5 September 2011 Itinerary for Travel Home

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SERVICE               DATE  FROM           TO             DEPART  ARRIVE

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AMERICAN AIRLINES     13OCT MANAGUA        MIAMI FL       720A    1155A

AA 986             THURSDAY AUGUSTO C SAND MIAMI INTL

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

 

RESERVATION NUMBER(S)  AA/NPCZFX

 

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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)