On Monday, we emailed and shopped in the morning and then Elder Perrins and I played some ping pong. After all of that, we met up with the missionaries in the zone at a park so we could play some football! I brought my flag football flags and put them to good use. It was a lot of fun. I was the QB for most of the plays and there was this one pass I threw to Elder Stark that was awesome. Elder Perrins and Elder Tallman were on the other team and they were running towards Elder Stark. They didn't see each other and ended up colliding and laying on the ground while Elder Stark caught the ball for a touchdown. I thought it was pretty funny haha. It was also Elder Garton's birthday and so I got him a Big Gulp from 7/11. (It's a Dumb and Dumber reference haha) We had dinner at the Avery's again and it was yummy.
On Tuesday, we had a really good day. This is the week in training that the new missionary takes the lead in all planning and teaching situations We had a lesson with the Burger family and they are awesome. He is a firefighter so his work schedule is pretty crazy and he doesn't make it to church all that often. Then we stopped by Hannah again and we met two of her friends and got to talk to them about the gospel. They were on their lunch break and so they didn't have a whole lot of time and so we gave them a Book of Mormon. Later, we went and saw Francis and Josephine and talked to them about baptism. They are still being as stubborn as ever. Dinner was with the Martellaro's and their daughter had just gotten home from her mission. She had been serving in the Rome, Italy mission. We had a good dinner and got to talk to her about her mission and stuff. it was pretty cool. That night, we went and exchanged with the zone leaders.
On Wednesday, I was with Elder Morgan in the Pueblo ward. We had a pretty full day planned too! We started the day off by doing some service. We picked up some trash around the river and then went and cleaned out a hobo camp. It's crazy to see people living like that.
We came back and had some good appointments with some people and then like all of our other lessons canceled on us. So we went and stopped by this one person, but only their mother was home. We asked her if there was anyone in the area that she knew that could use a visit from us. She referred us to this house across the street and so we knocked on doors around the block until we got to the house. It was cool! We met this really open guy who seems interested in what we have to offer! He was talking to us about his religious background and told us that he was cousins with the Christian rapper Lecrae. So that was cool, he gave us a book by Lecrae too. He accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon too! Dinner was really good. We had it at this family's house who had invited an investigator over for dinner too. We taught the restoration lesson and it was really powerful. That night, we exchanged back.
Dinner was at Chipotle and then we went and visited the McKinney family It was good to see them again. They were the family that I went over to a couple weeks ago to do a baptismal interview. We had a good night and then went to the apartment.
For our activity, we were playing this game with a football and were all trying to catch it at the same time. I went up to catch one and Elder Zoller's elbow collided with my eye and it hurt like crap. I went to the freezer in the church and took the bag of ice and put it on my face. About half an hour later, my eye turned purple and green. So I had a green eye on St. Patrick's day.
We went over to the Thomsons for a lesson and that was awesome. We had Sister Graff, the one who just got back from Italy come with us. Brody, one of the kids had a loose tooth and Elder Perrins asked if he could pull it out. So we spent half the time trying to get his tooth out and the other half teaching the lesson. I got a funny video of Elder Perrins pulling out the tooth.
For dinner, we had corned beef and cabbage at the Sawyers and that was awesome.
Then, the Strouds invited us over to play some games and so we were able to have some fun with them too.
On Saturday, there were two more yard sales that we stopped by and we got to talk to some cool people. We stopped by some more people and then headed out to the Dougherty's to work on the barn some more. We were put to work digging our these holes for the water line to run to the barn. After we worked on the barn, we went and had a lesson with Wendy. The lady that we had met last Sunday. She is really cool and seems interested in learning more! We taught her briefly about the Restoration of the gospel and she was really accepting and received it well. Dinner was over at the Martins and that was awesome. We had some good hamburgers and then talked with Brother Martin about the missionary work. We always love being over there because the kids really love us. After dinner, we had a great lesson and then the kids broke out the Nerf guns and it was war. We spend a good while shooting back and forth at each other and I got a couple of headshots in haha. It was great. Afterwards, we went downtown to the riverwalk to meet up with Hannah and her friends again. We had a pretty good talk with them about the need for religion.
On Sunday, we had a good time at church and I really learned a lot. As a missionary, church begins to have a new meaning to you. I find that I have gotten so much out of church since being on my mission. It really has become a necessity to go to church and be uplifted. Dinner was with the Viehwegers and it was great haha. After dinner, we went with Brother Martin to teach the Sefciks. It was way cool. Then we had a great lesson with the Maurello's on forgiveness. Their little kids are super cute an one of them was cooking lunch for us on her little fake kitchen thing haha. It was a great week.
Thanks for everything and hope all of you have a great week too! Love you all
Elder LaRose
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