Hey everyone! This week went by really quick! And Happy Birthday to Keldon this past week!!!
On Monday, we went over to one of the member homes in Castle Rock and had lunch there. We went down to their basement and played ping pong and foosball. We started a ping pong tournament and I went undefeated:) yep, putting in the practice after institute really payed off:) that night we met with our investigator Kelli at the relief society president's house and had a fun lesson on the 10 commandments. We used all the hand signals to help everyone out haha.
On Tuesday, we went to the Horsepower ranch to shovel more poop out of the stalls. They seemed especially stinky this time. It was a good day though. because It's the end of the month, we were busy at the computers doing zone and stake paperwork.
For example, we have to collect information about how many meetings the missionaries have had with their ward mission leader and other leadership people, we also have to collect and figure out how many miles each of the companionships drove for the month, and how many of those miles are reimbursed for different reasons. It's a little frustrating because we want to get it all done fast, but some missionaries don't answer to texts or calls very well. We had dinner with the Snow family and I'm gonna say this again, but they are super chill and funny and we love going over.
On Wednesday, it was Keldon's birthday and that's awesome;) We also woke up early to drive to the Springs for the March Mission Leadership Council. It was good to see everyone again and to talk with Elder Tallman and Elder Clancy. The meeting was really long, but we had good training. President Rehm instructed us about the importance of using the Book of Mormon when we teach. The Book of Mormon is so essential to gaining a pure and strong testimony. He also gave specific counsel to our zone, and emailed us a document that has some ideas of how to help the missionary work move forward in the Castle Rock and Parker South stakes. It talked about how everyone has people to look for. Either The Lord will lead them to us or He will lead us to them. Hopefully we can all take that to heart and let it work in our own areas. We drove back and made it in time for dinner with the Karren family and then had a good lesson with the Pierce family after that. On Thursday, we were going to meet with Kelli in the morning, but she called in saying that she had bronchitis, and it sure sounded like she did. In the afternoon, we got a call from Elder Searing, who is the man over Just Serve and the service projects that us missionaries go to each week. That's another responsibility that we have is to make sure that we are looking for opportunities to use Just Serve and to sign missionaries up for projects later on in the future. After the meeting, we met with the Sister Training Leaders in Parker to discuss what we learned in MLCs and to formulate a game plan for Zone Training. When that was done, we drove back and met with Noe Hernandez again! He was super welcoming and we had a good talk. From what I can tell, he just likes us coming over to talk. But if we keep meeting with him and bringing the spirit with us, then maybe he will feel the desire to learn more. Before we left, we briefly introduced the Plan of Happiness and he said that he was curious about what we had to say about where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going after we die. So hopefully he will find our message to be true:). Dinner was dropped off to us and we had some good pasta to fill our bellies.
On Friday, we had our Zone Training! We talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon and how we can effectively use it in our teaching. We did an activity where everyone wrote down 2 questions of the soul and put them in a bowl. We drew the questions out of the hat and everyone needed to find the answer to the questions in the Book of Mormon only! It was cool to see because every single question of the soul was and can be answered in the Book of Mormon. We also discussed the importance of planning and how much more effective your day is rather than busy. Being effective is like using a rifle to hunt elk. If you use your scope and make sure your target is clear, then you can make the kill shot. Using a shotgun at long distance to kill an elk is not going to be effective at achieving your goal, but it might destroy the sagebrush 10 feet in front of you. It was a good training and we felt really good about what we conveyed to the the zone. After Zone Training, we went to Bonneventure, but no one was out and about so we went home a little earlier. We met with the Hess family and after our lesson with them, we took their son, David, with us to our next lesson with Brother Dazey. For dinner, Elder Mogle and I were on our own. Elder Mogle went to Chipotle, but I wasn't feelin it so I waited for him to go through the line. Well, it turns out that somebody, we don't know who, paid for his meal! That was pretty cool. For me, we went to Qudoba and I was expecting to go through and get my own stuff, but another member ended up paying for my meal too! So Elder Mogle and I got our meals taken care of at 2 different places! What a blessing it was to us. After dinner, we went to the MacGills and they are a little crazy which makes for some good laughs. For example, Sister MacGill said, for some weird reason, "everything in this house is from a garage sale!" And then Brother MacGill says after a pause, ".... Well I'm not!" It was pretty funny:) we ended the night with a quick lesson at the Glancy home. Some of the kids were sick and so we made sure they got time to sleep. That night, President Rehm called us and told Elder Mogle that he would be getting transferred! We found out that he is going to be going to Pueblo to train a new missionary in a new area! He is really sad to leave, but is excited for the next adventure in Pueblo.
On Saturday, all of the missionaries, bishops, and ward mission leaders of the Castle Rock stake met at President Lindsey's house for breakfast and a meeting. The meeting went well and there were a bunch of spiritual experiences shared. Besides the one about someone's scoutmaster pooping on the trail while they were hiking as little scouts. Yeah. That one threw me off. Afterwards, we went to go see a baptism of one of the 8 year olds in our ward. That was pretty fun:). We met with Ammon Gatrell right before dinner and had a good lesson. Dinner was with the Bays and Brother Gann and they are 2 of my favorite families. We had homemade smoked ribs which were heavenly:) we then went to the Shifflet home and then the Bishop's home after that.
On Sunday, we went to PEC before church and had a good discussion on how to help the missionary work. Testimony meeting went well and Elder Mogle bore a good testimony for his last Sunday in the ward. For 2nd hour, we went and helped Bishop Rolfson introduce the primary theme for the month to the junior and senior primaries:) the theme was listening to the prophets and so bishop had Elder Mogle and I come in and play some primary songs on the ukulele while wearing grass skirts and Hawaiian shirts:) the kids loved it and bishop thought it was great too:) it was a great time.
After church, we went and had dinner at the Gatrell home. We had another lesson with Kelli at Sister Howland's home and then wrapped up the night with our coordination meeting with Brother Kendall. It was a good night! I'm going to miss Elder Mogle and hopefully I get a companion just as great:)
Love you all and have a great week!
Elder LaRose
Kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
CURRENT ADDRESS:
4438 Buena Vista Ct.
Castle Rock, CO 80109
MISSION OFFICE ADDRESS:
4090 Center Park Drive Ste 4
Colorado Springs, CO 80916
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