What’s up Family?
How is it going? It sounds like everyone is just doing great. ERIKA - HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I hope you had a good birthday; 27 is getting up there. This week was alright. We had 3 at church. One of them is a guy that we invited to church on the street and he ended up coming. He lives super far away and leaves to the states next week. Another investigator came and he says that he knows the church is true church but he has a drug problem to overcome still. I have never taught him before but we just stopped by and invited him and he came. We´ll start working with him to see if we can get him to progress and help him out a little bit. Another investigator came too. He buys lottery tickets. He has about 30,000 limps put in to one number and his number hasn´t been played for a very long time so he says he is just waiting to win. He won’t win all of his money back but he said he´ll win about half. He´s not really willing to leave it right now. President Viers said that he can still be baptized but José doesn´t feel too good about that yet. So we´ll see what happens there. We’re also teaching his daughter Riena who has 2 kids that are members. One lives with her who is inactive and the other lives in New York and is preparing for a mission. Riena wants to be baptized. We also found a pretty cool family this week. La Familia Lopez, but we just call them the “brick” famly because they make bricks for a living. It´s a big family business and around 4 families live there. The problem is that we have only taught the wives so far, so we need to start teaching the hombres of this familia. They’re great because they keep the commitments they make to us. They always read what we ask them to. They didn´t go to church this Sunday because they had to run someone to the hospital. So right now we don´t really have any baptisms coming up for this next week but we’re working with a lot of people. We just need to keep on working hard and I know that this branch will change. Last night we had an appointment with Kady (Nancy’s sister) and it was really good and a great testimony builder. She really has a desire to learn and was really wondering how to get a testimony. Her mom is super evangelica and it was cool because Kady was defending our church and the gospel. It was just a cool experience for us. The bad part is that Kady goes back to Tegucigalpa this week so I’m praying that she´ll go to the church there. Right now I´m reading the New Testament and I’m in John. My goal is to finish it this next change. But I had never read the New Testament completely before and I have really learned a lot from it so far. It is really helping and really just supports all of our doctrine so well.
Sorry - this week’s e-mail is kind of short but I’m doing well here. We just have a lot of work to do here in Florida.
I Miss and Love You All!!!
Elder Kapple
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
January 16th, 2012
Hola familia ¿como están?
How is everyone doing? It sounded like Ogden really had a big event this week with the death of the officer; that’s pretty crazy and sad. This week was alright for us. We really started focusing on previous investigators and inactive members here. Every area has a book with all of this kind of information. So we updated it and got to work but we still have a lot more to do. We really haven´t had too much success in finding new people lately so we decided to try this method. This area is a pretty tough one but we just need to keep working hard. The problem is that the members aren´t the strongest yet but they try to attend church. I know that´s not an excuss and we really just need to help them strengthen their testimonies of the gospel. This week we really need to find some new investigators though. Right now we have a few that are progressing. Familia Vasquez; we’re still working with the dad. He understands everything but I think he is just a little scared to make a commitment. We have an appiontment with him tonight so we´ll have to see what´s up. Then we have an investigator named Jose. His wife is a member and he comes to church every once in awhile. He just uses a lot of excuses. We we’re going to stop visiting him but then he ended up coming to church yesterday so we´ll see what we can do for him. Then we have Nancy´s sister (Nancy was that first baptism that I had here). She is really cool and understands everything; her name is Kady. The problem is that she is a medical student that is studying in Tegucigalpa and leaves next week I think. So we´ll have to see what we do there with her. We have another family that we’re teaching right now too. On Saturday we had a really rough day and no one wanted to listen to us. So we had one more appointment at 7 pm with this family and we thought this was going to be our last one with them as they really didn´t seem too interested. But we taught about the restoration and it went really well and they understood the message. He is a lawyer and she is a teacher. They didn´t go to church but they said they were going to pray to see if it was the truth. It was just such a big relief after such a long day to get to teach someone. Well, that´s pretty much what is going on here in good old Florida de Copán.
Thanks for everything
I miss and Love You All!!!
Elder Kapple
How is everyone doing? It sounded like Ogden really had a big event this week with the death of the officer; that’s pretty crazy and sad. This week was alright for us. We really started focusing on previous investigators and inactive members here. Every area has a book with all of this kind of information. So we updated it and got to work but we still have a lot more to do. We really haven´t had too much success in finding new people lately so we decided to try this method. This area is a pretty tough one but we just need to keep working hard. The problem is that the members aren´t the strongest yet but they try to attend church. I know that´s not an excuss and we really just need to help them strengthen their testimonies of the gospel. This week we really need to find some new investigators though. Right now we have a few that are progressing. Familia Vasquez; we’re still working with the dad. He understands everything but I think he is just a little scared to make a commitment. We have an appiontment with him tonight so we´ll have to see what´s up. Then we have an investigator named Jose. His wife is a member and he comes to church every once in awhile. He just uses a lot of excuses. We we’re going to stop visiting him but then he ended up coming to church yesterday so we´ll see what we can do for him. Then we have Nancy´s sister (Nancy was that first baptism that I had here). She is really cool and understands everything; her name is Kady. The problem is that she is a medical student that is studying in Tegucigalpa and leaves next week I think. So we´ll have to see what we do there with her. We have another family that we’re teaching right now too. On Saturday we had a really rough day and no one wanted to listen to us. So we had one more appointment at 7 pm with this family and we thought this was going to be our last one with them as they really didn´t seem too interested. But we taught about the restoration and it went really well and they understood the message. He is a lawyer and she is a teacher. They didn´t go to church but they said they were going to pray to see if it was the truth. It was just such a big relief after such a long day to get to teach someone. Well, that´s pretty much what is going on here in good old Florida de Copán.
Thanks for everything
I miss and Love You All!!!
Elder Kapple
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
January 9th, 2012
How is everyone doing? Well first off, I want to thank Grandma and Grandpa (both sets of them) for the Christmas presents; it really means a lot. So this week was a pretty good one. We had 3 baptisms, Pedro, and the mom and daughter from familia Vasquez (Orbelina and Katherine). The baptism went really well except for the cold water part and we had a lot of support and these people will be great converts. The problem was that there wasn´t enough water at first. Well there was a little bit. We filled it up like a foot and then we had to do the rest by hand, carrying water from the water tank that the church has to the pila (font). So we had to do that for about 2 hours. Also, just like last week, a lot of this week was spent traveling. On Tuesday I went to Las Ruinas to do an ivterview up there. The lady was awesome and was ready to get baptized but now her husband doesn´t want to get married (and he´s a member) so we’re going to have to go up there and discuss things with them. Then I came back Wednesday and was able to work in my area for a little bit but then that night I had to go to La Entrada because we had to leave at 5 in the morning to go to San Pedro the next day for the leadership meeting. It was really good and I learned a lot. The mission has really been having a hard time lately so President Veirs changed a few things, like the time that we leave the house and some other things to focus on. President Veirs is one smart guy and knows a lot of doctrine. He talked a lot about death (yes - kind of a different subject) but it was really good and I learned a lot. Then I wasn´t back in Florida until Friday and Elder Hernandez had to come with me to my area to do interviews. So I really didn´t even get to work with my comp all that much this last week but it was still a good one and we got a lot done. The district is doing great right now too. We had amazing contacts this last week, but now we just need to get some more people committed to be baptized and become members. We have a lot of work to do in our area to get some more people progressing. We have 2 good people progressing but that’s about it for now. The problem here is the branch (I know I really shouldn´t complain) but this branch really needs to change a little. There is so much contention at times between some of the members here. The Branch will never progress much unless it changes so we’re going to do all that we can to help be a positive force to change it. Today was fun - we went to some Mayan ruins. Not the main ones in Copan Ruinas - just some here between Florida and La Entrada. We got in for free because one of the members in La Entrada works there and we were the only ones there today. It was pretty fun and it´s fun to think about all of the people that used to live there and if anything from the Book of Mormon took place there. Well this mission is awesome and im learning a lot and have some great experiences. It´s crazy how fast the time flies and I get a little scared thinking about it. But thanks for all of the love and support that you all give me. It really means so much.
I Love and Miss You All!!!
Elder Kapple
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
January 2, 2012
Hola
Feliz año nuevo!!!
I hope that all of you had a great New Year’s and have all made some new year’s resolutions - haha. I still need to do that too. New Year’s really is just another day for missionaries but being the New Year’s holiday doesn’t make missionary work very easy. Here, all they do is light fireworks all night long and they have big fireworks. I saw some of them the other day and it was bigger than a stick of dynamite and it looks like it is just a bunch of gun powder. I was so tired that night and I fell asleep at around10:20 - haha. And having Sunday on New Year’s day doesn´t help at all either. Everyone was just super tired and not very many people came to church on Sunday. We still ended up having 4 investigators come to church though. We had Pedro who is going to get baptized this week. He is older - 65, it really isn´t all that old I know but for here the people seem to age and die a lot quicker. He understands a lot. He did have a problem with coffee but we gave him a good discussion about the Word of Wisdom and he hasn´t drank it since. He´s awesome. We also have the familia Vasquez. They’re super cool too. The dad is kind of questioning about getting baptized this week but we’re continuing to teach him. So keep him in your prayers. Right now we are teaching 10 familias but only 2 are progressing so we really need to start leaving some of them and start searching for some new ones too. Well, this week was kind of a long one. I really wasn´t in my area all that much. On Tuesday my comp woke up really sick so I was studying and at about 10:00 in the morning we got a message saying that we had to go to Paraiso ( an hour and a half from Florida) and pull out a partida and right when I got that message my comp woke up and felt a lot better. So we had to go to Paraiso (paradise). Then on Wednesday I had to travel a ton. Elder Barrett ( he came with me to the mision and is the other DL here ) and I had to travel to Piraera in the department of Limpira. This city is by the border of El Salvador. I left Florida at like 6:30 in the morning and got to Piraera at 5:30 at night. We were really blessed and received a lot of help to pull out this partida. We had to stay in a hotel there on Wednesday night but if we wouldn´t have received that help that we did we would have had to stay 2 nights there. It was kind of fun though to go and hang out with Elder Berrett. We left there at 3:00 in the morning so I was able to get back and work a little bit in my area but then on Friday I had to go to La Entrada and do some interviews. So this week was a super long one with all of that traveling but we were still able to get a lot of work done. This week will kind of be the same for traveling with divisions and I have to go to San Pedro on Thursday for a meeting.
Feliz año nuevo!!!
I hope that all of you had a great New Year’s and have all made some new year’s resolutions - haha. I still need to do that too. New Year’s really is just another day for missionaries but being the New Year’s holiday doesn’t make missionary work very easy. Here, all they do is light fireworks all night long and they have big fireworks. I saw some of them the other day and it was bigger than a stick of dynamite and it looks like it is just a bunch of gun powder. I was so tired that night and I fell asleep at around10:20 - haha. And having Sunday on New Year’s day doesn´t help at all either. Everyone was just super tired and not very many people came to church on Sunday. We still ended up having 4 investigators come to church though. We had Pedro who is going to get baptized this week. He is older - 65, it really isn´t all that old I know but for here the people seem to age and die a lot quicker. He understands a lot. He did have a problem with coffee but we gave him a good discussion about the Word of Wisdom and he hasn´t drank it since. He´s awesome. We also have the familia Vasquez. They’re super cool too. The dad is kind of questioning about getting baptized this week but we’re continuing to teach him. So keep him in your prayers. Right now we are teaching 10 familias but only 2 are progressing so we really need to start leaving some of them and start searching for some new ones too. Well, this week was kind of a long one. I really wasn´t in my area all that much. On Tuesday my comp woke up really sick so I was studying and at about 10:00 in the morning we got a message saying that we had to go to Paraiso ( an hour and a half from Florida) and pull out a partida and right when I got that message my comp woke up and felt a lot better. So we had to go to Paraiso (paradise). Then on Wednesday I had to travel a ton. Elder Barrett ( he came with me to the mision and is the other DL here ) and I had to travel to Piraera in the department of Limpira. This city is by the border of El Salvador. I left Florida at like 6:30 in the morning and got to Piraera at 5:30 at night. We were really blessed and received a lot of help to pull out this partida. We had to stay in a hotel there on Wednesday night but if we wouldn´t have received that help that we did we would have had to stay 2 nights there. It was kind of fun though to go and hang out with Elder Berrett. We left there at 3:00 in the morning so I was able to get back and work a little bit in my area but then on Friday I had to go to La Entrada and do some interviews. So this week was a super long one with all of that traveling but we were still able to get a lot of work done. This week will kind of be the same for traveling with divisions and I have to go to San Pedro on Thursday for a meeting.
Well, sorry I’m running out of time but I really hope that all of you are doing great and that you are all enjoying the new year!
Things are just great here.
I Miss And Love You All!!!
Con Amor Elder Kapple
Things are just great here.
I Miss And Love You All!!!
Con Amor Elder Kapple
Monday, December 26, 2011
December 26th, 2011
Well, first off it was really good to talk to you all yesterday and you all sound like you’re doing just great. I hope you all had a great Christmas. My Christmas was good but it really isn´t a big difference from our work on any other day in the mission field. The only difference is that I get to talk to you all. They celebrate Christmas here more on the 24th and more in the night. They light off a bunch of fireworks and last night was the same too - haha. This week was a pretty good one for us and we are getting the area to progress a little bit here. Right now we are teaching 9 familias and 3 of them are progressing. The goal is to have 10 teaching and 5 progressing so we need to get a few more. Right now we are teaching a guy named Pedro. He is super cool. He is about 65ish, his son (inactive) and daughter are members which helps us a lot. In our appointments when we’re teaching him he seldom ever looks at us when we’re talking so we never think he´s paying much attention but he always answers all of the questions and understands everything; it´s pretty funny. He does drink coffee but understands that he needs to leave it and he´s getting better. He has a fetcha for the 7th. Then we have familia Peña Vasquez. It´s a familia of 4; 3 of them being of baptismal age. Yesterday was the first time that the dad went to church but he really liked it. His wife has already been a few times and wants to get baptized so we just have to work with the husband right now. We went there last night and they’re having a few problems right now. We just told them that Satan is trying to destroy their familia but we have the fetcha for them this next week too but we still need to work with the husband a little bit more. Keep them in your prayers. We have some more possibilities but we need to work with them a little bit more. Right now we’re trying to work with the members a lot too because this branch has a lot of potentual and could be a really strong ward one day but we need to activate some people and do a few more things. Pres. Orillana (the branch president) really wants us to work with the inactive members, and working with them is actually a great way to get investigators through their families.
Well, it was really great to talk to you all yesterday and thanks for all that you do and all of the love and support that you all give.
I Love and Miss You All!!!
Con Amor
Elder Kapple
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
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
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
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