WEEK #60 - Colorado Springs Mission Office

Hello Everyone! Another great week
On Monday, we went to a couple of different stores around the springs to look at different things. Elder Stark was looking for a new suit to have as well. Afterwards, we went to the Aeroplaza building and played sports with a bunch of missionaries. We played some basketball and that was really fun. We had some good games in. We also played volleyball and that was great. Elder Stark played volleyball in High School and he is super good. I was on the opposite team trying to dig all of his spikes! For dinner, we went to a member's home that Elder Stark knew in the East stake.
On Tuesday, we were rushing to clean up the rest of our apartment because the housing coordinators were coming over to inspect the apartment. We did a pretty good job cleaning up. Afterwards, we went and helped a lady move out of the ward. We spent a good amount of time helping there and afterwards we went and had a good lunch with the Mecham's at Monica's Taco Shop. It's the same taco shop that Elder Schilling and I always went to when I was in training and it was still delicious:) We were given desks to have in our apartment because there weren't any previously so we got to build those. Our evening appointments cancelled so we were able to finally finish everything with the miles document for the mission.

 On Wednesday, we started the morning off by going to help some of our investigators move. Turns out they moved a lot closer to us! We could walk to their place. The move took a little while, but they greatly appreciated the help. We went to Memorial Park to contact some people and we ran into a woman from Samoa that knows a lot of LDS members. She told us that she felt that it was time that she start looking for something, so we got her information and invited her to some to church! It was great. We met with Mike and Randi again that day and we taught Mike about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it went really well. Mike is so prepared to be the spiritual leader in his home. We extended a baptismal date to him for October 15th. He totally accepted and Randi was super excited. She has been telling Mike about wanting to be sealed in the temple and was so excited to hear that he wants to be baptized. They are so incredibly ready. After that we went and monitored another emergency transfer to wrap up the night.
On Thursday, we did our weekly planning at the park. We got a couple of steps into when a guy on a bike stopped and came up to our bench. He first thought that we were people who worked for the city or something but after we told him that we were missionaries, he sat down and started asking us questions. His name is Jean and he is originally from France. He was really interested in what we had to say and we were able to get his information so that we could meet with him later. We talked with him for a solid hour and a half. After that, we went and got lunch and then went back to our apartment to finish weekly planning. My new camera also came today so that was awesomeJ We have been taking awesome pictures. Dinner was dropped off to us and we then had to go right away to Jimmy Avila’s house. We brought Elders Johannesson and Ulibarri with us so that they could give Jimmy his baptismal interview! He did really well and passed. We then got everything lined up for the baptism that week.
On Friday, we had a great district meeting. We were asked to teach again, so we taught on a couple of different things. No fear, trust in the Lord, being bold in promising blessings, and roleplaying baptismal invites.

Pay attention to #5 They liked how embarassed I was when we would do these as a fam

Afterwards, we went to the Mecham’s for lunchJ We met with President and Sister Rehm after that and talked a good bit about transfers. There are a good amount of missionaries coming in this next time and so we are looking for which new areas we can open. After we had our meeting, we stuck around to monitor another emergency transfer. We went and had a good dinner with Brother Arnold in 18th ward and there were some other missionaries that came. We then went over and had a lesson with the Fosters. They are doing alright. They just really need some friends to have in the ward. We are working on getting the ward more involved with each other. We talked about temples with the girls and also about eternal families.

On Saturday, we did a new missionary conference call with everyone in training and I got to conduct that. Then, we met up with Elder Constantine and he and Elder Stark got to go to the temple with someone that both of them had taught in a previous area. So I got to be with Elder Lester and Elder Briggs for the day! Both of them have only been out for like 3 weeks. So we went and had a great day! We stopped by Anthony and Deborah’s house and had a good lesson. It was Anthony’s birthday and so it was good timing for us to stop by and wish him happy birthdayJ We went to the park and met this crazy German lady that told us to pass out these pictures to everyone. We talked to her about the gospel and asked if we could meet her at the park again. Going around the park is always fun. We run into all kinds of different people. There was a drunk man that came up to us and started talking nonsense so we humored him for a little bit and then drove to the church to fill up the baptismal font for Jimmy’s baptism. Around 7:00 everyone trickled in, Jimmy had gotten there early to change and stuff. We were still waiting on Elder Constantine and Elder Stark to get back from the temple. They had gotten stuck in some traffic and showed up just in time. Elder Constantine was the one who performed the baptism for Jimmy and that was great. Jimmy was telling us how grateful he was for us and how at peace he felt. It was a great way to end the Saturday.

On Sunday, we had ward council in the morning and then went to church. Jimmy was confirmed in sacrament meeting and I had the honor of doing that for him. Mike and Randi also made it to church and we got to sit by them tooJ they got to meet a lot of people from the ward and start to build friendships there. After church, we went and met that lady at the park again and were able to give her a Book of Mormon! She seemed interested enough and was not at all against having something to strengthen her faith in Christ. Afterwards, we went and taught Tyler Shumway about service Dinner was with the McAllisters and they are in the Sand Creek ward. They loved both Elder Stark and I and were super happy to have us over again. It was good to see them again too. Our evening appointment cancelled so we were able to prep some documents that needed to be emailed out to the missionaries. We ended with taking call-ins from the zone leaders and then getting a good night’s rest.
What a great week! Thanks for all the letters and emails that all of you send. It’s great to be out here serving the Lord.
Elder Kyler LaRose

Elder LaRose

MISSION OFFICE:
4090 Center Park Dr
Colorado Springs, Colorado
80916

kyler.larose@myldsmail.net