Thursday, July 28, 2016
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
The Final Update
Wow I can't believe I'm in my last week of my mission! Time has flown by and I have had a blast in San Diego!
Honestly this past week has been pretty uneventful except for a few things.
One cool thing is the Youkels. They are a part member family that the missionaries have been working with for years and there hasn't been much progress until like a month ago. The dad who is a member who is usually really goofy in lessons and stuff but he had this moment where it just clicked, he said "you know I need to be taking this more seriously. I'm probably one of the reasons my wife and son aren't baptized, I need to meet with the bishop and get this figured out so I can baptize them."
Ever since that moment they have changed so much. He used to not come to church very much but he has been coming more regularly even if his nonmember wife is working he will bring their two kids. They are both starting to actually read the Book of Mormon. It's so awesome. The soonest he can get the priesthood is October so his wife and son has baptismal dates for Oct 22!
The other cool thing that happened this week is we saw Alex Boye. He was a special guest at a mission president's devotional. There ended up being over 1000 people there and there were close to 50 investigators from the mission there. Alex Boye was cool, he is a little crazy but that's alright. We brought the Youkels and they really enjoyed it.
Yesterday Elder Searle and I were on exchanges with Elder Nelson who usually is in Tagalog work so that was a lot of fun.
Things this upcoming week are going to be crazy. Tomorrow we have exchanges with the Assistants. Friday we have another exchange but I won't be there. I will be at departure activities. So I will go to the San Diego temple for the last time with President and Sister Schmitt. Then we will spend the day with them. Eventually I think we will get on Facebook that day for a second so look out for me!
Other than that things are going great! We went on a 5 mile hike today... It was kinda hot but it's alright. It was fun I guess haha. Talk to you soon! Love ya!
Elder Chris LaRochelle
Honestly this past week has been pretty uneventful except for a few things.
One cool thing is the Youkels. They are a part member family that the missionaries have been working with for years and there hasn't been much progress until like a month ago. The dad who is a member who is usually really goofy in lessons and stuff but he had this moment where it just clicked, he said "you know I need to be taking this more seriously. I'm probably one of the reasons my wife and son aren't baptized, I need to meet with the bishop and get this figured out so I can baptize them."
Ever since that moment they have changed so much. He used to not come to church very much but he has been coming more regularly even if his nonmember wife is working he will bring their two kids. They are both starting to actually read the Book of Mormon. It's so awesome. The soonest he can get the priesthood is October so his wife and son has baptismal dates for Oct 22!
The other cool thing that happened this week is we saw Alex Boye. He was a special guest at a mission president's devotional. There ended up being over 1000 people there and there were close to 50 investigators from the mission there. Alex Boye was cool, he is a little crazy but that's alright. We brought the Youkels and they really enjoyed it.
Yesterday Elder Searle and I were on exchanges with Elder Nelson who usually is in Tagalog work so that was a lot of fun.
Things this upcoming week are going to be crazy. Tomorrow we have exchanges with the Assistants. Friday we have another exchange but I won't be there. I will be at departure activities. So I will go to the San Diego temple for the last time with President and Sister Schmitt. Then we will spend the day with them. Eventually I think we will get on Facebook that day for a second so look out for me!
Other than that things are going great! We went on a 5 mile hike today... It was kinda hot but it's alright. It was fun I guess haha. Talk to you soon! Love ya!
Elder Chris LaRochelle
Zone Meeting - Last One (7/12)
Hello!
Can't believe next week is my last p day! Pretty crazy! I'm going to keep it quick but this week I had my quarterly interview with President Schmitt. Pretty awesome! He was pretty relaxed with me since I'm going home soon haha. We just talked about what my plan is when I get home and keeping this good habits that I have gained on my mission.
Also went on exchanges with Elder Conrad! He is pretty hilarious! We had a blast together. I was Elder Conrad's District Leader when he first came out and he has definitely changed since then haha.
Had my last zone meeting. It was pretty good. We talked about enduring through trials. We shared a talk called "The Lords Wind" .
Love ya,
Elder Chris LaRochelle
Can't believe next week is my last p day! Pretty crazy! I'm going to keep it quick but this week I had my quarterly interview with President Schmitt. Pretty awesome! He was pretty relaxed with me since I'm going home soon haha. We just talked about what my plan is when I get home and keeping this good habits that I have gained on my mission.
Also went on exchanges with Elder Conrad! He is pretty hilarious! We had a blast together. I was Elder Conrad's District Leader when he first came out and he has definitely changed since then haha.
Had my last zone meeting. It was pretty good. We talked about enduring through trials. We shared a talk called "The Lords Wind" .
Love ya,
Elder Chris LaRochelle
Burgers, Ribs, Ribeyes, and Sausage (7/5)
Alright. Here's what's going down in San Diego!
Last Tuesday was awesome! Charlotte, one of my converts in Sweetwater, went to the temple for her endowment! Her session started at 7pm and we got permission to go from President Schmitt even though he knew we were going to be a little late getting home.
We got to the temple 20 minutes early and when I tried to use my new temple recommend that president gave me it didn't work because he forgot to activate it. So one of the temple workers had to call president and we ended up missing the session by a minute. But the temple president told us that we could go do initiatories and then afterwords we could go to the celestial room and meet them there after there session. It was so good to see one of my converts in the temple!
Wednesday was awesome! In the morning we did service for a part member family. Afterwards they made us burgers that were super good! Later that night we had dinner with a member and he made us these HUGE Ribeyes. They were so good!
After that we went to an appointment and then we had another dinner with a part member family and they invited Hollie and her two kids who are all non members. We recently started teaching them and they fed us ribs! They were so good I just wish I wasn't full from our first dinner haha.
Then we took the stake president out with us to go see one of our investigators named Mandy and that lesson went great! Mandy is awesome but she has been struggling a lot lately and so we have been helping her.
Friday we had MLC (Missionary Leadership Council). It was my last MLC so president asked me to share my testimony about the Book of Mormon. MLC is always great but it lasts all day. I'm just glad they give us lunch in between haha!
Saturday we had to get ready for some stake meetings and we also met with our Ward mission leaders and also the high counselor over missionary work in the stake. We were supposed to go to the Mormon Battalion with one of our investigators but they cancelled on us.
Sunday Was awesome! In our first 3 hours of church there was a kid that was running past the church building and just decided to come inside and check it out. The first person he meets as he is walking in is our bishop and he comes and gets us and we were able to teach him the restoration with our Ward mission leader at church.
Yesterday (July 4th) was alright. We had to be inside by 6pm. That morning we helped serve food at the Ward breakfast. I was in charge of handing out sausage links. I was supposed to give everyone 1 sausage. Most of the people were fine but some guy kind of freaked out about only getting one sausage. I was like whatever haha it's just sausage, even though I do agree that 1 piece is kind of ridiculous.
Bye for now!
Elder Chris LaRochelle
Last Tuesday was awesome! Charlotte, one of my converts in Sweetwater, went to the temple for her endowment! Her session started at 7pm and we got permission to go from President Schmitt even though he knew we were going to be a little late getting home.
We got to the temple 20 minutes early and when I tried to use my new temple recommend that president gave me it didn't work because he forgot to activate it. So one of the temple workers had to call president and we ended up missing the session by a minute. But the temple president told us that we could go do initiatories and then afterwords we could go to the celestial room and meet them there after there session. It was so good to see one of my converts in the temple!
Wednesday was awesome! In the morning we did service for a part member family. Afterwards they made us burgers that were super good! Later that night we had dinner with a member and he made us these HUGE Ribeyes. They were so good!
After that we went to an appointment and then we had another dinner with a part member family and they invited Hollie and her two kids who are all non members. We recently started teaching them and they fed us ribs! They were so good I just wish I wasn't full from our first dinner haha.
Then we took the stake president out with us to go see one of our investigators named Mandy and that lesson went great! Mandy is awesome but she has been struggling a lot lately and so we have been helping her.
Friday we had MLC (Missionary Leadership Council). It was my last MLC so president asked me to share my testimony about the Book of Mormon. MLC is always great but it lasts all day. I'm just glad they give us lunch in between haha!
Saturday we had to get ready for some stake meetings and we also met with our Ward mission leaders and also the high counselor over missionary work in the stake. We were supposed to go to the Mormon Battalion with one of our investigators but they cancelled on us.
Sunday Was awesome! In our first 3 hours of church there was a kid that was running past the church building and just decided to come inside and check it out. The first person he meets as he is walking in is our bishop and he comes and gets us and we were able to teach him the restoration with our Ward mission leader at church.
Yesterday (July 4th) was alright. We had to be inside by 6pm. That morning we helped serve food at the Ward breakfast. I was in charge of handing out sausage links. I was supposed to give everyone 1 sausage. Most of the people were fine but some guy kind of freaked out about only getting one sausage. I was like whatever haha it's just sausage, even though I do agree that 1 piece is kind of ridiculous.
Bye for now!
Elder Chris LaRochelle
Teaching and Changing Lives (6/28)
Hey Everyone! Hope things are going great! On Sunday I realized that I hit my 23 month mark... Where did the time go! Time has flown by so fast and I have just loved my mission! I have been able to see the gospel bless and change people's lives but most importantly I have seen the gospel change me and it's so wonderful!
This week was slower then last week but still pretty good! Even though a lot of our investigators were out of town we still stayed busy.
Last Tuesday we met with a part member family that missionaries have been working with for a long time! We went on splits and I went with their home teacher who is also the executive secretary. We were going to share a Mormon message with them called the hope of God's light but before we shared the Mormon message I told them to really think about why we were sharing this and how it applies to them. After we shared it with them the husband, who in the past hasn't been really supportive, told us that he needs to take this more seriously, he also said that if he would have been more supportive his wife probably would have been baptized by now. He was like I need to meet with the bishop, who do I call to set up an appointment and the member that was with me rose his hand and was like you gotta talk to me. They scheduled an appointment right there. It was perfect!
On Wednesday we did service in the morning and afterwards I had to go babysit another Elder because he was sick and his companion went out and worked with a member. Then Elder Searle and Elder Kap went and worked in our area. It was kind of a long
On Friday we had Zone Conference with Poway and Ramona Zones. Since Zone Conference was at PQ President asked one of us to Conduct the meeting. Elder Searle and I did Rock, Paper, Scissors to see who was going to conduct the meeting, I lost haha. It's alright though, president asks a couple missionaries bear their testimonies on their purpose and he also has some missionaries share a short talk on a certain missionary topic. Usually he has missionaries that are going home do it. So he asked me to bear my testimony.
Zone Conference was awesome but during the meeting a member was calling us a lot because her roommate was going through a hard time and she wanted us to come give her a blessing and we felt really bad that we couldn't respond right away. But that night we met with them and her roommate has been going through a lot and has been really struggling. We had the opportunity to testify to her of the love that God had for and then we gave her a blessing. It was a really powerful lesson.
On Sunday we had a primary teacher and a young women's leader ask us on the spot to come and talk to their classes. It was kinda stressful but it actually went really well.
Yesterday I went on exchanges to do Tagalog work. I didn't understand what was going on at all. But I did help them get a potential family up in Ramona. I remembered a member in Ramona that had a Philippino family next door that they were trying to work with. So I talked to the member in a Ramona and set up a time for the Tagalog elders to go talk with them
This week has been good! See ya in 28 days :P
Elder Chris LaRochelle
This week was slower then last week but still pretty good! Even though a lot of our investigators were out of town we still stayed busy.
Last Tuesday we met with a part member family that missionaries have been working with for a long time! We went on splits and I went with their home teacher who is also the executive secretary. We were going to share a Mormon message with them called the hope of God's light but before we shared the Mormon message I told them to really think about why we were sharing this and how it applies to them. After we shared it with them the husband, who in the past hasn't been really supportive, told us that he needs to take this more seriously, he also said that if he would have been more supportive his wife probably would have been baptized by now. He was like I need to meet with the bishop, who do I call to set up an appointment and the member that was with me rose his hand and was like you gotta talk to me. They scheduled an appointment right there. It was perfect!
On Wednesday we did service in the morning and afterwards I had to go babysit another Elder because he was sick and his companion went out and worked with a member. Then Elder Searle and Elder Kap went and worked in our area. It was kind of a long
On Friday we had Zone Conference with Poway and Ramona Zones. Since Zone Conference was at PQ President asked one of us to Conduct the meeting. Elder Searle and I did Rock, Paper, Scissors to see who was going to conduct the meeting, I lost haha. It's alright though, president asks a couple missionaries bear their testimonies on their purpose and he also has some missionaries share a short talk on a certain missionary topic. Usually he has missionaries that are going home do it. So he asked me to bear my testimony.
Zone Conference was awesome but during the meeting a member was calling us a lot because her roommate was going through a hard time and she wanted us to come give her a blessing and we felt really bad that we couldn't respond right away. But that night we met with them and her roommate has been going through a lot and has been really struggling. We had the opportunity to testify to her of the love that God had for and then we gave her a blessing. It was a really powerful lesson.
On Sunday we had a primary teacher and a young women's leader ask us on the spot to come and talk to their classes. It was kinda stressful but it actually went really well.
Yesterday I went on exchanges to do Tagalog work. I didn't understand what was going on at all. But I did help them get a potential family up in Ramona. I remembered a member in Ramona that had a Philippino family next door that they were trying to work with. So I talked to the member in a Ramona and set up a time for the Tagalog elders to go talk with them
This week has been good! See ya in 28 days :P
Elder Chris LaRochelle
Redoubling Efforts (6/21)
Hey family!!
This week has been great! We followed the council in Doctrine and Covenants 127:4 and we redoubled our efforts! And we saw miracles! Being in a trio is awesome because every time we get a member to come out with us we can just go on splits and one missionary goes with the member and other two go and work somewhere else.
We added a 15 year old girl named Jackie that the sisters referred to us. She is awesome!! We met her twice this past week and she is excited to come to church and go to young women's!
We also added a family from Texas! The moms name is Holly and she has two kids and she is awesome! She has been going through a lot lately and is in need of the gospel! She also just so happens to be best friends with a less active family that we have been trying to work with!
There were quite a few other people that we added but those were probably my favorites!
The work is definitely picking up and we are working hard to see miracles!
Sorry it's not super detailed this week but I am loving it here in San Diego! Love you all!
Elder Chris LaRochelle
This week has been great! We followed the council in Doctrine and Covenants 127:4 and we redoubled our efforts! And we saw miracles! Being in a trio is awesome because every time we get a member to come out with us we can just go on splits and one missionary goes with the member and other two go and work somewhere else.
We added a 15 year old girl named Jackie that the sisters referred to us. She is awesome!! We met her twice this past week and she is excited to come to church and go to young women's!
We also added a family from Texas! The moms name is Holly and she has two kids and she is awesome! She has been going through a lot lately and is in need of the gospel! She also just so happens to be best friends with a less active family that we have been trying to work with!
There were quite a few other people that we added but those were probably my favorites!
The work is definitely picking up and we are working hard to see miracles!
Sorry it's not super detailed this week but I am loving it here in San Diego! Love you all!
Elder Chris LaRochelle
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