Hola Como Estan,
Sorry this e-mail isn't going to be a very long one because we have a lot of things to do before the boat leaves for La Ceiba today. But Elder Harris’ family showed up yesterday during church because they missed the boat on Saturday night. It was fun to meet them though. His brother went and worked with us yesterday. He served in Argentina. His Spanish sounds really funny to me and then his cousin came too, and he served in Spain and he even sounds more funny. But yes, we’re leaving the island today because Elder Harris and his family are going down to Trujillo. Elder Harris served there for 6 months. So they’re going to go visit and his family brought clothes and stuff to give to the people there. And no, I don't get to go, I’ll be in La Ceiba until around Thursday I think. It sounds like you guys had a great week hanging out up in the Park City. And I'm proud Lenna can say my name now.
Mom, I should be able to get my packages that you sent today. Well, right now we still have the same progressing investigators. They still need to get married (and one of them needs to get divorced first) but I think that should happen pretty soon. And we’re teaching La familia Lopez (Walter and Helen). They’re really cool minus the fact that Walter isn't really progressing but Helen is awesome. She speaks a lot better English than she does Spanish but Walter only speaks Spanish. Helen is reading the Book of Mormon and praying. She still hasn't gone to church but she tells us that she has recieved her answer but just wants it to be a little more clear, and she really wants Walter to change. He won’t do anything. He won’t even pray with her and their little boy. It's kind of a hard because he says he will but he won’t pray or do anything so pray for him. We had to leave a lot of are other investigators because they weren't progressing.Sorry, I’ve already got to go. We have a lot to do. I’ll send the rest of the recordings next week and I forgot my camera. But I promise I’ll send pictures next week. Pray that nothing bad happens to the island while the missionaries are off of it.
I love you all. Thanks for everything.
Con Amor Elder Kapple.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
June 20, 2011
Picture of a tarantula we killed in our house
This last week was pretty good. However, our friend Minor ended up not coming to church and we did find out some bad news. He's going to be going to the states but he's not going to go right way. He said he leaves in 2 weeks so it wouldn't be enough time to get him baptized. We had a super good lesson with him too. We taught lesson one with him and the spirit was really strong during the Joseph Smith part and he said he wanted to know if it's true and that he'll pray and everything. We still have another appointment with him this week all we'll find out if he's still planning on leaving. We'll have to give him a Book of Mormon so he can have that and hopefully more missionaries will find him. Maybe Eric or Parker could teach him in Texas -haha. We still have a lot of the same investigators but none of them want to go to church so I think we'll have to drop them pretty quick here. I think a lot of it has to do with some of the rumors that are on the island about the Mormons. This Sunday was really good though. For the first time since I've been here we had someone else bless the sacrament. It was cool. He's our cook’s husband. He goes to church every other week but he usually doesn’t come in a white shirt and tie. So we told him to come this week with his white shirt and tie. He did a good job. Then we also gave Clevland a calling this week - haha, he is the greeter for when people show up at church. It was cool. Sunday morning we went around to make sure people were coming to church so we showed up at the church at like 8:35 and it starts at 9:00 and Clevland was already there waiting. I think this is really going to help him quit smoking. Because he doesn't always go church but this is kind of going to make him go. I know he can quit smoking he just has to do it.
Also - I forgot to tell you guys about the activity that we had. We did an iron rod activity with the branch this week. It was really good. It's the same one that we did at Sons of Heleman with a rope and blind folds. It turned out really good and a lot of people showed up. It was kind of a lot of work though because we had to buy everything for it. It was cool - we did it right on the beach in a grove of trees. I think there was only one person that made it all of the way without letting go of the iron rod once - haha. We put stickers on all of the ones that let go of the rod on the way. It was kind of funny though because there were some ladies there that aren't that active that were really lost during the activity. But hopefully they learned a good lesson. I’ll send more pics of it next week. Well, it sounds like you guys had a fun week and are keeping KK entertained. There were some medical students here on Utila this week. Two of them came to church. Tell Todd to do a medical thing down here - haha. Mom, I haven't gotten my package yet but the zl's told us that they have it at their house with a bunch of letters so don't worry. I’ll get them next week because Elder Harris will be leaving so I’ll be staying in La Ceiba for a few days. Well, I hope that everything is going good and that you guys have a good week. Thanks for everything
Also - I forgot to tell you guys about the activity that we had. We did an iron rod activity with the branch this week. It was really good. It's the same one that we did at Sons of Heleman with a rope and blind folds. It turned out really good and a lot of people showed up. It was kind of a lot of work though because we had to buy everything for it. It was cool - we did it right on the beach in a grove of trees. I think there was only one person that made it all of the way without letting go of the iron rod once - haha. We put stickers on all of the ones that let go of the rod on the way. It was kind of funny though because there were some ladies there that aren't that active that were really lost during the activity. But hopefully they learned a good lesson. I’ll send more pics of it next week. Well, it sounds like you guys had a fun week and are keeping KK entertained. There were some medical students here on Utila this week. Two of them came to church. Tell Todd to do a medical thing down here - haha. Mom, I haven't gotten my package yet but the zl's told us that they have it at their house with a bunch of letters so don't worry. I’ll get them next week because Elder Harris will be leaving so I’ll be staying in La Ceiba for a few days. Well, I hope that everything is going good and that you guys have a good week. Thanks for everything
I Love you all!!!
Cuidense
Elder Kapple
Thursday, June 16, 2011
June 13, 2011
Hola! Como estan?
Things have been busy here. It's a little bit different type of work here though. We have a few progressing investigators and we’re working a lot with the members. The hard part here is finding more investigators. We teach a lot of first lessons to people here. Almost with every contact we can set an appointment with them. They’re always way interested in our message, well not all. There are a lot of rumors on the island about the "Mormon" Church, about Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, and just our church in general, but nobody studies the things out that they hear, they just think that they’re true. But for the ones that are interested, it's rare that they are willing to change, because of things like drugs, fornication, marrige (marrige is a scary word here in Honduras). But we found a really cool guy this week that I really think is ready to change. His name in Minor and he is a 19 year old black guy. I thought he was like 30 because it seems like everyone looks really old for their age here. But we taught him and asked him if he was willing to change and he said yes and we challenged him to be baptized and he accepted. They’re always a little afraid to accept the date to get baptized, but he still did. It's kind of funny - he just walked into the internet cafe and is sitting right next to me now -haha.
Then also today we were going to go do wash and Clevland was outside. He hasn't been doing too well this week with the smoking and he didn't go to church. He came up and told us to come over tonight because he wants a blessing, and said he had a dream last night. He didn't tell us what it was about yet but will tonight. But I know he is ready to change now, and he knows he has to do it. The Lord works in different ways. The ZL's came to the island today and they’re going to be here for a few days. (Elder Jones and Elder Miligan). We went out to Pumpkin Hill and then to that old hotel building. It's been fun and I'm excited to work with them. Sorry this is short but there was a huge line that we had to wait in and we need to go shower.
Thanks so much for all of your love and support.
I Love You All!!!
Con Amor Elder Kapple
Things have been busy here. It's a little bit different type of work here though. We have a few progressing investigators and we’re working a lot with the members. The hard part here is finding more investigators. We teach a lot of first lessons to people here. Almost with every contact we can set an appointment with them. They’re always way interested in our message, well not all. There are a lot of rumors on the island about the "Mormon" Church, about Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, and just our church in general, but nobody studies the things out that they hear, they just think that they’re true. But for the ones that are interested, it's rare that they are willing to change, because of things like drugs, fornication, marrige (marrige is a scary word here in Honduras). But we found a really cool guy this week that I really think is ready to change. His name in Minor and he is a 19 year old black guy. I thought he was like 30 because it seems like everyone looks really old for their age here. But we taught him and asked him if he was willing to change and he said yes and we challenged him to be baptized and he accepted. They’re always a little afraid to accept the date to get baptized, but he still did. It's kind of funny - he just walked into the internet cafe and is sitting right next to me now -haha.
Then also today we were going to go do wash and Clevland was outside. He hasn't been doing too well this week with the smoking and he didn't go to church. He came up and told us to come over tonight because he wants a blessing, and said he had a dream last night. He didn't tell us what it was about yet but will tonight. But I know he is ready to change now, and he knows he has to do it. The Lord works in different ways. The ZL's came to the island today and they’re going to be here for a few days. (Elder Jones and Elder Miligan). We went out to Pumpkin Hill and then to that old hotel building. It's been fun and I'm excited to work with them. Sorry this is short but there was a huge line that we had to wait in and we need to go shower.
Thanks so much for all of your love and support.
I Love You All!!!
Con Amor Elder Kapple
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
June 6, 2011
How are all of you guys? It sounds like you’re all doing well and just getting ready for summer and everything. I’ll start by answering all of the questions first. Dad, I don't know if I’ll sup (be senior comp.) when Elder Harris leaves in 4 weeks. It could be either way. They could send someone else out like Elder Harris who is going to finish quick or someone younger. I haven't finished the Book of Mormon in Spanish yet but my goal is to finish it this month. I'm in 3rd Nephi right now, so not too much more. Thanks for those pictures Dad. I'm in the Colon Zone picture because I missed the one for La Ceiba- haha. We’re not allowed to go down to the Cays (little islands off the coast of Utila) because you have to go in a boat so we can't do that. But Elder Harris’ familia is going to come here to pick him up so they'll be here that last Sunday. So I think he's going to ask President Veirs if we can go on a tour around the island with his familia. - haha. That Jade Shore place that you sent fotos of is right at the bottom of the street that we live on but it's not a good place. Every night we walk by and they always have weird music, and drinking and what appears to be some bad stuff going on. But it does have a lot of cool design things made of sea shells etc. Mom, I’ll take some pictures for you of our house but I’ll just warn you now that this house is a lot different from the one in Canstanos. We have a nice cockroach collection going on right now - haha.
Well this week was a pretty long one and pretty short at the same time. We had the opportunity to listen to Elder Clarke this week at zone conferences. It was really good and we learned a lot. I talk about it in the recordings but I’ll say a little about it here. He is a really direct guy and just tells the plain truth. He talked a lot about the power we have as missionaries. And he really focused on not just having baptisms but having converts and how we can get better at helping the people that we baptize true converts. He did really a great job and speaks Spanish really well. He finishes serving as area President in July so he won’t be coming to talk here anymore and I'm pretty sure he just got put into the First Quorum of Seventy. So that was on Wednesday and right after that Elder Harris and I had to take a bus with the A.P's up to San Pedro because I received my residence thing for Honduras and we had to stay the night up there. Then we got back to the island Thursday night. So this week we did some traveling.
This Sunday was a lot different from what I have ever seen. We had a total of 15 people come to church I know - it's a lot haha. Some of the members here are more like investigators. We never know for sure if they’re going to come or not. But it ended up being a really good fast and testimony meeting and 10 of the 15 gave their testimony's. We have to do a lot more work with the members out here. Also, our man Clevland is finally progressing. He only smoked 2 ciguretes on Saturday and none yesterday. He is so determined to stop smoking and I know he'll do it. It has been really hard on him but he'll be able to do it.
But yes, this week was different with all of the traveling and stuff - haha.
Thanks for all of the emails and all of the love and support you guys give me. It really means a lot.
Cuidense
Con Amor
Elder Kapple
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