Elder Caden Kapp: Another One Bites the Dust

Happy 4th Everyone!

This week felt a little longer for some reason. But also it feels like the last pday was two days ago. Oh whale 🐋. This week was pretty good though. So more spiritual stuff, we had some amazing lessons with some of our friends. A lot of them have been progressing great and it's been super amazing to see it.

So super crazy story, back in January I had my first exchange with Elder Hawes, and while on that exchange we met this guy at the park named Erik. We had a long chat with him, and he said he's always at that park at the same time. So Elder Jian and I would go at the same time for the next two weeks hoping to see Erik. But no luck. Fast forward to last Saturday, Elder Son and I were door knocking and needed to use the bathroom, so we were just going to stop at that park. While walking it reminded me of Erik, so I told Elder Son the story, we went to the park and sat on this bench. And all of a sudden, a car pulls up right in front of us. Elder Son said he thought I saw a ghost, but it was Erik! We literally talked about him ten minutes before. We had an amazing chat with him and got his details and have a lesson with him this next week. That was such a miracle!

Any who, besides that we did some super fun things this week. We went bowling on pday and guess who won both games? Hint Hint, me. Then on Saturday we went on a hike with our friend Ben at 6:30 in the morning. For those of you who don't know, it's rainy season here. We were literally walking through rivers and jumping across rocks. And then at the end there was this super long cave where we had to like army crawl to get in (not super easy with a broken collarbone). And there was water up to our shins going through, but it was super cool. And we also saw three kangaroos so that was awesome. Then that night we found a group of people from a community who come together and play soccer every Saturday. There was 20-30 and it was so fun. The field was super muddy and I realized after one fall on my collarbone that it probably wasn't the best idea. That being said we played for a little over an hour and won!!! And met some super cool people so it was all worth it.

A little thought for y'all comes from Doctrine and Covenants 18: 15-16, "And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father! 16 And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!" If you can only save one soul, then make it your own. No point in trying to save others if you're not saved yourself.

Well my most amazing family and friends, I love you all and hope you have a great week. As always, thank you for all the love and support!