December 19, 2011

Hello,
How is everyone doing? Well, this week we had changes.  I am now in Copan in the area of Florida.  It is a pretty cold area right now being this time of year and it has been rainy everyday - haha.  I never thought that I would be cold in Honduras but I guess I have just gotten way to used to the heat.  The area is super muddy too, and there are a lot of mountains.  My comp is a really cool guy named Elder Gardner.  He is from Columbus, Ohio and this is his 1st area, and his 3rd change, and I’m his 3rd companion.  He is 19 years old and went to BYU for a year before he came on the mission.  He has 2 sisters and a younger brother, and his older sister goes to BYU too.  It´s kind of been a slower area in the past but were going to try to change all of that.  There are a lot of Catholics hear and everyone and there dog likes to drink coffee.  It´s kind of funny, when we pass by a lot of the houses everyone will start talking about coffee.  And all of the members here always drink hot chocolate.  I´m also the district leader now and the district in the past has been kind of a slow one so we’re going to change that too.  I have the Mayan ruins in my district too. My ZL is Elder Hernandez again.  He lives like 5 minutes away from our house.  The house here is alright.  There isn´t running water right now but in the morning the water comes for a little bit in a house that the owner of the apartment has.  But I have to heat water to shower because of the coldness.  Well, I hope that answered all of the usual questions - haha.  We did have a baptism this last week.  Her name is Nancy.  She is 24 years old and will be a great convert.  We were going to have 4 baptisms this weekend but none of them came to church on Sunday which was a bummer but we still have the possibility of 2 others but we´ll see this week.  The mission has some new goals for us now as well.  We need to be teaching 10 familias with 5 progressing and 2 baptized every month.  Right now we have 10 familias that we’re teaching but we need to get some more progressing.  Only 2 of them are progressing and we have one more that is prettty much progressing but they didn´t go to church on Sunday.  The members here are really good too and seem to be really helpful.  The attendance here is usually about 50 or so people so not bad.  Well, I´m super excited to talk to you all on Christmas.  I still don’t know when I’ll call.  I think church is only an hour here for Christmas but I have to check the time still.  My companion said that he is going to call in the mornig because his family has church in the afternoon so I’ll probably call in afternoon.  I am an hour ahead of you all but I think I’ll call around 11:30 your time which is 12:30 my time here.  But I’ll probably call a night or two before like I did last year to set things up.  Well I hope you’re all having a fun time now that Todd and KK are in town.  Tell everyone hi for me this Christmas.
Thanks or everything. I Miss and Love You All!!!
Elder Kapple