September 19, 2011

Pictures of Elder Kapple's house....

Hey, how is everything going? It sounds like everyone is doing just great and enjoying life.  It was sad to hear about KK’s tooth but don’t worry KK, everything will be alright. Mom- it sounds like you’re super busy with your calling but I bet you’re doing just amazing. Dad- that’s crazy that the retention rate is only 35%, but I think it’s almost the same here.  They’re not the best about home teaching and visiting teaching here in Honduras so the retention work falls onto us as missionaries. KK- I like that you have to give out a missionary pamphlet.  You can do it KK, I’m sure you have a lot of friends at work that aren’t members.  There is a nurse in the branch here and she just gave us 5 referrals and she is always talking to her friends about the gospel. She’s awesome.
Well, this week was really good at least at first.  Elder Hernandez came to our area with me and set 3 fetchas (baptism dates) for this weekend, the 24th.  Everyone was excited to go to church and to get baptized and it was just a really good day except for all of the traveling.  But then Sunday came around and they didn’t show up.  It was pretty sad.  We still have one fetcha for this weekend and we should be able to have some more.  We still had 10 investigators at church though but a lot of the people that are coming are half families and they’re not married so we can’t baptize them yet because they’re not married.  We have a lot of people that we’re teaching right now but we need to decide what we’re going to do with all of them because some are not progressing all that much.  I really feel like this area can have a lot of baptisms and a lot more success than what it has right now so we’re going to be working hard to change that.  We did find some good new investigators this week that have some questions about the after life.  That is one thing that I am grateful for is that we know what God’s plan is.  A lot of people are confused about that one.  There are changes this week but we don’t have any here in Trujillo.  Every other area in Colon has one so hopefully we can get this zone going out here because it has been slacking lately.  So this coming week we have some work to do to get these people baptized this week.  This next month I believe we’re going to have a lot of success. Sorry Mom about the pictures and the recordings.  The computer is being dumb today but I did take more pictures so I’ll send them when I can.
Thanks for all that you guys do for me.
I Love You All!!!
Con Amor
Elder Kapple

September 12, 2011

Hola familia
How are you all doing?  It was great to hear from all of you, and it sounds like all is just fine and dandy there (except that Erika has to get surgery on her knee in October.  I hope everything goes well with that.  I'm not going to send recordings again with this e-mail because right now we’re in Tocoa, and I left all of my stuff in the church so I don’t have anything with me right now.  But I’ll still try to do it today or if I can, tomorrow, in our meeting here in Tocoa.  First to answer your questions (actually just mom’s questions – ha ha)
-I’ll get my package this next week because changes are next week.
-I am feeling better now.  I just have to ask for purified water now. There are a lot more people than what I thought that don’t drink purified water here.  I guess they’re all just used to it.
-My companion really is a good guy and we get along well.  He just needs to change a few things to be more obedient.  I have talked to him about a few but he still does them.  There are things that I can change too and I'm willing to do it but I guess he doesn't really want to right now.

OK – well, this week was pretty good.  We didn’t have as many new investigators as we wanted but we still did some good work.  We had 13 investigators at church yesterday - so that was awesome.  Three of the investigators that have a baptismal date set unfortunately didn’t show up so that part wasn't good but I still can’t complain with the number 13 – ha ha.  We have this really super cool investigator right now named Elder.  It was a refrence from a member of the district presidency.  He has a baptismal date set the 24th of September.  He's reading the Book of Mormon and went to church yesterday and really liked it.  The problem is that his family goes to another church.  I went to pick him up for church yesterday with another member and his family and some members from their church were outside cooking something for some activity they had so it was kind of weird to leave with Elder to go to our church with all of them there.  We do have a lot of investigators right now.  But none of them want to commit to get baptized yet. They all have Pena (as they say here – means discomfort) to commit and just do it.  I understand that it’s something a little scary to them but they have all received their testimonies and really like the church.  There are just some things holding them back from getting baptized so that is what we really have to focus on this week - setting all of these baptismal dates.  And we still have a lot of work to do to complete the goal of 4 babtisms this month.  Keep praying hard so that we can complete this goal this month. Thanks for all that you guys do.  It means a lot.

I Love You All!!!
Con Amor
Elder Kapple
P.S. Dad - try not to lose too many golf balls today.  And how is the house in Idaho going?  - remember to build a big garage to fit a boat and some 4 wheelers – ha ha.

September 5, 2011

Hello familia y amigos  - haha
How are you guys? Its sounds like everyone had a good week this week, especially Lenna and her big birthday party.  From the pictures it looked like Lennita loved her birthday and had the time of her life. That's really cool too that Henrycito was blessed this week.  Dad, I like that article that you sent to me about Trujillo.  We live right by that museum and those swimming pools that are back there are horrible.  They're just open on Sundays and it's just a big party - haha.  That statue of Christopher
Columbus is just right here in the center of town right by that fort.  We pass by it like 2 times a week.  We'll take a picture of it next time.  We also work in a lot of those areas that the article was talking about with the Garifuno people.  But I didn't know about that crocodile place.  We'll have to go there too.

This week was a pretty good week.  We have found a lot of new investigators that seem like they're ready to recieve the true gospel of Christ.  We have also been working with the members a lot which has been really helpful.  To complete our goal of 4 baptisms this month we have really been focusing on

getting these new investigators and it has really helped.  We were hoping to have at least 12 investigators at church but only 8 showed up (which is still a good number).  But they weren't the ones that could be baptized this next week.  There is a recent convert here named Alan.  He is really cool. We're teaching his mom right now.  She was going to be baptized like 20 or 30 years ago but her husband didn't want to get married.  Right now she doesn't feel like she can because she is old but we told her it was alright

to be baptized when you're a little bit older,  haha.  And the cool part is that Alan is going to be able to baptize her.  We also found out some good and bad news this week.  Hermana Delia has been wanting to be baptized for 2 months but her husband won't get married and has heard some rumors about the

church.  But they are going to separate now anyway because they don't even talk to each other anymore.  It's kind of sad because they have a little kid but the dad doesn't do anything for them.  But Delia is really cool and has read a lot of the Book of Mormon and now her mom says she wants to be

baptized too but she still needs to get married.  It's really funny, Delias mom is like 60 and she has been with her husband for 30 years but they're still not married because they say they need to get to know each other more -  haha.  But we're going to work with them because they're a really cool

family.

This week will be really big for us especially Sunday.  We need to have a lot of people at church on Sunday to get them baptized.  Keep on praying for the people here.

Thanks for all that you guys do for me.  It means a lot.

I Love You All!!!

Cuidense

Elder Kapple