On Tuesday, we emailed our families and such and then, Elder Mogle and I went to have a lesson with our investigator and less active member. We met at a restaurant called kneaders and taught the restoration of the gospel. Our investigator, Kelli, has a great testimony and desire to strengthen her faith and we are so blessed to be teaching her. After that, we went to the apartment complex and tried to get ahold of Drew, another investigator, who we hadn't heard from in a while. We were able to catch him at his door and we kinda got real with him. We asked him if he wanted to learn or if he was just trying to avoid us. He told us that he still wanted to have us over (which was a relief) but that he was dealing with all sorts of crazy schedules right now and needed to wait until life settled down. We told him that we understood and that we would still keep in contact with him so we would know when we could come. For dinner, we went to the Haycocks home! President Haycocks is the first counselor in the mission presidency and it's always good to spend time with them. We met with the Pettingills and had a great time there. That night, we met with a sister who made some bad decisions in the past and is not a member of the church anymore, but is now looking to strengthen her testimony back up by having us teach her. We met Bonnie and her nonmember boyfriend Jeff and taught the first half of The Restoration. They had a lot of great questions and insights that we, gratefully, were able to answer clearly and correctly. Both of them loved the mirror analogy relating to the Great Apostasy that I shared. We were able to bring the spirit into the home and are going to continue to meet with them and help them grow closer to Christ.
On Wednesday, we did service at Task force for most of the day and got to smash a bunch of glass. That evening, we met with Brother and Sister Rolfson, they being related to Bishop Rolfson, and had one of the youth in the ward come with us to teach them. After that, we had President and Sister Haycock come with us to our lesson with Clint. We had a great discussion about the Plan of Salvation. We talked about how it was part of God's plan for us to receive the ordinances of salvation, such as baptism, by proper authority. He told us that he was reading in Alma 32 and came across verse 16 which says:
Therefore, blessed are they who humble themselves without being compelled to be humble; or rather, in other words, blessed is he that believeth in the word of God, and is baptized without stubbornness of heart, yea, without being brought to know the word, or even compelled to know, before they will believe.
Clint read that and said "Yeah...that's me." It was cool to see him recognize that he needed to be baptized. I then asked I'm if he would be baptized and he said "yeah, I know I need to." I then presented a date in March that he could get baptized on, and he told us that he would pray about it. We again testified of the importance of this covenant with the Lord and encouraged him to sincerely ask The Lord. We left feeling excited, but nervous at the same time. We are praying intently for Clint and hope that he receives that confirming witness.
On Thursday, we drove out to the Horse Power ranch to scoop up some more horse poop for a couple hours. There are a lot of messy horses up there. Afterwards, we exchanged with the Perry Park elders. This time, I stayed in the Plum Creek ward with Elder Durfee, who has only been out for a couple of weeks! It was good to feel like I was training again and we had a good day full of missionary work. We had a good dinner and were able to meet with a less active member who requested a lesson on Fasting! It was a good one and we were able to help them.
On Friday, we went to district meeting and had a good time there. We practiced how to get out of sticky situations while teaching at that was pretty fun:) We then had a district lunch and went to MOD pizza, where I created another east coast style pizza:) Tomato, garlic, basil, pesto, mozzarella, yum:) After that, we went to the Bonneventure retirement home and played bingo with the memory unit. They are always a little wacky and we have to repeat the numbers a thousand times before they found them haha. B seventeen... waht? B SevenTEEN.... ehat? B SEVENTEEN. It was pretty funny. We had a great evening and it's always fun when we go over and have a lesson with Bishop Rolfson and his family.
On Saturday, we were walking around and saw a moving van full of stuff! So Elder Mogle and I rolled up our sleeves and asked if we could help them with anything! The lady said sure! So we went to work and unloaded the small van. The whole time we were moving stuff in, they were saying "thank you, thank you so much!" we got most of the stuff out of the van and we got to take a break and tell them about who we were and what we do as missionaries. As we left they said "Please come back!" and so we are excited to get to know them better. Then, at 4:00, we went to the leadership session of stake conference and we learned a lot about how to be good leaders and such. We had just enough time to grab a bite to eat and head to the Saturday evening session of stake conference. Elder Deshler, an area seventy was there and instructed us well on covenants like baptism and things like that. It was a long day with lots of instruction.
On Sunday, we got to the general session of stake conference a little early to save a seat for our investigator Clint a seat next to us and bishop. A couple minutes later, Clint walked in with bishop! it was great to have hime there. Stake Conference went really good and I felt that Clint got a lot out of it. He still hasn't said anything about baptism yet, but we won't rush him. After the conference, we were able to meet with President and Sister Rehm for a little bit to discuss how we can find the key to missionary work here in the castle rock stake. President said that he put us there to find a way to get the missionary work moving more. I know that we can do it because we have been having so much success lately. It was great to inquire of the Lord with President Rehm and I know that the Lord will help us. It was such a great week and I am so happy to be on my mission serving the Lord.
Love you all!
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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