WEEK #7 - "Sometimes Your Only Friend is God"

Hello everyone! The quote I put in for this week's title is something I said to Elder Gunson after we were talking haha! Don't worry I'm not depressed, God is a great friend to rely on haha

This week was AWESOME.

Rockin the elk shirt

Monday: September 2nd

CRAZY STORY: After Pday we went to go teach a lesson with an investigator in Nucla (Just someone interested in hearing our message of Christ). So we pull up to their house and there is literally 5 sheriff cars with their police lights blaring and we see OUR investigator getting taken out of his ex's house in handcuffs!! Well, there goes our lesson haha! He actually got arrested for having his income come only from selling stuff on the black market so..... that happened!

New background pic!!

Tuesday: September 3rd

Today we drove up to Montrose again for a combined District Council (meet with missionaries from all around the Montrose area). It was a very awesome experience, President Rees made a couple of rule changes which will help us focus better on the work. Our most promising person we're teaching, Roberta, canceled on us today but she rescheduled for Thursday which actually enabled us to go talk to a member instead who really needed some help and we gave her a blessing of comfort. It's so great to see God's hand direct His work!

Thank you Amy, Gunga, and Bode for the Broncos pillow!

Wednesday: September 4th

Today I got a huge package in the mail from my Aunt Danel and cousins! It was packed full of all sort of goodies especially some Wyoming beef, thank you!! :) Our lesson with Matt and Jamie fell through today but we got to walk around Nucla. A really cool scripture says "come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord; yea come, for ye have all gone astray, every one to his wicked ways." I invite you all who read this to consider your relationship with the Savior Jesus Christ. How distant are you? No matter how astray we are from Christ, whether that distance is great or small, we can come back and return to Him!

Thursday: Septemeber 5th

So that lesson with Matt and Jamie.... it fell through yesterday cause they weren't there when we came by. Well... we dropped by today and Matt rushes out and says "Come look Elders! Come look at what we got yesterday!" Expecting something totally different, we walk inside their room and there is Jamie holding a NEWBORN BABY! What?!?!? Haha! We knew that Jamie was pregnant but the baby came a month early but it's healthy. Even crazier they did a homebirth too, her name is Ziggy. That was crazy haha! Then we go talk to Matt in his kitchen and he starts smoking weed next to a couple piles of weed on his table. Great. I'm just laughing inside my head all day, just another casual day in Nucla!! We also go to this family's house and their 5 year old boy ONLY walks around butt naked haha, it's pretty hilarious. As we are talking, he just runs up and around the house butt naked living the free life, haha. THEN, we had a lesson with Roberta!! We had a really great discussion on charity, and throughout the lesson I couldn't stop smiling cause I was being filled with the Spirit and with so much joy from doing missionary work! I love helping and seeing people grow so much closer in their relationship and conversion to Jesus Christ! I love the Naturita area!

Classic savagery

Friday: September 6th

Today Elder Gunson and I knocked on a door and they invited us in for Bible study haha. They had us say where we are from and once I said mine he laughed and said I had a Navajo accent haha! Glad I have my western blood back, my "mountain" accent has only magnified since being here so the east better prepare for my return in two years for a full out mountain man haha :)

Trying to look savage with my awesome camo jacket from the Tabaquache Post in Nucla

Saturday: September 7th

We had dinner with the Dyers and their 5 year old, Jasper, was still butt naked while jumping on the tramp outside for all to see haha. I got to hand out a Book of Mormon to a really cool person we contacted, the Spirit basically told me I needed to talk to them about similar hardships we've faced and gave her the book which she was very thankful for!

Comp pic

Sunday: September 8th

Today was Elder Gunson's bday!! He turns 20 dang. Well it was a great day for a bday because 54 people came to church! It's always a special and personally sacred experience at church as we take time out of our busy schedules to remember Christ and His loving sacrifice for us! We got do post some cool messages on Facebook and then we talked to a man named Dan about covenants which are just promises we make with God in which we commit our part and God gives us great blessings for keeping that commitment. We invited him to prepare for baptism on October 26th and he accepted!! I love seeing people prepare and change their lives towards God and then through baptism show God that they are willing to follow Him and keep His commandments. We will receive great blessings as we walk this path back to God! What a great opportunity it is as a missionary to bring people closer to Christ and raise their standards to live in a "more excellent way." I invite you all to make changes in your life that will enable you to live this way, God will bless you in your life with what you righteously seek after!

How my companion tries to "focus" during study time haha

Crazy week, love you all, cant wait to hear about how everyone's doing!

Love,

Elder LaRose

-- P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org