Colorado Colorado Springs Mission

They have a saying in Colorado that if you don't like the weather wait five minutes because it literally never stays the same

In the Colorado Springs Mission, the thing about Southern Colorado is it is extremely dry, but also extremely cold. So I'm from more of the San Luis Valley area, but it is the icebox of Colorado. It's usually around the negatives from like I'd say like mid-November to like February. It's going to be like negative degrees a lot. It's extremely dry and extremely cold. So you might not get a lot of snow, but it's definitely going to be windy and icy and your backyard will be an ice rink once it snows until like May and it'll melt off is usually how it goes. But summer is great. It's super mellow and there is a rad amount of like good weather towards July.

So I would say that the craziest thing about Colorado is the weather, especially in Colorado Springs. It's great because it's sunny 360 days a year, but there are times where you will have crazy hail. There was a lot of hail storms with hail like golf ball sized, but that doesn't happen very often. But I think you just need to be prepared for all different kinds of weather. Sometimes it snows, but it doesn't get super cold. And the mission is so big that each area has different weather. So you really just kind of have to take it as it comes and be prepared for lots of different types, but it's beautiful. The sky is mostly always blue and it's just very pretty.

Y'all, the weather in Colorado Springs is nuts. It's like, I grew up in Utah, and I always thought Utah weather was kind of bipolar, but like it has nothing on Colorado. While I was there, in one of my areas, we had this crazy hail storm. I'm talking hail that was as big as a baseball. That is not an exaggeration. I actually have a picture of a sister holding in her hand a baseball-sized piece of hail. And there is a zoo in one of my areas that is like in the mountains, called the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, and the hail storm actually killed some of the animals there. Birds, but like still, they killed some animals because the hail was so big, and everybody got hail damage on their cars, and it was like super nuts, super sketchy, kind of a fun time. Shattered a lot of windshields, but mostly what was crazy is in the morning, it would be pretty cold, and then in the evening, or in the afternoon, super hot, and then in the evening, super windy. So you get everything.

Right before I got to the mission, there were hails as the golf balls hit broke cars.

I was a greenie and we were, my companion was a district leader and we were on splits with the zone leaders and we came walking out of this part member's house in Falcon and this breeze of like cold, cold air came by and granted it's the mid of June, it's like 89, 90 degrees outside followed by a really nice warm wind and then again another super cold wind and we look up and we're standing right underneath this funnel cloud and it's spinning and it was awesome being a kid from New Mexico and Arizona growing up down there we didn't see stuff like that. I'm sure my mother didn't think it was as awesome as I did but it was cool just looking up and seeing this giant funnel cloud. Now it never touched down but there are tornadoes there, they're just very rare but that was still pretty cool and you walk right out of this this part member's house and you look up and there's this funnel cloud spinning above you.

It does get cold. I'm from Arizona originally and so my first winter there it got negative 30 and I discovered your nostrils could freeze closed and that you can get icicles on your eyelashes so you have to constantly rub your eyelashes so that they don't freeze shut as well. It rains quite a bit. Occasionally you'll get a tornado warning but I mean they're very rare and few between but weather-wise it's not really crazy it's just just snows and rains and it's about in the 90s it's not too hot it's pretty it's pretty good spot weather-wise.

So we went tracting one day and it was nice and clear and then all of a sudden there's this big old rainstorm and the rainstorm came. It was there for 30 minutes and then it was gone and you didn't see the clouds come in and you didn't see him leave. It's just that's how Colorado works. If you don't like the weather just wait 10 minutes it'll change.