WEEK #23 - Merry Christmas!

Being a missionary during Christmas is awesome!! I hope you all enjoyed the Christmas season with your family and friends. May we ever strive to Remember Him!

Monday: December 23rd

Got to email friends and talk with family, very fulfilling and always brings me joy! :) Found a bunch of Book of Mormon VCR tapes, THAT was a throw back for sure, haha! We had dinner with the Sickels, a less active family, and showed them the Christ Child video. What a powerful testimony it bears of our Savior Jesus Christ being born in such humble circumstances!

How do you run VCR again? ;)

Tuesday: December 24th

Today was great, we baked a TON of cookies and I made a bunch of gift bags that we could take to all our people we teach as well as the members we work with. :) Such joy just fills my soul as I serve others with my whole heart this Christmas season!! Such peace, such joy, such love that comes from living the principles of this wonderful Gospel! We dropped off all the goodies, Roberta especially loved our surprise and we were equally surprised when she AND her family gave us presents right back! She truly does love us and I'm very glad she's been able to become comfortable with us missionaries. I mean, I've been teaching her since the very beginning! I'm definitely going to miss her whenever I get transferred, but I'm glad we as well as the Gospel has blessed her life in just 5 short months. :) Drove up to Montrose the night before to avoid a big snow storm and we stayed with the San Juan Elders. 5 Elders in one apartment on Christmas Eve.... oh gosh....

Trio Trouble!

Wednesday: December 25th

Merry Christmas!! My first Christmas as a missionary! WOW. So weird :) We opened a few presents in the morning, thank you!!!! <3

We then had district council in which I gave the training. We had a few changes in the district so it was good to get a new batch of missionaries for my district this transfer! Then we had a bunch of fun playing volleyball as a zone (about 40 missionaries). I called my crazy fam and opened some awesome presents ;) Thank you and love you! Today did NOT feel like Christmas in the slightest haha. At least it snowed at 10:29pm.... nice... ;)

Our piggy pig friend, haha :)

Thursday: December 26th

Today Elder Garstin had the very "clever" idea to walk out on some frozen pond while saying, "Don't worry, I'm safe." As soon as he said that the ice make a huge crack and he sprinted back to shore screaming like a little girl, haha! How do I control these savages? Oh wait... I'm also a savage so I guess we are all doomed ;)

We did some service and then had a very powerful lesson with Roberta where we invited her to be baptized!! She said, "I will, someday" and expressed some concerns and worries she had about whether her family would accept her joining a different church. Really, there is no such thing as joining the church. There is only becoming a better disciple of Jesus Christ! And if we all strive to constantly follow that principle, then naturally we will be led to where the Truth really is and accept the true Gospel of Jesus Christ! Roberta has come so far, and we can only continue to hope and pray that she further accepts the Gospel into her life as she comes closer and closer to committing. 

Friday: December 27th

Today was a lot of planning, I had a leadership call with the President and with all the local district leaders in Junction and Montrose.

CRAZY STORY:

We took Elder Hibbits to the Great Basin Medical Clinic in Rita to get his eye checked out. One of the nurses at the clinic actually worked WITH MY MOM at the hospital in Monticello!! What?!?! How crazy is that! She asked us where we were from and said, "Are your parents Randy and Jenna LaRose?" Uhhhhhh..... Heck YA they are! ;) So cool. Elder Hibbits is alright thankfully. It started snowing like crazy and the driveway was really really slippery but we didnt die! Good thing the car only slid a "little" bit off the road... ;)

Hospital trip!

We had an amazing lesson with Pam Buldoc and she heartily accepted a baptismal invitation to be baptized on January 18th!! This is a miracle! She truly is humbled and prepared to receive this Gospel into her life and follow her Savior down to the waters of baptism. I await that day with great earnest!

Saturday: December 28th

Snowed a bunch. Today we filled up the font for a baptism for Arthur Stott!! He is 8 years old and is part of a great member family. :) Such joy comes to my heart seeing a young child of God take some of the first beginning steps in his life. The mission nurse made us stay in our trailer home for the rest of the day cause we three all got pretty bad pink eye... it sucks :( But even if we follow every standard as a missionary, we still experience hardships, sickness, and setbacks. Much prayer, studying, and thinking followed the day. 

 Sneak attack from Elder Hibbits

Sunday: December 29th

We got Pam to come to church!! She was surprised that she knew almost everyone there, funny how a small town branch works like that... ;) We three Elders taught the second hour lesson on the Restoration, it was really good to have Pam there. She enjoyed coming to church and looked forward to our next lesson with her on Tuesday! We went up to Norwood where we shoveled snow in 7° weather, awesome... ;) We taught Darrol part of the Plan of Salvation and had a great day. My companions are crazy haha... I live with a bunch of monkeys ;) So weird to be looking forward on the calendar seeing "2020" popping up. Time sure does fly when you're out in the middle of the desert, driving in the cold Rita, having a blast teaching crazy people and smelling like weed all the time... #OnlyInRita

ALSO: My next Pday is moved to Tuesday, the 7th, so just be aware of that. We have Zone conference on Monday that week :)

Love you all,

Elder LaRose <3

P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org

WEEK #22 - Trio Trouble Part 2, TRANSFER NEWS!

Dannnnng Gina!! What a week...

Monday: December 16th
Today was great, very chill getting to email friends and family I love back home!
CRAZY STORY: We were parked on main street in Nucla planning Roberta's lesson in our car only to look up and see SEVEN police cars and two fire trucks zoom right past us and encircle something in the middle of the road! We heard something about apparently a waste truck exploded on fire on main street OR it was just a basement that got caught on fire and started burning. We don't know, haha! #OnlyInRita
We had another great lesson with Roberta talking about the seed of faith in Alma 32 and taking that last step of faith for her by coming to church again. We are settin up a baptismal invitation so pray she accepts and sees how much more the Gospel offers and can bless her by following Christ into the waters of baptism! :)

Yep, That's Rita for ya

Tuesday: December 17th
Driving up to District Council got down to -2 degrees!! I gave the training again for the combined District of eleven missionaries. I trained and testified of repentance, accountability, and diligence. The Spirit was definitely strong... :) We were at a members house for dinner and we got a call from President Rees for TRANSFER NEWS! I don't think anyone could have predicted this one ;)
So the whole time I had a feeling I was getting transferred, even some of my friends totally thought I was getting transferred ;) So President Rees talked to me and told me..... that I was STAYING in Naturita as District Leader!! ALSO we are getting a THIRD Elder, making the Naturita area now have a trio! Wow. So it'll be me, Elder Garstin still, and the new Elder Hibbits all in Naturita... Dannng Gina! I am also getting two more people in my District so that means more people, more stress, and more trainings for me! :) I did not expect this one at all.

Got a "letter" from The President, he told me I'm stayin. Yessssss

Wednesday: December 18th
Today Elder Garstin and I ran our hill in shorts and tshirts while it was 10⁰ outside!! We are crazy, haha! Stacked more wood for service and we cleaned the entire trailer home in preparation for Elder Hibbits. We don't even have a third mattress or chair! So I'll be sleeping on the floor once more :) We had another lesson with Roberta tonight because she didn't want to have me leave without a last lesson, aww she's so awesome! She was overjoyed to hear I was staying. We watched some Book of Mormon videos and talked about having the faith to commit.

Thursday: December 19th
Drove two hours up to get to GJ to pick up Elder Hibbits. We loaded everything in the Rita Rav and everyone else at transfers was laughing at our car seeing how dirty it was. We just have mud caked everywhere on the car from how savage our driveway is ;) We took the classic Rita picture with the new trio on the border of the Dolores river. Elder Hibbits is a great Elder, we are ready to work hard this next transfer!

Elder Hibbits and Elder Garstin!

Friday: December 20th
Happy 20th!!!
Today we three got to run the hill again in 10⁰ weather. Elder Hibbits seemed to take the hills well and is now initiated into Rita :) Today was crazy, we taught little Niki the Gospel of Jesus Christ using a really cool drawing my mom showed me.

Niki's cute drawing haha

BUT in the middle of the lesson Niki takes a cardboard box of dried potato mix, rips it open with her teeth, chucks the bag of potato mix at her sister Kira, and starts to EAT the cardboard box! What the heck?! The whole time us three missionaries were looking at each other in bewilderment, haha. We invited a lot of people to the special Christmas service this Sunday, we even got by Amee Bryant again! She was happy to see that I was staying another transfer. Elder Hibbits got pooped on by their tiny kitten and so our car smelled "wonderful" for the next few hours till we finished the night... ;) For his first full day in Rita he said it was pretty crazy, hopefully he has better experiences in the following days, afterall it IS Rita we're talking about, haha.

Saturday: December 21st
Another crazy day, we invited a ton more people to come to the special Christmas session of church. Lots of driving. We stopped by Amee Bryant and she had us make cookies! Now DON'T harass me.... BUT this was the first time I've ever really made cookies. I've never mixed, rolled, baked, and frosted cookies all at once. Granted, I WAS a wrestler you guys know! That means I would've died if I ate cookies in general, haha ;) But I look forward to future moments of messy kitchen evenings and cookie batter smeared all over my face, haha — in time, in time... ;)
CRAZY STORY:
So those cookies.... well.... I grabbed a pink food coloring bottle and nonchalantly made a snowman cookie with the drops as eyes and buttons. Well... what I forgot was that food coloring totally STAINS your teeth!! Unfortunately, our friend Ozzy grabbed my cookie and ate it before I could and... he now has very very pink teeth!! At least it wasn't as bad as Elder Garstin putting Habanero powder on his cookie!!

Cookies!

Sunday: December 22nd
Dang. Gina. We broke a new Naturita record! We got SIX people to come to church, but the ones that you guys would know is... Matt and Jamie!! What?! How in the world did we do that? Literally they got a ride to church and brought their baby Ziggy with them. The place smelled of smoke but nobody cared haha! I'm still left in bewilderment that my awesome weed smoking, crazy weird spiritual, dreadlocks and all friend came to church, haha! I flippin love Naturita :)

What happens to me after church... ;)

CRAZY STORY:
We tracted this neighborhood called "Snob Hill" and it's basically like 20 cabins on this little hill. So we go knocking on the first door and this lady invites us in. She said she's not interested but she told us that only THREE people lived up here on Snob Hill. Wanna know why?!?! Because everyone else got EVICTED! What... you kidding me, haha!! How, just how. And why. Haha! #OnlyInRita

Snob Hill

Great week, look forward to slayin more with this trio in Rita! And if all else fails, code word: Dang Gina! ;)

Love you all,
Elder LaRose

P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org

WEEK #21 - Trio Trouble

Hey everyone! Hope you enjoy this next weekly :)

Monday: December 9th

Had a few lessons to teach which was unusual on pday. Got to talk with family and email friends, always an uplifting and motivating time to keep pressing forward for those that I love! <3 We had an AWESOME lesson with Roberta, we outlined 12 steps to making a covenant with God. We got up to the point where we asked her, "Are you willing...?" And then ended the lesson. She's getting there! She told us she felt comfortable at church with our talks, just need to keep expanding that comfort Zone for her :)

Elder Garstin and Elder Thygerson!

Tuesday: December 10th

Great day! Had a district council, didn't give the training this time cause we were combined. After we went on exchanges!! This is a weird one though, we got to take Elder Thygerson back to Naturita with us for a temporary trio!! WHAT. Awesome right? I went on exchanges with Elder Thygerson in September so it's been a bit. The trio was SO fun! We were crackin jokes, workin hard, and just lovin being missionaries!! We had someone at Walmart ask us if we were in a band haha. We told them we sang the music of the Lord ;) Definitely a first experience being in a trio, lot of good work we can get done! We ran into this one guy named Scott, he is a character... after talking with him Elder Thygerson asked me, "Was Scott drunk?" And I replied, "Yep. That's Scott for ya" haha! ;) #OnlyInRita

Trio Trouble in Rita

Wednesday: December 11th

Got to teach Karen again, first trio teaching experience :) We stacked a TON of wood which was fun. Thanks Dad for giving me all those wood stacking chores to prepare me for this, haha ;) We had a really cool experience where this one less active was finally home after 5 MONTHS of trying to get in contact! We walked in a started building up her fire and splitting wood. We had a great conversation with her and she was able to open up about her trials and asked us to give her a blessing on Friday. She had a the newspaper in her home and GUESS WHAT... it was literally the San Juan Record!! (Hometown Monticello Newspaper) And also, she is related to the people who own Los Tachos in Monticello, WHAT!! (Famous local truck vendor we went to as a family) It's so crazy that I have so many awesome connections here in Rita just from living in Cello :)

We got upgraded from the trailer home to an abandoned stone hut... pitchfork included!

Thursday: December 12th

We re-exchanged and Elder Garstin and I went back into the wilderness of Naturita... :) We got Tina to let us teach her daughters Niki and Kira the Plan of Salvation! (Explains where we came from, our purpose in Earth, and what happens after this life) We used some pictures to teach them and they really liked it! Niki, Tina's 8yr old daughter, roasted her mom by saying, "Mom! You're not supposed to swear if you go to church!" Haha, we just need to keep being there for Tina and her family. She's closed her heart off to us, but we can at least keep serving them and teach her kids more Gospel principles :)

Friday: December 13th

Went by this VERY sketch house to visit the "devil lady" as this person was called. Luckily she didn't answer the door so we were saved. ;)

This is the house of the devil lady... ya, these are the types of houses we knock on boys ;)

Today we gave a lot of service for people and then had dinner with... a former family from Monticello!! The Tibbets family actually have a daughter I went to elementary school with and a son that I was on the same wrestling team with as a kid. So awesome! :)

Saturday: December 14th

We got a few angry texts from one guy we were teaching. It's sad to see people quickly change to being so hard hearted. Elder Garstin thought we were going to get murdered by him, haha! But we have a lot of crazy people here in Rita, so it's normal and the Lord protects us :) We had three amazing lessons with Dan, Shane, and Pam! During our lesson with Shane he exclaimed, "I want to have faith!" He is totally willing to read more from the Book of Mormon and when we assigned him to read a chapter talking about faith and he said, "Do you have faith that I'll read this chapter?" Haha, what a savage. I love that guy :) We had our branch Christmas dinner! There was so many less actives there (people who don't attend church frequently) and I got called to play PIANO on the spot! Brother Royer signed me up for the talent show without telling me and all of a sudden I hear, "And next we will have Elder LaRose playing the piano." WHAT. I'm literally so bad at the piano, but I quickly decided to play the song I wrote and created myself. It was nerve racking but my first piano performance was really cool nonetheless :) Great time spent with the Branch!

I think something was snuck in those cookies Santa!!

Sunday: December 15th

I love taking the sacrament at church! Just pure peace, reflection, and renewal for the upcoming week :) We finally got to talk with Loren and Phil, they are SO golden they said, "We should probably go to church next week, will you guys be there?" Haha, of course we will! Had fun driving in ANOTHER blizzard tonight! Good thing I got snow skills, good braces, and a sprinkle of God's grace keeping us alive, haha ;)

All around a solid week, I get transfer news this upcoming week... SO nervous!

Love you all,

Elder LaRose

P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org

WEEK #20 - Tickery Tock, The Mouse Ran Up My Back

Good to see yall, definitely a revelatory week! Hope all is well :)

Monday: December 2nd
Got to email fam, friends, and this one random dude who lives somewhere in Canada... haha ;) Nah, I'm just kidding... he lived in Zimbabwe.
Anyways! Had a really joyful and fulfilling day, we ate a ton of honey with some members for dinner. I LOVE my honey <3 We got to show Roberta a movie about the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith. (Joseph Smith is an amazing man who endured through many trials to become a modern day prophet of God and brought about much of the Restotartion of The Church of Jesus Christ.) It was such a powerful movie! I teared up many times, but the Spirit was definitely strong. We watched it at the church which was a HUGE step for Roberta! We haven't gotten her to budge on coming to the church for 4 months. Great day overall, many goofs galore... ;)

You kidding me? So close yet so far ;)


CRAZY STORY:
We were in the trailerhome for the night and Elder Garstin and I are just chillin in our beds when I hear a tiny squeaking noise.... I look over and there was a MOUSE just chillin on our fan by the door!! We tried to throw blankets like nets to catch it, but we managed to get it into the bathroom cornered. I grabbed a bowl to try and capture the mouse as it ran by. Elder Garstin and I both screamed as the mouse literally ran across both of our bare feet and into the living room! We weren't able to catch it, it got under the stove. But what a surprise from this crazy Death Mouse!! It wasn't really deadly obviously but it was a mouse nonetheless! Plus we got to stick with the theme, Death Cow, Death Deer, and now Death Mouse, haha! Scared us so bad, but now we get to buy mouse traps for the trailerhome... ;)
Well, this story is NOT over.... I thought it was. That very night I woke up at 4 am. And I felt something... I felt the SAME MOUSE crawling up my arm and across my back!!! I tried to brush it off of me thinking that would do it but it came back and crawled over my back for a SECOND time! Danng Gina! Get away from me.... ugh! Haha ;)
That was a first for sure.... *slaps forehead*
OH MY GOSH HOW LONG IS THIS STORY. I'm literally writing all of this as it happens, the mouse showed up AGAIN this morning but it was asleep on the ground! Thank you Heavenly Father haha. We trapped it under a bowl and was able to take it out for good outside... savage! Geez, glad that's over, savage mouse :)

 We finally got him!

Meet the Mouse...

Tuesday: December 3rd
Headed up to Montrose to give the training in District Council, but this time we combined with another district and I taught both of them! It was a really great training, and a great discussion. Stressful planning these but rewarding when they're done. We drove home and had yet another lesson with Roberta! This time we really drove home the point of coming to church, she herself is her only holdback. Please pray that her heart be softened and that she take a leap of faith and come to church!

Wednesday: December 4th
Taught a nice lady the importance of the Book of Mormon, we read some chapters and she told us she was excited to finish the Book! I know that we can find peace, direction, and comfort through reading the words of the Book of Mormon. In my life, nothing has been clear truth than that. I invite you reading this to read 2 Nephi 33:10 and ponder what this Book can do for you :)

CRAZY STORY:
We swung by a member's home and we found the MEMBER outside DUMPSTER DIVING in their front yard! They totally saw us pull up but didn't care. They were digging some more and pulled out this bag of white powder! They had found a bag of CRACK inside that dumpster and we saw them put it in their pocket.... #OnlyInRita Literally only in Rita where you go to check up on one of your members and find them in a dumpster looking for a bag of crack that they can save for later... haha! *slaps forehead*

Thursday: December 5th
Today we went back to our "patch in the back" friend who started listed off reasons why smoking weed was terrible for your health and then proceeded to say that it was fine for old people... nice. Rita had a Christmas "parade" today. And I say parade in quotes cause it was basically just 6 muddy trucks pulling beat up trailers that had a few Santa floaties and like two snowmen on them... small town life! :) We taught Niki (Tina's 8yr old daughter) a really cool interactive lesson on the Restoration and they are planning on coming back to church! Glad that Tina's heart has softened :)

Savages

Friday: December 6th
CRAZY STORY: Fire
Drove two hours up to Grand Junction to get on a bus to Denver for a mission wide dinner/meeting. Thing is... we drove through a FOREST FIRE to get there! Ya! There was smoke everywhere for about 40 miles on the road and we couldn't see past 15ft in all directions. It was insane! Thankfully there were no fires on the road itself, just smoke everywhere but we made it to GJ fine :) That was a first... thank goodness for the Lord's protection through that forest fire. We took a bus and got to Denver for our mission wide dinner. There was 170 missionaries! We also had a musical devotion which was really good. Definitely a historic moment to have the whole mission there.

Saturday: December 7th
Woke up and the whole mission filed into one chapel. We had the special privilege of having Elder Carl B. Cook of the Seventy and Elder Niel L. Anderson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speak to us! (Leaders in our church) As soon as Elder Anderson walked in I could feel such a joyful and peaceful spirit about him! It truly was a once in a lifetime opportunity to sit at the feet of an Apostle of the Lord and listen earnestly to his counsel. The Spirit was strong there and we had a great discussion with them as a mission. One quote that stood out to me was, "You don't have to handle it, give it to the Lord." I love this principle! Whenever we are struggling please know that you are not going through your trials alone. Your Savior has borne every burden, included yours, so turn to Him and He can show you how to get through it!
Funny Story: I was driving through Grand Junction so Elder Garstin and I could get back on the road home and I looked outside and saw LITERALLY FIVE people on the sidewalk, one pushing a stroller, and said, "Wow, there's a lot of people out on the streets..." and Elder Garstin started laughing and told me that I'd been in Naturita too long, haha! I guess five people walking around the city just seems like a lot of people to me now ;)

Sunday: December 8th
Elder Garstin and I gave talks in church and guess who FINALLY came?!?! Roberta!!! I was full of such glee that she came. I received a very special and strong spiritual witness during my talk, and I cried as pure love just entered into my heart unbeknownst anything I've ever felt in my very being. <3 I began to cry and testify to my awesome Rita congregation that I knew how the Spirit speaks to me. And that I KNEW what I have learned in my head, been able to FEEL in my heart, and DO with my feet in the Gospel is all.... True. I know it, and God knows it. Great life changing day!
CRAZY STORY: Fire, now Ice
We were driving from Norwood to Nucla and got hit with this huge blizzard!! I couldn't even see the lines on the road so I just mentally cut the road in half and stayed in my "lane" haha! :)
I flippin love Rita!

Driving through a blizzard AND a forest fire was pretty scary yet fun! Wonder what the heckin crazy next thing Colorado is going to throw at me this week... ;)

Love you all,
Elder LaRose

P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org

WEEK #19 - Thanksgiving UNO Showdown: Hit or Baptize

Hey everyone! Glad to be still be alive since last weekly's fun :)

This week was an awesome Thanksgiving week! I am very grateful for all the love, support, and encouragement you all give to me as I serve my mission! <3

 cows don't learn

Monday: November 25th
Today we went by this guy named Jonathon. He is different. We gave him a Book of Mormon a few weeks prior and were checking to see how he is reading it. We showed up and he gave US a challenge! He told us that if we could face him in UNO and beat him then he would get baptized! But, if we lost then he said we would have to take a hit on his weed pipe!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Haha!! Luckily he didn't have any UNO cards with him at the moment, so we'll see how that turns out... people like him just don't see the real principles behind baptism and probably aren't ready haha
*slaps forehead*
We had a great lesson with Roberta who has gained a testimony of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon! Awesome! Now we're helping her gain an understanding of the Prophet Joseph Smith, she's so close :)

Composing my own song

Tuesday: November 26th
SNOW! We finally got some snow again, it was really fun slippin and slidin out of our driveway today haha. We had some good fun tracting in the 18° weather! Met a man who told us that he preferred to "speak with us only in tongues..." haha, crazy man.

Cold feet anyone?

Wednesday: November 27th
We taught Tina this morning the principles of faith, trust, and humility. There are so many people who struggle to realize what true faith is in the Lord. People have faith in Him, yet as soon as times get hard they murmur or doubt their foundation. I know Heavenly Father gives us specific trials in our life to refine us! If it wasn't hard to overcome tough trials, do you think it really would be worth it? The greater the sorrow we feel, the greater the capacity we have to experience true joy. Without wind a kite can't fly. But the key is to anchor ourselves to the Savior to so when the winds of life are throwing us around we can soar to greater heights with Him. Just a thought, ya goofs ;)

Thursday: November 28th
Happy Thanksgiving! Definitely a good day, I gave my training in District Council which went really went and we all got some much needed revelation and upliftment! We then had a fun Zone activity were we all played volleyball with the 20 or so missionaries in the zone.

My Zone! Don't ask about the suits...


Drove 2 hours home to get to a Thanksgiving party Roberta had invited us to. We walked in and her WHOLE family was there, up to a great grandma. Missionary mode clicked in and we befriended all of them by talkin about Monticello, huntin, and wrestling, haha! Works every time... ;) We then had another dinner with some awesome members in Norwood. Great first Thanksgiving as missionary.



Friday: November 29th
I forced... *cough* I mean, strongly encouraged Elder Garstin to come running with me, haha. It was raining, windy, and snowing hail in this giant storm outside but we still ran! Our faces got pelted by the hail, it was awesome :) We taught Billy the Restoration. He told us that it would be the "pinnacle of life" if he could find God's true church here on the earth. I've gained a personal testimony that the Church of Jesus Christ is God's restored church here on the earth. Why isn't this just another "claim" from another church? Because I have seen miracles in my life, I have felt the Holy Ghost touch my heart, and I know! I know it and cannot deny it. A serious study of the Book of Mormon has revealed these truths unto me, and I know that God loves His people enough to give a second witness of His truth. I promise the Book of Mormon holds revelation specific to you, and as you read, the Spirit will touch your heart as you seek understanding!

Sunrise as always :)

Saturday: November 30th
CRAZY STORY:
Stopped by this guy named Herb and literally halfway into our conversation he STRAIGHT UP asked us, "Are you guys married?" Haha, Elder Garstin and I both looked at each other and then at the rings on our right hands. Mine says "Called to Serve" and his says "Choose the Right" haha! How in the world do some people believe that two 18 year old guys, wearing missionary nametags, are married and are going around preaching about Jesus... Nucla is crazy... ;) Throwing back to Monday with Jonathon's UNO challenge, there was a random kid from his neighborhood that ran up to us and said, "So are you guys really going to get high with Jonathon after you guys lose in UNO?" OH. MY. GOSH. Haha, of course we're not going to get high, because we are not going to lose! Literally all the trailerhome neighborhood is hyped to have us missionaries come over and face Jonathon in UNO... what have we gotten ourselves into?! We'll see how this one turns out... #OnlyInRita


Snow Hail, fun to drive in!
Sunday: December 1st
Christmas season is the BEST! Today at church we had a grand TOTAL of 24 people there! Holy cow #BranchLife
Haha, I love the little Branch I get to serve in out here in the middle of the desert ;) We had a few lessons fall through which was a little disheartening. But Elder Garstin and I really identified many things we want to improve on and want to give up unto the Lord in order to become more dedicated missionaries and disciples of Christ! He's a great companion. Matt and Jamie told us that they wanted to join the church so they could get food storage and go on a senior mission, haha! Savages, I love them.

Hope y'all enjoyed this weekly! Have you noticed I keep saying y'all? I'm becomin' more and more ColoRADo mountain man every day! Heck ya, that's right ya goofs... ;)

Love you all,
Elder LaRose

P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org