Merry Christmas!!!

  It's so crazy to think that I'll be home for next Christmas. And even crazier that last Christmas, I was in the MTC. Mission time is weird. Anywho, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! This is most definitely my most favorite time of the year. I first off, love snow (I don't get it this year), I love the time spent with family and loved ones, and I love Jesus Christ! It's all my favorite things in one, so I could I not love the Holidays? Today we're going to a members house for breakfast. These members are some of my favorites so I am very excited to spend the morning with them. Then the rest of the day we're just getting together as a district and playing games and what not. So it should be a pretty good day.

   This week was a pretty good one. To start, last Monday was our last day as a district before changes. So we went on a hike which we saw a lot of kangaroos, jumped a lot of fences, ate it and my leg went through a fence, and then ending with us walking throw a narrow highway going through the canyon. So you know, just your casual Monday. It was sad to see some missionaries leave, but this next district is going to be lit. 

   Tuesday and Wednesday were awesome because we biked! Haha, my comp hated every second of it. So no more biking with him. But we were able to see a lot more people because biking is heaps faster than riding the bus. Just a lot more tiring. During the week, we were able to see a lot of our indigenous friends. With that, some sad news, our friends on date for baptism moved. But some good news, we know where they moved to and now those missionaries are seeing them. Anywho, our indigenous friends were suppose to come to church, but something came up. So hopefully this next week we can work with them. Other than that, the majority of our friends were either out of town or super busy with the holidays, so we didn't have a ton of lessons, but... we had a lot of time to door knock!!! WOOHOO! And dang, was this an amazing week with door knocking. We had heaps of spiritual experiences and found so many people who have had their hearts prepared. We are very excited for the weeks to come to see what the Lord has instore for us. 

   We also had service with that one guy with all the junk. During it, I saw the biggest spider I have literally ever seen. It was huge. I not a picture, but the picture doesn't show how large it was. Also, last night, we had a Christmas Eve dinner with Tony Bright and his family. The food was way good as always, and it was fun to be included with the holiday events. 

   This season, the spiritual thought is obviously on Christmas. It's so easy to focus on the worldly things during the holidays. The gifts, the food, the parties, but why do we celebrate Christmas? Because of Jesus Christ! His name is literally in the holiday's name. So I invite each one of you to focus your holidays on him. One of my favorite family traditions is every Christmas Eve, we would read the account of the Savior's birth. It was a good reminder during all the celebrating to remember of what we actually should be celebrating. And that of course, is Christ.

   I love you all so very much, and hope you have a most amazing Christmas and a very Happy New Year. Thank you for everything. Have a super stellar week!

Hike

Doorknocking

New District

Food

Christmas Eve

Huge Spider

Hump Dayyyy

   I'm officially half way through my mission! Time has absolutely flown by. I have mixed feelings about it but got to work with what we got, right? This week was crazy good. First things first, we had transfer calls yesterday. And of course I'm staying and will finish training Elder Shum. I'm happy about staying in this area. It'll be a good next transfer. 

      This week started with a combined zone conference! It was so good. I got to see some of my favorite missionaries and it was such a fun time. The mission got all the Elders Indigenous ties which are so cool. Overall is was such a spirit filled time and a great time to catch up with friends. 

   Also this week our district went and sang carols for this care facility. After we sang we just talked with the residents which was super good. Then after our district went to this super nice restaurant for lunch. Afterwards we had a couple of lessons which were amazing and then door knocked. Then later for dinner we went to a member's house and they gave us so much food but we were both so sick from lunch. But we ate it. Slowly. 

 

   On Saturday we had a Bible study with Vilameen and Reyno. Which went amazing and they're starting to see the truth more and more from our church. So we're excited about that. On a different note, this week we've been visiting a lot of less active members, and a lot of them came to church on Sunday. We were so happy about it. Now we just have to keep them going more and more. And then later that evening we had a Christmas devotional. We sang a musical item and guess who was there? A bunch of members from my last ward! I got to chat with them a bunch after the meeting. It was so good to see them again.

 

   This week was super good and very spirit felt. We were busy everyday with lessons and visits so it was good to see the work progress. And lastly and little spiritual thought was remember the meaning of Christmas. It's so easy to forget why we celebrate this holiday. So this next week, remember why you celebrate Christmas and remember all the Savior has done for you.

 

  Well I love you all! Have an amazing Christmas and an amazing week. Thanks for everything!

Carols

District Lunch

Hike

1 year

Bye Elder and Sister Knight

My Dad and Son

Some Handsome Elders

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 Hey everyone! To be honest, nothing too exciting happened this week. Like it was a very good week, don't get me wrong, but yeah, I guess just same old, same old. First thing first, I hit my year mark this week. Isn't that crazy? I think it's crazy. Anywho time for the mission stuff. So first on Tuesday we had a lesson with our friends Tyra and Victoria. That lesson went amazing. We had one of our members come (Dave) and the spirit was so strong and we taught a lot. Tyra is from New Zealand and I have no clue where her friend is from. But they're super keen so we'll see where that goes. Then right after that, we went to the chapel and had another beast lesson with our friend Arpan. She had some amazing questions and was open to hear us out. 

    Also this week, one of the less active members has all these Christmas decorations and she won this Adelaide competition. So we went and checked it out and she was super happy to see us. It was pretty cool not gonna lie. And from that, we got her to come to our ward Christmas party on Saturday! We were super happy she ended up coming. It was a lot of fun. 

   

   Also during the week we had another amazing lesson with our Indigenous friends Alfreda and Carl. And we put them on date for baptism, so we'll see what happens there. Super stoked about that. Then one morning we visited some members and they had me dig a grave for their chicken. She said it's good fertilizer. Then after that we had four lessons that morning! By the end I was literally mentally exhausted and slept on the bus ride to lunch. Then later that day while biking to an appointment, my comp broke another bike. So we had to have the sisters come pick up our bikes because we were so far away from our flat. Oh and the bike he broke was mine because I was riding his broken bike. So that was nice haha. 

  

  Other stuff that happened during the week; we had a great lesson with our friend John. And addition to that, we had a couple more lessons with our other friends we are teaching. We also had our ward Christmas party on Saturday, and that was a blast. And yeah that's pretty much it.

  

  A little spiritual thought is this quote; "Being happy does not always mean being without hardship. Sometimes it means just the opposite." Sometimes we need a burden, an extra load or task to help us truly feel happy. 

  

  Well I love you all. Have an amazing week and here's to 12 more months. 

-Elder Kapp

Thanks Dave

Teaching with Dave

Biking

Sunset

My Favorite Book

Christmas Decorations

Keep me in TTG

  HOLY COW, was this week full of miracles and such a joyful week. Hi everyone! How have you all been? If you can't tell, this week was so good for us here in the Tea Tree Gully. First things first, I want to talk about what happened yesterday. So, a little back story, we met another aboriginal family this week. We had an amazing lesson, and they wanted to come to church. So Sunday morning, since there were no buses, we walked an hour to their house at 6 am. And they said they were too tired and sleeping. After 15 minutes the mom came out and we sat on her driveway and shared a message and prayed. But then she went in and said she's too tired for church. We were a little frustrated, we just spent an hour and half trying to get them to church. So we left because we had to walk another 45 minutes to catch a bus. But while at the bus stop, they called us saying they are getting ready and are going to come. And sure enough, they came! They absolutely loved it! It was a roller-coaster of a morning but so worth it. 

   Also this week, we went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders. So Elder Arnold came here with me. It was such a good exchange. We had a some lessons, visited less actives, and found heaps of people. And then to close the night, he and I got the mega feast from Hungry Jacks! It was a lot of food, but hey, new memory haha. 

   The rest of the week was just full of so many lessons, services, and member visits. With some finding here and there. This area is so good and I never want to leave it. So make sure you're praying I stay for next transfer haha. It's crazy to see the Lord's hand in his work. Like it shows that it's his work, and people are prepared to receive him. It's just on us to trust him to lead us to those people. This leads me to our next miracle, Tyra. So there's been this street I've been wanting to knock for so long but for some reason we never had time or something would come up. But the other day Elder Shum and I both felt so strong that it was time. So we knocked it and man was it going bad. No one would let us utter a word. We knocked one whole side and then the next. All felt lost until one of the last houses. We knocked, and the person who answered asked us if we could teach them right then and there. They loved the Book of Mormon, and the spirit was so strong. It was such a blessing and miracle. 

   

  Then some random stuff, last pday was lit. We had chalk wars and played egg roulette. And painted each other's shirts. So fun. We saw a bunch of baby kangaroos, which were so cute. We had a service and I caught a large lizard so that was cool. So yeah that's my week.

   

  The little spiritual thought goes back to a quote years ago. "No empty chairs." I could have it off, but you get what I'm saying. When we're up in Heaven, will all our loved ones be there? Who'll be missing? Why? We need to be doing our best to make sure every single chair is filled. 

   

   As always, I love you all. I hope you have a most amazing week. I'll talk to y'all next week.

   -Elder Kapp

Baby Kangaroo

Our friends at church

Some of my favorite members

Lizard

Pday

Exchange

Dinner (Don't worry, this week we're going on a diet.)