to the temple and then you drive me home.  I will send you my itinerary Monday or when I get it.

Don't worry about me.  The Batman pillow case is still fine, so we are all good.  

Love,

Elder Bloomfield

29 August 2012 Another week came and went

Well lets see what is happening.  For p- days we don't do any thing fun.  We don't go sight seeing and we don't do any thing of the sort.  We have a couple minutes right now to check our email then we are going to go try to make pizza with a family that we baptized.  As for families I will be eating cake on my birthday because my birthday happens to be on Saturday and Saturday is baptism day.                                                    I baptized a family today and yes it is p-day but Saturday we are going to have a wedding and a baptism for a sick family.  I will be baking a cake as well as hopefully eating some. 

So this week was real interesting.  Thursday we had a testimony meeting with the zone and it was way spiritual.  After words, we joked with one of the elders in the zone cause he was the only one to not baptize a family.  It was way funny cause he is the kind of kid that if you look and talk and hang out with him you are like this kid is a full on flamer.  (gay)  It was way funny, he is one of my District Leaders and an amazing missionary,  he is just a little femy but I love the kid and he is one of the best missionary's in the zone.  On Friday I got up and went to lunch and came home and went to bed and didn't get up until Sunday morning to go to church.  That was interesting.  I had a 103.3 fever for a while and the runs and threw up also, but I am fine now.  Nothing a blessing from the priesthood couldn't solve. 

Sunday we took a bunch of people to church, then we went to a meeting with all the leaders in the stake and we gave a report of what all the missionaries did this month.  After that, the day was over. 

As for going to the temple, I have to go some where when I get home  (Kyle says he want to go to the temple first thing when he gets home to reconcile with the Lord, but the San Antonio temple is closed for cleaning when he gets home, so the nearest temple would be Houston).  I still want to go alone so we will see how things all go when I get home. 

 Also, great news from Elder Sanders. Saturday he is going to propose to his girl, so he is doing good work.                                                            That was done in less then a year.  That's what I am looking for also. 

Alright spiritual experiencia of the week-- was with the family we are going to baptize this week.  He is a                                                           member but less active and she is not a member but a solid investigator.  The guy has just been a real pain in the butt these last couple of weeks just saying he wants nothing to do with the church and that he doesn't want to get married and stuff like that.  We have been teaching him and making progress but little by little and this last week we had a sweet lesson and he was like I had a dream of me marrying my wife and we were way happy and in my dream our life was just great so I have decided the Lord wants me to have a change in my life.  So now he is awesome and showed up to church on time with a white shirt and tie.  He                                                   had a meeting with the bishop to get his life on track and every thing.  It was like a 100 percent change in just one dream,  so that was the cool thing that happened this week. 

This next week will be busy.  We are looking at baptizing 7 familias as a zone as well as have changes and all the problems that come with changes. 

Well -
Love you,
Elder Bloomfield

P.S.  Can I give a suggestion of a present for my birthday?
I was thinking tickets to Michael Jackson would  be great.   If Dad gets a job we get tickets to Mike, if he doesn't, we don't, ok sound good?
Also,  I recall I was promised a laptop when I got home.  That is the only thing I am asking for.  The rest I will get for my self  but the laptop.  I do not want a crappy dell.  I am sick and tired of crappy computers- 2 years of it is enough.  An apple would be great.  I am a ZL.  My job is to talk to all the missionaries and make sure they are happy. While talking to them, we talk about other things as well.  It turns out most of them are computer geeks.  Seems like the whole world are computer geeks and they tell me all this stuff about which ones are good and what to get.  Just check them out and thanks for looking in to it.  Your the best mom ever.

23 August 2011 Doing "Sick" Work

As for me in the mission it is going great!  We baptized 2 more people this weekend and as a zone we baptized 5 families this weekend so I did a ton of baptismal interviews.  As for the month of Agosto we were the highest baptizing zone behind Puerto.  We baptized 9 familias in total and last month they only baptized 4 so elder Bott and I helped pull the zone out of a big hole.  I am way excited for this next month to just finish my mission doing sick work with the zone. 

All the ZL's had changes yesterday except for me.  I will be in my area with Elder Bott until I finish my mission so we are just buckling our seat belts and getting to work. 

As for souvenirs I haven't bought many,  but I am working on that.   I have like 4000 cordobas to get what ever I am going to need.   My last day here they will take me to a place to buy souvenirs so I will be able to get some cool ones before going home. 

For my flight plans,  I haven't heard any thing.  They say that they don't know yet but when I get them,  I will let you know.  Uhm - what else is there to talk about?  

How are all the little kids doing with a new school year?  Are they doing good?? 

Well I think that is all for this week.   Tell Kara "hey" for me.

Love,
Elder Bloomfield

16 August 2011 Hitch Hiking

Ha Ha,   I find it funny that I didn't have any emails asking whats wrong or why I hadn't written (We did not get an email from him on Monday as usual, but I have learned by now to just wait it out and not panic that he always has a reason and it is not worth stressing over as he is in the Lord's hands).  Well, I will tell you why I didn't make it.   It is because I hitch hiked a ride from Leon to Managua.  I know you probably are going to say that it is dangerous but it really wasn't.  I rode in the bed of the truck for a good amount of time.  It was pretty cool.  I am fine and all is well.   We had to go to Managua because we had a consejo de lideres and we have another one Monday again. 

As far as last week, it went really well we baptized a family and we made an amazing cake.  No one believes we made it so Friday they said we have to make another one for an activity that they are going to have in the church.  This week we probably have 2 more baptisms so I am excited for that.  This area is awesome we have learned so much stuff and my comp is pretty cool.  He is a little weird at times but a great missionary so I have learned a ton with him.  I am doing great, so don't worry about me.  I will be strong to the end.

Okay,  I am all out of things to say. 

Sunday is the dedication of the El Salvador temple so we don't have our regular church.   We are just going to watch that by satellite. Everyone who watches it must have a recommend, so none of our investigators will be able to attend.  

Love you,

Elder Bloomfield

Here are some more pictures from one of my companions:

P-day fun!!

Getting cooled off

Time for lunch

8 August 2011 Pictures are worth 1,000 words, so they say

How is every thing going??  Every thing here is going great.   We have a baptism and wedding this Saturday. I am excited for that as well as we had 3 familias in church on Sunday so that was good. 

I really don't know what to say today so I will leave it at that.  I will send some photos because they say a photo is worth 1000 words.   Enjoy!!!

Love your son,

Elder Bloomfield

Colorful round about in Managua

Elder Bott Crossing a bridge

Object lesson -building a contraptions so the egg will not break

Riding in the Back of a truck holding a fridge in place.  Very Safe, Not!!!

Zone Basketball Game at the church

Nicaragua Car wash

Elder Bott and I knelling in prayer before heading out for the day

Homes made from Plastic 

Nacatamales, famous Nicaraguan food and what the missionaries eat most every Sunday.

Filling the Baptismal Font

1 August 2011 Elder Falabella is Amazing!!!!

First off moving to NEW YORK would be amazing. (Steve interviewed for a position there). I was actually thinking the other day that I should try and move there after college for a little while.  

You guys sound like you are just doing a little of every thing up there in Texas.  Seems like you guys are keeping way busy.  What little girl broke Masons heart that he had to get it checked out???  

So my week was pretty eventful, also we didn't even work in our area until Thursday cause we were doing so many things.   It was pretty sad  but turned out to be a great week so lets see, here we go:

Tuesday we had Elder Falabella come here to Chinandega to have a conference with the missionaries from Esteli,  Leon and Chinandega.  It was amazing.   I learned so much and he talked about so many things it was amazing!!!   Wednesday,  we went to Managua cause we had a leaders council with him.                                            That was super spiritual and we had a special testimony meeting there with Elder Falabella then after we prayed on our knees and Elder Falabella offered the prayer and it was a great prayer.   He is an amazing person.  It made me think being a strong member in the church has so many more                                      blessing that being a normal member has.  For example, here in the mission if you are a leader you always have more meetings and more opportunities to feel the spirit and meet people that will really help you strengthen your testimony.   It is the same out side of the mission, if you are a leader in the church you can meet people that have more knowledge and can learn so much, like the Bishops with Seventies and Presidents of Stakes and the Seventies learn from the Apostles and the Apostles from the Prophet and Prophet from God.   It is amazing, so the more converted you are the more blessing you receive helping you to be stronger in the church.  

Any ways,  yesterday we had a super spiritually lesson with one of the families we are teaching and it is so funny cause they feel the spirit and want to change but they just don't understand that the spiritual things are so much more important then the temporal things.  That is one of the problems with this country.  That is why there isn't a huge economical progress.  

Well that is enough for now.  Always work..  and remember 1 Nephi 3:7 - he will prepare a way you just have to find it.  If you notice the first plan they had didn't work to get the brass plates, the second plan of giving all the gold didn't work either, but the third plan they had worked.  So just have patience..

I will be honest I am way worried about going home,  every thing will be so much different, it will be interesting to see how things go.  So much to talk about when we get home.

Love 

Elder Bloomfield

Well lets see here is my Spanish and mission made up word interpretations of our family:

Dad - Pilas  (pilas is like a hard worker and good person)

Mom - sensible   (sensible is sensitive)

Kara - Tuanis    (tuanis is awesome)

Travis  - Salvaje   (Salvaje is Savage but it means like some one that is cool and funny and stuff like that)

Mason - soñador   (soñador is a dreamer)

Olivia - Musa    (musa is a girl that flirts a lot)

Cassandra - Guapa  (guapa is pretty but we can throw in  delicate)