On Monday, we made the beautiful drive down to Alamosa, Colorado. We met up with lots of other missionaries and I got to hang out with Elder Tallman again:) Our adventure for that day was going to the Great Sand Dunes National Park! They have some of the tallest sand dunes in North America there! We rented sandboards to take on them which are basically snowboards for sand. The only problem was that there were 40+mph winds with 50+mph gusts that day. But we all said what the heck and went anyways. It was the best worst decision of my life. The dunes were so much fun but we were getting sand blasted all the time. It stung our legs and bare skin. It felt like we were trekking through Tatooine about to be attacked by Darth Maul. It was a great day and we had a blast... haha get it?
After that, we did an evening exchange with the zone leaders down there. It was great! We were able to teach a lot of people and help bring the spirit into their lives. That's one of the things that I love about exchanges. You can go into a home and meet people that you have never met before and you can help them to feel the spirit. It was a great day haha.
On Tuesday, we woke up at like 4:45 in the morning to make the drive back to the Springs to get to the Mission Office in time for our Transfer Coordination meeting. We discussed the logistics of the upcoming transfer and afterwards had a good lunch. Then we met with President Rehm and finalized all of the people who would be training new missionaries. It was a good long day of meetings.
On Wednesday, we had another day full of meetings. It was Mission Leadership Council and we had a really good discussion. Lately, we have been finishing our meetings earlier than normal. It has been nice because we have additional time to do missionary work. We went on an exchange with the San Luis Valley zone leaders where we had both of them in our area. I was with Elder Hughes and we were able to teach a couple of different people. We went and saw Brother Jose, and he wasn't doing too well. He was feeling really depressed and we were able to go in and have a good lesson to cheer him up. We had dinner on base with the sisters at the Mismash's. It was great! That night, we monitored an emergency transfer and then got to bed.
On Thursday, we had the great opportunity to go to the Denver temple with the missionaries that were hitting their halfway mark! It was a good drive up there and being in the Temple is always great:)
We came back and had dinner with them and then sat in on their Testimony meeting:)
On Friday, we went to Zone Training and got to hear from Elder Ward and Elder Pexton. They are super great missionaries and it was a great training. I love learning from other missionaries. After that, we went and met with President and Sister Rehm to finalize everything for transfers. We went and had a great lesson with Jimmy again and showed him how to use lds.org with his membership record. It was great to go over and help him out. He is so excited about accessing the info on lds.org.
On Saturday, we spent like all day figuring out the transfer and doing travel arrangements:) It was kinda fun putting our heads together and making it work. The sisters were able to help us out and they has us over for dinner at one of the member's homes.
On Sunday, we had a good time at church. They had the fast and testimony meeting and put a little twist in there with singing more hymns. After church, we did a little more work on the transfer and then went to dinner with the Searings. They are the Just Serve missionaries for the mission. We went back to the office and collected statistics from the zone leaders. We were up extra late waiting on a couple companionship's calls but it was good. Looking forward to this hectic week ahead! Love you all so much!
Elder LaRose
MISSION OFFICE:
4090 Center Park Dr
Colorado Springs, Colorado
80916
kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
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