WEEK #32 - The Power of the Book of Mormon! And Bleached Hair...

Hello everyone! If you read anything in this email read this: The Book of Mormon is true... please, read it :)

Monday: February 24th

Great play, got to play bball with the Zone and talk with my family. I love them all so much! All the goofs... ;) Elder Kofford also taught me how to rope on the dummy cow! I swung the rope around my head and roped the back legs and everything haha. You can consider me a full blown cowboy now... :) For the rest of the day we scrambled and stressed trying to get a bunch of reports in that our district leaders hadn't collected. I love missionary work!

Service day!

Tuesday: February 25th

Went to the E 1/2 district council. They were surprised to see us. We drove out to Whitewater for a little bit of missionary work there. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Book of Mormon! I try and reference to it at every door we knock and explain to people that it truly is another testament of Jesus Christ. There is SO much peace, guidance, joy, and purpose we can find therein as we study the words of so many of the Lord's prophets and disciples. I encourage each of you reading this email to truly "treasure up the words of life" that are contained in the Book of Mormon. If you have a testimony of the Book of Mormon, then turn it into a conversion. Nothing will last in these latter days except for what we are converted to, so if you aren't converted to Jesus Christ and His restored Gospel... to time to begin is now. 

I want all that honey! ;)

Wednesday: February 26th

Had a good MLC call with President Rees. Then we did some service and packaged enough food to feed over 2,000 kids in need! It's always such a blessing seeing how much our service actually means to others - and to God! :) We had great lessons with Danyel and then with Angela. Both are progressing super well, I hope to continue to help them along the Lord's path of discipleship!

Thursday: February 27th

Saw a Connecticut license plate driving by. Who from Connecticut would be in Grand Junction of all places?! Oh wait... that's me. We taught Dayrest who was really motivated to commit to learning more in the Gospel. We are glad that she is willing to progress!

A missionary's worst nightmare

Friday: February 28th

We had an interested lesson with Christie. I really thought she was solid, until she started expressing to us that she no longer could put any heart into the Book of Mormon or even the Bible. She told us she had many questions of the soul that weren't answered, and all I could do was promise her that the only way she could receive answers to those questions, and figure out what really is truth, would be to move forward with a sincere study of the Book of Mormon. That is the entire purpose of the Book of Mormon: to draw us closer to our Savior Jesus Christ as we discover more truth about Him. She told us she decided to remain in confusion and not seek the help that this wonderful book of scripture offers her. Pray for her please. We got home and Elder Kofford thought he could be macho man and told me he could kick the ceiling with his foot. Too bad I didn't get video of this, but let's just say Elder Kofford was NOT able to kick the ceiling with his foot, haha! ;) Us missionaries are crazy. 

 Sunset :)

Saturday: February 29th

This day won't happen again for another four years, dang gina! Got to go on exchanges today with our DL. Me and Elder Oakes worked hard today and picked up two people to teach.

CRAZY STORY:

We went to a members house for dinner and we had hamburgers.... it turns out that MY hamburger just so happened to be the ONLY one that was placed on the edge of the grill and not the center. This meaning that the flame couldn't reach my hamburger enough to cook it. I was sitting in the home and the member gave me this hamburger with all the toppings on it too. I thanked them for preparing it for me and took a big bite of the hamburger. Everything looked fine until I looked down at my hamburger and realized it was RAW. The edges were brown but the ENTIRE middle was pink and red....I ate a flippen raw hamburger! My stomach did not feel good after, hopefully the members didn't notice me sneak the half eaten raw burger into the trash... haha!

Also, this one member was staring at me very observingly and blurted out this... "You look German. He's a Nazi! He looks straight like Hitler's son! You look a lot German. Thin hair, eyes that sink in, the nose, small lips big smile. You're German." She laughed when I told her I bleached my hair for wrestling and kept roasting me for looking like a German. Hey! Germany is awesome. My dad lived there for a bit and served his mission there! Love you Dad :)

Sunday: March 1st

Happy March! I don't have any bias, but March is totally the best month of the year... ;) Haha! Church was good, I always really love the sacrament. We had Angela come to church! She is progressing SO well, her family is very supportive of her and the ward just completely welcomes her in. She told us, "Imma stay forever" when asked about how much she likes church. We are making progress! We had to roll out a ton more reports to the district leaders cause our mission reports is all moving to google sheets. What a wild time to be a missionary!

Great and stressful week, doesn't seem to be slowing down though. Oh well, press forward. 

Love,

Elder LaRose

 My NEW ADDRESS is:

2946 D Rd. Apt #D-3

Grand Junction, CO 81504

Mailbox - #15

keldon.larose@missionary.org