July 20, 2016
Hey Family and friends! Things are going great here in Colorado Springs!
On Monday, we had to begin the day with helping someone move out of their apartment and into another. That took a little while so we came to the misison office to send out our emails. Because of our assignment, we are given laptops to have so we can create documents and manage different things so we used them for our Monday emails. After we went shopping, we didn't have a whole lot of time to do anything big until we realized that it was 7/11 day. So we went to about 15 different 7/11s where they had the promotion of getting a free slurpee that day. So we went around to as many as we could and filled our faces with slurpees. We ended up having close to 30 cups combined between us.
So we did that until we had dinner with a less active family. We had a great lesson and are working on setting a date with them to go to the temple!
On Tuesday, after our studies, we met with all of the office missionaries and with President and Sister Rehm to have a Transfer Coordination meeting with the upcoming transfer in a week. We had a good long meeting and talked about what needed to happen to make the transfer run smoothly. We are in charge of creating the travel arrangements for each of the missionaries on transfer day. We tell them where to go, who to meet, and so on. After that, we met with President and Sister Rehm to discuss transfers and who should go where. We had lunch at the office and then continued on.
We went to Memorial Park and talked with a lot of people. It was funny to see a lot of younger people out with their phones playing that new Pokemon game or something haha. We then went and helped Sgt. Bean, a nonmember who is stationed at Peterson Air Force Base, move out of his home with Elder and Sister Mecham, the senior couple over military relations of Peterson AFB. We had dinner with the Fosters and their girls and helped the girls set up the program for their baptism on Sunday. That was way fun.
On Wednesday, we did our weekly planning and I'm feeling comfortable with the new area and everything now. We had a good time preparing for the coming week and for the coming transfer!
We went and had a great time talking with people as we went contacting and then actually got a new investigator to teach as well. His name is Lewis. We had a good dinner and then went to the Family History center for a little bit.
On Thursday, We went up to the North part of Springs and met with the North and East zones for their Zone Conference. We did some training with the missionaries on the new dress and grooming standards. We also talked about contacting people through our own efforts and how we can be effective missionaries. After that, we went and had lunch with a member that Elder Constantine knows. So after we had lunch, we went and did the same training with the Colorado Springs and Fountain zones. That night, we had a great lesson with Jimmy. We planned on teaching him the Plan of Salvation and when we got to the lesson, we found out that his nephew had passed away only a couple of hours before. The lesson was really great for him and really spiritual! He is progressing along really well and said that he would set a baptismal date with us in our next lesson too.
On Friday, we had a good district meeting with the new district! It was good to get to know more of the missionaries, and there are even two senior couples in the district. After our district meeting, we went and had lunch at the Mecham's with the rest of the district. Then we met with President and Sister Rehm again to finalize everything for transfers. It was cool because we would put missionaries in different places and in different leadership positions and then we would kneel and pray about our decisions and wait for the Spirit to confirm our decisions. We got most everything finalized for transfers and then headed out to do work. We went and saw Francis and Rafael and had a good lesson with them. We talked about Christ's earthly ministry, the great apostasy, and about the restoration of Christ's true church. Dinner was with the Searings and we had a great time in their home. We then went over to Sister Zeigler's for some smore's with the sister missionaries.
On Saturday, we got all ready for the big transfer! We had to make the travel arrangements for each missionary that would be involved in transfers in any way. We had a big map on our wall with sticky notes for all the missionaries and vehicles that we needed to figure out. We need to factor in a lot of different things into the travel arrangements such as phones, cars, luggage, and missionaries. We were doing that for a lot of the day,
We went to a baptism that the sister missionaries had in our ward (There are sister missionaries that cover 5th ward with us as well). Then we did a conference call with some missionaries in training for an hour. We also had a good lesson with the Wheelers and also with Jose. We are really grateful for their progression.That night, we called each of the Zone Leaders and told them the missionaries that would be leaving their zones.
On Sunday, we had ward council early in the morning and had a good meeting. We then went to church and were glad to see Jimmy there. Reygan, Kyla, and Kymber and their parents were also there and the meeting went really well. After church, we grabbed a little bite to eat and then were asked to go give a blessing to someone's friend who was sick. We went over there and did that and then got another call for a blessing from one of the recent converts, Shannon. After we were able to help them out, we went back and worked on the travel arrangements for transfers. We then went to the church to fill up the baptismal font for Reygan (12), Kyla (10), and Kymber (9)! When everyone showed up and we got the pictures taken, we got things started.
I got to say the opening prayer for them and it was great. President and Sister Rehm came to support them as well. It was so wonderful to see them take this step of faith in their lives. We returned again to slaving over travel arrangements and making sure that every little detail was correct and that transfers would run smoothly. After call-ins and all, we got done with transfer stuff around 12:30am. Good fun.
I am blessed for the opportunity I have to serve the Lord. I love my mission and I hope that all of you can see the power that the Lord's true church and restored gospel to change the lives of those I've talked about, my own life, and even your own. Love all of you!
MISSION OFFICE:
4090 Center Park Dr
Colorado Springs, Colorado
80916
kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
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