"Greenie" Companion 21 June 2010

Alright so as you said the Lord has a sense of humor. You will find it funny that my new comp. is Elder Whatcott one of my old first grade friends from Gilbert, Arizona. He completed one week in Nicaragua today. I am his trainer, his "dad" as they say in the mission. It is awesome working with him, they (new elders) have such a different outlook on the mission when they come out of the mtc. It is sweet! We are going to do a ton of good work. Kinda sucks he doesn't know much Spanish yet, but my Spanish rocks so not a big deal. We are going to do some sweet stuff this change. It's so different having a comp that wants to work compared to my last comp.. I witnessed about 3 miracles just yesterday. I can't wait to see how the change ends.


New companion Elder Whatcott with the 2 girls that were baptized.

Family of the girls that were baptized.

I am also the new District Leader of the most successful district in the mission so that is real sweet. We are going to have a sweet 8 more weeks. I am super pumped right now. As for my health, it is perfect so don't worry about me.

Well I don't know what else to write. We had 2 more baptisms, and we have a going away devotional for Pres tomorrow. I am sweating a ton right now. It's so hot. Oh yes, I am still in the same area. Just so you know, when this change ends I will have been here 7 months.

Well I love you and miss you,

Good luck with every thing.
Elder Bloomfield

Lesson learned: Sacrificing and not watching the World Cup Soccer brings blessings! 14 June 2010

Well this week went pretty well. I bought a new phone for about 10 bucks . Stuff here at the market is really cheap.

Alright so lets see. I don't really remember this last week it went by so fast. We had one baptism.


Super sad the world cup started and that is all that is on tv, but I can't watch it. Well I could if I wanted but I decided with sacrifices come blessings so, about a month and a half ago I made a covenant with the Lord that I wouldn't watch a single soccer game for my whole mission if he would just bless me with people to baptize. To be specific I asked for 2 people every weekend, and since then I have baptized about 2 people every weekend so clearly the Lord listens to our prayers but it is hard not to watch soccer. At lunch every day there is a game that is on and oh boy it is rough. The usa - england game was on and I will be honest I didn't look at the tv once. But don't worry I have a little paper in my agenda to keep track of who is playing who and the scores.

Well today was the last p-day before changes so another elder and I went to the store and bought stuff to by hamburgers and potatoes to make french fries. Lets just say we were cooking from like 11 till 4. Hamburgers for basically all of the zone and about 20 pounds of french fries. It was a ton. Also an elder and I made a hotel California music video as I played and sang it on guitar it was a real fun day.


Well I am super pumped for changes Wed., it is going to be nice to get a new comp.


Have a fun day.

Love you, Elder Bloomfield

Robbed for the first time!!! Yikes!!!! and p-day at Mombacho Volcano 7 June 2010

What a pretty successful week!!!

Let's start off with Monday night. I was robbed for the first time. We were walking through this huge field that has about knee high grass at about 9 at night. The only light that there was, was the light of the moon so we couldn't see much. As we were walking 4 guys jumped out of the grass and put a knife to the neck of my comp and put a knife to my stomach and put their hands in my pocket and took all the money I had. All I had was 10 cents, so sucks for them but they also stole the cell phone, then they left. It made me really mad because they were all really little and I could have done something to them if I wanted, but I decided against it. The next day we went back there because we have investigators there in the area. The 4 little guys were still sitting right there. oh boy i..... putchika I didn't do any thing . Any ways just so you know I have to buy a new cell phone.

Lets see what else, oh I had to put a new hole in my belt this week not a new whole to be bigger a new whole to make the belt smaller. That is how my health is going - skinny but I am so weak it sucks. I want to run and go to the gym so bad.

Another highlight of the week. We convinced a gay that he should change his life and stop being gay. That was pretty cool, we just talked about the atonement and about repentance and he was like "I don't want to be how I was before".

We have 2 kids that we are going to baptize right now that want to go on missions and are of age. That is awesome! it will be super cool to send two converts on missions but they have to be members for at least one year.


Oh today we went to the biggest volcano in Central America it was super cool the assistants of the Pres. took us and 3 other companionship's because we baptized the most families in the month of May. It was pretty cool. A good privilege to earn. It is called Mombacho if you want to look it up on the Internet.










Um oh also I cooked a cake Saturday for the baptism of my district leader it was really good and look professional.


well good luck with summer make sure and take a good rest because I don't have any time to rest until I get home in 2011.

I can't believe it is June!

Love you,
Elder Bloomfield

621 Baptisms for the mission in the month of May 31 May 2010

Well news of the mission first: We baptized 621 people this month and 105 families. My zone, Bello Horizonte baptized 15 families and 60 people. I baptized 12 people and 3 families this month. This week was super crazy. So Thursday we did the interviews for our baptisms. Every thing went well, all three passed, then Friday was the huge wedding party. We got together at the church at 7 in the morning to start setting up. It was really beautiful. At 5 we went back to the church for the wedding, it was really hectic because we were marrying 9 couples and they all had to talk with the lawyer and give the information she needed but no one was doing that so I took charge and made sure every one had every thing done with the lawyer. We finished the weddings, the Pres. of the mission came and talked to us and came to the weddings. It was real cool. After the weddings, we had a dance, dinner and a cake prepared for them. Every thing finished off well but the church was trashed.
So Saturday we went to the church again at 7am to clean up the mess and set up for the baptisms. Then we left to teach a couple people and get our families ready to come back to the church. They got to the church at about 5pm. I gave them white clothes to do the baptism and helped every other of the 22 people that was baptized have clothes also. Any ways the baptisms turned out great we left the church at about 8:30.

During the day we had passed by a guy that needed financial help. He lives in Bluefields and wants to take his sisters body to Bluefields from here, but his sister is in a coma. She is only alive with a breathing machine that she is connected to. To see if this guy's story was true, we went to the hospital to see his sister and give her a blessing. She is in really bad condition and as missionaries we can't just give away money, so we are kinda trying to find a way to get him back to his home with her. It is hard as we don't have time to do this kind of stuff. We can't help much, so I feel bad.

Sunday we went and got the people and brought them to church for their confirmation. While I was in sacrament meeting I felt like I needed to go out, so I left the chapel and was walking down the hall and another elder that was out getting ready for some baptisms needed some help, so I helped him out and when I finished that, sacrament meeting was over so I was walking to find my comp when another missionary asked me for some help and he needed me to come with him. We had to go to these girls house and talk to their mom so that we could baptize them that day before their sacrament meeting ended at 11 because we had to confirm them also. So me and this other elder ran to the house where these girls lived like 20 min away from the church and they weren't there but their mom was so we talked to the mom for about 10 mins. explaining the situation that her kids want to get baptized and would she approve of that. By this time it was 10:20 so we ran back to the church found the girls that were already there, the district leader interviewed them and I baptized them. It was a 14 year old girl, a 10 year old girl and a 9 year old boy. Since we had a ton of baptisms the day before, there was only white shirts and dresses left so the boy had to wear a dress to get baptized. We got them changed and into sacrament meeting to get confirmed at about 10:59. So that is basically how my mission is. CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So really I baptized 15 this month. Pretty cool!


love you fam and mom and steveo

25 May 2010 "Reaping the benefits of long hours and hard work"

I was a witness for one of our marriages because no one else in this country has an ID. It is terrible. You have to spend so much money and time to get an ID here. A ton of people don't have ID's or birth certificates, let alone know their own birthday. It's rough here.

Yeah Elder Sanders (Last week Kyle needed his passport number (His passport is locked away at the mission office so they do not get stolen) so that he could be a witness as mentioned above to a wedding. I called the mission home in Nicaragua to have the Elders there pass it on to him. When I told them I was Kyle's Mom, Elder Sanders said "oh he is an awesome Elder, he is the talk of the mission right now as he just taught and baptized a family of 7. He is really doing great things down here". I mentioned to Kyle I had talked to Elder Sanders in my email, so that is why he is talking about him) is awesome.

We went on divisions Sunday morning to get people to church because supposedly Elder Clark the Area Seventy here was going to come to our ward, but he didn't come till 10:00, so he spoke in the other ward meeting. Kinda sucked but oh well.

So Tito (he is the 68 year old man that had the house keeper that Kyle went all oer town looking for to see if she wanted to marry Tito. He did find her, but she did not want anything to do with them and does not want to marry Tito, so Tito has agreed that nothing else will go on between them. When we talked to Kyle on Mother's Day, he said that he has really gotten to love Tito and they have a lot of fun together) didn't get baptized due to the fact that he had to work this weekend. He doesn't get much work so when he gets work he has to utilize what he can. We talked a lot with him last night and he is pumped to get baptized this next week end. Also we are baptizing 2 more families Saturday and we are going to end the month with 13 baptisms. That is really amazing. I baptized about a third of my baptisms in one month. I can't wait to see how the rest of the year turns out.


It makes me so sad every day to see the the little kids in the street with out a Dad or with out a Mom or with nothing. I read in doctrina y convenios section 18 verses 15 and 16 and if we can help some one, just one person come closer to God it will be all the better for every one.

Yeah, I need to sleep. I don't even realize when my alarm goes off any more. It goes of at 5am (from the first part of May, they decided as a mission to get up at 5:00am and get going earlier to find people that are up and about earlier each day) and while I am sleeping I turn it off and usually about 5 mins later, I roll over on top of my alarm and I always wonder how it got in my bed. But we are reaping the benefits.

Well I think that is all for now.

Love,
Elder Bloomfield

3 May 2010 Family of 7 is baptized

So lets go through this week. Wed. we went to talk to the family of 7 that has been having the lessons and do their interviews for their baptisms. Every one knew about the baptism minus the mother of the family because she was always working and was never at the house, so when she got home at 9 o'clock and the zone leaders were there doing baptism interviews, she was pretty surprised. Also we had to convince her that she had to get married. It was pretty funny. We left their house and finished the interviews around 11 o'clock and started heading to the house while it was pouring rain. We had to run and fight off about 10 dogs from eating us. It was an awesome day.

Thursday we just planned the baptisms, worked and had interviews. They went alright. The mission Pres.is working us super hard right now and is making sure every one has repented before the new Pres comes. He put a goal as zone to baptize 100 people, 10 personas every companionship. Luckily, we already have 7 in the month of May, so 3 more to go.

Friday we did a lot of running around and a lot of planning. Nothing exciting really happened.

Saturday was the day of the baptisms. It rained all day long so we were soaking wet when we finally made it to the church. We got them a cake, paid for their wedding and told them that we would make dinner. We bought all the stuff and were making dinner when they told us that friends of the family made dinner for a surprise party after the wedding and the baptisms, so as missionaries we had a lil party and hung out and ate the spaghetti. It was sweet.

Sunday they were all confirmed. It was a success.

More then any thing I am just amazed with the faith of this family. They payed tithing for the first time the day they were confirmed and we have never formally taught them the law of tithing. It was amazing! Oh also, all the members were congratulating us on Sunday for the baptisms of the family of 7 because that has never been done in this branch and the Branch Pres. invited us to dinner at his house tonight.

The mission right now is going nuts. We are all working like crazy and Pres. is pushing us more than ever, it's great. Changes are Wed. but I don't know what is going to happen until changes. I don't want to go as we have a ton of baptisms lined up right now.

The weather these days - it is pretty much lightning and thunder 24/7 and when it rains it just pours. Yesterday the street was like a knee deep river, it sucked, we had to walk through it, but don't worry my boots are amazing.

Love you,
Elder Bloomfield

25 April 2010 " The search for the investigators woman"

Well this week went crazy. Last week our mission Pres. made new rules for us. 5 nuevo investigators and 4 nuevo people with baptismal dates. The week started out doing that. We were working super hard and trying to get all the work done and we had a guy that had a date to get baptized this weekend. He had his interview Thursday and he finally broke out and told us he has a woman that comes over on Sundays and cleans cooks and does things. Finally he said she has a kid with me that is 5 years old. Keep in mind this guy is 70 years old. So we left and went home. Friday night about 7 we went and talked to him again asking him what he wanted to do, either get married or break up with her and get baptized. He didn't know what to do, he kept telling us both answers. So we asked for the address of the woman and we would go talk to her for him. He didn't know the address so he drew us a map. At 8pm, me and the district leader went on a trip to find this lady because she didn't live in my area. We put our backpacks in the church cause we didn't want to get robbed and then went out on this adventure. We searched every where for her. Every where! It was finally around 11:30 and he headed back to the house to sleep. We got up at 6 on Saturday and continued our search for this lady. We couldn't find her so we went and looked for the old guy that wants to get baptized. We found him and talked to him and he told us that we could go talk to her at her house all together. So we left and went back at 12 he wasn't there. We went to teach a family near by and then we planned to go back, but while we were teaching the family the zone leaders called us and told us to run some errands for them and they needed our help in there area pronto. So we ran the errands and ran to the area of the zone leaders. We went there and helped with their baptism. They baptized a lady that had only one leg. By the time we got back to my area it was 9:30pm and we hadn't eaten so we ran to the house where we eat and ate and got back to the house around 11:00pm after finally doing numbers we were in bed at 1130. Sunday started bright and early at 5:00am. We have to get up that early to visit people and take them to the church. We did the rounds and the rest of Sunday went normal. On Friday and Saturday while I was on divisions with the zone and district leader my comp was in the area on his own adventures searching for a family that has been to church the last to weeks but we couldn't find their house to teach them. He found them and there are about 7 of them that are going to get baptized this week.

I am super tired. but it doesn't stop there. So today (Monday) at 9 we got a call that we have a zone meeting in downtown Managua with out Mission Pres.. Apparently some body in the mission was disobedient so he had a long meeting from 10 till 3 about repenting and being obedient. Also the mission Pres. announced that he doesn't trust any one so there are no zone leaders or district leaders any more. We have to report our numbers to the assistants to the president. It has been a crazy last couple of days and it is just going to keep getting crazier for the next couple of months.

I am so tired right now, all I want to do is sleep but there is so much work to be done. Time here is just flying by. My Pres. goes home in 8 weeks and a new one comes. I have interviews with Pres again Wed.. Well got to go, out of time.
love you.

Well thanks for everything.
Elder Bloomfield