On Monday, we had a good Halloween and got to go shopping AND
we went to Colorado College to see an original Book of Mormon. It was really cool to see the original copy.
On Tuesday, we made our way up to the North/East stakes in Colorado Springs to have another Zone Conference with the missionaries up there. The conference went well and Elder Stark and I ended up changing a couple of things around that ended up making things go a lot smoother in our teaching portion. After the conference, we went and picked some stuff up from the Aeroplaza building and then went to our dinner appointment. We had a really great lesson on prayer there. Prayer is really key to receiving blessings from the Lord and gaining a testimony. I like the scripture in the Book of Mormon in 3 Nephi 18:20. Basically it says that if you pray and ask for something good, and believe that you’ll receive it, then you will receive it! There is no metaphorical meaning to this verse, it is straight up and trueJ That night, we went to pick up Elder Calderon. He is leaving for home a couple weeks early so he can attend a wedding. So we picked him up and then came back home. Sisters Topham and Anderson tried to scare us that by having us expecting Marly to drop off some leftovers. When they knocked, they tried to jump at us with masks on. We didn’t get scared but we did get confused haha.
On Wednesday, we woke up at like 5:50 and went to the church to workout. After that, we changed and went right to the airport to send Elder Calderon on his way. Then, we went and got ready for MLC. We showed up and had a good breakfast. This MLC was a really good one! We spent a lot of time talking about how we can help the missionaries have a deeper love for their Savior Jesus Christ. After that, I got ready to go up to Castle Rock again with Elder Lloyd for Exchanges! We made the drive up there and went straight to dinner which was with a family that I hadn’t been able to have much success in setting appointments. That was great to see and the family is really happy to have the missionaries over now. We had some other appointments that night and then we had some time to see some families like the Grats, the DeGolyers, the Snows, and Bishop RolfsonJ It was so good to see all of them againJ
On Thursday, we had a great day in Castle Rock. We hopped on our bikes for most of the morning and went to go see a ton of people. Being there that day really helped me to see some of the fruits of the efforts that I gave up there. We were able to get in touch with people that we just couldn’t contact when I was there and things went really well! We started the afternoon by having an investigator come and do a “church tour” which is where we go around the church to the different pictures and teach about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We take them through talking about faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. We show them the baptismal font and end the tour in the chapel at the sacrament table. It is really a spiritual environment and the lesson went really well. He told us that he wants to be baptized! We then went and taught a family that had just moved up from Blanding Utah! I expressed my pity and told them I was from awesome MonticelloJ It was all good and we had a good lesson with the kids about the Plan of Salvation. We then went to see a less active member that recently went through a bad divorce. He is humbled and really wants to hold the Priesthood. So we are working with him to get to that point. We had dinner with Sister Alvarez and Esther and Andrew Wolfe! It was great Mexican food and they were all glad to see me again! After dinner, we went to have a lesson with Noe. As we were waiting at a red light, we saw this mouse running across the intersection and then a flipping OWL came down and swooped it up! It was so cool haha. We had a great lesson with Noe and he is doing really wellJ He is so close to baptism and absolutely loves the church. He attends the YSA ward in Parker and has made some really great friends there. He is looking for an answer to his prayers but doesn’t realize that he has gotten answers. He even got to shake hands with Elder Ronald A. Rasband and felt how awesome that was. We met up with our companions later that night and Elder Stark and I drove back down to the Springs.
On Friday, we had Zone training in the morning and that went really well. For lunch, we went to Cici’s pizza and they again didn’t say WELCOME TO CICI’S. lame. It was good though. We met with President and Sister Rehm after that and talked about the upcoming transfer. We made dinner for ourselves after that and then had a lesson with Jesse and Diana Howard. We had a good lesson on the Plan of Salvation! They both said “It just makes sense!” it went really well.
On Saturday, we went to help clean the church building and then had to dip to go do a training call. We got a call after lunch asking if we could go give a blessing to someone at the Hospital. It was a nonmember who was in a car jacking and was shot. He is recovering well and we were able to give him the blessing. We also went to see Elder Soller, who had taken a tumble off of a cliff and is in therapy to recover from his injuries. He is doing well and we are absolutely keeping him in our prayers. We got to meet both of his parents and they are there to help him out. We had dinner with the Hendry’s and then had a lesson with Tyler Shumway that evening. He is progressing well towards baptismJ
On Sunday, we had a special stake conference broadcast from Salt Lake City. We got to hear from Ulisses S. Soares, Devin G. Durrant, Ronald A Rasband, And this one lady whose name I forgot and I’m sorry! They talked about temples, teaching in the Savior’s way, and being an instrument in the Lord’s hand. We had some appointments with some people that Elder Stark found while we were on exchanges. We talked to this guy named Tovi who found the bible while he was in jail and turned his life around because of it. He accepted a Book of Mormon and wants us to meet him at the park where he fishes for our next meeting. We had dinner over at the McAllister’s and that was fun. They are in the Sand Creek ward and are willing to feed us when we don’t have people sign up. That evening, we had the work of salvation fireside and got to hear some amazing testimonies from recent converts to the church. It was a great time!
Thanks for all the emails! It’s so good to hear from all of you and have a great week!
Elder LaRose
MISSION OFFICE:
4090 Center Park Dr
Colorado Springs, Colorado
80916
kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
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