Elder Caden Kapp: Super Crazy Spiritual Week

Hey everyone!

Man this week was crazy. Sorry I'm sending this email today but our Pday got moved this week. Such a spiritual and super stellar week! One of the best yet.

Monday April 10: We had pday! It started with some great service. Lots of shoveling dirt. Then we called our fams and the rest of the day was just loads of volleyball. I'm getting so good.

Tuesday: We saw a couple of friends today. Then we spent most of our day at the college. We walked around and door knocked a lot. Not gonna lie, people are pretty chill there. No mean old people. A lot of people let us share a message with them and some told us we could come back. It was super lit.

Wednesday: Today was flat out amazing. We started the morning teaching our friend Andrew. The spirit was so strong it was amazing. And so we asked him if he'd be baptized and he said yes!!! Omh I thought I was going to throw up some spirit cause it was amazingly strong! We're so happy and proud of him. Then after our lesson we had our district council meeting. Which was amazing as always. Then after that we went and saw my good old friend brother Cross. He's someone our ward has asked us to see often. Our chats with him go on for a very long time. But I look forward to them every time. After seeing brother Cross we then met with Elder Yeow who just started his mission! It's so awesome calling him Elder Yeow now. He's someone who has been such a good friend to us from the start. So we went out and door knocked with him and it was so awesome.

Thursday: So today we started with weekly plan and study. Then we tried seeing some friends in the morning. After that we door knocked up to our lesson with Mahesh. That lesson went so great! We read a chapter of the Book of Mormon with him and he's really starting to take interest in it. After seeing him we went and had dinner with Lwin and Sister Robertson. As always it was so amazing. Then after that we started exchanges with the Firle Elders. So Elder Jian went to Firle with Elder Oliphant and Elder Bushell came to Morialta with me.

Friday: To start our morning we had a lesson with my friend I met on Facebook who lives in South America. We talked to him over zoom and talked to him about meeting missionaries where he lives. And he was very excited about that which was awesome to hear. So we got him all set up and we'll see where it takes him. After that lesson we had studies and went to the chapel to have a lesson with our friend Andrew. That lesson went really well. Everything we taught he understood and accepted. So that was super rad. We tried to see some members which was awesome. And then the rest of time we just went door knocking. At first it went literally nowhere. Not a single person interested. So we prayed and felt like we should try this other street. And we were able to find two people on it! It was such a miracle. We set up return appointments with them and both people accepted our invitation to read the Book of Mormon. After that we went to Firle and ended the exchange. It was a super great time!

Saturday: Today was a day of appointments just falling through. I swear everything was just going nowhere. We went to schedule teaching appointments and no one would be home, or people canceled last minute. Just one of those days. So we bussed to see some members. And we missed our second bus and the busses here suck on weekends so we had to wait a while. We went and were able to share messages with a couple of members and one family asked me to play the piano for them. It was very out of the blue and a first for me. Then after it was pouring rain. And Elder Jian and I had to wait an hour for our bus. #Memory

Sunday: We had general conference today! We were able to have some friends come and it was a super great time. Then after we went home, ate lunch, and then watched the next session at the chapel. After that it was time to start our mission tour. So a mission tour is like a zone conference but with the whole mission. So the NT flew down and everyone came. It was a three day event and it was so amazing. The people that came were Elder Nattress (President of the Pacific area), Elder Nash (Director of the Missionary department), President Johansson and all their wives. So Sunday we talked a lot about our mission purpose. It was super lit.

Monday: We had our mission tour to start the day. Today they started with a Q&A. And then talked a lot about invitations and commitments. It was super awesome and they gave great advice. Then after we had subway for lunch which was just so amazing. Then we left and did some service for a family who just moved. They told us they just needed help sorting and unpacking boxes. Yeah nope. We had to move an old piano along the side of their very long house, which us all mud and super narrow so only four of us could fit. It took a while but it got done. And then Elder Jian and I shoveled loads of mud so they can do concrete soon. Oh and we were in our proselyting clothes. And then we helped move and unpack boxes. Honestly I love service so I was fine doing whatever.

Tuesday: Our last day of our mission tour. So we started with a Q&A. Then we talked a lot about using technology and getting members excited about mission work. It was so awesome to learn more about both topics. Getting good at both will help the work really progress. After conference we had sandwiches for lunch and took a mission picture. Then Elder Jian and I had to leave because we had a lesson with Andrew. The lesson again went amazing! He is understanding and accepting everything he's reading and learning. It's super beast! After our lesson we went and dropped off a gift to our friend Win. Win was the student living with sister Robertson who we've been teaching. He leaves back to Thailand tomorrow so we gave him a Thai Book of Mormon with our testimonies in it and Peanut M&M's. There perfect combo if you ask me.

So yeah that was my crazy week! It was such an amazing week though. My little thing I have to say this week is remember all that the Savior did for you. He went through so much pain and sorrow for you personally. I just want you to ask yourself, how are you using what he's given you?

I love you all! As always, thanks for all the love and support! Talk to y'all in a couple of days haha.

-Elder Kapp