October 17th, 2011

Hola familia y amigos.
How is everyone doing?
First I’m going to answer some questions:
When are the weddings for your investigators? The weddings are on the 28th. Well, that’s the goal right now.  We still have to do a few things.  It’s dumb here, you have to have your birth certificate to get married but you can only pull it out from where you were born.  So the people that are going to get married live far away from their birth place,-  but some members are helping us get them. How much does it cost to get married in Honduras? 650 Limpidas which is like $30 or $40 dollars. Do you marry them or does the bishop? You have to get married at city hall here. Do you like your new apartment and does it have running water?  Is it in the same area as your last place? Yes, we do have running water now.  That is the main reason that we moved and it’s close to where we lived before but it is closer to the church.  It’s super small but we’re not in the house much so it’s alright.  It’s on the third floor of a building so we have a good view! – haha. Did you think of anything thing else you want or need?  Just 2 shirts and maybe a few ties (but good looking ones – haha) and I think my neck size would be 17 and just some Gatorade drink mix.
Well  - this week was a pretty good one.  We didn’t have any baptisms but we still have a lot of posibilidades for this month. We had interviews this week so that was really good.  Pres. Veirs and the AP's talked to us about a lot of things that we can do to get better in our teachings and just everything that we do as missionaries.  As missionaries we make things too hard sometimes.  All we need to do is just teach the doctrine to the people (by the Spirit) in few words and with short appointments.  I just feel like sometimes as missionaries we need to make things simpler and clearer when we teach, so that’s what I really am going to start working on. My companion has been having a few problems with being fully obedient to the rules of the mission, so now I need to work a little harder with him.  I just need to try and be more patient for these next few weeks.  This Sunday we called it a Sunday for friends and challenged all the members to bring a friend to church. We had 19 investigators in church which is awesome.  One problem was that the people that have baptismal dates didn’t make it so that was the bad part, but they will still be able to be baptized soon. We have a guy named Melvin for this weekend.  He had big problems with alcohol before but he has been doing a lot better.  The missionaries have been teaching him for a while and he is ready to get baptized.  The problem is that he has slipped a few times so he is scared that he is going to slip again but I’m pretty sure he'll be ok and be baptized this weekend, so pray for him this week. This next week will be big for us.  We can have at least 7 baptisms so we have to focus on them a lot this week.  Keep them all in your prayers.
I hope that you all have a good week.
I miss and Love you All!!!
Con Amor
Elder Kapple