On Monday, it was snowing pretty hardcore! We were almost going to have to park our cars per request of the vehicle coordinator at the mission office, but a small miracle happened and it cleared up enough for us to go to the library and email our families! When we were done with that, we came out and it was STILL snowing! But, thankfully enough, the roads were staying pretty clear so we went to the church and played sports for a little bit. Then, Elder Mogle bought a small saucer sled and we went to the hills by the church and slid down them. I then had the idea to stand on the sled and hang on to the back of the truck as we drove around the parking lot! We got going pretty fast and it was crazy awesome! It was a pretty good pday:)
On Tuesday, It had kept snowing through the night and was STILL snowing in the morning!! So in the morning we bundled up and set out to work shoveling (just for fun;)) about 2 feet of snow out of about 5 driveways. In total, it took about 3 hours to get the driveways cleared and we were headed back to the house when one of the owners of one of the housed we shoveled walked up to us and thanked us for providing that service for her. We are probably going to stop by her home later and see if she would like to meet with the missionaries!
After that, we walked to the church (Because our car was parked) to tackle some zone paperwork that we had to do. We have to collect information about the miles driven in the cars by all the missionaries and compile them into a spreadsheet for the vehicle coordinators at the mission office. We also have to work a lot with the missionaries in collecting information for the Castle Rock stake and the Parker South stake and giving it to the presidencies of each stake (its a lot of time out of our day). A lot of our appointments cancelled on us due to the snow and it didn't stop snowing until that evening.
On Wednesday, the skies were clear and we were able to use our cars again and did our weekly planning today instead of Thursday.We then went to the thrift store to do service. We helped them tear out a wall and clean it up so that they would have more space to put stuff. For our lessons that night, we took some of the "youth missionaries" along with us. The youth missionaries are usually seniors in high school and come with us to teach to help us out and to help them prepare for their missions. It is really cool because they look at the appointments that we have set and pick a time to come with us! it was great to interact with the youth in the ward. The Plum Creek ward is very missionary-minded and love doing missionary work with us. What a blessing!
On Thursday, we drove to Colorado Springs for our Mission Leadership Council. What happens there is all of the Zone Leaders and the Sister Training Leader meet with the Assistants to the President and with President Rehm to discuss how we can 'lift' the mission to a higher standard. It was really cool because I wasn't alone in my inexperience:) Elder Clancy, Elder Tallman, and Sister Smith all came out with me and it was fun to catch up with everyone. The meeting went from 8am to 4pm so we were up early and in the meeting all day. It was great dicussion and was really cool to be a part of. Then we went to the mission office in the Springs and got a truckload (literally) of supplies for the missionaries in our zone. We had dinner with a less active family, and so we were glad to get into their home to try and support them. After that, we had ANOTHER meeting in parker with the Just Serve board. I was glad to get out of there at the end of the day. I was pretty sick of sitting in meetings.
On Friday, we had Zone Training! Remember the last one? yeah, this one was waaayy better. There were new missionaries in the zone due to transfers, and so there was a lot more interest and participation. We focused on how to effectively work with the members of the ward and the bishop. Then, we focused on how we can build each other up in righteousness and promote unity in the zone. It went really well and the missionaries seemed to 'get it'. That night, we met with a less active member, Brother Perez, and he took us to Crave burger. It is where they have all kinds of wacky burgers and things like that. It was DELICIOUS.
On Saturday, we went back to work on Brother Wolthius' house to help him work on stuff. Mainly, we helped prime the walls in a couple of rooms and taped one of the closets up for painting. We had a good line up with lessons and were able to teach all 3 of our appointments really awesome lessons.
On Sunday, EVERYONE was pumped for the superbowl. It was nuts! I sported a nice bright orange tie with my suit to church and Bishop Rolfson was doing the same! luckily, the game started at 4:30 over here so everyone could make it to all of church. During the 3rd block we got to help out with the Sunbeam class. It was fun to be there in class with the 5 and 6 year olds. After church, NOBODY was on the streets. Everyone was packed inside of their houses ready for the big game. There were bronco flags and blow up machines everywhere. We were home for a little bit before dinner and we could hear the family screaming and cheering when the broncos scored their first touchdown. We then went to our dinner and they called themselves a nerdy family because they didn't watch the superbowl. That was nice of them to help us not be apostate :) However, we went over to our ward mission leader's house and we watched like 2 minutes of it until we had our meeting. Then we heard THEY WON! It was super cool. Orange and blue fireworks went off in the city and it was almost like new years. It was a good week for sure!
Love you all and thank you so much for all the support and love from home!
Elder LaRose
Kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
CURRENT ADDRESS:
4438 Buena Vista Ct.
Castle Rock, CO 80109
MISSION OFFICE ADDRESS:
4090 Center Park Drive Ste 4
Colorado Springs, CO 80916
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