January 30, 2012

Elder Guaran

Elder Kaahuie, Elder Haernandez, and Elder Kapple

Hello family,
How is everyone dong?  Things are good here in Florida.  We had changes last week and I didn´t tell you that last week because we didn´t know until Monday evening that my comp had a change.  I figured he would because he had already been here for 3 changes with 3 differnt comps. So this week was a little slow because Elder Gardner had to say goodbye to members etc. and all of that good stuff.  My new comp is a good guy.  He is from Guatemala and I am training him.  So this is his first area.  He is a cool guy and really humble.  His name is Elder Guaran.  I’ll tell more about him next week.  I´m still getting to know him.

So we really only had like 3 full days to work in our area because we had changes on Wednesday; then on Thursday we had to go to la Entrada to do an interview.  Then the same day we went up to Copan Ruinas to do some more interviews and we had to spend the night up there.  It will be a little harder now because as leaders they want us doing divisions a lot and I can´t really do that now because my comp doesnt know our area yet and when we have interviews he just has to come with me so I’ll have to teach him the area really fast.
This Sunday we only had 2 investigators at church and we were hoping to have 6.  It was a pretty big bummer for us.  Reina and a guy that lives super far away that is going to the states next week came.  Reina is doing well and progressing.  We just need to help her find new work and keep her coming to church.  We really need to work hard this week so we can get some more investigators to progress.  We have some good possibilities but if they don´t start progressing more we will have to move forward looking for new people to teach.  We did have 58 at church this week and the branch seems to be changing a little bit so we are happy about that.  We just need to keep working with the members too.
Doing baptismal interviews is a cool experience and can be really spiritual too.  It´s kind of strange to me that the people trust us as teenagers with all of their problems and feel free to tell us anything.  I really do enjoy doing the interviews though.
Well, sorry it´s a short one this week.  Nothing too much new really happened because of time spent with the changes. Thanks for everything.
I Miss and Love You All!!! Keep our investigators in your prayers.
Elder Kapple

PS The pictures are of me, Elder Kaahuie (He´ll probably be calling you this next week because I sent some stuff home with him) and Elder Hernandez.  Then the other picture is of my new comp., Elder Guaran.