On Monday, we had a great pday. We met up at a park in our area and played some sports. We played flag football for a little bit and that was fun. The field was a little wet from the rain that we have been receiving and one time, I had the ball and was going to juke the other way but ended up slipping hard and falling on my back haha it was pretty funny. Then some kids from one of the family wards came to play with us and we ended up playing soccer for a good while too. It was awesome.
We had dinner with Sterling Thompson at Chipotle and that was good. I am getting more used to having lessons in places like that since we get taken out a lot in YSA. We went to FHE afterwards and watched all the videos that had been put together a couple weeks ago. Ours was pretty lame but it all worked out and everyone had a good time. Jasmine brought her brother Dom to the activity so it was awesome to have an investigator there.
On Tuesday, we had service at the YMCA where we washed windows and scrubbed walls in the pool area. It reminded me of working as a lifeguard haha. We then had to go and run an errand for the sisters and grab a jacket that was left at the mission office. After that, we went and did some drop bys with Evan McHardy in Black Forest. We were able to find out some more stuff about one of the guys we are trying to contact by talking to his dad who was working outside the house when we pulled up. The dad basically said that he was totally fine with us getting in contact with his son and that he needed a message from us haha. The other people we went by weren't home and actually one of the new move ins put their address as the church building out there so we don't actually know where they live. We came back and dropped off the jacket to the sisters ad ended up having dinner over there. We had a lesson at the church later that night and were able to meet with a member to go over our YSA lists. It was a good night.
(another doorstep prank)
On Wednesday, we went and tried to contact Alex and Samm, some potential investigators that the missionaries had contacted before I got to the area. We were able to meet their mother so that was a step closer. Then we went and played bingo with everyone at the Turner House. They are pretty overly passionate about bingo. When we got there, they were saying that they had been talking about bingo for the past two days haha. But it is good to see that they look forward to us coming by. We then left and headed down to fountain to go and do some visits with Talon. We went and visited Cody, who we had met last week, but he wasn't there for our appointment. So we went and visited some other people that he knew. After that, we went and had dinner with Spencer Pirzadeh and it was great. He is a pretty funny guy to be around. He told us about a coworker that has been asking him some questions and so hopefully that will develop further and we will be able to start teaching her. We went and had another great lesson with Dennis and the APs. Unfortunately, it was the last lesson that Elder Luker and I will go to since he is not YSA. The spirit was so strong in the lesson and I really hope we see him progress. We taught about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he truly wants to get what he can from us. He feels thy God truly led us to him so that he could learn something important from us. It was a great lesson.
On Thursday, we had interviews with President Rehm and that is always fun. I asked him if he could approve us going to volunteer at a mud run that will be happening in June haha. He said that he might. SO fingers crossed!! We had a lesson with a member that was really pointless. We asked her if we could meet to talk about missionary work and about the friends she would like to share the gospel with. She said yes and we were super excited, but then at the lesson she said she didn't have friends that she could share the gospel with. So that was a bummer but she said that she is available to teach with us when we have lessons. After that, we did some weekly planning and then Elder Luker got food poisoning and had to lay down for a bit. Dinner was with Lauren and it was great. We had awesome discussions about Charity to help her with some kind of performance that she wants to put on. Afterwards we had institute and I always love it.
Friday we had an awesome district meeting. I love our district a lot. Afterwards, I went on exchanges with Elder Wallace in Mt. Herman. We had a pretty good day, they had only stop bys planned and so we did that and then went and did some street contacting in Manitou Springs. We came back for the mingle and it was really fun! We sang Karaoke and all the missionaries got up and sang a couple of songs haha. We sang "I've Got a Dream" from Tangled and "Jesus Take the Wheel" by Carrie Underwood. It was awesome.
On Saturday, I was still with Elder Wallace and it had snowed on us pretty good. We still manned up and went tracting for most of the morning. Luckily, the apartment complex was indoors so we stayed warm. We exchanged back that afternoon and then went out with Gilbert. Afterwards, we went and had dinner with him at the ultimate buffet. It was a Chinese buffet and it was great. I tried the sushi and some of it wasn't that bad! Maybe I'm warming up to it. However, I am not warming up to oysters! They had raw oysters there and Gilbert likes them and made me try one. It literally didn't get past half of my tongue before I was gagging and dry heaving. I couldn't put it down and spit it back on my plate. So nasty.
On Sunday, We had a good ward council and church was good. All 3 YSA wards were combined for this one because the cadet choir was performing. We had some less actives come to church and that was pretty awesome. We met with Michael Elliott after church and had a good lesson with him. For dinner, none of the YSA missionaries had anyone sign up, so we all met at the church and brought what we had with us. I cooked some pork sirloins that I had bought. As we were cooking, we saw these two YSA people through the window making out in their car haha. It was so awkward. Then one of the missionaries drove up next to them and parked the car so that is was awkward even more. YSA is weird but super great.
It has been a great week and hopefully this week will be great too! love you all and thanks for the support!!
Elder LaRose
kyler.larose@myldsmail.net
6480 Honey Grove Apt. 105
Colorado Springs, CO 80923
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