WEEK #75 - Colorado Springs Mission Office

WEEK #75
1.2.17

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! This week has been like my favorite week so far on my mission. ALSO!! I am getting transferred on Tuesday! I will be training a new missionary in a new area! We will be in Pueblo, CO in the Pueblo West 3rd Ward! Both me and the Greenie will be new to the area so we will have to start from scratch but that is going to be great!! I am really excited. My new address will be:
4 Colt Court
Pueblo West CO 81008
On Monday, We picked up Elder Lloyd!! He is going to be the one replacing me so we are having him be in a trio with us for a week for training. I was so excited to be companions again with Elder Lloyd. haha. So after we emailed our families, we got a call from some sister missionaries that had lost their keys and couldn't get into their truck. So we loaded up our stuff and and took the van out to Calhan which is about an hour away. It was a cool drive through the plains and we were able to get to the sisters. We gave them the key back and then noticed they had a flat tire! SO we changed that for them too. We then made the drive back into town and then went to Crave burger for dinner. We had these huge hamburgers that had grilled cheese sandwiches as the buns. It was a heart attack on a plate. We left super full.

On Tuesday, we spent the morning getting groceries and stuff like that because we had to go and rescue the sisters out in Calhan. The afternoon was full of good times in the trio and we were able to stop by a ton of people and get in contact with them. That night, we got to go over to Jesse and Diana's for dinner and they made us some great ham:) It was great to be there one last time before I leave. We have watched the both of them really grow.
On Wednesday, we had our transfer coordination meeting with all of the office missionaries and with President and Sister Rehm. It was great! We talked about the transfer and about the logistical things to do. Such as getting vehicles to the building and making sure people have keys. It was a good meeting and afterwards, we had a good lunch provided by the office missionaries. We had smoked ham and funeral potatoes. So good. We went and saw Anthony and Deborah and introduced them to Elder Lloyd. We had dinner at the Neilson's and had a good lesson on charity. It was a pretty good day:)
On Thursday, All three of us celebrated our 17 month mark together! So we decided to party hard haha. In the morning, we went to Kneaders for breakfast and had all you can eat French toast  It was so good! Probably the best French toast I’ve had.

After that, we did our studies and then headed out to do work. We stopped by Brother Powers and were able to see him outside. He is doing better and just had some medical procedures to help him with the pain that he is in. He said that he would be able to make it to church too. After that, we went and saw Ami! It had been a while since we had gone over to see her because she was having some problems with Joe. She had her baby with her, who had just gotten back from the NICU. We had a great lesson and I got to say my goodbyes. Ami is so ready to be baptized too. After that, we continued our 17 month celebration. We went to Burger King and I used a $15 gift card that I had got for Christmas to buy 90 Chicken nuggets for the 3 of us haha. When we ordered, the cashier said “That’s $15 spent right” haha.

After lunch, we were able to go and see Anthony again. We also ran into this crazy chick at an apartment complex that came up to us asking for a cigarette. We told her that we didn’t have any and then talked to her a little more. She was probably higher than the moon because she kept repeating things that she had said earlier and then would just start cracking up hysterically. Her laugh was contagious so we all started laughing too. She said that she would love to learn more about the church and so we gave her a card with the Sister’s phone number and then left the complex. We topped off our 17 month celebration by going to Chili’s and getting all you can eat soup and salad It was so dang good and we were packing our stomachs to the brim.

 After dinner we went and saw the Fosters and it was great to be over there again I am going to miss them.
On Friday, we had our zone white elephant gift exchange! Elder Stark, Elder Lloyd and I all got princess water bottles and then shaped cardboard guns out of them as out white elephant gifts.

It was really great to be there with the zone and to be around so many people that I have seen grow. We had a great potluck lunch at the end to top it off. My white elephant gift was a box of Sour Patch Kids. After the zone meeting, all of the transfer stuff was finalized so we got to work on figuring out travel arrangements. It was Elder Lloyd’s first time so we made sure to give him the run down on the whole process and helped him work through it. For dinner, we went over to the Shumway’s and had a great time! The food was really good and after dinner, we played a couple of games with the family There was one called Exploding Kittens that they showed us and it was really fun haha!
On Saturday, we worked on the travel arrangements for a while. We were able to get it all figured out too! So we started typing up the document. That’s the part that takes a long time. We had dinner at the Richardson’s with the sisters and it was great! They told us all to bring our Ukulele’s and so we did. For our message, we all rapped about the 3rd lesson we teach called the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was super cool! After dinner, we headed back and worked a little more on travel arrangements. Because we had to get the arrangements done, we were up until the New Year! So at around 11:55 we went to the 3rd story of our apartment complex and then climbed onto the roof It was really awesome to be up there. We watched them shoot fireworks from off the top of Pikes Peak way in the distance. The three of us got a Martinelli apple cider bottle and opened it there on the roof and took swigs haha. It was pretty fun.

On Sunday, we had our normal morning schedule and then made it to church! There were a ton of people sick and so there were not a whole lot of people at church. But church was great and I bore my testimony. After church, we continued typing all of the document and then prepped drafts to send out. We had a great dinner with the Hammonds and then went to the Work of Salvation Fireside and that was so awesome. Jesse Howard was invited to speak at that and he did such a great job. He had everyone there laughing all the time. It was so cool to hear his conversion and a great way to end the night. I also got to see Mitch again and he is getting ready to go to the temple for his endowments!
What a great week. It was so great being with Elder Stark and Elder Lloyd and I am sad to be leaving them. Wish me luck in my new area and Happy New Year to everyone!

Elder LaRose

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

kyler.larose@myldsmail.net

NEW ADDRESS AFTER 1/5/17

4 Colt Court
Pueblo West CO 81008