August 22, 2011

Hola
Hey, how are you all doing?  Sorry - this is on a Spanish keyboard and it takes way too long to try to use question marks and all of the other stuff.  But it sounded like all of you had just a great week.  So I’ll answer your questions first.
So if you don't have running water, what do you do?  We just have to go to or neighbors and fill up our buckets. We finally have a little bit of water ourselves because of the rain.

Do you have anyone to do your wash or cook for you?  We do have a lady that washes our clothes and she is the nicest little old lady ever.  She’s done the wash for the missionaries for 20 something years now. And we do have a cook, but we just eat a lot of rice and she always cooks those fried bananas; they’re just boiled in water and they are not that good - ha-ha.
Let me know about the members there?  Members are good here and it is a good sized branch.  We only had 68 at church this last Sunday but that was because only 8 and older could go and other worthy members because of the El Salvador temple dedication.
I’ll answer the rest of the questions in the letter.  This week was all right.  We really need to find some more people to teach because we don’t have very many right now.  So that’s what we need to focus on.  For zone meeting we have to go to Tocoa everyweek and it is a dusty bus ride.  It reminds me so much of Idaho, but instead of all of the barley fields you have palm tree fields and stuff.  But it’s a long bus ride every week. Then this week we helped prepare for the dedication of the El Salvador temple inviting all of the members and we did a movie night.  So we ran around a lot inviting everyone.  It was good but not too many people came because of the rain.  It’s rained a lot here because of that storm.  The storm never came right over us but it still rained a lot.  And when it rains here, it rains.  And there was a little earthquake here.  But it was just a little guy.  It was kind of crazy here because of the dedication of the temple.  We found out on Thursday that we couldn’t do baptisms on Saturday so we had to hurry and try to figure out a new baptism schedule. Vilma ended up not being able to do it on Friday so we have it planned for this end of the week.  She understood so everything is good with that.  Then we have one more planned but he still needs to go to church one more time but we still might be able to baptize him this week.  The dedication of the temple was really cool.  I don’t know if you guys were able to see it.  President Eyring did it with the help of Elder Christofferson who speaks Spanish well.  It was really good and I enjoyed it a lot.  My companion, Elder Ortiz even saw his girlfriend.  She sang in the choir.  Today was fun!  We went on a big hike for our p-day and I am super tired. There are some antenna towers up in the mountains behind Trujillo so we hiked up to the top of them.  Just me, Elder Ortiz and one more member went up to the top.  It took us 3 hours up and an hour and a half down.  It’s a really good view.  We have to go to Cieba this week for a zone conference.  I’m excited - just not for that bus ride.
Well thanks for all that you do for me.
I Love You All!!!
Elder Kapple