Febraury 28th, 2011

Hola,
Things were pretty good this week along with some bad things too but overall a good week.  We had 2 more baptisms this week so that was really good.  I didn´t have my camera because one of the members has it right now who went to see his family.  He is a great help to us so I let him use it.  But it was hermana Mariana and her son Juan Carlos that got baptized.  It was the really weird yet a  really cool baptism.  We have been teaching her since I have been here and she finally did it.  She was more than ready and the reason because it was weird is because her son can’t walk and can only use one arm and he isn´t the smallest guy.  He can´t talk but can understand everything.  He can make sounds and do sign language with one of his hands so his mom can understand him.  I baptized him and a member baptized Mariana.  But with him we had 2 people in the font and we put a chair in there for him to sit on.  It was funny because he had his nose plugged the entire time so I just put my hand on his chest and said the prayer.  Then we pulled the seat out from underneath him to baptize him.   It was pretty cool though.  Then we have so many possibilities for this month.  We have already got 5 fetchas (dates) this month and we have more that we will still baptize.  I talk about them in the recordings.  So this Sunday we had a super baptism with the entire zone and baptized like 20 people.  We didn´t do our baptisms there because Juan Carlos can´t walk.  But it was pretty cool and we were the zona celestail ( the celestial zone) for this month and the new thing is that zona celestail gets to eat with Hermana and Presidente Veirs.  I don´t know when but we get to play soccer with the office today, like the assistants and the secretaries.  We ended with something like 33 baptisms in our Zone.

So about my new comp.  He´s a nice guy and is just really chill and easy to get along with.  His name is Elder Ruano.  He is from Guatemala and speaks less English than Elder Galán and speaks with a really different dialect, but that’s fine.  It will help me.  He only has 2 more changes (3 months) so I´ll be with him for this change and then I’ll get changed to somewhere else.  He has 9 brothers and sisters.  He is the 5th and the first to serve a mission.  Mom, we changed the beds so there’s not bunk beds anymore - ha-ha.  I get a lot of personal study time with him because he really likes to sleep -  ha-ha.  So I might have to talk to him about that one.  But he is a really nice elder.  Mom - about the pictures.  That is our bishop.  He´s a really cool guy and helps us a lot, and yes I really ate the fish.   I have eaten a lot of things that I never would have before.  Dad, I don’t know how many miles I walk a day, plus it depends on the day.  Like if we go to the other side of the bridge it´s a lot more.  It sounded like skiing was really good with all the powder and you finally got some snow.  Dad, I bet your pretty relieved that conference is over.  Erika, tell Andrew thanks for the sports update.  All they talk about is soccer down here –ha-ha.  And thanks for the pictures.  Lenna looks really cute.    KK - for the missionary work; you can really help the missionaries by giving them references. That’s something that President Veirs has had us focus on.  I need to do a lot better at it but 2 of the baptisms we have for this coming month have been from referrals.
Oh and Dad, I can print things from the e-mails so no worries.
Sorry there aren´t any pictures.  I’ll send some next week.  We had to go to a different place to use internet today and it´s really slow here but next time I’ll use Elder Ruano’s camera to send you pictures of the baptism.
I hope all is good back at home.
I love you all!!!
Con Amor
Elder Kapple

Lima Stake Conference

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These picture are from President and Sister Veirs blog. They are pictures of Elder Kapple's zone at Stake Conference.  

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February 21, 2011



Hola como están
Things are good here. We had 2 baptisms yesterday.  They were Hermana Karla and Mialy.  Hermana Karla is one that we have been teaching forever and she finally went through with it. She didn´t really understand the authority issue and really just had some kind of love for the baptism that she had when she was young.  Both of her kids are members and some other family members are too. The kids aren´t that active so this will really help.  Then with Mialy, to be honest I really didn’t like teaching her as much; she is the daughter of Dora and Christian that need to get married. We told her that Karla was getting baptized so she said that she wanted to. Then at the end of the lesson she said she didn´t. Then she went to church yesterday (Stake Conference) and said she wanted to so we had the ZL interview her and we told him that she might not be ready but he said that we could do it.  It was a rough baptism though. Mialy was freaking out because the water was cold and it was just bad; but it´s ok.   They entered the door of this Gospel.  Then before the baptism we went to Hermana Mariana’s house because the bishop said that we need to baptize her. She said she wasn´t ready and all this other stuff but we had the ZL come and interview.  She drank coffee in the morning so we have a goal for this week.  I don´t know why but she really wants to wait.  She has a son on a mission so maybe she wants to wait for him.  Then our other 2 baptisms for this week didn´t go to church either so we have to wait another week with them.  So this week was pretty good and but also kind of bad because they didn´t come to church.  Oh, Mom I received your package and thanks for those Google maps (I´m guessing that it was Dad that printed those off) but we used those the other day and went exploring and found some new investigators.  We haven´t gone back yet and I don´t think we will until I have a new companion because Elder Galán wants to say goodbye to everyone today and tomorrow since he goes home this week.  I have been eating so much these past few days because everyone is feeding us since Elder Galán is leaving but it´s ok.  It´s better than not eating.  So that´s the story for this week.


Erika is having a BOY!  I´m going to have a brother - ha-ha. That´s awesome!  I´m super excited for you guys.

Well, I hope everything is good for all of you guys!
I love you all!!!
Elder Kapple

February 14, 2011

Baptism for Hermana Margarita

Hola
How is everyone doing these days? It sounds like your all doing just great. This week was pretty good.  We ended up having a baptism with Hermana Margarita. It went really well and she was ready even though she didn´t think so. She is really awesome and lives a hard life with her kids but hopefully we can baptize one of them. We set a Fetcha with another hermana this week; Carlita.  Elder Goodwin (zone leader) and I did it when we went on divisions this week but she didn´t go to church this past week so we´ll have to wait for 2 more weeks I think, but she´ll be baptized. She really likes church.  The river we have in our area has had the worst smell ever these past few weeks and we found out why yesterday.  I guess there was a dead guy.  I don´t know if he was in the water or just by the river but it smells so bad. Our wedding isn´t happening today and I don´t know when it will.  He is still drinking and smoking and she wants him to change more before she commints to getting married and she doesn´t seem to love him so I don´t know what were going to do.  They didn´t go to church so we´ll see this week I guess.  Changes are this next week. I´m really hoping for a gringo. I fill like I could learn Spanish better because I could actually ask him questions, but we´ll see this coming week. It´s been raining pretty bad this week but it´s always nice to have some rain. Mom, send me socks.  I´ve only had 2 pairs of socks this past week so that´s been a little gross.  I washed them every night.  We finally have some investigators that are progressing a little bit more but I still think we need to search for new ones but we´ll see what happens. That´s pretty much all of the exciting stuff this week.  The rest is on my recordings attached.


Thanks for everything that you guys do for me.
I Love You All,
Happy Valentines day
Elder Kapple

February 7,2011

 Our Bishop and his family

Climbing fruit trees

Hola
How is everyone doing? It sounds like you are all just doing great. But things are good here. Nothing super exciting happened this week. We set a fecha (baptism date) with hermana Margarita. We’re planning for this Saturday and I think she will; she´s someone that thinks she might need a little more time so we´ll see what happens. She lives a pretty hard life. She has 3 boys, one of them we’re going to try to baptize but he never wants to go to church (13 years old).  Then 2 older boys.  They both have wives (really girlfriends) everyone says they’re husband and wife but very few really are. One is only 17 and his girlfriend is 13 or 14  - kind of weird.  Then we’re going to try to have a wedding on the 14th.  A perfect day for a wedding, right?  But it is kind of hard to plan ( I talk more about it in the recordings ). All of the investegators that we have are still really slow to progress but we never really search for more.  Elder Galán really likes to focus harder on the ones we have which I understand but at the same time maybe they’re not ready.  He only has 2 more weeks.  Changes are the 23rd of February - so pretty quick. We have family night with 2 members tonight. Family night is really big here and I love it. You guys need to do family night every week, OK?  OK, and I´m going to make brownies.  There aren’t any brownies here so I´m going to make them.  It´s something I really miss.  Then earlier today we cut fruit from a tree.  It was probably one the scariest things that has ever happened to me but I´m still alive.  I talk about it in the recording.

Mom and Dad -  I´m glad you guys are finally going skiing a little more to pay for your pass.  Mom - don´t you worry about my health.  I´m doing just great.  Also Mom, I’m glad you’re concerned about me but really, my shoes should be the last of your concerns.  They have shoe stores here and my shoes right now are in perfect shape, but I really am blessed to have a mom that watches out for me this close.  That is terrible about Garn Ford passing away; he was pretty much a Joven ( teenager ).  I bet that’s hard on a lot of the family but like you said Dad, that´s why we have the Gospel.  Dad - those are some good subjects that you’re going to speak on in stake conference.  Read the talk that Elder Scott gave in this past conference about faith.  I only have my Spanish copy right now but the title is “The Power to Transform Faith and Character” but it´s really good.  However, I haven´t even finished it all yet.  Then for the Book of Mormon;  when Elder Christofferson spoke to us he said that a testimony of the Book of Mormon = baptism, and when we have a testimony of the Book of Mormon we know Joseph Smith was a prophet, we have the authority of God on the earth today and Jesus Christ is the Son of God.  And that´s why the Book of Mormon is so important.

Dad, just have them put me in the hall of fame too along with grandpa on Friday night when they induct him into the Ogden High hall of fame.
Mom, for your next package, send food that´s easy to cook.  All the stuff you said sounded really good.
Erika you pretty much lived my fantasy this week - made the TOP 10 and gave "Rocks" to D-Will. Thats really cool. and sorry Lenna that is sick- thats really sad but i´m glad she´s doing better.
KK are you going to come to Honduras too.  I´ll still be in Pineda when you come which is right by the airport.  Lizzy is going to Costa Rica also but she´s going during the summer.
Well, it was good to hear from all of you (yes - you too Dad thanks for emailing on time this week)
Thanks for everything -  I Love You All!!!