How is it going? First off; Mom, I want to wish you a happy birthday and let you know that you’re the best. I don't know what I would do without you. You really are so amazing. Sorry I missed your surprise party. Maybe next year - haha, and also happy anniversary to Mom and Dad. 29 years is a long time but if you both made it this long, you can definitely make it a lifetime! You guys are the best. And happy birthday to Todd too. Well this week was a good one. Tuesday we had some district meetings and worked in our area normally. Then Wednesday we had a great meeting with Elder Martino. It was a super good meeting. Elder Martino talked a lot about how we need to be better at doing things like reading our scriptures every day, getting up at 6:30 am - just those little things and if we don't, we’re hypocrites. It’s true because we always tell our investigators that they need to do these things like read the scriptures every day and be obedient. Then at the end of these meetings they always leave time to talk about more doctrine. Elder Martino talked about the atonement and how it is infinite. It was really good and it is amazing at how well they know the doctrine and can teach us. Then on Wednesday we had another meeting but it was a little more personal. It was just with all of the ZL's. I think there are 22 of us so the meeting size was much smaller. At first he taught us how to do a zone leader counsel and what we need to do and then we went over some new mission standards that Elder Martino had talked about. Things that we need to put into practice to help us more. Things like involve the members more and other ways to get references. Then after that, Elder Martino talked a lot about how we need to be the examples, and he asked us all how many baptisms we had for the month and how many we have to finish the month and he was really impressed because we all have some great possibilities. And every companionship had a family for a possibility. So he told us that if we all baptize a family he'll get us all a steak dinner - but our family didn't go to church yesterday so that was a big time bummer. Then Elder Martino talked about the Holy Ghost and then answered questions. It's so awesome when they answer questions. I just fill like he knows everything. President Veirs is the same way. We also had a great stake conference this week. It was via satellite for all of Central America. Elder Clark, Elder Packer and another general authority who is in the presidency of the Seventy spoke. Elder Clark talked about how if we keep the commandments we will prosper in the land. That is something big that this country needs. When times get hard for people, instead of being more obedient they sometimes get more disobedient and fall away from the church. The sad part about church yesterday was that we only had 3 investigators come. But they loved church. It was a familia that we found last week. The mom is a member and sent her 4 kids to church but she didn't go with them but she told us that she knows that the church is true. Last night we went there and their kids said that they loved church. In fact, the oldest of them walked out of the church crying yesterday because of the spirit that she felt. We taught a little bit about lesson1 and the dad understood very well and had some great input. They are an awesome family and I know they'll get baptized. Well, the mission is awesome. I just wish that I had more time in the day because we can never get done what we want to get done. This next week should be really good. President Veirs is going to be with us along with the AP's for our district meeting this week so that should be really fun.
Thanks for all that you do. I Miss and Love You All!!!!
Elder Kapple
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