Hey everyone! This week has been a good one!
On Monday, we did some emailing and then we met up with the APs! When they pulled up, it was Elder Stark, Elder Lloyd, and Elder Pexton! Elder Pexton will be replacing Elder Stark this Tuesday. So we got to have a good little reunion and then we went and got some lunch. Then, we picked up the zone leaders and then drove all the way out to Rye, Colorado. We went to see this place called Bishop's Castle. Y'all should look it up. It is this man made castle that this guy named Jim Bishop has been working on for years. It's pretty big and is basically put together with rocks, cement, and welded metal. There are a couple of metal spiral staircases that lead up to the top of the towers and you can look out across the mountains. The castle is definitely not up to code and there's not much between you and a big fall sometimes, which made it awesome. We got a lot of good pictures and it was great to be there with everybody.
We drove back and then went to Goodwill to check out what they had. Dinner was at the Nanto's with Socorro and Asa and Zach. We had a good night with them and had a good lesson on enduring to the end.
On Tuesday, we had another good day. We had lunch with the Harrison's and that was really good. Afterwards, we had a lesson with Linda Ford and continued to read in the scriptures with her. Vanessa had to cancel her lesson with us because she was busy dealing with family stuff. I think an uncle of her's just passed away so they are going through all of that with the family. We went and saw Francis and Josephine and had a better lesson with them. We taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that has a lot more common ground. We had dinner at Burger King before we met up with Brother Ashby and Brother Morgan for splits. I went with Brother Ashby and we visited an active family while the others went to this less active home. It was great! We both got in and shared good messages. Afterwards, we met up and then went to the Maurello's. He is a less active member that told us that he only got baptized so he could marry his wife. So it is a little bit of a struggle trying to build his testimony up but it was good for us to be over there. We have their little girl a blessing before we left too. That night, we went and exchanged with the San Carlos Elders. I stayed in the area while Elder Perrins went to the other one.
On Wednesday, I was with Elder Riley for the day. He is a great guy from Yucaipa, California and we had a great day! He even has a little bit of a connection with my cousins the Salisbury's! In the morning, we went to visit Tori out in the sketchy junkyard part of our area. It was brief but good for her. We talked to her about prayer and she said that she was trying to get her life back in order. Her trailer smelled like Marijuana and pet poop. I could even see a couple of turds on the floor in the other room. Hopefully she does clean up and start over. After that, we went and did service at the nursing home. It was great to be with them and they all like having us come over. We had an ice cream social and then played a game with them. Afterwards, we had dinner with the Cooks and they are all awesome. They have 4 kids and we taught them about the restoration using the little cups that mom sent me haha. We then went over to the Coombs and gave them both a blessing because they weren't feeling well. It was good to be over there and we talked a little more about the priesthood. Later, we went over to the former bishop's house and had a great lesson there with his wife.
On thursday, we did our weekly planning through the morning and then went to go and help the Avery's move. They only moved a couple of apartments over so it wasn't too bad. Then we went and did some more tracting before we went to dinner with the Smith's. we had a good dinner and a lesson about enduring to the end and they are working on getting their kid adopted.
On Friday, we had a good district meeting where I talked about having better studies as a missionary. After that, we wet on exchanges and I left Elder Perrins in the area while I went with Elder Laga. Elder Laga is a great guy and we have a lot of things in common! His dad is the institute director at the University of Montana, he moved his senior year too, his first name is Kyle, and we both had 1970 jeeps. We had a good day together and went to see a bunch of people on our bikes. We stayed on the bikes for most of the day and that was great.
We did some tracting, and the first door we knocked on was a really big brick house. The people opened the door and invited us in! It wasn't totally what we were expecting but they invite us in and offered to take us around the house for a tour! Haha. So we did. We went around the house and it turns out that whenever the missionaries have knocked on their door, they have always shown them around the house. They said that they are happy with their own faith but always are kind to the missionaries. They even took us into a room where they have tons of Genealogy and stuff like that. They do family history work better than most LDS people haha! Then we went to dinner with this Filipino family and had a Filipino soup. It was great.
On Sunday, we had PEC and Ward Council in the morning and then had a good time at church! Vanessa wasn't able to make it because of more family stuff but Asa finally made it! Church was good and after that, we came home and had lunch. Then I got to work on a essay for a scholarship. Dinner was with Willie Siddoway and his family. They are super awesome too! We had elk back strip steaks and they were delicious. We had a good lesson with their crazy kids and then got to mess around with them downstairs. We would pick then up and throw them at the bean bag and then roll them down the stairs on it haha. It was a great night and a great week. Elder Perris manages to find us a new investigator while we were on exchanges so that's pretty awesome.
Hope that everyone has a good valentines day and a good rest of the week. Love you!
Elder LaRose
kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
ADDRESS:
4 Colt Court
Pueblo West CO 81008
MISSION OFFICE:
4090 Center Park Dr
Colorado Springs, Colorado
80916
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