Hey everyone! It's been an awesome week!
On Monday, we went over to a members house and had a barbecue. All the other missionaries were invited and so that was fun. After that, we all went and played football. We did a bunch of trick plays and I caught a bunch of passes and made some interceptions. Afterwards I was super sore. We had a fun dinner and lesson with the Greenhalgh and the Pappenfuss families, where Elder Mogle played the ukulele for the last time in the ward.
On Tuesday, we woke up and loaded all of Elder Mogle's stuff into the truck and headed down to the Springs. We went to the stake center down there and I got to see a bunch of different people. I got to see Elder Tallman, Elder Hawkins, Elder Tu'ifua and Elder Schilling!
There were some confusions with all of the travel arrangements and so it took forever for everyone to get ready to go. I met Elder Tibbitts and helped him get all of his luggage into the truck. He seems like a pretty funny guy!
Elder Tibbitts and I
On Wednesday, we got to go to Task Force and it is always fun there. I bought a pretty awesome 4th of July tie for dead cheap there too. I got to see Elder Tu'ifua again because he is now in my zone and actually in the same district as me! It's great to see a familiar face and everything:) That night, we had a lesson with Noe and taught him about the Plan of Salvation. He has been taking the lessons more out of interest in what we believe than out of a desire to grow spiritually. This lesson got him thinking though, he really liked the concept of the whole plan and we are beginning to see growth with him. The lesson went longer than we had thought and so we had to cut dinner with the Ward Mission Leader, Brother Kendall, a little short. We had another good lesson with the Nielsens and then were hoping to make it to bishop's house to meet with Clint. Clint told bishop that he was stuck in traffic so we were forced to cancel that appointment.
On Thursday, we met with Kelli at the library and had another good lesson. It is pretty neat to be there for her and to help her build her testimony back up. We did some weekly planning after that and then drove to Sedalia to meet Brother Polson. We got a media referral a couple of days earlier and saw that the address was about 50 miles from Castle Rock, but still in our area. Brother Polson offered to drive us out there to go and contact that referral. So we hopped in his car and made the long trip through the mountains. We got down to the South Platte River and followed that a little ways to a cluster of cabins on the riverside. It was beautiful down there!
The referral out in the boonies
We finally found the cabin and knocked on the door. Nobody was home, but we left the bible that they had requested on the doorstep. We decided to leave a Book of Mormon as well, with our phone number and a brief testimony written on a pass along card. Hopefully they come across those books and start to read the Book of Mormon too:) as we were leaving the cabin, this huge Great Dane and a puppy Dane, appeared from nowhere around this corner. It scared the poop out of Elder Tibbitts and the first reaction he had was to put up his hands and say "... Listen!....." I was too busy laughing to be scared and the dogs turned out to be friendly anyway:) It was pretty funny though. So we made the drive back and then headed back into Castle Rock. We decided to look at our potential investigator form while we had some free time and there were a couple of people there that said they might be interested in meeting with us. We decided to call the phone numbers to see how many of them had given us fake numbers. Turns out that not a lot of people did! We were able to set up 2 appointments from the first 3 phone calls we made! That was super awesome. We had dinner with the Bishop's family and then went over to meet with Brother Gann. It was an awesome day:)
On Friday, Elder Tibbitts decided to experiment with his breakfast. You know the water flavor enhancer Mio? Yeah he put that in his eggs. And then wrapped it in a burrito. And then ate it. And then suffered. Haha I think he thought it would have the same effect as bacon and syrup, but turns out it didn't.
eggs and mio
We then went to district meeting and had a good time there. We got another media referral for the Carters so we tried to make contact with them and they weren't home. We had dinner with the Farnsworths and they are pretty awesome. It was a pretty good night.
On Saturday, we were asked to go and give a blessing to a member of the sister's ward. We were able to help her with that and she was really grateful for us. She even took us to Applebee's for lunch! It was nice to get to know her and nice of her to take us out. So the Canyon Ridge ward was having a baptism that afternoon, so we decided to shoot Noe a text and see what he was doing. We invited him to the baptism and he said sure! It was a great experience for him and he got to see how baptism takes place! Bishop Rolfson was there at the baptism too and he asked Noe what he thought. Noe said that he thought that we followed the word more exactly and did baptism correctly! That was awesome! The spirit that is at a baptism is truly powerful. That spirit definitely testified of the truthfulness of what he was witnessing. After the baptism, we went and tried to contact the Carters again. We were able to meet Katrina Carter and she said that she and her husband had just moved in and would love to have us over to teach them! That was so awesome and we are excited to be meeting with them soon. For dinner, we went to the Keilers and had bagel pizzas:) they were pretty good and are something that I want to try to make sometime haha:)
On Sunday, we thought we had switched out clocks for daylong savings time, and so when we woke up at 6:30, I looked at the clock and it said 5:30. So I went back to bed for another hour. Come to find out that the clock I looked at doesn't automatically change to daylight savings time and so I actually slept in an extra hour! I felt pretty bad about that haha. We met with Brother Kendal and the Ward Missionaries to coordinate and then went to church after that. Church was really good and we got to learn a lot:) For dinner, we went to the Crabtree home and had some good laughs. We then went to the Snows and he gave us some people to go and see as well as some ties of his:) I now have so many ties, it's pretty crazy:) We finished the night by meeting with Bishop Rolfson to coordinate our missionary efforts with the ward.
This week was a wonderful week and we are so blessed to have been part of the miracles we have witnesses this week. I love you all and keep in touch!
Elder LaRose
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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