Elder Caden Kapp: My Butter From Another Utter

How's it going my family and friends?!!! I hope it's all going good. Hope you enjoy the subject, its a special one haha. Has their been any crazy news or things happening back home? Guess what? I finally got to watch conference! WOOHOO! Oh man was it good. It's definitely different having to watch it throughout the week on my own instead of watching it live at home. But hey, if it works, it works. To start off my email I wanted to just tell you how good this week was. First things first, our friend Margaret got baptized!!! She is a very stubborn lady but luckily, I'm more stubborn. The service went amazing. To get a sense of the character Margaret is, I asked her after the service finished on how she felt. Her response, "I have a dry mouth, I swallowed too much chlorine. Looks like my inside is just as clean as my spirit." She's a literal crack up. All jokes aside though, it was such a great time and the spirit was so strong. And the ward was so amazing at helping her feel welcomed. Such an amazing experience.

Anywho, some other amazing stuff happened this week. We had such an amazing lesson with our friend John. He was super curious about baptism and how that works in our church. Right now we are fighting against the Jehovah Witnesses over him. But our church is true, so of course we'll come out on top. Haha they've actually been pretty nice about him seeing us as well as them. On top of that we also had such an amazing experience with this YSA name Kaba. We were walking to an appointment and I saw he had a NBA jersey on so I stopped in my tracks and went over and talked with him. We ended up talking for like 20 minutes. He was so keen to hear what we had to say. We left him a chapter in the Book of Mormon to read and scheduled a date to come back. But here's the sad part, when we went back he came out, read the Book of Mormon and absolutely loved it. And we started to teach him the restoration his dad came out. He is a very huge brother, and told us to get lost. And told his son to get inside. Even though Kaba is old enough to take lessons from us, his dad forbids it. So yeah, that's where we're at. But, like I said I am stubborn. So we are going to go back and have a heart to heart with the dad. But if the answer is still no, that's ok, because Kaba will be taught when the Lord sees fit.

On a happy note, we were able to contact a lot of people who were taught in the past, and got appointments with them. Also, we had a lesson with our friend who is a paid pastor for his church. He's been saying over and over for us to read Hebrews, so I did. And when he asked my thoughts, I simply told him it was basic Christian doctrine, and how it was nothing I didn't already know. Oh man, was that not the answer he was looking for. I think he thought it would convert us to his church but I flat out told him he is just a basic Christian. Then we talked more about beliefs and I said since we read what he wanted, now he has to read the Book of Mormon. He accepted and agreed to read the chapter we gave him. So we'll see how that goes.

Some extra stuff that happened, so if you followed my last emails of my last area, you would know that I always find the strange people and they always come to me. Well this last week we found this lady who was in desperate need of service, but then she started knocking her neighbor's doors saying we were there to do free service for the whole neighborhood. She had good intentions, it was all fine until she put her hand on my arm. That's when I dipped and now the sisters will be seeing her.

On that note, let's have a spiritual thought. And of course it's from general conference. So in the talk by Sister Freeman, she shared her story being on a tour in Israel. But while she was there she had a broken ankle. While going around, the tour guide tied a rope to her scooter and helped her on their journey. This is likened to our life on Earth. Jesus Christ is our tour guide, and we need to trust the rope that tethers us together. He will never let go, so we must put our faith and trust in him that he will get us through our journey and that the rope never snap.

Well I am absolutely loving my area. It's been a blessing and such a good experience. I hope you all have an amazing week. And don't be strangers, I love your emails. Thank you for all the love and support! Love you all!