WEEK #14 - Thug Mugs and Drug Rugs

I hope yall will find out why I chose this title for my weekly as you read... ;)

Monday: October 21st
Emailed my friends and family, always love talking with them! <3
Today we drove up to Norwood to work with a less active named Decker in his woodshop. He taught us how to make these AWESOME mugs.

Legendary Thug Mug in progress

They are made from drilling out Aspen trees and then attaching an ANTLER as a handle! That's SO Colorado, haha. Elder Gunson and I plan to go back next Monday to finish our mugs. We called them our thug mugs.... haha!
Nothins more Colorado moutainman then drinkin from a thug mug made from an Aspen tree and antlers :) I have become one with the Colorado Mountainman within me...


We had a lesson with Roberta and talked about personal revelation and how we must ask God for truth. I've personally had many questions in my life but I know for a fact that when I sought Heavenly Father's divine help that He answers!

Tuesday: October 22nd
There was some snow as I was driving through Dallas Pass to get to District Council. I also saw my first wild elk since I've been here in Colorado!


We had a great discussion about how to best work with the members and we boiled our conversation to, "love coupled with action is the key to working with the members." Just simply love others and help them act on their desire to share the Gospel with others! We had a really great talk with Tina about baptism, she really wants to be spiritually ready and wants our help. She wants to be ready by November 30th, awesome!! I know she'll be blessed so much in her life for this decision.

Wednesday: October 23rd
CRAZY STORY:
We talked with Dan in the morning and he lost his cat. I felt like we needed to say a prayer to find it so we did. But it was only until 8:30pm when Elder Gunson and I were in the area for Tina and we saw the cat! Dan said his girlfriend would leave him over this cat... dang gina! So I jumped out of the car and tried to get his cat from under the car. It seemed fine as my hand was slowly reaching out to it till it hissed and clawed my arm drawing blood, ouch! :)

My battle scars for Dan...

Dan came out and exclaimed, "the prayer was answered in full!" and he got the cat back. Haha, what the heck am I doing in Nucla catching cats for people... I love it! It showed Dan that God truly does answer our prayers because He loves us and knows our concerns no matter how small they may be, but we must have faith and trust in His own timing/will :)

We went over to Tina's house and her daughter Niki drew some adorable notes for us, she also told us that she wanted to get baptized the same day as her mom on November 30th!! The light of Christ that is in that little girl is SO pure and innocent, what a blessing little children are especially in setting a righteous example for the parents!

Naturita's definition of a house number sign.... savage!

Thursday: October 24th
We taught Dan the Word of Wisdom and he gladly accepted the invitation to start living it. What a blessing it is to see others accept a "higher and holier" pattern of Christlike living! We later on talked with Tina and we got her to say the closing prayer which was huge. She expressed her desires to God, asking Him to help her overcome addictions and to help her family find joy and peace in the Gospel. What a powerful demonstration of humility in her prayer. We all must strive to humble ourselves before God, and ask in all sincerity the desires of our heart! Remember, righteous decisions bring blessings. :)

Friday: October 25th
I've restorted to only eating bread...
That's all I have, just bread, toast, bagels, and then toasted bagels, haha :) If anyone has any easy quick meal suggestions I'm totally down, but my limit is probably 2-3 ingredients or else it gets too complicated for me haha! Mom don't worry about me I'm fine... ;) Besides my savage dietary standards, today we got to do weekly planning. It was truly a miracle to look back two transfers ago and see us go from teaching about 6 to 25 people! The Naturita area in the past has been notorious in the mission as being the "outcast" area, haha. Now we're becoming one of the most progressing areas. Like in Jacob chapter 5, Naturita may be in the nethermost part of the mission, but it definetly is a promised land! ;) Had another lesson with Roberta, she really loves reading the Book of Mormon but has asked not to force "religiosity" so.... we're still working on her haha.

Saturday: October 26th
Today we had a BUNCH of traffic today in Nucla! We didnt move our car for like 10 minutes. And guess what... it was because we had a whole HERD of cows being herded in the middle of the road!! That's about all the traffic we get... when people herd their flippin cows in the middle of the road, haha! :) I love it out here in the middle of my desert.



We went over to Tina's house for a lesson. We asked her if she was clean from her addictions still, and she wasn't. She had a couple setbacks so we showed a video about how no one is beyond saving or beyond Christ's love. After she put her head in her hands saying, "I just don't know how. I don't deserve that." Here was this wonderful person who has been struggling most of her life. Then she gets a glimmer of hope from the Gospel and attempts to leave behind her addictions, but they only hold onto her more tightly. And now she thinks she doesn't deserve the Savior's love. That pained me, I began to cry just thinking of how wicked Satan is for crushing Tina's hope for recovery. The fact that Satan could be so evil to manipulate and even destroy her desire to change is sickening. We luckily taught her a few helpful things, but please pray for Tina. And please know that NONE of you reading this are undeserving or unworthy of receiving the Savior's love and forgiveness. You may feel hopeless, but God is the God of Hope. Turn to Him and He'll be there already waiting.

Drug Rug Stylin...

Sunday: October 27th
It's a miracle! We got Dan to church! He really enjoyed it and connected well with the speakers. He even said he'd love to come next week! We taught him more from the BOM when we met with him later. He told us that he can definitely feel a difference with the Spirit when he's reading the Book of Mormon and keeping the commandments versus when he's not. We talked with the Dyers and Jasper this time was flinging naked barbie girls at us, that was NOT appreciated, haha!

This week was insane. A lotta highs and lows but ultimately in the end I still love my Savior, my family, my friends, and my mission. What else is there? ;)

Love you all,
Elder LaRose <3

P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org

WEEK #13 - Sunday Showdown, Got Oatmeal Anyone?

(sorry!! The mom forgot to send this one out :( enjoy!)

What a week to remember!

Thank you for all who have reached out to me through email, it's really helped!


Monday: October 14th
Today I got to cook....ELK meat! I ate it for dinner, it was really good and I was proud to have breaded, cooked, and spiced it myself :)

Cookin some elk meat!

We had another lesson with Roberta talking about personal revelation and how it's so important to find truth for ourselves as we trust God to give us the right answer. During one of the hardest moments in my life I felt like I needed to open my scriptures. I had no clue why or how these scriptures would help with my situation. I randomly opened my book to Isaiah 30:20-21. It reads:
       "20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left"
In this life we NEED food and water to survive and grow physically. But in order to grow spiritually we must also have adversity and afflictions. Without these we wouldn't be able to overcome and become! The only way we can truly become who our Heavenly Father expects us to be is to walk in the way of trials, and be comforted knowing they will be for your benefit. Trust in Christ, and follow Him so that your burdens may be light! (Matt 11:28-30)

'Rita's Sunrise :)

Tuesday: October 15th
Today was cold. I sat on the floor heater in my trailer home eating my bowl of oatmeal... I hate oatmeal... but I'm poor so I can't afford cereal... so I LOVE oatmeal, haha! :) Then I drove to Montrose for District Council which was great.
CRAZY STORY:
We were walking by and saw this family outside so we decided to go talk to them. We started helping them move some beds into their apartment only to find out that this family used to live in Monticello!! They are the Tibbets and actually remembered my family :) I even went to elementary school with their daughter Nadege and their son went to 1st grade with my sister Londyn!! WHAT?! This family moved away from Monticello when I was in third grade, little did I know that they moved to NATURITA!! What an awesome blessing to randomly find a family here on my mission that legit knows me from Cello haha, hopefully we can bring them back into the Gospel :)

Wednesday: October 16th
Had a powerful lesson with Tina. I felt prompted to have her read Matthew 11:28-30 and she burst into tears midway and the Spirit filled the room! I know that we never truly can break the love that God has for us, even when we discard His influence through sin, there is ALWAYS a way back to His loving embrace! I believe Tina felt a little bit of that as she continues to trust God and overcome setbacks she's been dealing with for many years.

Thursday: October 17th
I smell like weed....
My clothes smell like weed....
I am weed.

Morning Sprints time.... 

Haha, it's such a great time over here on the mission even if this town is encircled with weed, I still love them all! Today was fun, we got to stop by this lady who lives in a RADIOACTIVE junk yard! It's full of really really old cars that were used in Uravan back when the Uranium mines were in function so they still have radiation on them.... hopefully I dont die within the next few years, haha :)

Friday: October 18th
Went to the church and saw ANOTHER car wreck right outside! The car was so destroyed that they had to life flight the guy, holy cow things are going down in Rita!! Wow, I hope he's alright.

ANOTHER car crash outside the church!

I got to play my friend Brannon in chess (he was there for the first chess game but just watched me destroy Jonathon). I played Brannon in chess but Elder Gunson doesn't know that you're not supposed to help the other side! Haha. I lost. But then I won fairly, against ONE person not two the next game haha. We actually got to tie chess into the Gospel seeing how we must rely on our faith in God to help us make the right moves or else Satan is going to catch us offgaurd and checkmate our king (in a sense Satan will attack the very center of who you are!) Satan doesnt care about pawns, all he wants is to destroy your very core, your king. So don't let your guard down and don't lower your defenses! Even if we make mistakes, which we will, we can overcome them through relying on Heavenly Father to help us throughout these trials! ;) I love chess and its Gospel applications. I realized today that I wouldn't of gained anything if I won, but that for Brannon it meant everything to him for me to lose. :)

Saturday: October 19th
Continued to help Tina with her addictions, we taught step 6 which is Change of Heart. We have to ask God to help us change our desires. Tina's had a few setbacks recently which is really hard for me to see, I really want her to truly feel the power of Christ's Atonement in her life it's just her choices are leading her away from His love. :( My heart goes out to all those who are struggling, please know that you can turn back to Christ, for He can heal and change your heart! Today we tried to go over to Matt and Jamie's but they are STILL at court for their kid. Pretty sad, we even found out the police illegally arrested them and broke a ton of laws in the process. Holy cow, Naturita has more drama than an elementary school relationship! We went over to Michelle's house for dinner. Luckily Jasper was NOT naked... :) But as we were watching a Book of Mormon video with them their 7 year old daughter was TOTALLY trying to put her head on my arm, IT WAS SO AWKWARD!! Haha :) She even got PINK lipstick ALL over my white shirt. Being a missionary... whatta life, haha! Well that happened.

Trailerhome's legendary view... I LOVE my trailerhome.... ;)

Sunday: October 20th
Happy 20th! Today was probably one of the most CRAZIEST Sundays I've ever been to on my mission so far. It started with us getting Tina and her 3 kids to church... first off she tried to back out of coming at least 5 times but after I raked her yard for her and we found her lost phone she finally got in the car and headed towards church with us following right behind her, haha! She smothered her cigarette on her shoes and then walked inside the church with us... oh gosh :) We were late but we sat in the front with Tina and her kids. Her 2 year old, Brentley, was doing pretty good until he started running up to the stand. Then he started jumping ON the sacrament table!! I had to hurriedly run up and snatch him down and he kept squirming in my lap. Then Tina tried to keep him under control and he started throwing a HUGE fit about having to sit still. Of course the Branch didnt mind this at all, it was just another sacrament meeting with a crazy and loud toddler. Nothing different ;) But Tina was obviously ultra stressed cause this is her FIRST time at church! It's probably hard for a newcomer to feel welcome after their kid "disrupts" everything, but to my surprise multiple members in the Branch followed Tina as she left the building with Brentley and helped Tina know that it was totally fine for her kid to be a little bit obnoxious. It makes me wonder how bad I was when I was a little kid at church... I dont remember any of it but, sorry mom and dad! :) Tina looked super relieved to find out that everyone totally didn't mind and were there to help her with Brentley in the Nursery if she wanted. It was so awesome to see the Branch accept her so quickly after just meeting her :) What a CRAZY first church experience for Tina and her family haha! Hopefully she'll come again next week, that may be a little bit harder to accomplish now though... After church Elder Gunson and I did our facebook posts and then we checked up on Tina and you WON'T believe it! We asked her about church and she told us joyfully, "I really liked your church, I think I'm going to go next week!" WHAT?! Holy cow, what a miracle. I'm so glad the Spirit was there at church to help her feel at home along with the immediate support she got from the Branch. Dang gina, I love my mission!

Love you all,
Elder LaRose

P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org

WEEK 12 - Hobos, Hippies, and Hopscotch

Are you ready for another weekly?!

Thanks again for all who read these, maybe one day I'll say something that'll be just what you need to hear! Or I can make you laugh, either one will suffice ;)

Monday: October 7th

Had a great time talking with the fam and emailin all yall! We went to our "patch in the back" friend again and while we were 20 FEET away we got nailed by a huge stench of WEED! 20 feet away from this lady's house... haha, it got even worse as we knocked and she opened her door. The smell was on our clothes for a solid half hour after that haha! We had a lesson with Roberta where we taught the Word of Wisdom (health guidelines we follow in the Church) and she started laughing when we mentioned coffee and tea. She remembered that she tried to offer us tea before and wondered why we kept saying no haha ;) Roberta is really progressing well, please if you have time, please pray for Roberta that she'll be able to overcome the fears she has and be strengthened in living the Gospel! Thank you :)

Classic Sunset of 'Rado in 'Rita

Tuesday: October 8th

We drove up through San Miguel Canyon/Dallas Pass and the view was absolutely stunning!! Many beautiful yellow Aspen trees (my favorite!) and such jagged mountain ranges. I love Colorado :) I got to have an interview with President Rees (mission president) and it was great getting some advice from him. To save us 300 miles, we decided to go from Montrose to Grand Junction and stay the night with some Elders before Zone Conference. As I was driving to GJ the highways are right next to WEED FIELDS all the time. We could smell the weed through our car as we drove by the fields.... haha! Another day in Colorado ;)

 GORGEOUS San Juan mountains

Wednesday: October 9th

Since we stayed overnight in Grand Junction we got to go to Zone Conference in the morning! (Bunch of zones together to council) It definetly was a revelatory experience. One quote that I came up with from it is, "There is more joy in the journey than the destination." I believe this to be true! The process of our becoming is so much more rewarding than the act of overcoming. When we develop our faith in Christ and set high goals for ourselves, even if we excersize faith and trust God but it still doesnt work out, then we can still be happy to have gained such experience along that journey. :) My wise dad once taught me a powerful lesson that, "We dont pray for wins, we pray for victories!" Some people "win" but they don't change or gain anything from it. Some people lose and they let it control and discourage them from striving to become better. When we get a victory (whether win or lose) we know that we have gained something and learned something from that experience. Hence there is more joy in the journey knowing that you are being blessed so much for your righteous efforts!

The first signs of snow!! 

After I got to go on exchanges with my Zone leader Elder Jensen! (Elder Gunson got to stay in Naturita) Elder Jensen is AWESOME. We drove to San Juan (his area in Montrose) and we talked abunch in the car, he's a great listener and really respected my "life" story haha ;) Sorry Wednesday is so long but it was SO GOOD!

CRAZY STORY:

Alright, so San Juan is a Spanish speaking area. I don't speak Spanish. Like at all :) I took Latin for heavens sake in high school haha! Elder Jensen and I got to teach this kid and his parents ONLY SPEAK SPANISH. So, I got to teach the entire Restoration while my companion translated for me in Spanish! What an awesome experience, I truly could feel genuine love for them even though I had no clue what they were saying back! The Spirit wasn't any less stronger in that lesson like in my English ones. It reminded me that the Gospel really will be preached to all nations, kindreds, tounges, and people! What a blessing it is to be a missionary, but I would be nothing without everyone single one of my family and friends that I've met over the years to mold me into the person I am today. Thank you! <3

Thursday: October 10th

Today Elder Jensen and I decided to be SUPER quick today hopping from place to place. We were going so fast that we were sprinting to our car and as Elder Jensen was pulling out of the parking spot he rolled down the window and I JUMPED INSIDE the window as he was turning and we sped off to our next lesson... haha! We were laughing so much, I totally just sent it inside the window and then somersaulted in my seat to get upright. I'm crazy. Please stay away from me if you don't want to catch this craziness too ;) I love being a missionary! Elder Jensen was trying to teach me some Spanish. I'll let you judge how well I'm doing at it by this experience... so Elder Jensen in Spanish told me "Hey, I'm a robber and I'm going to kill you." And so I responded in Spanish by saying, "Me encanta su camisa!" which is translated to "I love your shirt!!" Haha ;) I hope you got a kick outta that one for all you Spanish RM's... We had dinner with Paulo and he gave us some amazing Mexican food. I kinda wish I could speak Spanish, hopefully I'll learn a little bit more as my mission continues! 

Friday: October 11th

Before heading back to 'Rita to reexchange, Elder Jensen and I found a new person named Hosea to teach and guess what... I ONLY talked to him using Spanish!! We walked up to him in his yard and I said, "Hola Señor! Me gusta su casa! Somos misioneros" Haha :) This means, hello! I like your house and we are missionaries. I'm basically a Spanish missionary now... that's right ;) Just kiddin, I had like a headache this whole exchange just trying to understand all the Spanish but it was a fun challenge nonetheless. Once Elder Gunson and I got back to Rita through Dallas Pass we went to this person's house and we saw their GRANDMA hitting a WEED PIPE!! She's like flippin 80! Cmon.... haha, you could see the smoke was curling in the air long after but our clothes still reek of weed.... yet another day in Colorado haha :)

New winter coat finally :)

Saturday: October 12th

We got to go to the Nucla festival which was really awesome. Then we had a lesson with Tina! We are helping her overcome a couple of severe addictions, halfway through she told us, "Sorry guys, I gotta smoke a cig." To which I responded with, "Well, instead of smoking that cigarette why dont we all get down on our knees and say a prayer?" She agreed and as soon as we, and her kids knelt down with her she started crying and the Spirit filled the room! The love of God for everyone in that room was just so tangible. How could I ever doubt of His love? How can I ever doubt that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true? I've seen His Atonement work miracles through others lives and through my own life, healing us from the wounds of sin and wrapping us in His love. It is my only desire for you reading this to feel of Christ's love for you! He is there. He is waiting for you, please know that you are never too far from His loving arms. This Gospel is who I am, and I'll remain steadfast in my faith even until the end of my life! If that doesnt show you how committed I am I dont know what will ;)

Some sailboats that reminded me of CT haha

Sunday: October 13th

Today we ALMOST got Tina and her kids to church! They were dressed and everything but Tina decided to go hiking instead. Ugh, we'll keep working on her :) We ate dinner at the house and then showed up to Dan's lesson. But...... there was dinner, again! I swear I'm going to get so fat on all this food. We taught Dan the Plan of Salvation again and he prayed and felt inspired to set his OWN baptismal date!! He told us he wanted to get baptized on his birthday which is February 1st, it's a bit far away but I'm glad he's committed :) Hopefully I'll still be in Rita without being transferred out to see him receive such great blessings of being baptized. 

Crazy times this week! And I learned an invaluable lesson of the power of true forgiveness. <3

Love you all!

Elder LaRose

P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org

WEEK #11 - Nucla's Best Driver, Maybe... And I Ate A Medical Tomato

Hey everyone!

Glad to be back, this week was pretty great cause I put in over 50 hours of driving in! Phew!

Monday: September 30th
Spent 8 hours at the church emailing and calling family. Haha, it's so hilarious being the only place with wifi within a 50 miles radius ;) Don't worry, Elder Gunson and I are planning another Telluride day or a hiking day soon! It was so great to talk with my family, Kyler was on DURING his class at BYU haha, and Mc was talking while riding his longboard. Goofs... We stopped by Mark's house (the guy who came to church!) I told Elder Gunson to "bring the Quad" because Mark loves to bash haha. He basically started spewing out tons of false claims about our church and how "corrupted and worldly" we were but we refuted all his claims by using his own Bible. The Spirit led me to bring up a couple scriptures in Amos, Genesis, Matthew, and Mark that totally shut him down. He told us "the Pagans wrote Genesis" Haha, I was getting fed up so I simply just bore testimony of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon, and of Joseph Smith being a true prophet called by God and immediately asked, "Can we end with a prayer?" Haha, I love Mark. We drove over to Tina and we started to go over the Addiction Recovery Program with her. The first step is Honesty and she told us what she was addicted to but as we kept going through the sections I bore testimony to her of the infinite reach of Christ's Atonement and that none of us have to stay who we are! NONE of us have to keep clinging onto the guilt of the past! NONE of us need to be harrowed up by our sorrows to drag us down into endless misery! Come unto Christ, and you can be perfected in Him. Anyone can change :)

Uncompahgre Aspens!

Beautiful yellow

Tuesday: October 1st
Drove up to District Council through Uncompahgre mountains again! The leaves are all changing so I've taken a ton of pictures haha.

The view while driving with Elder Thygerson!

I got to go on exchanges this week, wooooo! Elder Gunson stayed in Cimarron with Elder Berry and I got to drive home with Elder Thygerson! He's such an awesome Elder :) We both saw many miracles in Naturita, including being protected from being hit by this speeding truck as we were driving through the mountains. I'm excited to work with Elder Thygerson!

Wednesday: October 2nd
Elder Thygerson and I had a lesson with Tina and Karen. We read Enos and talked about being spiritually prepared to see the face of Christ with pleasure and not shame! We later then we able to find two new people, Shane and Jay! What an awesome miracle :) We had this awesome idea that we got from the Sisters, we decided to COVER Roberta's entire front door with sticky notes that had encouraging scriptures and messages on them! We felt like sneaky criminals haha. We later found out that she had a really bad day that day and when she came home she was overjoyed at our sticky notes! She even took them all off the door and put them on the backside of the door in her house so that she could always see them when she leaves the house :) What another miracle! Elder Thygerson and I really get along well, we rewarded ourselves for the hard work by looking at the stars and Milky way.

Thursday: October 3rd
Today I spent 12 hours driving! Dannnnng gina! I drove to Montrose (BEAUTIFUL fall pics) to reexchange with Cimarron, then as I was driving from Montrose to Delta we were being passed by a diesel near Olathe and we hear a big BOOM. We thought nothing of it until two minutes later I felt the back right tire start to give so I quickly pulled off the highway and we had a FLAT TIRE!! Haha!

We had a spare luckily. But it was just outright hilarious that we got a flat tire, while driving to Grand Junction, AND we happened to be right next to a gigantic weed field... awesome! The perfect scene for Colorado :)

FLAT TIRE by a WEED Farm!

Grand Junction was great, Elder Gunson was getting some training for his leadership position as District leader. Then I got to drive the 4 hours home, yay! ;) I got to drive through Ridgeway and the San Juan mountains are breathtaking! They're super jagged and very colorful, it was so awesome to be able to drive through them. Elder Gunson actually got pretty sick so we headed in for the night early. How was that for a day of driving? :)

 The Lengendary Kingdom of Naturita... aka the Trailerhouse

Friday: October 4th
We waited for Tina to show up for a lesson for an hour. She canceled :( We had dinner with the Sickels and guess what they fed us?? ELK MEAT :) It was sooooo good, and a flashback to Cello. We had another lesson with Roberta! Sister Redd was there with us too and we talked about the ten commandments, keeping the sabbath day Holy, and following the prophet. She agreed with us and asked some good questions, I love Roberta and truly desire for her to find healing through Christ and overcome her fears!

 Please admire my saltine and microwavable ravioli delicacy

Saturday: October 5th
Today was General Conference! Basically we get to watch a televised program of leaders in the church giving talks or speeches focused on Jesus Christ and how we can more fully become disciples of Him! I really love conference, it's such a great opportunity to receive personal revelation as to how you can best come closer to Christ. I invite you all to watch or read the talks given in General Conference, they will bring renewed peace and direction in your life as you study them! You can find them at churchofjesuschrist.org :) We went over to Matt and Jamie's house and here's yet another crazy story....
CRAZY STORY: We went over to their house and we walk in and Matt is singing at the top of his lungs while sifting through this HUGE box of weed trying to find all the buds. Being missionaries, we ask what he's doing and Matt begins to tell us the intricate and delicate process of extracting the THC from the weed...haha! THEN even CRAZIER he took us to his weed garden and started showing us his plants. I handed my phone to Elder Gunson so he could take secret pictures of me in the weed garden talking with Matt.... ;) THEN he plucked a yellow pear tomato from his garden and gave it to me. I asked, "Can I eat it?" And he said sure! I guess I can now say that I ate a tomato that was growing literally in a marijuana plant garden.... How crazy is that?!?! Haha :)

Matt's "Mary Jane" Garden :)   

We went over to Redvale for afternoon Conference which was awesome! I loved, "Half-Hearted commitment to our covenants does not guarantee anything" from Elder Renlund. We were heading back to attend the Women's Session with Roberta and we ran into Matt and Jamie AGAIN! When we asked if they actually got to watch Conference they gave us the MOST SAVAGE response ever....
Normally during General Conference to keep busy and focused we do some fun activities. Some families like to play bingo using candy, others have coloring books, or take notes..... but here in Colorado they watch conference while they sift through their weed. Oh my gosh, haha! Matt told us, "I was watching it while I was going through weed." Well... at least we got them to watch it! ;)

Sunday: October 6th
Sunday General Conference! Cool quote, "the potential of what we could learn and become was well worth the risk." This is totally applicable in relationships, in school, and with becoming a disciple of Christ! We had a dinner with Dan and taught him the Plan of Salvation and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he's a very nice guy and I hope we can keep working with him!

Crazy week, love talking to you all!

Love,

Elder LaRose

P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org