Hey everyone! It seems like this week started so long ago!
On Monday, it was the 4th of July and it was great. We started off by getting ready for a parade. The missionaries, each year, get to march in the Parade in Monument, Colorado! So we put on our patriotic ties and sung hymns as we marched in the parade. I got to see a ton of people from other areas and that was cool.
After the parade, we had to go and pick up President Rehm because he got left behind on the buses haha. So we drove to the Monument church building and had lunch with the missionaries there. Afterwards, we went and changed clothes and then went and played basketball with some missionaries. My skills had gotten rusty being in Castle Rock haha. After that, we were invited by the Mecham's, a senior missionary couple in the ward, to Memorial Park to have a family home evening and barbecue. We had a good time there and stayed a little longer to watch the fireworks over Prospect Lake. It was a good night.
sunset at Memorial Park
On Tuesday, it was Tony's bday so HAPPY BDAY TONY!! Hope it was great:) So in the morning, we drove up to Castle Rock to have a specialized training with President and Sister Rehm for the zone. Our portion to teach addressed the new dress and grooming standards and also focused on the importance of contacting people. We headed back down to the Springs and met up with the Pueblo Zone Leaders to exchange. I went with Elder Buxton and Elder Bennett to go finding in the area and we had some pretty great success. We were able to share lots of lessons and get return appointments! It was weird having people that were willing to listen to you and willing to let you in haha. We had a good lesson with Eric on the plan of salvation and he really liked the whole concept of that. We met with a progressing less active Jose and that was good. He is really funny too. We had dinner and then went to teach a family that we have been working with. Erich and Christawnia are the parents and their three girls are Reygan, Kyla, and Kymber. We had a great lesson on the Holy Ghost and were able to have the girls get baptismal dates! Erich is not a member yet and is waiting on some job things for it to work out for his baptism date. The girls will be getting baptized on the 17th! We are super excited for them.
On Wednesday, it was McKayd's bday so HAPPY BDAY MCKAYD!!!! go kiss a girl or something. So we got up, got ready, and then headed to the Aeroplaza building for Mission Leadership Council. We had a good long meeting and we got a lot discussed. One of my new responsibilities was to pull up the Key indicator graphs for each of the zones. After that, we went to a park to teach a less active family and while we were teaching, a lady came up to us, asked us for a Book of Mormon, and asked if we could come and teacher. That was super awesome to have happen and it also helped the less active family we were talking with. Haha I was like what just happened?! That evening we had a lesson with another investigator and are working closely with him. It was an awesome day.
On Thursday, we went on exchanges with the Castle Rock elders. Considering I left that area a week ago, it seems like we have been up there a lot since then haha. We drove up in the morning and got there in time to do companionship study. After that, we got to go to lunch with Nana and Papa LaRose!!! They were in the area and were able to come down and treat us well. We had a great lunch at Applebees. It was so good to see them. After that, we said our goodbyes and got back to missionary work.
I was up with Elder Buxton to help Elder Lloyd with planning for his first Zone training. So we helped him map out what he wanted to instruct the zone on and remind him of things he needed to cover. After that, we went and visited Judy, a returning less active that is ready to get herself to the temple! She is so ready and is so excited about that. Then, we went out to Sedalia to contact some more less active members but none of them were home. So we decided to tract a part of Sedalia and got Elder Lloyd a new investigator! (right after I leave right) that was super cool. We were driving down the road and saw this huge looking castle thing and then were determined to find it. So we took a couple of roads and found the castle! we got some cool pictures and then headed to dinner at the Howlands.
After dinner we were able to go and teach Noe! It was great to see him for one last time. We taught about the Word of Wisdom and committed him to live it. He accepted! It was a great last lesson. We drove back down to the Springs and then planned for the next day then crashed.
On Friday, we did our studies and then went to the mission office to meet with President Rehm and help plan for transfers. We made a couple of decisions on where people would go and stuff. That went on for a while and then we got lunch and then went to Zone Training for the Fountain Zone. The Zone Leaders over our zone are Elder Pexton and Elder Tibbitts! It was great to see them again. Afterwards we went and had dinner with them at Fargo's Pizza! it's a pretty famous pizza place in the Springs and it was good. We finished the night by working on the miles document for the mission.
Fargo's and Elder Pexton
On Saturday, we had a lesson in the morning with Jesus who is a young Hispanic guy who we found tracting. He has a smoking problem so we taught him about the Word of Wisdom and committed him to work on that. It was a good lesson! Afterwards, we drove up to Castle Rock AGAIN via Hwy 105 because Elder Buxton left his phone up there while we were on exchanges.
When we got back, we went and saw a really great less active family. The Wheelers have a desire to be more active and want to have a foundation in the Gospel. We taught a great lesson to them about how God loves us and about the compensatory blessings that He gives us. They are ready to progress and we are looking forward to working with their family. We tried to contact a couple more people and then went and had a lesson with Francis and Rafael. They are new investigators that have had missionaries in the past, but love to talk about the gospel. We are going to work on them:) We then had some dinner and then went to a lesson with a recent convert named Brian, who is deaf. It was cool to have the lesson taught through an interpreter too.
On Sunday, we went to Ward Council early in the morning and had a good coordination with the Colorado Springs 5th ward. I got to meet Bishop Hendry and am looking forward to working with him. We had a good amount of people come to church too! The Wheelers came and some other people that we have been working with. We then came home and had some lunch. Afterwards, we had to spend a good amount of time working on finishing the miles document for the mission. And speaking of compensatory blessings earlier, when we had time to go out and do missionary work, The Lord led the people to us. As we were walking along the sidewalk, a car pulled up next to us and a younger couple asked us where the church building was! They said that they had just moved in and were looking for where to go for church! They then told us their address and said to come by. They also said that they would be at church next week too! We didn't have to ask them for any of that haha. We just asked them what their names were and then they drove off. The Lord will lead us to them or he will lead them to us. We were in the right place at the right time and were able to see the Lord's blessing. We did some more contacting and had a quick doorstep lesson with John. He told us that he had read a little bit out of the Book of Mormon and that he would continue to pray as he read. We continued on after that and then had dinner and then went to a lesson with a less active family. We had a really great lesson on the Temple and about what we can do in there. We committed them to select a day by which they would be temple worthy so that they could be sealed to their family for time and all eternity. They accepted and we will meet with them next week to discuss a date. We then went and finished some more paperwork and then collected all the Key indicators from the zones.
It was a great week and I am so happy to be serving The Lord here in Colorado. What a great blessing. Love you all!
MISSION OFFICE:
4090 Center Park Dr
Colorado Springs, Colorado
80916
kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
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