WEEK #80 - Pueblo Zone

Hey everyone! It's been another good week.
On Monday, we got to email and then we went and played some tennis. Elder Perrins played tennis in high school and so did this other Elder, so they went and had some good matches  against each other. The rest of us just smacked the ball around and then played spike ball. It was a good day! We went over to the Avery's and had delicious enchiladas. Then we went and exchanged with the Zone Leaders. I got to have Elder Garton with me for the day.
 

On Tuesday, it was the last day of the month so we rode our bikes everywhere. We had to stay in town for most of our visits because the ride out to Pueblo West is pretty far for bikes. So we went and stopped by a bunch of people. We got to see David, someone that we had met when we first got to the area and had a good lesson there.  Elder Garton commented on how out of shape he was from all the biking we were doing haha. We had a great lesson with Vanessa! We brought Sister Cook along with us for the lesson and talked about the Plan of Salvation with her. Sister Cook was just awesome during the lesson. Vanessa understood very well and we set a baptism date with her for March 4th. That was awesome. It was funny because after we extended the baptism date to her she said "yeah, what time?" Haha she is really looking forward to that date. After the lesson, we got back on our bikes and did some finding. Dinner was out in Pueblo West with the Spencer's so we drove out there and got to share a message about the Plan of Salvation with the fam. We went and had another lesson with the Doerrs and talked about how the Savior's suffering for us motivates us to share His gospel. Then we went over to the Smith's for a lesson about temples and about being sealed. They have not been sealed in the temple yet, so we are working with them towards that. We may start going through the Preparing to enter the Holy Temple book with them. They are progressing really well and we are excited for them.

On Wednesday, we had a lesson with Sister Snyder in the morning and taught the message of the Restoration. She is still struggling with her worthiness but still has a strong testimony of the gospel and that is what we are trying to build. Afterwards, we went into town for lunch and Elder Perrins had his first Slopper. It was pretty good. Then we went over to the Nursing home and got to play some games with the people there. They really like us coming over and it's always good to see them.

After that, we had a quick lesson with Socorro, Asa, and Zach about the Holy Ghost. We are working through the new member lessons with them and it's going well. Asa definitely has a pretty big personality and he is pretty jittery so  it makes the teaching fun. Then we went to dinner at the Cluff's and had some great hamburgers. They still have all of their little puppies and they're still cute. We shared a message with all 6 of the kids and they were awesome.
On Thursday, we drove our car to the shop to have the traction control serviced at 8:00am. Then we came home and did our studies and tackled our weekly planning. We biked to lunch and then did some stop bys. Finally, at like 4:00 we got our car back. We had dinner with Bishop Klemm and his wife. It was great. Our final appointment cancelled on us which was a bummer.
On Friday, we had zone training with the whole zone and President and Sister Rehm attended this one. It was good to see them again. It was a good training and we got to learn a lot.
Afterwards, we went over to Sister Ford's and helped read the Book of Mormon with her. Then we went and saw the Reed's and had a lesson with Brielle, who was going to be baptized on Saturday. Then we went and saw the Burns, who had a son getting baptized on Saturday as well. We had dinner over at the Bailey's and got to meet all of them that night. They are pretty cool. Both of daughters are returned missionaries.
On Saturday, we went to the stake center for the baptisms of the kids. That was super great. After that we went to an apartment complex to figure out our next housing situation. They are going to be moving us into apartments because the Cash's time is up for housing us. The rest of the day was pretty slow. We stopped by a ton of people that we had expected to be home on a Saturday but nobody was home. We had dinner with the Viehwegers at a Chinese restaurant. Then we came home and tackled more of our studies.
On Sunday, there was no ward council or anything like that, so we came to church. It was a great Sunday! The only thing that stunk was that Vanessa didn't come to church. We kept crinking our necks to the doorways hoping that she would come through. But it's alright. After church, we went and met with the Elder's quorum president, Brother Siddoway, to discuss some people that we could visit. Then we went and stopped by the Jim's but they weren't home. They were probably watching the Superbowl somewhere. Superbowl Sundays suck as a missionary. Nobody wants to let you in and it's hard to be completely productive. We saw sister Larson and checked in on her too. We came back and broke our fast by making breakfast burritos. It was a good rest of the day and training is going well.
Thanks everyone for the contact and stuff:) have a great week
Elder LaRose

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