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How is everybody? First off - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ANDREW ( it’s a few days late but I hope you´ll still accept it) and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KK. I hope that Andrew had a good birthday and that KK will have a good birthday. Also, thank you Grandma and Grandpa Erickson for the birthday presents. It means a lot, I love you. Ok - so there were a few questions that you guys asked to I´ll answer those first. Mom - you asked if there are a lot of bugs and yes there are. When I first got to this house it was filled with cockroaches but we did a lot of killing and there aren´t as many now, but we still get some every once in awhile. Cleveland is all right but we’ve decided to leave him for a while though. We haven´t talked to him about smoking for a week now and I think we´ll wait another week to bring it up. Dad asked about my new calling as a branch president and how my Spanish is coming. Being in the branch presidency gives us a lot more responsibilities but it hasn’t been super overwhelming. The Spanish is good, but there is always something else to learn or get better at. And for some reason I always feel like I have to say everything correctly when I speak in Spanish - haha. On the island there is a lot of English spoken. With the islanders, they prefer English. It´s probably 60/40 (Spanish/English). We did not make it to Rock Harbor on our planned hike last week on P-day. It was way too swampy because it rained the night before but we´ll make it another day. But today we went to these caves (see attached pictures) with one of the members named Lee (Elidas’ husband). He knows the entire island so he took us to the caves and there were so many bats and bugs and stuff but it was way cool and the cave is really big. We didn´t go all the way down because we didn´t have enough rope (you have to tie a rope at the entrance so you can find your way back), and plus there´s water down there and we can´t go swimming – haha. Yes - those are bats in the cave that you can see in my attached pictures. So this week was pretty tough. Many of the people here really just aren´t that interested to hear the gospel. The Hondurans just make up excuses and the islanders are just hard hearted. So finding new people has been pretty hard and many of the people that we always pass on the street are people that we have already contacted so we are starting to run into that problem. So this week we took a list of all of the branch members and sat down with Maria and found out who is still on the island and who isn´t and where they live so this week we’re going to start searching them out. Unfortunately, Helen didn´t end up coming to church yesterday so that was a big bummer but we have an appointment with her tonight so we´ll see what happened. We did find a new guy though named Isaac this week. He is really cool and really understands. He came to an hour of church, the problem is he still needs to get married and his wife is on the coast but we’re planting the seed for him. Sorry this is short but we need to hurry. We have to talk at a funeral of one of the members that died a year ago. So today is his one year mark so we have to go do that.
Thanks for everything I love you ALL!!!
Pray for this island.
Elder Kapple
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