WEEK #91 - Western Wilderness

A PACKed week of exchanges out in the wild wild West!

Colorado Denver SOUTH Mission!

Monday: April 12th

Great day, had to pack for exchanges all out west, got one email out haha, but we were able to drive to Rifle tonight. They put bumps in the road going from Frisco to Gypsum and I totally nailed all three bumps and got "Aggressive Driving" violations from our car monitor.... uh oh :0 Haha, it was a beautiful drive at least going through Glenwood. 

Loveland Pass again :)

Tuesday: April 13th

Woke up and drove up to the Meeker Cafe for breakfast again! I did this last month on my birthday, and I really enjoyed it. I'm definitely taking my family there! We had District Council in Meeker and drove up to Craig. Of course there was deer carcasses scattered along the roads.... classic Craig! I went with Elder Tanner and we worked hard on Facebook. We taught a couple lessons, roasted a couple people who were not being very nice, and called it a day! Funny story, one of the Elders MADE SURE to buy salt for their apartment before I came on exchanges so they could make sure that Elder LaRose had his salt... haha, hey! I love my salt :)

Meeker Cafe

Elder Tanner in Craig

Wednesday: April 14th

Woke up today and there was snow on the ground – in April!! Nice one Colorado... we drove from Craig to Grand Junction (I LOVE Grand Junction!) and we drove the long way through Rangely and Douglass pass. It was so cool seeing signs for the Blue Mountains! That is literally my home mountain in Monticello <3 It was so fun passing by a sign that had GJ on the left and Utah on the right. We got to GJ and went on exchanges with the Land's End Elders which was great! Always good to be back in GJ. 

Flower pictures in GJ!

Thursday: April 15th

Instead of going to Montrose we had to do a virtual exchange with the Black Canyon Elders, but it was still good being in GJ. It was pouring rain today which is pretty unusual with Colorado, and Grand Junction. We taught someone today about the Plan of Salvation, and I love that as we focus on learning more about the Plan God has for each of us, we find more peace come into our life. Feel free to message me if you want to discover ways to find true peace from Christ in your life 

Flower pictures in GJ!

Friday: April 16th

GJWest today, and that was fun with Elder Gividen. We taught lessons to others about the Restoration of the Gospel, and the importance of daily scripture study! I cannot emphasize it enough, we have to be in the scriptures every day! I find a lot of personal peace as I truly take time to dive into the scriptures and apply their meaning into my own life. 

Going for a run!

Saturday: April 17th

Headed out to Rifle today! I'm always sad to leave Grand Junction... we had a pretty AWEsome day today with Elder Hicks and Elder Elmore. We got some Thai food, and worked hard on messaging a lot of people on Facebook! Our goal is to help bring others closer to Christ, and you find you'll have some interesting conversations online, but good ones too! 

Rifle Thai lunchtime 

Sunday: April 18th

Drove home over the Loveland Pass before Eisenhower tunnel. The view was gorgeous!! I ended up missing the exit so we took Loveland Pass the back way, and made the trip on I-70 twice. It was really good! We ended up having to stop teaching a few people and it was sad to see them go. There are so many people we can help, just not many truly listen, so we pray that the Lord will soften their hearts!

Loveland Pass, so awesome!  

Great week, lots of driving, and sleeping on air mattresses, but it was great serving the Lord

Love,

Elder LaRose