Hey everyone! It's been a great week!
On Monday, we went to a park and played football again. It was fun because Elder Tu'ifua played rugby in high school in Tonga so he was having a good time. We played that for most of our pday and then went and had dinner. We also had another lesson with Kelli at Sister Howland's house and that went really well.
On Tuesday, we went and shoveled horse poop out of the stalls again, but this time the hay triggered my allergies. Usually I do pretty well over there but I kept sneezing and my nose was running. So for the most part, I just sat outside the barn and got some fresh air. The sneezing and stuff faded away pretty soon after we left and so I popped an allergy pill and we were all good. I just have to remember to take some with me next week. After that we went and got lunch and went to an appointment that we had set with a potential investigator. We were going to meet at the church building and have a lesson there, but after a while, he didn't even show up. :( We then drove to Elizabeth, Colorado and exchanged with them. I stayed in Plum Creek with Elder J Smith who has only been out for about a week. The exchange went awesome and we taught a lot of lessons that night. We even went over to a part-member home and gave the nonmember wife a blessing. That was really neat. Hopefully we can continue to work with her:)
On Wednesday, after our studies, I was able to take Elder J Smith tracting for the first time. So we hit up the Pines apartments and actually had an all around experience. We met one guy who was somewhat promising and said to come back on weekends, we met a mother, Renae, who invited us back on Friday, and then we met a crazy lady who was telling us all about how dumb we are for being part of a church. She said weird stuff like "We are all the same thing just vibrating at different frequencies! You, me, this door, are all the same!" She tried to combat our help by saying "I am plugged into the universe!" Yeah. It was pretty weird but we had a good laugh about it afterwards. Next, we went to Task Force and helped out all the people there. We met back up there and exchanged back. Dinner was with the Olers and they actually know Elder Tibbitts and his family pretty well so they were excited to have him over. We then met with the MacGills and the Wassons to wrap up the night. The lessons went well and I have been using the cup visual that Mom sent to me:)
On Thursday, we had to hit up the computers to track everything that the stake does in preparation for our stake meeting. It was St. Patrick's Day and so Elder Tibbitts and I put on everything green and then took pictures of everything green that we came across that day. It was pretty funny.
Later that day, we met with Brother Jones, the High Councilor over missionary work in the Parker South stake. He always gives us ice cream when we meet and is pretty fun to work with. We went to dinner at Cafe Rio and had a tasty meal there. We then met with Noe after that and had a good discussion on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We talked about how he felt at the baptism he attended and asked if that is something that he would want for his own life. He knows that we perform baptism correctly but he said that he didn't want to "step on his own baptism" thinking that he would have to disregard everything good about his baptism. We talked to him about how it's there to add to his faith and that we don't want to take away from the life that his previous baptism has led him to live. We ended on a good note but we are hoping for the best with him.
On Friday, we got snow dumped on us and spent the morning shoveling driveways. We headed to district meeting and had a good lesson. Afterwards, we had a mini snowball fight and so I hopped in the truck and drove over to some snow and had Elder Tibbitts pack a couple snowballs. We then sped past the other missionaries and unloaded on them. We did the drive by shooting a couple of times and Elder Tu'ifua was able to sneak one back at us through the window haha. It was great. Then, we went to Bonneventure and played bingo with the memory care unit. And I'll tell you, this was no ordinary bingo match. There were two old ladies who both didn't know what they were talking about to get into a cat fight. One of them was just saying random stuff and somehow, the other was taking offense to the gibberish and was cussing out the first lady. Elder Tibbitts and I were unsure what to do and luckily some of the other workers just separated them. We then went out to Sedalia for our dinner and evening lessons we went to the Wells for dinner and then to the Pettingills for a lesson. We saw some elk about 300 yards from the Pettingills house with one small bulk with them. I got a picture of them, but it was getting dark.
On Saturday, we went and stopped by Renae in the afternoon and she let us in! We taught her about the Plan of Salvation and she was pretty interested! So we set up a return appointment with her and are looking forward to teaching her more! New investigator! We had dinner with the Nielsens and had 'hog dogs' which is a hotdog bun with a hotdog, pulled pork, and barbecue sauce and it was great. We met with Brother and Sister Rolfson that night and had a good time with all the little kids there.
On Sunday, we woke up early to go to Parker for a missionary correlation meeting with the Parker South stake. President Rehm was there as well and we were able to better coordinate the missionary efforts between the stake and the mission. After that, we were going to do the same thing with the Castle Rock Stake, but that meeting was cancelled. So we had just enough time to drive home and grab a snack before we went to Ward Council. After that meeting, we had church! It went pretty well and we had some people we didn't know show up. For dinner, we went back out to Sedalia again and had a good time out there. Maybe someday I will live out there, it's beautiful.
Thanks for all the support and have a great week!
Love, Elder LaRose
Kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
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4438 Buena Vista Ct.
Castle Rock, CO 80109
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4090 Center Park Drive Ste 4
Colorado Springs, CO 80916
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