Monday, March 13, 2017

WEEK #85 - Pueblo Zone

WEEK #85
Hey everyone! This has been a pretty good week!
On Monday, we met up at the church and played some basketball and spike ball with all the other missionaries. Then, Elder Perrins and I grabbed our ping pong paddles and made a makeshift ping pong table out of a foldable table and a rolled up rug on top for the net haha. We started playing sting pong with everyone and I had a good amount of welts on my belly. It was super fun haha. We had a good dinner at the Avery's and then retired for the night.
On Tuesday, we went out and tried to find people to teach and met some people that said that we could come by again. We read the scriptures more with Sister Ford and then hit the streets again knocking on doors. As we were knocking on some doors, we met a less active member that we didn't know about! We had a good talk and she said that she really wants to go to the temple. So we are excited to be working with her. We kept at it a little more and then we knocked on this one door and someone came to the door but didn't open it or say anything. Then, a car pulled into the driveway as we were standing there and made it all the more awkward. But we figured that people think the missionaries are awkward all the time so we just waited until we got to talk to someone. When we did, we found out that this family was Vietnamese and that they had come in contact with the church before when they lived in San Diego. They were really excited to have us come by and said that they would love to have us come by again! So that was pretty cool. We then had a lesson with Francis and Josephine about the Word of Wisdom. For dinner, we went to sonic and got some grub from there.
On Wednesday, we stopped by Tori again who lives in what we call "Sketch City" It wasn't a good time for her and she said that she was feeling sick. I could see a couple of marijuana plants through the window in their greenhouse. It will take a lot to help them make some big changes in their life. Then we went and talked with the older people at the nursing home and helped them do some watercolor painting. I can't even remember the last time that I did any watercolor painting. We came back and had dinner with Brother Nanto and had some delicious chocolate covered cinnamon rolls for dessert. Afterwards, we had a good lesson with the Smiths. We are going through the temple prep book with them to help prepare them to be sealed as a family. After the lesson, Brother Smith took us out for a little joy ride in his Subaru STI. It was super cool and fast haha.


On Thursday, we headed up to the Springs to get a replacement key for our car and to pick up some Vietnamese copies of the Book of Mormon. It was weird to be back in the Springs haha. And we had to stop by Mike and Randi to say hi as well. Or else they would have been mad at me haha. We had a great talk there and it was good to see them. We came back home and planned out in detail the next week. As part of the training program, this next week is where Elder Perrins takes the lead in all planning and teaching situations. I am fully confident in his ability to do so:) We had a good dinner with the Doerr family that night too.
On Friday, we had a good district meeting in the morning. I talked about the 'why' of missionary work with everyone and it was really great. After that, we were driving around and saw that a couple of people had garage sales going on, so we stopped by them. It was actually a really great source to talk to people and have a good conversation! We went to 3 different garage sales and we came away with a potential investigator and a free picture frame for Elder Perrins haha. It was really cool. We kept at it all day with trying to find new people to teach but were met with no success. We stopped by the Burns and talked to the dad out on the porch for a little bit. Dinner was dropped off to us to we ate it at our apartment and then finished doing our studies that night.


On Saturday, we had a good day in the morning and went to go find more people to teach! We went to this trailer park to stop by some people we knew but none of them were home, so we knocked on a couple of the doors around the area. We knocked on this one door and this really nice lady answered and started talking to us. She made it clear that she didn't want to learn more, but kept on talking to us about random things. She even gave us a referral for someone who she thought we could visit. As we were talking to her, the property manager came up to us and stated to chew us out for being there but this lady saved our butts. She told the manager that we were visiting her and that there were no problems. So that was nice of her. We stopped by some more people and then went and helped the Doughertys on their barn. Alex wasn't there because he went to go "say goodbye" to his dad who was not doing well in the hospital. So we are sad for him but it's a good thing that our next lesson is on the Plan of Salvation.

After the barn, we had a lesson with the Bowmans. We had a good lesson with them and everything but they struggle with coming to church all the time. Dinner was with the Martellaro's and it was awesome. We were celebrating her birthday too. While we were there, they got a phonecall that their daughter would be returning home from her mission early sue to her health. Fortunately, the family has been aware of her health and it wasn't much of a surprise. They were just bummed for her. It was good for us to be there through that I think.
On Sunday, we woke up early (and extra early because of daylight savings) and went and had a meeting before church. Church was really great but there was like nobody there. We did however, have Sister Thomson and her kids come! That was so cool! After church we saw a bunch of people and tried to contact some part member families. Dinner was with the Ashtons, and we got to play a game with their autistic son Caleb. It was a great week!
Thanks for all of the support from everyone and SHOUTOUT to my cousin Jake for getting his mission call to preach the gospel in Spanish in the New York South mission! Love you all and have a great week!

Elder LaRose

kyler.larose@myldsmail.net

CURRENT ADDRESS:
4753 Eagleridge Cir. Apt. #103
Pueblo West CO 81008

MISSION OFFICE:
4090 Center Park Dr
Colorado Springs, Colorado
80916

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