Hermana Bloxham - 15 months!!

Can you believe I only have 3 months left? Wow! We have transfers
today! I'm staying here in Inwood with Baker for another transfer! I
only have 2 transfers left. It's crazy!!

Well, I don't really know what to write about this week. Rachel and
Luisa came to church! Maria Espinosa, one of my members, calls them
every Sunday morning to see if they are coming to church and they did
this week! They have come 3 or 4 times now! They are super awesome!!
This week we talked about the plan of salvation and the atonement of
Christ. It was a super awesome lesson! We also invited them to be
baptized. They are thinking and praying about it. They have both been
baptized by immersion into another church so they just need to receive
revelation or an answer to their prayers that it's is different
because of the authority. We are praying for them a lot! I think they
will be ready to be baptized this transfer for sure! We have had
amazing lessons with them in the past couple of weeks. It's been
pretty awesome!

Well, besides that, I don't know what else cool happened haha. I might
send another email later day... I don't know what else to write right
now haha.

I love you guys!

🚋 Hermana Jessica Bloxham 🏀

Elder Bloxham - Hello :)

I never know what to title these emails, maybe i'll start doing a universal title for each email, i'll make that happen!

 

This week was so sweet!!! We had 5 investigators at church which was awesome, and next week it is Stake Conference so we are shooting for 10!! We can do it for sure, pray for us and our efforts :) We have a baptism this next Saturday! Marcus Burlew will be getting baptized on June 14th baby!! whooooh!! Then the following week Valerie and Zack will be getting baptized! So awesome, miracles are flowing in like crazy! "Obedience brings blessings, Exact obedience brings Miracles!" It's been so great!!!

 

Something that has been on my mind lately is, how I can change now to become a better parent, father, and friend in the future. There are many habits that I've been forming and wanting to form these past 15 months. Having a daily scripture study with Heavenly Father, Prayer every morning and every night no matter what. And obviously praying throughout the day. These two things I've realized are so important. Being that example to my future children, friends, and acquaintances. Having a family home evening every week because you know it will bring unity in the family. All the little things that we can do to be examples to our family as well as friends, and even better, to gain a relationship with our Heavenly Father. All these things go through my mind every time I wake up at 6 and plead to the lord for strength. Whenever I get tired throughout the day I remember that I am forming habits of hard work for my future career! It's amazing what I've learned and will soon apply, and it's all come from my mission! :) it's so amazing!!

 

I love Y'all so much and have a great week!!

 

-Elder Bloxham 

Elder Bloxham and Elder Hanks

Hermana Bloxham - Scalding humid heat and coco helado

Hey everybody!

Well, this week has been awesome! Just like it has been this whole
transfer! I have seen so many miracles since this transfer started! So
get this! Haha. We got permission to go to the temple with Maria
Espinosa for her first time. So we went on Saturday for the 930
session. We were waiting and waiting in the waiting room, expecting
them to come at some point! They never came! So we just went to a
session basically for no reason hahaha. They ended up getting there
late and just went to the 11:00 session! Isn't that crazy?! It
was super awesome to go again in spanish though! I can understand more
and more every time!

Yesterday we had a mission tour by elder Steven Snow. It was pretty
good! He talked about how we can simplify our problems as
missionaries. He also talked about how we can teach more effectively.
It was kind of anti-climatic.They also talked about keeping a record
of your life. As in a journal. Sister Morgan shared a journal entry of
her great great grandfather who lived in the time of Joseph smith. It
was really cool! They talked about how we can all see the facts of our
life. When we were born, when we were baptized, when we get married,
etc. But they can't see how we felt during all of those experiences.
So I have been trying to write down my feelings more recently to try
to keep a record of my life in a more personal way. I would invite all
of you to do so as well! It's already been really cool to see even
more blessings every day in that way!

It has been soooo hot and soooo humid! We are dying! It's funny
because I remember this from last year but it's like worse because my
mind forgot how crappy it was hahaha but I love it! There are tons of
people out on the street and everything is awesome! The summer in the
icy is the place to be! The only thing that makes it better is coco
helado! It's the best thing in the world!! (Coco helado! It's coconut ice cream is the literal translation, but it's like a sorbet but made with milk, so it's like creamy)

Besides that, we had two baptisms on Saturday! It was really cool! At
the end we were singing "mas cerca dios de ti" (nearer my god to thee)
and I just felt the spirit super strong, thinking about how those two
people had stepped into a new life, closer to god. It was actually
really cool! I really like that song! It's pretty and the words are
super powerful! It's amazing how music can bring the spirit so strong!

Well, our investigators are doing well! We had a little hiccup with
Lianabel this week, so we are trying to make sure that she wants to
get baptized for he right reasons, but we have faith that she will get
an answer really soon and be able to follow along and get baptized
this month! Also, Wendy Anderson is doing awesome as well! We love
her! We are going to dinner with her tonight to a Mexican restaurant!
I'm super excited!! Haha

Well, I love you all so much and thank you for all of the prayers in
my behalf and for our investigators! You guys are the best!

Love always,


Hermana Jessica Bloxham

Elder Bloxham - Mormons!!

This has been the most interesting weeks I have ever been a part of! So many crazy things happened, that I cannot mention for another 10 months, that has changed my life and mission! It's crazy the perspective you gain as you see other missionaries go through struggles and you realize, you aren't the only one going through struggles.

 

It's kinda funny because when I hear that other people struggle I kind of like it. Haha, not the fact that they are going through a hard time, but it brings peace to my mind knowing that i'm not the only imperfect fool in this world! hahaah!!!! Everybody in this world has to experience the Atonement in their life in one way or another! The Lord will not give us anything that he knows we can achieve. If you are going through a trial, just know that I am too. That everybody around you is going through their own trial. Some people bottle it up, and some people express themselves and it seems like all of our investigators are the ones who like to express themselves! haha, sometimes we're therapists... Perspective :)

 

I love serving this wonderful mission, and I've learned so much!! The testimony I've gained has changed me forever and i'm so thankful in the Lord that he has trusted me enough to represent him every single day!

 

I love y'all so much, and I hope you have a great weekl!

 

Elder Bloxham

Hermana Bloxham - Another Month Almost Over!

Hey!

This week has been amazing! We had Mission Leadership Council in
Scarsdale! It was awesome! We had it a week early because we are
having a general authority come tomorrow! In leadership council we
talked about all of the miracles that we have been experiencing, and
it's not just us or even just our zone, our whole mission has been
doing amazing work! It all started from our training on faith from
President Morgan. We have all started to truly put our trust in
Heavenly Father and let him guide our missionary work. We have seen
how we can do so much more if we let him take over.
Last night we had an amazing lesson! Two of our investigators Luisa
and Rachel have been doing super awesome. We taught them the
restoration last week and Luisa had a super hard time accepting that
there could be prophets today and how they are chose and all of that.
So yesterday we decided to share a talk from conference from President
Monson. We first thought of his talk from April conference, but then I
was lead to his talk from the October 2013 conference. It talks about
how he will never leave us alone. We watched part of it and bore
testimony. We also brought two members who are from their same
country, Ecuador. When we got done bearing testimony one of the
members told a story about how one of her friends got to meet spencer
W kimball before he became prophet and that's how he knew there could
be a prophet chosen by god on the earth today. It was exactly what
Luisa and Rachel needed. Then as the lesson went on, Luisa opened up
and shared something really personal that she is going through and
everyone felt the spirit and everyone was crying and we had just such
an amazing spiritual experience there with them. As we left, our two
members both said, they are so ready to be baptized. We have been so
blessed to be able to be a part of the lords work here in New York!
Lianabel is doing awesome as well! She came to church finally! We were
30 minutes late because we had to go pick her up, but she was still
there and we got to take the sacrament! It was a huge blessing! Luisa
and Rachel were also at church and they had an amazing experience
there as well in the relief society class. Wendy Anderson has had
family over for the long weekend, so she wasn't able to make it, but
we are trying to meet with her tonight! We just have so many people
who are so ready and prepared to accept the gospel at this point in
time. We have been so blessed to be able to be a part of their
conversion! I'm so excited for June!
I hope you all can feel of the excitement of this work of salvation!
It is spreading across the world, and we get to be a part of it! So
let's enjoy it together!

I love you all so much! May God bless you in all that you do!

Love,

Hermana Jessica Bloxham 

A train we take every day!

Cool drawing by sister Steele

Bronx bug on our wall at night!

Trying to feed a squirrel :)

Old pics from Christmas in Westchester!

Elder Bloxham - Week of Miracles

This last week was so awesome!!!! We have seen so many miracles in our work and it's just been so much fun!!

Yesterday we had a finding day throughout the whole mission! We took Memorial Day as a day to find as many families as we possibly could! As a mission we wanted to set a finding record of 100 New Investigators in a day, so that's what we set out to do! We not only beat that number, but we absolutely blew it out of the water!!! As a mission we found 237 New Investigators!!! Holy Moly!! Elder Hanks and I found 8 yesterday, our zone found 20, and one of the other zones found 47!! Yesterday was so amazing!!!

I have been filled with so much joy lately and I have been trying to pin point the reason why. I mean obviously because I'm serving a mission, but I've been doing that for a couple three months already! I realized what it was, and it was serving the Lord with all the diligence my heart will render. Giving all my thoughts, time, and efforts over to the Lord has filled my soul with so much joy!! It's pretty amazing to know that for these two years I get the wear the Lords name on my chest, represent him, and testify of him on a daily basis! How great is my calling! The plan that our Father in Heaven has for us is true because the things he asks are for our benefit! We will go through trial but we need to "Dance in the Rain". Then once is rains down even harder, embrace the rain and throw down a slip n' slide!! hahaha!!!! But seriously haha, I love having a knowledge of this wonderful and true gospel because it really blesses families to know that we will be living together on the other side, and that is when we will apply the things we learn here on this earth!

I love Y'all so much, and I hope you have a great week!!

Love, Elder Bloxham

Hermana Bloxham - Week for the record books!

Hola familia y amigos!

Wow. I don't even know how to start this letter for this week. I have
never seen so many miracles in my entire life. Last week started out
awesome with 12 lessons. But I thought that it was just going to die
out by the end of the week. It totally didn't. We worked super hard
until the last minute and we actually got 32 lessons! We had a goal of
23 again, but we got 32!!! It was so insane. We literally have been so
overwhelmed by the blessings and all of the opportunities to teach so
many people. We actually reached every one of our lesson goals for the
week and exceeded most of them. We feel like The Lord has put so many
people into our path and so many are so ready! We seriously talk about
how there are just too many people for us to teach. Our back up plans
are people we really need to see during the week, and sometimes we
just can't get to them that day and have to move them to the next. I
seriously don't even know how to describe the gratitude and humility
that I feel right now. It has been amazing. We have taught 14 lessons
this week already. We taught 6 Monday and 8 yesterday. Tonight we hope
to have 2!

We had to move Lianabels baptismal date to the 14th of June because she
wasn't able to make it to church this week. But she was able to choose
it and feels comfortable with her decision much more than she was for
the 31st. We are really excited for her! Also, we extended a baptismal
date to Wendy Anderson for the 31st of May. She hasn't accepted it but
is praying to see if that is the day The Lord wants her to be
baptized. She is completely ready and loves the church and everything
we believe in. She just has to make the decision and take the step
into the dark, to feel the difference in her life. Please pray for
both of them!

Thank you so much for all of your prayers! I can feel your love every
day! I love you all! I know his is The Lord's work, and I am so
blessed to be his servant!

Love,

Hermana Jessica Bloxham

We walked across the bridge into the Bronx today!