Monday, March 6, 2017

WEEK #84 - Pueblo Zone

Hy everyone! This week has been a pretty good one!
On Monday, we played some good ping pong and then went to the stake center to play some sports. Elder Stark also gave me a haircut there. It's nice to have him back in the zone so I can get free haircuts haha. After that, we went over to the Avery's and had a good dinner. Then, Brother Martin came with us and had the lesson and we talked about the temple and the blessings of attending regularly. It was a really great lesson.
On Tuesday, it was the last day of the month and because it was a short month, we had a lot of extra miles to use. So, we went and explored the very borders of our area. The top of our area goes almost to the bottom part of southern Colorado Springs. So we made the drive up there and it was really out there in the boonies. There weren't too many houses to knock on, but we still went. We even got to the edge of Fort Carson, the military base and saw a couple of helicopters and some vehicles out there. 


We came back and had another good lesson with Francis and Josephine. They really aren't progressing towards baptism but we keep going over to bring the spirit into their home and to talk about the gospel. We had dinner at the Cash's and that was pretty good. We had a lesson on charity with them. They still have problems with the Word of Wisdom and we are working with them towards that.
On Wednesday, we started the morning by having a lesson with Sister Snyder about the word of wisdom. We think that she has a problem with smoking because we smell it sometimes when we are there, but she acted like she was over it. So we are going to have to pry a little more to figure out how we can help her more. In the afternoon, we went to the nursing home and got to serve all of the tenants ice cream. We then colored pictures with them while we were there. For dinner, we went to Texas Roadhouse and got some delicious steaks there. After that, we went and met up with Elder J Smith and Elder Heywood at Coldstone. They were driving down from a meeting in the Springs so it was good to catch up and talk with them.
On Thursday, we went to go have our appointment with this potential investigator that we had set and when we showed up, we knocked on the door. We could also see him through the door and when we knocked, he got up and went into another room and didn't answer the door. So after that, we went and helped brother Dougherty on the barn for a little bit. I dug the dirt out of 30 holes with the post hole digger and my shoulders were burning haha. We came back and did our weekly planning too. Dinner was with the Cluff's and it was awesome. They are super funny and it's good to be around them haha. We had a good lesson on missionary work with them. After that, we went with the spanish Elders and since I'm the district leader, I was able to do a baptism interview for someone that they are teaching. She was 10 years old and was super prepared and happy to be baptized. It was really neat to meet them and the family.


On Friday, we had our zone training in the morning with the whole zone and it was great! We talked about being spiritually self reliant. It is basically holding yourself accountable for your own spiritual growth. It was a good zone training and we learned a lot from each other. Afterwards, a good group went to Taco Bell for lunch. It was fun to sit and talk with Elder Stark and Elder Tallman some more :) As I was looking around the zone, I realized that we three are the oldest people in the zone! That was pretty crazy to think about. After that, we went and saw the Thomsons! It had been a while since we had gone over so it was really good. We had a good lesson with Sister Thomson about coming to church and building the basics back up again. She told us that she really needed that in her life. It was a great lesson. Afterwards, we were invited to the Pinewood Derby where they had a potluck dinner and then raced the cars. We were asked to be judges so we went and voted on our favorite cars and then sat at the end of the track and judged the races. It was a pretty fun night. Then we came home and cleaned our apartment up for the inspections.
On Saturday, our apartment was inspected and we got a Celestial score! Haha after that we went to the baptism of the girl I interviewed. Her name is Seneca and she was super happy. There was such a great spirit there. Then we went and helped distribute food into cars for people who were in need. We were at a food bank and were loading the boxes of food into people's cars. 

















Then we took off and went to the barn to help Alex out. He had some more people from his work there and we got to talk to them which was good. We mixed concrete and poured it around these posts in the barn to hold them steady. Dinner was at Brother Nanto's and the Carters were there too. We had a good lesson about the temple and are starting the process of them getting temple recommends! We went over to see Francis that night because he gave us some awesome shirts too.
On Sunday, we had a good day at church and the testimonies given were awesome. The Thomsons were able to make it too!! So we were way excited about that. After church, we had an early dinner with the Boyers and that was awesome. Then we were invited over for cinnamon rolls at the Dougherty's and they were so good. We had our coordination meeting with Brother Martin after that and it was a good way to end the week. We are trying to find more people to teach because the investigators we have here have been flaking out. So it's time to start over again.
Love you all and have a great week!!
Elder LaRose


kyler.larose@myldsmail.net

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4753 Eagleridge Cir. Apt. #103
Pueblo West CO 81008

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4090 Center Park Dr
Colorado Springs, Colorado
80916

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