WEEK #8 - Colorado Springs Fountain Stake

WEEK #8

Hey everyone! Lot of funny things have happened this week!
So FIRST, on Monday, we went and played basketball with the zone and literally five minutes before we were going to be done, Elder Schilling caught a basketball off of his pinky finger and he thought that he broke it. So we had to leave early and I have to drive him to an urgent care that President Rehm told us to go to. Two hours later, the doctor came in and and told him that he had fractured his finger! It's a pretty small fracture, but they put a splint on it and told him to leave it on for 6 weeks. Because we were at the doctor for so long, we had to cancel our dinner appointment and out lesson with Mitch.

On Tuesday, we had our lesson with Mitch that we missed on Monday. We taught him about eternal families and eternal marriage and he really enjoyed that. We then went to the annual Book of Mormon BBQ for the Sand Creek ward and had super delicious hamburgers and hot dogs. 

Sand Creek Book of Mormon Barbecue 

On Wednesday night, we had planned to visit Doug Thomas, who is a homeless man who used to come to church and stuff before he got into his present situation. He told us to come and teach him in the vacant field where he sleeps and we were going to go, but we decided that it would be a better idea if we rescheduled to a less sketchy time during the day. Then we played volleyball with 3rd ward and Sister Grow and Sister Sema from the 6th ward.

On Thursday, we did a lot of service. We helped move boxes out of this one lady's basement and then weed whacked the backyard of another person's yard. And when I say "we" I mean just me because Elder Schilling is useless when it comes to service haha. That  night, we had dinner at the Munn's and they are a family who has just recently come back to the church and are going to go to the temple this next Thursday! What is really cool is that they invited us to come with them for their first time! Normally, on this mission, we only get to go to the temple once and that is at our halfway point. the only exception is if you have a recent convert or recently reactivated member go to the temple too! So I already get to go to the Denver temple this Thursday! I'm super excited:)

On Saturday, we did even more service! It seems like Elder Schilling is secretly scheduling more and more service because he knows I will have to do it all haha. We pulled weeds (which is the second most-common type of service) and then moved furniture in and out of a house (the most-common type of service). So this is the end of my first transfer! Because I am in training, I stay with my companion in our area for two transfers. BUT there were some changes made concerning us; We now no longer cover two wards! They took Sand Creek away from us and we kept 3rd ward. I am kinda sad because they are the ward that has taken me under their wing the most. I don't think anyone will be buying me 10 pound Costco cakes in the 3rd ward :( We probably won't have dinner every night too. This also means that we will be moving into a different apartment that is at a better location for just 3rd ward. 

Today, before we came here for emails, we had to go to a follow up appointment for Elder Schillings fractured pinky. They aren't going to operate on it or anything because it wasn't displaced when it got fractured so that's good. 

Love you all and can't wait to hear from you! I'll let you know when my address changes, but for now, we will see what happens.

Elder Kyler LaRose

EMAIL: kyler.larose@myldsmail.net

CURRENT AREA ADDRESS:

2328 Washo Circle

Colorado Springs, CO

80915

MISSION OFFICE ADDRESS: 

4090 Center Park Drive Ste 4

Colorado Springs, CO 80916