On Monday, we had a blast. After we went and emailed and shopped, Elder Tibbitts and I went with the Spanish Elders, Elder Taylor and Elder Ashcroft, to the restaurant inside of the Hospital again. After that, we went to the turf field across from the Plum Creek building and played all kinds of stuff. We started off by playing flag football and I got a chance to break in the flags that I got for Easter:). Then we moved to playing ultimate frisbee and by that time the wind had picked up so it was hard to throw it. We then played a little bit of soccer. When we got tired of that stuff, we went over to the church and played some good basketball:) Elder Tibbits went and played the card game Magic with some other Elders so it worked out. We came home and had some burgers at the Rolfson's and then met with the Ganns and the Kumpfs for lessons afterwards. It was a good pday.
On Tuesday, we did our studies and then went to HorsePower for service. We were the only Elders who showed up that day so we helped the owner shovel out stalls. Then the owner went out into this one field to fertilize it with the poop but his tractor got stuck in the mud! So he drove out another machine out there with a chain to try to putt it out and then that got stuck too! So he drove a bigger tractor out there to try to get it unstuck but it wasn't budging. So after we were at it for like an hour, he just said that he was going to call his friend with a big tractor to come pull out everything later in the day. It was pretty funny.
Later that night, the Wassons took us out to eat in celebration of Gary's birthday! So we went and had dinner at Outback Steakhouse. I had a sirloin steak and shrimp on the Barbie:) we were able to go to the MacGills afterwards and have a great lesson before we retired for the evening.
On Wednesday, we got to go to Task Force and help out everyone there. It is always fun to go to Task Force because they put you to work and you meet a lot of new people as well! We then had great lessons with the Nielsens and the Haycocks.
Also, Elder Tu'ifua did some drawings on my ukulele!
On Thursday, the missionaries were invited to a luncheon for all the volunteers at Task Force. The luncheon was held at the Canyon Community Church and there were probably 200 people attending. They recognized a couple of different people and then we had a good lunch! After the lunch they gave out some awards to different people and then had all 8 of us missionaries stand up. They thanked us in front of the crowd and said they were grateful to have their "Mormon power". It was pretty cool to have that happened and may have changes some of the way that people view us. What a great opportunity. After that we went and had a meeting with Brother Jones, the Parker South High Councilor over missionary work. We had a good discussion about the documents we give to the stake and about how the stake is doing. He also told us about some of his funny missionary stories. When we came back to Castle Rock, we went to the Metcalfs and worked on their swing set:) dinner was with the Buhlers and the husband doesn't come to church so it was nice to be in their home and to have a lesson. We then went to mutual and taught the Teachers and Priests about a day in the life of a missionary. It was really good for them and we gave them a bunch of different situations in where they had to tell us what they were going to do. Not all of them have it down but that's alright.
On Friday, we had a good district meeting and Elder Tibbitts got to teach the lesson. For lunch, we met with the senior couple over the JustServe projects for the mission at Cafe Rio. Elder and Sister Searing were going to pay for us but then some members came up to us and gave us some money anyways haha. The Searings still payed for us anyways. We had a good lunch and a good talk about all the JustServe projects we are doing. After that we went to Bonaventure and played some memory games with the tenants. We did a couple of different trivia questions and their answers were pretty funny. After that, we finally completed the Metcalf's swing set!
The kids were pretty happy and excited for it to be done:) so that night, all the fathers were at Father's and Sons's so no one could meet with us that night. We ended up going to Chili's with the Spanish Elders.
On Saturday, our morning consisted of studies, finalizing paperwork for our stake meetings, and having lunch. We got to stop by a lot of new people as well. That evening, we had a lesson with Brother Hunter for the first time. He is a less active member who is looking to try out coming back to church. We are excited to be working with him and hope the best. We set out on foot for that evening and walked to the Palmers to have dinner and a lesson. Also, today our investigator Clint got married civilly to the member he was dating in Boulder! Bishop Rolfson actually performed the marriage up there for them and he said lots of people were telling Clint that the next step was to be baptized! Haha hopefully that gave him a little more of a push.
On Sunday we woke up early and got a ride from President Haycock to our meetings. We first went to Parker to meet with President Rehm and the stake there. It was a great meeting and we got a lot accomplished. We then went to the Castle Rock meeting and it was good to finally touch base with them. It was the first meeting we've had with them since January! After that we went to Ward Council and learned a lot and discussed the needs of the Ward. Church went really well and Brother Hunter showed up and sat by us! It was a good meeting too. Dinner was at the Grats and then we had to book it to the Castle Rock just serve meeting. After that meeting, we met with Bishop Rolfson and talked about some more people. We finished by singing a hymn accompanied by me on the ukulele:) even though the sabbath is a day of rest, we were busy at the Lord's work for most of it:)
Elder LaRose.
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