1.9.17
Hey Everyone! It has been such a crazy week
On Monday, we wrapped up the last day with Elder Stark and Elder Lloyd. We went out to Manitou Springs and explored this cave out there. It was pretty fun! The cave went back farther than we expected and there was graffiti all throughout the cave.
We came back and then met with President and Sister Rehm to talk about the new missionaries. Then, we went to the airport to pick them up! There were only two Elders and One sister who came out this round. We then took them to the mission home and ate dinner with them there. It was good to meet and talk with them and all of them seem like great missionaries. After dinner, Elder Stark, Elder Lloyd and i went over to Michael and Marly's to say goodbye. It has been so fun getting to know them both. I remember when Marly was investigating the church and Michael was deployed. Michael came home and was there for Marly's baptism and then started investigating himself. After a little bit, we started teaching him and then he was baptized! We went over and had hot chocolate and a good lesson. Then we just talked and had some good times:)
On Tuesday, it was transfer day. We took the new missionaries to the church and then I went and sat in some meetings because I am a trainer. After the meetings and lunch, we found out who we were going to be companions with! My new companion is Elder Perrins!
He is from Spokane, Washington and is super cool. I was so excited to have him as my companion:) He came out well prepared and we are going to do well flushing this area out. After the meeting, we headed down to the Pueblo West 3rd ward! So I thought that my GPS that I found in a missionary car worked but we found out that it didn't! So we were totally flying blind! We called the information line and got directions through the phone robot. We had dinner with Brother Nanto and got to meet him. He used to be the Ward Mission Leader and he welcomed us to the ward warmly. After dinner, we went and met with Bishop Klemm and the Ward Mission Leader Brother Martin. We got the good run down on all that was going on in the ward and they told us about some people that the sisters were working with. We came home and looked at what the sisters had done with the area book. Turns out that they had no investigators that they were working with. Which makes it a little hard to get started. But it will go alright. We live with a member family, the Cash family and they are really nice. We unpacked a little bit and then went to bed.
On Wednesday, we had a good first start to the day. We had a lesson with Sister Snyder, a less active member who is working on paying her tithing. We had a good introductory lesson and Elder Perrins is doing really well at picking up the pace:) We had then scheduled to go through the area book and figure out what we were doing in the area a little more, but after a couple of minutes of that, I felt like we were wasting time. Even though we were doing something good, I felt that we just needed to get out there and get down to missionary work.
So we selected a street that we would go tracting on. The first door that we knocked on let us in!!! Her name was Dee and she got us some hot chocolate and we were able to talk with her a little bit. She just adopted her grand kids out of a pretty abusive home and is trying to set up a better future for them. So we told her about what we do and then set another appointment with her to meet her grandkids as well! That was so awesome. We continued down that street and were able to talk to a couple of more people. Elder Perrins is doing great. He came well prepared and isn't afraid of talking to strangers. We came home and had lunch and then had set out to do some more finding. AGAIN, the first door we knocked on, we were able to teach a lesson and get a new investigator! It was so cool. We continued down that street and found some more potential investigators. Then we had dinner with the Cash's and that was great. We got to meet the Coombs, who are recent converts of about a year and are getting ready to go to the temple to get sealed! They are awesome:) We came back home after that and went to bed exhausted.
On Thursday, we woke up to tons of snow. It just kept coming down the whole day. Normally, the snow misses Pueblo but not this time. So we set out in the nasty weather and got down to business. Unfortunalely, some of our appointments cancelled. So we went out and did some more finding and AGAIN!! The first door we knocked on let us in and we now have two more new investigators to work with. Francis and Josephine are a really cool couple and are very strong in their own church. It will be great to work with them. For dinner, we treated ourselves to Applebee's courtesy of Nana and Papa:) It was delicious. We came home that evening and did our weekly planning when it was dark. They also make us park our vehicle due to the snow.
On Friday, we had a good district meeting. It was fun to meet the rest of the district too. I am over a district of 8 Elders. The instruction was good and I talked about being a missionary haha. For our activity, we got to know each other better by playing Never Have I Ever. After District meeting we got lunch and then headed out to actual Pueblo West. It is very spread out over there and there are nice homes and then there are sketchy homes haha. We were able to go out there and meet some interesting people. We had dinner at this one members house and they fed us Elk backstrip steaks. So. Good. They have a ton of kids from their family and also foster kids so it was a busy home. It was great to be over there. We met a couple more awesome families that night and then came in.
On Saturday, We had interviews with President Rehm and that was good. It is nice to see him and catch up. All of our afternoon appointments that day cancelled so We headed to the apartment complex again. We knocked on the first door and it was a less active member of the church who wants to be coming back again!! that was so cool. We had stake conference that night and that was awesome. Elder Costa of the Seventy came and spoke to us. It was really great to hear from him. He is from Venezuela. Afterwards, we went and had a great lesson with the Cook's. They are a super awesome family and are super pumped about doing missionary work.
On Sunday, we headed down into Pueblo for stake conference and it was awesome. After that, we met a ton more members of the ward. As we have been meeting more members in the ward, I have been getting more and more excited. They are all so awesome. We had dinner at the Martin's and it was great. We finished the night by having a lesson with Bishop and his wife. I am so excited to be here in the Pueblo West 3rd ward! It is going to be hard starting from scratch, but the Lord will help us. Thanks for all the support! Love you all so much:)
Elder LaRose
MISSION OFFICE:
4090 Center Park Dr
Colorado Springs, Colorado
80916
kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
NEW ADDRESS:
4 Colt Court
Pueblo West CO 81008
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