September 2nd, 2012

Hello everyone; how are you all doing?
Things are great here in good old San Pedro Sula.  This week was another busy one though. We had to opportunity to go to Copan and work with the missionaries there.  We left on Monday to go to Santa Rosa and to work with them.  I went on divisions with Elder Polendo.  He was a DL in Villanueva when I was there and now he´s the ZL in Copan.  It was really fun and we had a really good appointment together. We visited with a family and it was the first appointment with them. We didn´t teach all that much but had the chance to really get to know them and what their desires and concerns are in life.  They’re a great family and the parents have a strong desire to teach their kids the right things to do and to be good parents.  The gospel is really for them.  We won their confidence too.  That has to be one of the most important things that missionaries have to do is win the investigators confidence so that they trust us and will share what they feel with us.  If we don’t have their confidence, it makes things a lot harder because the people will never open up to us.  So that was a good experience.  Then on Tuesday we went to two district meetings, then headed to Santa Barbara.  I worked with Elder Peterson that evening and we had a fun time.  He is a really good missionary and teaches really well.  He´s the DL there.  It was really fun because it was pouring and we got super wet - haha.  We had two really good appointments also that went really well.  Then the next day we did weekly planning with them.  There are only four missionaries in this city and the closet missionaries to them are about 2 hours away.  We just put 2 sister missionaries there to open the area and they’re doing a great job.  Then to finish the week we had some more planning sessions with some other zones.  Planning is one of the key things that we have to teach missionaries so that we can better help our investigators so that has been a focus lately.  Yesterday and today we had the opportunity to go the stake conference in La Lima, where I started the mission.  Elder Martino was there and an area 70 from Guatemala.  They put in a new stake presedency.  It always great to listen to those men speak.  It was also really fun to see the old members from Pineda and some converts.  I’m excited for you to meet them.
Well that was pretty much this week.  I hope that Lenna had a happy birthday and that she was happy but I’m sure she was with all those presents that you all gave her.
I Miss and Love You All!!!!!!!!
Elder Kapple
Sorry that I didn’t write you all yesterday.  We went to Pulapansac -the waterfall in Villanueva and then we had to go to the conference in La Lima.