On Monday, we went fishing with a bunch of people! We took our investigator Noe with us and had a blast. We also took two of the youth in our ward with us. We fished for a little bit and then did a lot of hiking and cruising around. The views were awesome. Elder Lloyd did a couple of backflips too haha. It was great being out there with Noe and we had a great time.
That night we had a great dinner with the Wolthuis family. A couple months ago, we helped Brother Wolthuis renovate his house and paint some walls. It looked great this time we went over and was well done. We ended the night with a lesson with the Smiths.
On Tuesday, we had a good morning and got ready for Horsepower. It was not that bad cleaning up the stalls especially when you have friends doing it with you. We exchanged with the Perry Park Elders after horsepower and I went with Elder Patterson in our area. Elder Patterson is from Idaho and he is super cool. We got along pretty well and had a great day together. We had 3 evening appointments and we taught great lessons at the Karrens, Pierces and Kumpfs. The Kumpfs had a nonmember friend over and it was super great to get to know him in that brief time. It was also good for Elder Patterson to be there.
On Wednesday, we went to the computers after our studies to make a map of the area to concentrate our efforts. After that we went to Task Force and met back up with Elder Lloyd and Elder Tu'ifua. We helped out the thrift store and had a good time there. Afterwards, we had a good lesson with the Olers and had David Hess with us teaching. For dinner, we went to Crave burger with Brother Perez! It was pretty awesome. Elder Lloyd had a huge burger that had 14 items on it and then for buns, he put 2 grilled cheese sandwiches on it haha. I had what was called the Luther. It has bacon, a fried egg, and other crazy stuff. And then for the buns, it was 2 glazed donuts! It was pretty good too. We then headed out to Sedalia to meet with a less active member David. We had a great lesson on the Book of Mormon and encouraged him to read from it every day.
On Thursday, we planned for the week to come and discussed the work in the area. It was pretty good! We then went and collected stake information and miles stuff too. We didn't have a dinner appointment that night either and so the Spanish Elders invited us over to their dinner. Then we went to activity night with the youth and played some games there. There were a couple of nonmembers that showed up as well! It was a great night.
On Friday, we hopped in with Elder Taylor and Elder Ashcroft to go to district meeting. We had a good meeting and got to talk about our areas. After that, we went to Costa Vida for lunch. We came back and got ready to go to Bonaventure, where we played memory games with everyone there. After that, we had to collect some more info from everyone and enter it into the computers. Dinner was with the Howland's and we had some great food.
On Saturday, it was Mom's bday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! Also, we woke up to an interesting start to the day. About 15 minutes after we woke, we got a phone call from President Rehm. I answered and he said that I would be getting emergency transferred. He extended the assignment for me to serve as an Assistant to the Mission President. I was floored by this but accepted the responsibility. He told me that I would be leaving the next day and to get packed! Pretty crazy for being out 11 months. So all day I packed up my stuff and went to our appointments. We went to a baptism at the church for an 8 year old. After that, we went and helped sister Ward get some groceries. She is unable to get out of the house much and so we went to King Soopers and got her a ton of groceries. It was actually great because we ran into a former investigator that was open to have us back over again! Dinner was with the DeGolyers and we had awesome biscuits and gravy. We finished the night by going over to Bishop's house and having a great lesson with their family. They left me with a present too! They got me some Colorado socks and a Colorado keychain:) it was great to be with them.
On Sunday, we woke up and got ready. We loaded all of my luggage into the truck. We went to PEC to coordinate with the ward and had a good meeting. After that, we went to church and had a good meeting. It was fast and testimony meeting so I got up and bore my final testimony for the Plum Creek ward. I got a lot of thank-you's from the members and I am grateful to have learned and grown from this experience. Right after church, we drove down to Colorado Springs to transfer.
My new companions will be Elder Constantine and Elder Buxton. I will be in a AP trio for like 2 weeks until Elder Buxton gets reassigned. It's pretty funny because I replaced Elder Buxton as a zone leader and now I'm replacing him as an assistant. Elder Lloyd will be taking over Castle Rock with Elder Fillips. So as I started life in a new area, we went straight to business. We went to a fireside with a lot of missionaries and their recent converts and investigators. I got to see a bunch of missionaries there from past areas like Elders Hagman, Stark, Schilling, and more. We then had to go and take call ins from all the zone leaders.
So sorry for the late email but things have been crazy and will probably continue to be! And since I will be working closely in the mission office and stuff, my NEW ADDRESS will be:
4090 Center Park Dr
Colorado Springs, Colorado
80916
Love you all and have a great week!!
kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
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