On Monday, our zone met up in Manitou Springs for pday and we had a great time. We went to this little place called graffiti falls and hung out there. It's a waterfall that is near a bridge that has tons of graffiti around it. Had some fun climbing around and then came back down the trail to a cave where we went inside for a little bit.
I got to set up my hammock out there and that was pretty awesome. For dinner, we went to Rudy's and it was sooo good. Hannah Blanchard and Gilbert took us. FHE was pretty fun too. There was a scavenger hunt around town that was organized and it looked really fun. We didn't go on the hunt because we didn't have enough people in our group so we stayed at the church and played some games.
On Tuesday, it was a pretty good day. We spent some time at the YMCA doing service by pulling weeds around the building. It was a nice hot day so we got tan while doing it. After that, we went down south and did some contacting down there. It is pretty difficult to find young single adults while knocking on doors in apartment complexes. We didn't meet too many people in the places we went. However, right before dinner, we knocked on a couple of doors and were able to find people that want us back! One of them is a college student at UCCS named Angela! She is Buddhist and is also a philosophy major and so she wants to learn more about what we believe. It was pretty cool. We had dinner with the sisters and a member from their ward and it was pretty awesome. We had a good day.
On Wednesday, we started the day by going to UCCS and we got to see a miracle happen that day! Right as we started to talk to people, a girl we saw at the parking garage had followed us to where we were. So I started a conversation with her and said, "Have you ever talked to missionaries before?" She replied with "No, but I have always wanted to!" Her name is Samantha and she has been through a lot. We got to talking to her and introduced the Book of Mormon to her. She openly accepted it and it was wonderful. She also opened up to us about some of the trials she has been going through. She is 20 and is a cancer survivor and has been in remission for about a year. That caused her to have side effects like balance issues, and overheating. Also, when we talked to her that day, she told us that her 4year old baby sister with Down syndrome fell out of her crib, broke her arm, went into a coma, and when she was given the anesthesia, she never woke up, and that was only 6 days prior. Her parents are in the military and were stationed in Japan at the time all of this happened. It's pretty crazy how he is handling all of this and we were able to really help her out. We used the Book of Mormon to talk about God's love for us and about hope for those who have passed on before us. She said that the lesson really helped a lot and we gave her a conference talk from Elder Holland to watch. We are so happy that she was led to us. She is such a sweet girl and deserves all the love that we and God and His gospel have to offer her. After that miracle, we got to go and play bingo with the ladies at the turner house. It is always a new adventure when we go over there and it's great haha. Then we got to meet with one of the cadets who is pretty cool and talked about missionary work with him. He sent us to this house that was nearby and told us to knock on it. It was actually a house of missionaries for another church. It was awkward but pretty funny too. Dinner was out in Falcon with Jhazmine and Gilbert. They are some of my favorite people so it was awesome. We then drove back to the springs and had a lesson with Amiera about missionary work. She is really funny and is working with some of her friends so that is great. We stopped by one more person but they weren't home.
On Thursday, we had a good morning and then Samantha invited us to join her for lunch. So we went to Chipotle and got to talk to her more. She is definitely struggling but wants to meet with us to feel that peace and relief. It is definitely going to take time too. You don't just get over your sister's death in a week. Later we had a lesson with Damion Howard and got to talk about missionary work with him. Afterwards, we did our weekly planning and then had dinner on our own. Institute was really great that night too. We had one of the return missionaries bring one of his friends, Jake to institute and he loved it. Jake recently moved to the springs and isn't sure he believes in God. However, he wants to believe and feel the peace that God offers us. It was really cool.
On Friday, we had a good district meeting with everyone and learned about using the scriptures in our teaching. That is something that I can definitely work on. When we use the scriptures in our teaching, it automatically brings the spirit into the lesson. After district meeting, we actually got to go and record a song that Elder Nelson and I wrote. It's pretty good aside from the fact that I am in it but we had a good time there in his home recording the different parts and stuff.
We had dinner with Gilbert and the sisters at Red Robin and it was delishhhh. The mingle was fun too and we got to play volleyball. We had a less active member come to that so it was really cool.
On Saturday, we had a lesson in the morning but they cancelled on us. Our lesson later in the afternoon also cancelled on us so we had an open day pretty much. We went to Costa Vida or lunch with the other YSA missionaries. The sisters had stolen my wallet and froze it into a block of ice haha. So I had to break the ice around it and unwrap it all. No damage was done. We went contacting at Fox Run park and didn't have a whole lot of success but ran into a couple of members there. They gave us some food and then we continued on our way. We got to talk to this guy named Anthony and it was really cool! He was sitting by himself and so we went up to him and started talking to him. He was really open and had a lot of great questions. We got his info so we can contact him later. Our other two appointments we had cancelled on us so we went and stopped by a couple of people before going to dinner at the Paige's out in Falcon. They are so awesome! We got delicious ribs and Dutch oven potatoes. They also told us that they are going to be going on a special diet as a family for a month and so we got to leave with a TON of food from their food storage. It was mana from heaven. They are hilarious too so we had a good time.
On Sunday, We had a good day at church and then went contacting afterwards. We also had a great lesson with Jake. He is a new investigator that we have. Another great week in the books! Love you all!
Elder LaRose
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