Hey everyone! It's been a good week:) we moved into a different member's home so my address had changed! It is now 4358 Sawmill Ct.
On Monday, we went to the computers to email, and then went shopping at the store. Then we went and got fishing licenses from Walmart to go fish for the rest of the day! We were picked up by Elder Rumsey and Elder Smith and then drove through Sedalia, almost to a small place called deckers to get to the spot. We were on the South Platte River and found a pretty good spot to fish. The four of us kind of spread out a little bit and started casting. The weather was just right too. It had just stopped raining when we showed up. After about 20 minutes, I caught a fish! It was a tiny rainbow trout about 5 inches long and I hooked it through the eye. Once I had caught it, I had to get over my childhood fear of touching the fish and so I just grabbed it and pulled the hook out. A couple minutes later I caught another small rainbow trout through the lip:) I was pretty proud of myself. Elder Tibbitts and Elder Smith didn't catch anything and Elder Rumsey ended up catching two small rainbow trout as well.
As we headed back, the road was really foggy and it was pretty cool to drive in. We are planning another fishing trip for Memorial Day too. That night, we went and had dinner with the Lee family. Come to find out, they are from Cortez, Colorado and we had some good talks about that area. We also had lessons at the Crabtree's and the Prescott's.
On Tuesday, Elder Tibbitts and I went to Horsepower in the morning and shoveled some stalls. Then, after that, we went on exchanges with the Spanish Elders. So I went with Elder Taylor in his area. We went back to horsepower because Spanish goes there at a different time of the day. So I got double duty on the poopy scoopy. We came home and showered after that and then went to dinner. Also that night, we went to Smart Cow for some frozen yogurt and a lesson with some members.
On Wednesday, Elder Taylor and I studied about finding people to teach and specifically, talking with everyone. We had planned to go knock on some potential investigator doors and things like that around the apartment complex.
So when we headed out, we focused on talking with everyone we could. Just from that short amount of time, we were able to get so much out of it. The very first people we talked to were a very friendly couple who said they were members who moved from Nevada a couple years ago, but their records never showed up in our ward. They seemed not to mind if we stopped by again, they just said work was keeping them busy and it would be hard to catch them. It's amazing how The Lord led us to them at that moment specifically. I can't imagine if we hadn't talked to them. It may have been another couple of years before they were approached by someone from the church. As we continued on, we found 5 other potential investigators that said they would be interested in having us over! In that short time, we really put into action what we ha learned in our studies and the results came! Talk with everyone! Later, we exchanged back and then went to Task Force for some service. After that, we went and had a lesson with Noe and brought Jonah Arocho with us. We are all around the same age so it was fun to have that lesson. We found out that Noe had not been reading the Book of Mormon, so we focused our lesson on how the Book of Mormon answers the questions of the soul and left him some reading assignments. We had to leave earlier because our dinner was early. We went to the Degolyer house and had some good ribs. They are a family that has just recently moved in and they are pretty awesome.
On Thursday, we did our weekly planning and had a good discussion about how we can strengthen our companionship. That evening, we biked to President Davis's home and had a good dinner. We then went to mutual, which was at the Kumpfs for some fondue! It was great for us to be there because the youth had invited some nonmembers that we got to talk with. We also had delicious fondue:) after that, we got to go and conduct a baptismal interview for James in the Crystal Valley ward. James was found worthy for baptism and actually has an incredible story. He is about 60 and is from India and had a brother who was a member of the church. James became a burn victim through a house fire and his brother gave him a priesthood blessing and took his pain away. That was huge for James and so he wanted to be baptized a member of the church by his brother. But just a few days before James's baptism, his brother died unexpectedly of a heart attack. This caused James to fall away and back out of his baptism. He remained angry at God for some time. Then, not too long ago, James had to go through open heart surgery and received a priesthood blessing from the missionaries. Not 4 days later, he was walking around and feeling fine! So that rekindled his testimony of the truth of this church and he has made all the steps necessary to be baptized. We are so excited for the blessings we know that he will receive by doing this.
On Friday, we had a good district meeting and got to talk about those that we are working with. Afterwards, we went and did service at Bonaventure. We had some intense rounds of bingo and came through with the gold on one of the rounds:). After that, we went home and packed all of our stuff away to get ready for the move from the Kumpf's to the Kendall's. we were invited to the graduation party for Bishop's daughter, Katie that night. We showed up and there were tons of nonmembers that we got to meet and build relationships with. One of them was Katie's friend who would totally get baptized if it weren't for her parents. It was cool to see the testimony and faith of someone who isn't even a member of the church. We also got to meet some younger guys and also meet Bishop Rolfson's neighbors and have good connections. That night, we stopped by to see Noe and invite him to James's baptism. He totally agreed to come as well!
On Saturday, we loaded everything into our truck and unpacked it all at the Kendall's.
Then, we picked up Noe and went to the baptism. It was a little delayed but it was great to see James and the joy in his face. Noe really liked it was well and there were lots of people that were really kind to and interested in him. The baptism went well and smooth and the spirit was strong. We were also invited to the celebration afterwards and Noe came too. James and his Sister made some authentic Indian curry which was amazing! I haven't had curry in a long time. We had good food and good conversation. I really feel that the spirit spoke to Noe, saying "These people really will care about you and love you." We then took Noe back home and he thanked us for taking him. We spent the rest of the day unpacking and setting up and putting away things in our new location. For dinner we went to the Bays and he had smoked some pork for our delicious pulled pork sandwiches. For our next appointment, we went to the Farnsworth's and had an activity on the Atonement. The object lesson was we had candy for everyone there. We asked each person if they wanted a piece of candy if they accepted the candy, I had to do 7 push ups for payment for that candy. So as we moved around the room, I had to do push ups. Then, one of them said that they didn't want candy so that I wouldn't have to do push ups. But I did them anyway. This relates to the Atonement because Jesus had already payed the price for everything that we have done and will do wrongfully. It helped everyone appreciate what Christ has done for us and also helped me get bigger muscles:).
On Sunday, we had our missionary correlation meeting and it was nice not having to go anywhere because it was at the Kendall's. Church was really good and Noe came to church! It was
Great to have him there and stayed for first and second hour. We had some good Greek food with Bishop and his family for dinner and then we went to the church to meet with Ammon and his friend. We had a good lesson on forgiveness and were able to give both of them blessings of comfort afterwards. It was a great week with great miracles. I love being a missionary and love each of you:) have a great week!!
Elder LaRose
Kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
CURRENT ADDRESS:
4358 Sawmill Court
Castle Rock, CO 80109
MISSION OFFICE ADDRESS:
4090 Center Park Drive Ste 4
Colorado Springs, CO 80916
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