WEEK #25 - "I'm not writing that quote down"

CRAY to the Z this week! Hope you enjoy this, my mission has been such a blessing since being out. Please know that I love you all! <3

Don't mind this... :)

Monday: January 6th
Drove up to Montrose for Zone Conference. We had car inspections and the only thing we could afford was a hand car wash so we did that outside in 10⁰ weather. Our hands were FROZEN, we fumbling trying to put those 7 quarters in the slot to get more time haha :) We had an amazing lesson with Roberta! She's really struggled in her life and thanked us for bringing her the Gospel at a hard time in her life. She just wants peace. Isn't that what we all want? Peace within our families, peace within our friends and loved ones... Christ is the Prince on Peace! So ANY thing, relationship, place, or person built upon the Rock of Christ is promised to have Peace therein. Isn't that wonderful? In time, it truly can be.
Roberta also committed to January 25th as her day she gets baptized! She's still a little nervous but willing to keep praying about this decision in her life. I love Roberta, she's so awesome!

My stash

Tuesday: January 7th
Today was our moved pday, we went round Rita and Nucla and visited a bunch of run down antique shops. Great day talking with family and friends, some were confused about the switched pday, haha! Sorry! We went by the ALLSTAR of the week Pam! She was very honest and open with us. She's had many struggles in her life too. We taught her the rest of everything she needs to know and gave her the baptismal interview! She is super solid, she wants so badly to be baptized and accept the Gospel fully into her life by making this step :)

Wednesday: January 8th
To sum up this day, on lesson about missionary work is that the efforts of Satan against those you teach are REAL. Satan KNOWS when people are starting to accept the Gospel because his grip on them is loosening. He doesn't want any of us to find peace, happiness, joy, or even progression. He wants us to have misery, sorrow, despair, and digression. Never give up on people, always trust in the Lord! I say all this because we had a close call, but everything was resolved through a bunch of hugs, consolation, and a blessing. Missionary work sure is crazy!

Awesome!

Thursday: January 9th
Today I got to hack at a tree with an axe until it fell, haha! We were splitting and gathering wood for a local member. He had a chainsaw, but just the smell of cutting wood brought back fun memories of doing this in Cello with my family on Blue Mountain.

That's a SAVAGE right there

We went by Shane and taught him the Plan of Salvation. He recently had his father passed away, so I was able to have a heart to heart with him. Death in any family is hard. It's confusing. It's very saddening and it hurts you to your core. But the Plan of Salvation brings us hope! We know that our lives do not end at death, my amazing uncle passed away last April from unexpected cancer. That was very hard and still is hard for all of my family to deal with. But I know that he is in a better place, watching over us and imploring us to LIVE so that we can see him again! Shane really liked the hope this brought him about his dad.

Friday: January 10th
Today was a lot of planning. We gave a blessing to an amazing grandma who is struggling with some health issues. The cool thing was her less active daughter showed up at the same time as us and was going to suggest to her mom that she call the missionaries to come over to give her mom a blessing. Well, the Lord certainly directs His work! We had another great lesson with Roberta. Only two weeks until her baptism! We emphasized the scriptures 1 Nephi 22 and talked about how the righteous need not fear so long as they put their trust in God and cast aside all their fears! (Alma 7:15)

Photo cred: The Sun

Saturday: January 11th
Today we taught Dan the Law of Chastity. I'll leave it at that. :) We went by Matt to invite him to church but he just straight up pulled out his WEED BONG in front of us and started smoking it, haha! So what did we do? We served him... by helping him cut wood while he used a CHAINSAW while he was HIGH! #OnlyInRita Next we drove to Norwood, talked with a few people, hit a few icicles down, and then drove back to Rita for Pam's lesson, haha!


We watched the hour long Restoration video with her, she was very grateful for Joseph Smith and was crying at how much he went through to bring about this glorious Gospel. I too can't even imagine the hardship Joseph and especially Emma, his wife, had to face together and when they were apart. Definitely wouldn't be where I am today without them.

Rainbow moon!

Sunday: January 12th
They announced Pam's baptism in church!! It'll be on Saturday the 18th at 4pm. I don't know why yall need to know that, but just in case any of you happen to find yourself in the middle of a barren desert next to a trailer home then... you found me, haha! ;) Don't know how many of yall will be this far south in ColoRADo but you're all invited nonetheless :) We got a new branch presidency and Josh Zitting is the new President! He is a great guy, we now have KJ as our Branch mission leader (helps organize missionary work in the area).

ALOT of driving this week. I've been driving for the past 5 months... haha, I love long drives though. Hope everyone reading this had a great week!

With much love,
Elder LaRose <3

P.O. Box 821

Nucla, Colorado 81424

EMAIL: keldon.larose@missionary.org