On Monday, we had an awesome day. In the morning, we met up with Gilbert and Jhazmine and they drove our whole district to the mountains to go hiking. We went and hiked St. Mary's falls. It was really beautiful up there. The hike was a good one and we all had tons of fun. One of the Elders was being dumb and decided to go ahead of the group but ended up taking a wrong turn. We were all at the falls and he wasn't there yet so we huddled together and I got to say the prayer for him to be okay and to find us. Like 2 minutes later he comes running up the trail and was able to find us. I guess prayer can work quickly sometimes haha. We made our way back down the mountain and I only tripped down the trail once. In the afternoon, the YSA wards had a picnic held at the Melissa building. It was pretty good food and a good time with everyone. We played some basketball with a bunch of the YSAs and that was awesome. It was a pretty good game too. There were some huge Polynesians there that nobody wanted to get in the way of haha. We also played chair soccer too. After that, our district went to 7 eleven and got slurpees together. It was such a fun day together. Later that evening, we had a great lesson with Jhazmine at the church. She is a rock star haha.
On Tuesday, we got to email because the libraries were closed on Monday so that was good. We found out the details for Sister McFarland too. She is going home to figure things out with some doctors and is leaving on Thursday morning. We gave her another blessing with this news. She is such a trooper. She didn't ever stop working hard even though she was in pain all day. It's frustrating for her to be having to take a break but she is going to do all she can to come back out as soon as possible. We all went to lunch together and then afterwards went and washed our cars. There was a little bit of a shaving cream fight between Elder Nelson and Sister Anderson and so they were hosed off by the power sprayer at the car wash haha. The other elders needed a ride after that to Black Forest to drop off a baptismal record to the member who lives out there and so we have them a ride to it. Dinner was at Chick-fil-a and then afterwards, we had a couple of lessons at the church. First we met with Laura Coke and then Alyssa Crawford. Both of them are really awesome and we had great lessons.
On Wednesday, we had zone conference for most of the day! It was President and Sister Rehm's last round of zone conferences. They talked about the importance of having a belief and foundation on Jesus Christ. We also talked about the shafts in the whirlwind that satan throws at us. President Rehm said that sometimes the shafts will come at us because of temptation but sometimes they come just Ecuador we are human. Sometimes The Lord needs to have us go through affliction so He can make His works manifest in us. I really liked that advice. After the conference, we drove around and contacted some people before coming back to town and going to dinner with Miriam Griffin. We went to Costa Vida and it was pretty bomb. After dinner, we went over to say goodbye to Sister McFarland. It's sad to see her go.
On Thursday, we got free haircuts at Paul Mitchell hair school and then went contacting at UCCS after that. It was pretty effective too. We got lunch afterwards and then went to the church and had a good lesson with Lauren Filichia. Dinner was with the Churchill's down south and then we had to go all the way back north for a lesson with Kynzee before institute. Institute was pretty fun too and the lesson was awesome. It was about the resurrection and how things will happen.
On Friday, we had a good district meeting with everyone. Sister Miller is the sister that replaced Sister McFarland and she is pretty cool. After lunch we weekly planned and set up a ton of appointments. We had a lesson with Megan at the church too and it was good. We have been meeting with like all the members in the ward and having a lesson about missionary work and then role playing how to open your mouth and direct the conversations you have with people to the gospel. It has been really good. The mingle was pretty fun too we did a lot of different things like chair soccer and whatnot. We also made inspirational cards with quotes on them that were going to go to a soup kitchen.
On Saturday, we had some good studies and then we went contacting at Palmer Park. There weren't a whole lot of people there to talk to but we did come across a group that was LARPing. They basically are grown men and women who dress up and paint their faces and fight each other with homemade swords and other weapons.
It is pretty funny to watch but we went up to them and talked to them about it. I even got to fight Sister Anderson for one round. She still thinks she won but that's not true. We went to a different park and were able to have a little more success there. Later, we were asked by our bishop to help our ward set up chairs for stake conference. But when we got there, there was no one there to help. So Elder Nelson and I set up all the chairs. From the overflow to the back of the gym. It was pretty ridiculous that nobody helped but we did it anyway. We drove to our dinner after that and had a good time with Mitch. We came back up for the adult session of stake conference and that was pretty good. President and Sister Rehm got to speak too. It was a long day but we just gotta keep pushing through.
On Sunday, we had stake conference in the morning but we went to the jamboree building and it was broadcast to us there. After the conference, we had a correlation meeting over the phone with Mormon and it was good. Then we went to memorial park and talked to a lot of people there. We walked over to a field and saw that there was a cricket league out there playing a game! So we walked up and started talking to one of the coaches on the side and he told us all about cricket. We also got to talk to him about the gospel and he opened up to us and accepted a Book of Mormon and we got his info so we can set something up. It was pretty awesome. We had dinner with the Lorenc's and it was so good! They are just awesome people to e around haha. Sister Lorenc even tried to put a good word in for me with her granddaughter who is going to BYU haha. It was pretty funny. It was a pretty good day too. Also when Elder Nelson and I have been getting in for the night, we have been working on a song that we are writing and we actually finished it on Sunday. There is a member that has a studio that is near us so one of these days we are going to go in and record it because it is pretty awesome:) we have titled it Floral Friday for now. But anyways, thanks for all the support from everyone! Things are going well out here. I love you all and hope you have a great week
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