Kyler LaRose Mission : WEEK #47

WEEK #47
6/20/16

Hey everyone! Happy Father's Day yesterday especially to my dad and my granddads!
On Monday, we got ready for the day and then headed on out to help Renae, our investigator, move out of their apartment. We started moving in furniture and boxes into a trailer and got most of it in before it started to rain! We had some people hurry and grab a tarp to throw over the trailer and we were there in the downpour strapping it around everything. The rain didn't last too long and there was even this crazy lady on the balcony of her apartment saying that she was diverting the storm away from us with her energy. Haha it was pretty funny. The unfortunate part about moving Renae out is that we won't be able to make the trip to Black Forest to continue teaching her. We hope and pray that she feels welcome there and that our visits helped her out. We had dinner with the Hess family and then had lessons at the Crabtree's and the Wasson's. When we got to the Crabtree's it was raining pretty good and all of a sudden we saw brother Crabtree book it out of his house and across the street and then 3 of his kids followed after him at full sprint. Elder Lloyd and I looked at each other and then got out of the truck and took off in the rain after them. We sprinted around the corner and into the field and they were Surprised to see the Elders hauling through a field in the rain after them haha. What had happened was brother Crabtree had seen a cool photo opportunity and wanted to get a good shot. It was a good night.

On Tuesday, we were asked to give a blessing of healing and comfort to someone who was about to go through a big surgery in the Hospital. So we went there and asked to see the person so they led us to where he was. We were glad to give him a blessing and hope he recovers well. We then went to the Horsepower ranch and helped them clean out the stalls and brush the burrs out of the horses' hair. It was pretty good. We then had to update all of our forms and charts before our meeting with the stake presidency this coming Sunday. We had a great dinner and lesson with the Pierce family to wrap up the night.

On Wednesday, we woke early and made our way our to Sedalia to have breakfast with the Funks. We had a delicious breakfast and a good lesson with them as well. In the afternoon, we went to Task Force to help them out around the place. This time, we helped them dig a trench to divert the path of the water flow when it rained. After that and some other chores around the place, we left and got some more info from the missionaries to report on. We had a good dinner with the Olers and then went and taught a new family, the DeGolyers, a lesson.
On Thursday, we woke up and went over to Butterfield park and played basketball for our morning exercise. It was pretty fun.

We came home and did our studies and our weekly planning after that. During planning, we got a text from JoAnn saying that she would not like us to come over anymore. We were pretty confused as to why she didn't want to meet anymore. We had a great first lesson with her and we know that we did our best at bringing the spirit unto her. Elder Bednar's words are true when he says that it is the investigator's job to let that spirit into their hearts. Unfortunately, JoAnn was subject to the temptations of the devil. So that was pretty sad. Then we broke out the bikes and biked to different potential investigator lists. It was super hot that day too. For dinner, the Burnett's took us to Red Robin and we had a good meal there. We ran into a couple of other members there too! Then we left to join the youth in a service project pulling weeds and doing yard work.
On Friday, Elder Lloyd and I were asked to teach district meeting and so we taught everyone about the power and authority of your calling as a missionary and how that allows you to be successful. It went well and we had a great meeting. After that we went to lunch at Costa Vida. Service at Bonaventure was fun, we got to play bingo and then do some more hallway bowling. After that we went and picked up Jonah Arocho and prepared him for our lesson with Noe that night. We taught Noe about obedience to the commandments. He really liked that lesson and it was also good to have Jonah there as well. After the lesson, we had dinner with the Lees and they are super cool to be with. We had some nice burgers and then a good lesson with them:) afterwards we went to the Smiths to have a lesson on gaining a personal testimony in your youth with their kids. It was a really beneficial lesson and we helped the kids select one thing that they wanted to strengthen their testimony in.
On Saturday, we found a dirt road that led to the train tracks and so we took it and put some coins on the tracks for it to flatten:) there was also a pretty big puddle there from the rain to we had to hit it to make our truck actually look like a truck :) it was super fun:) then we went to the apartments to contact potential investigators.

Later in the afternoon, we helped the Spanish Elders with some yard work for a nonmember they were going to. It was good service and we attempted to remove all of the dead pine needles out of her backyard. Having the pine trees in our yard in Monticello, dad taught me how to do a good job of cleaning up pine needles because we did it a lot:) we then had dinner with the Secrist's and then had good lessons with the Ganns and the Snows.
On Sunday, our meeting with the stake presidency was cancelled due to Father's Day but our Ward Council was not cancelled. So we attended ward council and had some good discussion. Church went really well again and Noe came to all 3 blocks of church again! It was a little different for him this time because we were asked to substitute primary during second hour. So he got to come with us to see that and then came with us to Priests quorum for the 3rd. Esther and Andrew were also able to make it now because Andrew has Sundays off:) that is such a blessing for them. After church, we called our 'mission dads' or our trainers and told them happy Father's Day haha. Elder Schilling thought that was funny:) We had dinner with the Kumpf's that night and it was fun to go back to where we used to live. Even their dog, MJ, was happy to see me again haha. We finished the night by having a good lesson at the Pappenfuss's. After we got home, we went on to the roof to do call-ins. There was some lightning in the distance and we were able to capture it too. It was a good week and I am so grateful to have Elder Lloyd as my companion:)
Love you all and have a great rest of the week. Happy Father's Day again!!