Hello familia y amigos,
It sounds like everyone had a good week, especially mom and dad becoming kids again, going to Lagoon and Park City! This week was good but kind of long. It has been raining really hard for the past 4 days and when it rains nobody is in the streets and the streets are filled with water so it has been a wet week too. We ended up not having any baptisms this week because Melvin went to Tegucigalpa. But for this weekend we have 10 baptism appointments right now. So this week we have have been focusing a lot on them. We have Familia Mejilla; they’re going to get married this Friday. The dad isn’t going to get baptized but the mom and 3 kids are. But last night we had an appointment with them and the dad opened up and had some questions for us so maybe a little bit later on he´ll get baptized. Familia Marcia; they’re going to get married this weekend too. The dad is already a member but the wife and kids aren’t, and she hasn’t had the desire to get baptized in the past until now. The kids always go to church but she just has never liked church until now and we’re helping activate the dad too. He´s a cool guy. That’s 3 families in total. Then Melvin, the guy that was going to get baptized this last week. Then 2 younger people; Julio and Audelina. So keep all of them in your prayers this week. We have 2 other really cool investigators right now. One is named Sofia. The problem with her is that she can’t read but with her she always feels the spirit while we’re there and she prayed and feels that these things are true. She hasn’t been to church yet but this week she is going to go. We also have Precede. She is a referral from one of the members that is a nurse and they work together. She has been to church 2 times and could get baptized this week but wants to wait a little bit. This next month shell get baptized and she is really cool. She takes the Book of Mormon to work and always reads it. She’ll be a great convert and her sister will get baptized too. Her sister is a little handicapped but still understands things well. Pray hard for these investigators that we have right now and for the 10 that we have scheduled for baptism for the end of this week. I have a lot to read in the Book of Mormon this week. Pres. Veirs challenged us to read it in these last 2 transfers. I’m halfway through 3 Nephi so I still have a lot to read in this next week.
I hope you all have a good week. I bet it’s starting to get cold there. It has been pretty cold here this week. I never thought that I would say it, but I have been cold in Honduras - haha.
I Miss and Love you All!!!
Cuidense,
Elder Kapple
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
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
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
Monday, October 10, 2011
October 10th, 2011
Hola mi querida familia,How are you all? So first off- sorry for last week. I don’t like the computers in Trujillo; they are terrible. But today I am in Tocoa so we have some better computers. Thanks for sending your testimonios for our investigators this last week. That will really help a lot. Could you send them too in letters and with pictures? Mom, I did receive my package and I received it on my one year mark so that made it so much better. Well, so for the last 2 weeks I can’t really remember much but general conference was really good. I liked how they focused on Christ so much. That’s one thing that I have been trying to do is teach more with examples of Christ. Everyone thinks that we just teach about Joseph Smith, so it helps when I use Christ more in my teachings. Elder got confirmed this last week too. This week was really good. To start off, we had 5 baptisms. Isael, Rafael, and Miguel; they’re 3 brothers that have gone to church for about a month now. They’re really cool guys and having the gospel in their lives will really help them. It’s hard for teenagers and youngsters here; just with all of the temptations and stuff around them. Then Alan baptized his mom who is named Alba and we also baptized a sister named Gloria. They’re all super cool and love the church. It’s kind of hard because Alba and Gloria can’t see well enough to read but we’re going to find them some glasses. Then we also have 2 weddings that we are planning. Familia Marcia- the missionaries had always passed by there but the wife finally had the desire to get baptized. Her husband is a member and they live with his mom who is an active member. They have 4 kids; 2 of whom can be baptized with their mom. We have them set to be married on the 28th and the baptism on the 29th. Familia Mejilla- this sister has been going to church for 2 months now or more but the husband didn’t want to get married. So one night this week, I was talking to him and I asked him what is preventing him from getting married and he said nothing really was. He was just a little concerned about the time and money. So we explained that we will plan everything and that the church helps a little with the weddings. So now he wants to get married. So I might be pulling out a little extra money this month to help out with some weddings if that’s ok. With these 2 familias, it will be 7 more baptisms this month. We have 6 right now and our goal is 10 so I know we can reach that; but we’re going to pass it too.
The members here are really great and we have received some really good referrals from them. So we have some more possibilities too. You should all work on that and think of some referrals to give to the missionaries. The work is a lot more effective when the members help. Mom, for the Christmas package that you were talking about sending, I think I might need just 2 new shirts. But I’ll have to tell you my size because I definitely need smaller ones. I weighed myself today and I’m down to 225 pounds! - haha. With all my other clothing and stuff I’m still good plus it’s cheaper to get things made down here. What I do want is Gatorade mix. Gatorade is a lot down here and I really miss it – haha.
Well, thanks for everything familia and amigos. You guys are the best.
I love and miss you All!!!
Con Amor Elder Kapple.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
September 26th, 2011
Hola Mi Queida Familia,
How is everyone doing? It seems like everyone is doing just fine except that Dad almost lost Maggie - haha. Sorry there won't be recordings this week or pictures because the computers here are terrible and super slow, so I'll try to send them tomorrow in are District Meeting. And sorry Mom, I do not have my package yet but I'm sure I will soon. Well, this week was awesome! Tostart, right now we have 4 families that are awesome. Familia Mejilla (4)-We have been teaching them for a while and the mom and kids want to get baptized but the dad hasn't been to church yet and doesn't want to get married. But we talked really direct with him about it this last week so hopefully he has changed his mind. Familia Marcia (3)- The dad is a member and the wife has received the missionaries a few times but we went and talked to her and then when Elder Hernandez was here she really had more of a desire to come to church and get baptized. They're not married but they siad that they're going to get married and we put a baptism date with them for the 15th of October. The kids always go to church but yesterday the entire family went, it was awesome.
Familia Nolasco - I don't know the exact number of the people there but there are about 8 possible baptisms there and it's 2 different Familias and there both already married. They're really cool and have so many questions and actually understand; it's awesome. One of the families went to church and the theme was about the resurection and baptisms for the dead was mentioned; so they said they have a lot of questions. I'm excited for our appointment this week with them. We also have a guy named Hermano Nolasco. His family lives in Rhode Island and are really active in another church up there and he was too but he has been reading and praying and knows the truth but he is scared because his family are really faithful members of this other church. He speaks English too.
So I want you all to do something for me. I remember KK said something about how Devin had his family write cards and send pictures of their familia; so I want you guys to do this for the familias that we have too.
Dad- Hermano Nolasco
Dad and Mom-Familia Nolasco
Erika and Andrew- Familia Nolasco
KK and Todd-Familia Marcia
Just share your testimonies and how the Gospel has blessed you all as a family and about eternal families and stuff. It would be great if you could do it today for family night so you can send them tomorrow or this week -haha.
We also had 23 investigators at church yesterday. It was awesome and we have so many possibilities this week for baptisms. We had one baptism Saturday named Elder but he didn't show up on Sunday for his confirmation but we went over and talked to him and he can get confirmed next week. Pray for our investigators here in Trujillo. We have a lot that can get baptized this month. It will be awesome! We really could baptize like 15 or more this month so pray really hard for them and us.
Well, I love and miss you all. The time flies. I'm about to complete a year in the mission. The mission is awesome, hard, tough, fun, discouraging, awesome, and just all kinds of emotions - haha, but I love it and I have learned a lot. The church is true, and this is the Gospel of Jesu Cristo and there isn't another one. God's plan is perfect, we just need to do all that we can to follow it. Thank you so much for all that you do and have done for me. It really means so much.
I Love You All!!!
Con Amor
Elder Kapple
How is everyone doing? It seems like everyone is doing just fine except that Dad almost lost Maggie - haha. Sorry there won't be recordings this week or pictures because the computers here are terrible and super slow, so I'll try to send them tomorrow in are District Meeting. And sorry Mom, I do not have my package yet but I'm sure I will soon. Well, this week was awesome! Tostart, right now we have 4 families that are awesome. Familia Mejilla (4)-We have been teaching them for a while and the mom and kids want to get baptized but the dad hasn't been to church yet and doesn't want to get married. But we talked really direct with him about it this last week so hopefully he has changed his mind. Familia Marcia (3)- The dad is a member and the wife has received the missionaries a few times but we went and talked to her and then when Elder Hernandez was here she really had more of a desire to come to church and get baptized. They're not married but they siad that they're going to get married and we put a baptism date with them for the 15th of October. The kids always go to church but yesterday the entire family went, it was awesome.
Familia Nolasco - I don't know the exact number of the people there but there are about 8 possible baptisms there and it's 2 different Familias and there both already married. They're really cool and have so many questions and actually understand; it's awesome. One of the families went to church and the theme was about the resurection and baptisms for the dead was mentioned; so they said they have a lot of questions. I'm excited for our appointment this week with them. We also have a guy named Hermano Nolasco. His family lives in Rhode Island and are really active in another church up there and he was too but he has been reading and praying and knows the truth but he is scared because his family are really faithful members of this other church. He speaks English too.
So I want you all to do something for me. I remember KK said something about how Devin had his family write cards and send pictures of their familia; so I want you guys to do this for the familias that we have too.
Dad- Hermano Nolasco
Dad and Mom-Familia Nolasco
Erika and Andrew- Familia Nolasco
KK and Todd-Familia Marcia
Just share your testimonies and how the Gospel has blessed you all as a family and about eternal families and stuff. It would be great if you could do it today for family night so you can send them tomorrow or this week -haha.
We also had 23 investigators at church yesterday. It was awesome and we have so many possibilities this week for baptisms. We had one baptism Saturday named Elder but he didn't show up on Sunday for his confirmation but we went over and talked to him and he can get confirmed next week. Pray for our investigators here in Trujillo. We have a lot that can get baptized this month. It will be awesome! We really could baptize like 15 or more this month so pray really hard for them and us.
Well, I love and miss you all. The time flies. I'm about to complete a year in the mission. The mission is awesome, hard, tough, fun, discouraging, awesome, and just all kinds of emotions - haha, but I love it and I have learned a lot. The church is true, and this is the Gospel of Jesu Cristo and there isn't another one. God's plan is perfect, we just need to do all that we can to follow it. Thank you so much for all that you do and have done for me. It really means so much.
I Love You All!!!
Con Amor
Elder Kapple
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
September 19, 2011
Pictures of Elder Kapple's house....
Well, this week was really good at least at first. Elder Hernandez came to our area with me and set 3 fetchas (baptism dates) for this weekend, the 24th. Everyone was excited to go to church and to get baptized and it was just a really good day except for all of the traveling. But then Sunday came around and they didn’t show up. It was pretty sad. We still have one fetcha for this weekend and we should be able to have some more. We still had 10 investigators at church though but a lot of the people that are coming are half families and they’re not married so we can’t baptize them yet because they’re not married. We have a lot of people that we’re teaching right now but we need to decide what we’re going to do with all of them because some are not progressing all that much. I really feel like this area can have a lot of baptisms and a lot more success than what it has right now so we’re going to be working hard to change that. We did find some good new investigators this week that have some questions about the after life. That is one thing that I am grateful for is that we know what God’s plan is. A lot of people are confused about that one. There are changes this week but we don’t have any here in Trujillo. Every other area in Colon has one so hopefully we can get this zone going out here because it has been slacking lately. So this coming week we have some work to do to get these people baptized this week. This next month I believe we’re going to have a lot of success. Sorry Mom about the pictures and the recordings. The computer is being dumb today but I did take more pictures so I’ll send them when I can.
Thanks for all that you guys do for me.
I Love You All!!!
Con Amor
Elder Kapple
Monday, September 12, 2011
September 12, 2011
Hola familia
How are you all doing? It was great to hear from all of you, and it sounds like all is just fine and dandy there (except that Erika has to get surgery on her knee in October. I hope everything goes well with that. I'm not going to send recordings again with this e-mail because right now we’re in Tocoa, and I left all of my stuff in the church so I don’t have anything with me right now. But I’ll still try to do it today or if I can, tomorrow, in our meeting here in Tocoa. First to answer your questions (actually just mom’s questions – ha ha)
-I’ll get my package this next week because changes are next week.
-I am feeling better now. I just have to ask for purified water now. There are a lot more people than what I thought that don’t drink purified water here. I guess they’re all just used to it.
-My companion really is a good guy and we get along well. He just needs to change a few things to be more obedient. I have talked to him about a few but he still does them. There are things that I can change too and I'm willing to do it but I guess he doesn't really want to right now.
OK – well, this week was pretty good. We didn’t have as many new investigators as we wanted but we still did some good work. We had 13 investigators at church yesterday - so that was awesome. Three of the investigators that have a baptismal date set unfortunately didn’t show up so that part wasn't good but I still can’t complain with the number 13 – ha ha. We have this really super cool investigator right now named Elder. It was a refrence from a member of the district presidency. He has a baptismal date set the 24th of September. He's reading the Book of Mormon and went to church yesterday and really liked it. The problem is that his family goes to another church. I went to pick him up for church yesterday with another member and his family and some members from their church were outside cooking something for some activity they had so it was kind of weird to leave with Elder to go to our church with all of them there. We do have a lot of investigators right now. But none of them want to commit to get baptized yet. They all have Pena (as they say here – means discomfort) to commit and just do it. I understand that it’s something a little scary to them but they have all received their testimonies and really like the church. There are just some things holding them back from getting baptized so that is what we really have to focus on this week - setting all of these baptismal dates. And we still have a lot of work to do to complete the goal of 4 babtisms this month. Keep praying hard so that we can complete this goal this month. Thanks for all that you guys do. It means a lot.
I Love You All!!!
Con Amor
Elder Kapple
P.S. Dad - try not to lose too many golf balls today. And how is the house in Idaho going? - remember to build a big garage to fit a boat and some 4 wheelers – ha ha.
How are you all doing? It was great to hear from all of you, and it sounds like all is just fine and dandy there (except that Erika has to get surgery on her knee in October. I hope everything goes well with that. I'm not going to send recordings again with this e-mail because right now we’re in Tocoa, and I left all of my stuff in the church so I don’t have anything with me right now. But I’ll still try to do it today or if I can, tomorrow, in our meeting here in Tocoa. First to answer your questions (actually just mom’s questions – ha ha)
-I’ll get my package this next week because changes are next week.
-I am feeling better now. I just have to ask for purified water now. There are a lot more people than what I thought that don’t drink purified water here. I guess they’re all just used to it.
-My companion really is a good guy and we get along well. He just needs to change a few things to be more obedient. I have talked to him about a few but he still does them. There are things that I can change too and I'm willing to do it but I guess he doesn't really want to right now.
OK – well, this week was pretty good. We didn’t have as many new investigators as we wanted but we still did some good work. We had 13 investigators at church yesterday - so that was awesome. Three of the investigators that have a baptismal date set unfortunately didn’t show up so that part wasn't good but I still can’t complain with the number 13 – ha ha. We have this really super cool investigator right now named Elder. It was a refrence from a member of the district presidency. He has a baptismal date set the 24th of September. He's reading the Book of Mormon and went to church yesterday and really liked it. The problem is that his family goes to another church. I went to pick him up for church yesterday with another member and his family and some members from their church were outside cooking something for some activity they had so it was kind of weird to leave with Elder to go to our church with all of them there. We do have a lot of investigators right now. But none of them want to commit to get baptized yet. They all have Pena (as they say here – means discomfort) to commit and just do it. I understand that it’s something a little scary to them but they have all received their testimonies and really like the church. There are just some things holding them back from getting baptized so that is what we really have to focus on this week - setting all of these baptismal dates. And we still have a lot of work to do to complete the goal of 4 babtisms this month. Keep praying hard so that we can complete this goal this month. Thanks for all that you guys do. It means a lot.
I Love You All!!!
Con Amor
Elder Kapple
P.S. Dad - try not to lose too many golf balls today. And how is the house in Idaho going? - remember to build a big garage to fit a boat and some 4 wheelers – ha ha.
Monday, September 5, 2011
September 5, 2011
Hello familia y amigos - haha
How are you guys? Its sounds like everyone had a good week this week, especially Lenna and her big birthday party. From the pictures it looked like Lennita loved her birthday and had the time of her life. That's really cool too that Henrycito was blessed this week. Dad, I like that article that you sent to me about Trujillo. We live right by that museum and those swimming pools that are back there are horrible. They're just open on Sundays and it's just a big party - haha. That statue of Christopher
Columbus is just right here in the center of town right by that fort. We pass by it like 2 times a week. We'll take a picture of it next time. We also work in a lot of those areas that the article was talking about with the Garifuno people. But I didn't know about that crocodile place. We'll have to go there too.
This week was a pretty good week. We have found a lot of new investigators that seem like they're ready to recieve the true gospel of Christ. We have also been working with the members a lot which has been really helpful. To complete our goal of 4 baptisms this month we have really been focusing on
getting these new investigators and it has really helped. We were hoping to have at least 12 investigators at church but only 8 showed up (which is still a good number). But they weren't the ones that could be baptized this next week. There is a recent convert here named Alan. He is really cool. We're teaching his mom right now. She was going to be baptized like 20 or 30 years ago but her husband didn't want to get married. Right now she doesn't feel like she can because she is old but we told her it was alright
to be baptized when you're a little bit older, haha. And the cool part is that Alan is going to be able to baptize her. We also found out some good and bad news this week. Hermana Delia has been wanting to be baptized for 2 months but her husband won't get married and has heard some rumors about the
church. But they are going to separate now anyway because they don't even talk to each other anymore. It's kind of sad because they have a little kid but the dad doesn't do anything for them. But Delia is really cool and has read a lot of the Book of Mormon and now her mom says she wants to be
baptized too but she still needs to get married. It's really funny, Delias mom is like 60 and she has been with her husband for 30 years but they're still not married because they say they need to get to know each other more - haha. But we're going to work with them because they're a really cool
family.
This week will be really big for us especially Sunday. We need to have a lot of people at church on Sunday to get them baptized. Keep on praying for the people here.
Thanks for all that you guys do for me. It means a lot.
I Love You All!!!
Cuidense
Elder Kapple
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