Elder Caden Kapp: So Much Happened!!!

Holy Cow! Too much happened this week. This will by far probably be my longest email. But it's so worth it so y'all better stay tuned and read it. But you have your agency.

Okay, we'll go day by day, the end of the week is the crazy stuff if you want to skip. But on Tuesday, we had lunch with the APs because we didn't do an exchange this transfer. We just talked about the zone and whatnot, nothing super exciting. We had a couple of lessons, one with a friend who wasn't wearing clothes. Well, he was in a bathrobe technically, but we'll need to teach him how they can tie. That was fun.

Wednesday, we had our district council which went well, and then after had a meeting with President Johansson. It was very good, pretty intimidating when your mission President pulled up to your flat even if you planned on him coming. But like I said, it was so good to counsel with him. We wrote a song and honestly just joked around. After that, we had a couple of lessons which went super amazing.

Thursday was crammed with lessons. It was super good, I'm not complaining. We had some referrals we visited and they are super keen! Real referrals! Crazy, miracles are good.

Friday, this was just another day crammed with heaps of lessons. We got to get lunch with a less active member we've been working with. It was so good.

Okay Saturday, we had exchanges with the Tea Tree Gully Elders. Elder Shum came to Paralowie with me. We had a service in the morning for Sister Folker (my Australian grandma). We were able to have our new member Chris come. It was a good time. After that, we had a lesson with our friend TP which went super amazing. He's very receptive and open. It was such a good lesson. It was also fun teaching with Elder Shum again. After that, we went to a Filipino couple in our ward for lunch. And then helped them start putting together things for our Filipino night this Saturday. After that, we went to our friend Racheal's house and helped clean up the weeds there. After that, we went door knocking and right after our first door, we got a call from the Whyalla Elders. They said their friend Dan who was supposed to get baptized the next day was stuck in Adelaide four and a half hours away. So we called President and told him what the problem was and asked what we should do. The conversation went as follows:

Me: "So President, this is new to me, what do we do?"

President: "Well Elders, you could drive him."

Me: "What?"

President: "Yeah tomorrow morning you could pick him up and drive him to Whyalla. Do you think you could make it?"

Me: "Are you joking?"

President: "You could just drive him to his baptism tomorrow, do you think that will work?"

Me: "President just so we're clear, you are saying us, missionaries, pick up a non-member friend in Adelaide, in a mission vehicle, and drive him in the morning four and a half hours to Whyalla for his baptism."

President: "That's what I'm saying, Elder. This is very rare but it's possible, we'll get you special permission."

Me: "Alright sounds good."

My mind was all over the place during that conversation. But hey, if there's a will there's a way. So we finished our exchange and got ready for lots of driving.

Sunday, we woke up early and got to the place where Dan and his friend Lachlan were. Called President while they were in the car to get permission. Then drove four and a half hours to Whyalla. We got there at 11 am and he got baptized at 12:30. Members were very confused about why we were there, all we told them was we just wanted to support Dan haha. After that we had a tender mercy, President gave us permission to have the sacrament with the other Elders. We won't get it next week because that's our general conference so it was good to take it. Then we drove home. But wait there's more! We had our mission zoom and one of the APs goes home today. So we had a mini transfer, and sadly Elder Arnold is leaving to the city. But I'll be joined by Elder Mitchell. All I know is he's like 6 foot 7 inches and we're somehow related. But I'm so excited. It'll be good.

So that is my week, a spiritual thought I learned this week was just put all your trust in the Lord. When your load seems heavy, then you're living life right. That's the Lord trusting us with more to do and pushing us to our limits.

I love you all and appreciate all you do. Email me if you want. It would make me very happy;)

-Elder Kapp