On To 5 in Morialta

 Monday: It was a pretty uneventful day for me haha. Got to call my family which was good. And then watch everyone play volleyball. I did play some Bananagrams and Cover Your Assets and won both. So yeah, that's my p-day.

Tuesday: So today was super great. The day started with us seeing Brother Mathers, and then seeing Brother Cross. Both visits were amazing. I love seeing the members of our ward. Then after that Elder Carr took us to the hospital so I could get more X-rays. The doctor told me I'll just be in a sling for 6 weeks. And then get more X-rays at the end of that to see how it looks. Then we went door knocking for a little after that which was good. Didn't find anyone super interested but that's ok. Then we went to see our friend Petra. She always tells us to come back another time and is just too busy so we were expecting that, but she let us in! We had a super amazing lesson with her. The spirit was so strong it was amazing. And then after our lesson with her, we went and saw our friend David. David has been doing amazing. He's read so much of the Book of Mormon and said he wants to come to church. We had such a great lesson with him. And then after that we video called our friend Samuel and had a super amazing lesson with him and one of his friends. It was a super great day.

Wednesday: Today was decent. We had district council, which was ok. Our district is just drama with certain missionaries. But after that, we went out and door knocked for most of the day and found three people who we got return appointments with. So that was a super good. Then we had dinner with the Bennallacks in our ward. Dinner was amazing and we were able to share a message with them. It was a good way to wrap up the day.

Thursday: Today was a good day. We went and saw Brother Turk. He always tries to get us to watch movies with him. It was so hard to stay awake because he always just has a lamp on and he loves to talk. After that we saw our friend Jeff and had an amazing lesson with him. After that we went door knocking and found one person who we got a return visit with. And then we went to go see one of our friends who we've never been able to get in contact with so we were going to drop them but for the first time in two months, they were home! And we had a lesson with them and it went super well. 

Friday: Today we visited heaps of members. And then did door knocking and Facebook work. Not a whole lot to talk about today. But for dinner we went to the Robertsons. I haven't been since she went to China. It was amazing and I really missed her cooking. So yeah that's my Friday.

Saturday: It was a pretty busy day for us. We had English class in the morning with Diego and Leidy and had a lesson with them afterwards. Then after that we went to go see Karl who is the new member of our ward. Then we had a visit with a family in our ward which went amazing. Then we had a lesson with our friend Darryl. We put together a shelf and talked a lot about the Holy Ghost. Then we had a little time for finding. And to end the day we had dinner with Elder and Sister Felt, with the Firle Elders and AP's. It was so good and such a blast. 

Sunday: Sunday was a pretty solid day. We had church, weird I thought that'd stop being a missionary. Jokes. Then we had super fun meetings (said no one ever). Then we went to see a referral an hour bus ride away and they weren't home. There goes two hours I'll never get back. Then we finally had our studies and weekly planning. Then later we had dinner with the Rice family! Dinner was amazing as ever and I didn't blow up their toilet twice this time. And then to end the night we had our transfer call... and of course I'm staying for Transfer number 5. But there were tons of movement. Our district has half the missionaries leaving so we're getting a lot of new ones. Oh and I got called as district leader so I'm excited about that. But here's to 7 and a half months in Morialta.

  Spiritual Message: So my little message is all about the two great commandments...love. Not the gross kissing kind because ew (Hint Hint Hallie Mae), but the super awesome kind that brings people even closer together than the other kind. ["While not easy, it is possible with the help of our Lord, Jesus Christ. He gave this command to love, and He promises His help as we seek to obey it." - President Oaks] I've seen on the mission how hard it is to love EVERYONE. Through slammed doors, people yelling at us on buses or what not, it can be hard. But we are commanded to love and promised to have the help we need to love those that do wrong to us. So my little invitation is to think of someone who you might not be too thrilled when you hear their name and love the ever-loving heck out of them. Because our world could use a little more love.

   A little wrap up, this week was an amazing week. Filled with miracles and blessings. I'm beyond grateful for my support system, aka all of you. Without it, dang this would be heaps harder. But luckily, I have the best family and friends imaginable. Thanks for all you've done for me. I love you all and hope you have a stellar week! 

Barber Shop

Dinner

Dinner with the Felts

Twas the month

My Partners in Crime

 Hello everyone. 

   Wow, it's crazy, another week went by. Well where to get started? I found out my X-rays look good so no surgery. Yay. Last Monday couldn't do a whole lot besides play Cover Your Assets. So that was just a blast of a pday. But that night we had dinner with the Stake president and his family so that was good. Then on Tuesday we just focused on finding. We did find two people so that was exciting.

   Ok now we're on to Wednesday. So we had our district meeting in the morning which I had to leave early to go to the hospital again to see an orthopedic surgeon. Then we went to China town and got some fire lunch. Then we went and visited some members. Thursday was an intense day. It was freezing and pouring all day. But that didn't stop us from knocking doors. We also had a couple of lessons that went super well. 

   On Friday we had zone conference! It was a super great one. A common theme was building comp unity. And then we had a testimony meeting which was super amazing. Then Saturday was just crazy. We started the day with English class, and then just had visits the rest of the day. We had great lessons, member visits, and a little time to door knock. Then Sunday, it wasn't the best of days. It started with my parents calling letting me know that our dog and my brother's dog passed away unexpectedly the same night. They were my partners in crime. They were my best buds and they'll be greatly missed. 

   And then today is p-day. It's a zone p-day which means volleyball that I can't play. I'm just so excited about that (he said sarcastically). 

   A little message is from Elder Uchtdorf's talk this last general conference: "A parent’s love for a child is one of the strongest forces in the universe. It’s one of the few things on this earth that can truly be eternal." Lucky for me I have the two greatest parents out there. They celebrated with me, cried with me, and are there for me always. Parents have such a huge impact on how their kids turn out. And thank goodness they do. 

   Time to wrap up this email. I love you all and hope you can have a great week!

Bear

Maisey

Zone Conference

Door knocking in the rain

Broken Collarbone

 Happy Monday everyone!

  My week this week was pretty good besides the part where I broke my collarbone! I broke it at 10pm and had to go to the emergency room until 1am. So yeah that was a bummer. We'll find out if I have to get surgery hopefully sometime this week.

  On a brighter note, we had a lot of lessons this week which was so good. We got to do service for our friend Darryl again. We just finished up his tile job in his kitchen. It was pretty fun. Also this week, we had a service for a family in our ward. They have ALOT of stuff in their house and just needed help cleaning and moving stuff. I actually enjoyed it. Any type of service is good and fun.

  Also, we had exchanges again this week. I went to Firle with Elder Oliphant. It was super great. To start, we found a blue tongue lizard in the backyard. Then we filmed a video with some sisters for Facebook. Then we checked in on some of their friends, door knocked a little and then had a super baller lesson. The lesson was with a family they're teaching and they're just so awesome. We taught the law of chastity so yayyyy. They had great questions from their personal reading and other stuff. Then at the end we asked if they needed anything and their aunt, who was just visiting and never taught, asked for a blessing. I was able to do that and what a special experience. She's going to start to get taught the lessons. 

  Sorry for a short email, it's not super fun writing one while being broken. A little spiritual thought comes from the story where the woman had a blood problem and touched a thread of the Saviors robe and was healed. He said he didn't heal her but her faith. Something so simple made the largest difference. Is incredible to think of the little things we've done in life and the huge roll and impact they left. Continue to do the small things in faith. And see the miracles come in.

  I love you all! Have a super great week. Thanks for all the support. Talk to y'all next week.

Service

Exchanges

Brother Cross

Knocking doors

DCM

Jerry the lizard

Wazzup

 Aloha my dudes,

 How was your week? Mine was one of the most excellent, ha not. Just kidding it was actually pretty decent not gonna lie. So on Monday for P-day me and my son Elder Son went to lunch with Elder and Sister Carr. So Elder Carr served his mission in Korea and wanted to take us to a Korean place for lunch. It was super good and such a fun experience. After that we went to the city and met up with the other Elders and went shopping. I got a sick sweatshirt. And yeah then we went back to the chapel, played some pickle ball and then we went to a members house for dinner. Getting picked up in a Tesla and going to the hills hits different. Such a great time.

 Then on Wednesday we had the chance to go to the temple!!! Woohoo #blessed. It was raining so hard that day so luckily we got a ride from some senior couples. But seriously the temple is the place to be. All the world is just gone for a period of time and you can just relax. Super nice. So yeah that was good. Then later in the week we went on exchanges...

 So with the exchanges, Elder Bushell came here in Morialta. Honestly it was such a great exchange. We had lunch with our Bishop and his family. They gave us a class on how to learn an Australian accent. That was our homework. After that we went and did some service for our friend Darryl. That was probably one of my favorite services. We put up tiles in his kitchen. It was super fun, and now I can start my own tile business. Then he showed us his shed and dang he has a lot of toys. So many power machines, like so many. My guy had three working welders alone and all this other stuff. We're trying to get permission so we can go make rings there sometime. He told us we can come over and use the machines whenever we want. Too bad it's against the rules. After the service we went door knocking and found two new people. So the exchange was super beast.

 Besides all that, we had some great lessons this week and have some good ones coming up. It was pretty solid week and a lot of fun. OH ALSO, we have a member we visit in this care place and they told us he was a little off and he almost punched me. The same care place where a Russian lady tried slapping my butt. Oh what memories.

 A little message comes from my brain. On the mission we have a lot of good and bad days. Funny how no one talks about having bad days on the mission but I can tell you they are real. But it's nice, because when you have good days and your little miracles, they're so much better and more recognizable. Think of a so called bad moment in your life, then think of the good that followed. It it's sneaking out (which I never did mind you), sneaking on to a golf course, or getting in fights with family. Each not so great moment can have such a great side if we let it. So I guess what I'm trying to say is focus on the good even in the bad moments. If you focus on the pebble in your shoe, you'll never enjoy the journey. 

 Well I love you all! I seriously have the best support possible. Have a wonderful week. Keep in touch!

 -Elder Kapp

Shopping

New Sweatshirt

Service

Temple

Korean lunch

Dinner

Ahh!... Didn't see you there

 Well hello everyone!!!

   How was y'alls week? Good? I sure hope so. How was mine? Super fantastic!!! So you know last week we had a friend who just googled a church near him and showed up? Well we had four lessons with him last week and now he's on date for baptism! Woohoo!!! That will be in about three weeks if all goes to plan. Super stoked about that.

   Other stuff that happened this week was we had so many lessons which is a good change haha. These last couple of weeks have been busy busy. Our lessons have been going really good. We have two friends on date and another one we're planning on putting on date. We had a lesson every day this week I believe, which is pretty exciting. It was a super beast week for teaching.

   One of the goals we have set with our mission president is to have ten visits with members a week. It honestly has helped the work so much. The members of our ward are super amazing and so willing to help. With this, we also do less active visits. And one member we've been working with came to church on Sunday and even bore his Testimony during sacrament. It surprised us haha. It was so great though. I love our ward, it's seriously the best ward. 

   Fun things that happened: we had zone pday last week. So lots of pickleball and volleyball. That's always fun. We went to a Korean market and got some stuff to try. Some of it was good, other stuff wasn't so good. We got ice cream at this super good place. We decided to make a tradition when we see one of the members every Friday, we'll stop at this ice cream place. And on top of that, the work has just been fun. I've been loving it.

   Little spiritual message is from Alma 14: 8-13. This is the saddest chapter in the Book of Mormon but also my favorite. It's when Alma and Amulek have to watch the women and children be thrown into the fire. Amulek asks Alma if they could stop it but Alma told him that the Lord is receiving them. Then Amulek asks if they'll die and Alma says if it's the will of the Lord then so be it. Holy dang, what faith. Alma has his eyes on the Lord every second during this moment. All his faith and trust is in the Lord. Such a great story.

   Well I hope you all have a such amazing week. I'd love to hear from you all. Love ya!

That's a nice sign

Korean food

Post lesson celebration

Studies at a park

Ice Cream

Beast Week

 Hello there"(said like obi wan kanobi)

   How have y'all been? This week was super amazing! We had loads of lesson, an apostle, miracles and stuff. I'll be in Morialta for at least eight and a half months. So that's um exciting haha. 

   Ok to start the week we have lessons. This week we had so many lessons it was amazing. We had some surprise lessons with friends we didn't know if they were interested or not. Turns out they are haha. We've been able to teach someone living in a different country. It's been a super cool experience working with him and the bishop nearby. So yeah, we had a lot of great lessons this week.

   We had Elder Christofferson come! Oh man what a guy. We were able to have a two hour conference with him as missionaries and then an hour one with the public. He is so funny. It's weird, when you see them in conference you think they're super serious but outside of that they're pretty funny. He gave great teachings. Along with his wife and other area 70. That was such a special experience and probably my favorite times listening to an apostle.

   Next, Miracles!!! So this week we were able to put one of our friends on date for baptism. We have work to do but he loves our visit and the church. So hopefully it'll all pay off in the end. Next, we were at church and these two showed up so we talked to them and they said they just googled a local church and showed up. So we taught the guy after church a little and got his number to teach him again. So crazy. 

   Next, random stuff that happened. So at a member dinner, I held a rabbit and a snake! Oh my gosh, I am him. I'm the man. I did it and didn't cry. Mom be proud. We had lots of fun playing hours of pickle ball last pday. We'll see what we do today for pday. Also, I gave a talk in sacrament. It was on a talk from last general conference. It actually went super well. So yeah, that's basically my week. It was amazing and I'm so happy to see what this next week brings.

   Spiritual thought for y'all comes from my talk. Repentance is like having a new car given to you by your parents. It's a gift, it's meant to help you and get you to one point to another. But let's say you didn't use this car. You just let it sit there, get dusty, and never be used. Brothers and Sisters this is like repentance. It is a gift. Given to us by our father to help us to get to one point to the other. So why not use this gift?

   I hope you all have the most amazing week ever. Thanks for all the love and support. Talk to ya next week!

   -Elder Kapp 

Snake

Fruit

Elder Christofferson

Rabbit

Da bois

I'm a Dad!

 Hello everyone!

   Dang, another week done already. This was a pretty stellar week not gonna lie. So last p-day we played pickle ball. I know, big surprise, but after that we played throw throw burrito. That was a lot of fun. And of course I won every round because I am a professional burrito thrower. Some highlights this week would start with on Tuesday having Elder Hung come with us for part of the day and all of Wednesday. He's the other city Elder who is Elder Jian's new comp. We had some fun with being in a trio. We had some time in the city to do some street contacting. And Elder Hung got to try door knocking for the first time. So that was loads of fun showing him how to do that.

   The second highlight obviously is getting my new companion Wednesday night! So I am training Elder Son. And so far I have really enjoyed it. I was a little nervous before to train because I didn't know what to really do, but once it started it's just been a blast. Right away he got to teach lessons, door knock, and all that fun jazz. He's a great missionary, I think we'll have lots of fun together.

   Highlight numero three would be our lessons. This week we were able to have loads of lessons. We would have a couple every day which was seriously a first for me. And also, we were able to get a lot of members to those lessons! It's super beast when members meet our friends and connect well with them early on. I am super excited to see the progress our friends make and to help them on their journey.

   Some other things that happened was we had stake conference. That was amazing. On Saturday we had the adult session and they had dinner and I got talking to one of members. You know there were lots of wards so I thought he was just from another ward. We talked for a while and then after I talked to the Bramfords (if you're new, the Bramfords are my favorite) and they told me that the so called member I was talking with was an area 70. oops. 

   But yeah, that's pretty it for the week. A little message I wanted to share with you all would be a question for you to ponder: What are you struggling with, and why do you have doubts? We all have struggles and doubts. We're human. But, this doesn't mean we have to struggle alone. Because we will never be alone with any challenge or struggle. So my invitation is please turn to the Savior with every little problem. And to help your loved ones around you who are struggling. Because we all need help. 

   I love you all! All the support and love I get has helped me so much. So, thank you for all you do. Talk to you all next week! 

My son Elder Son

Elder Hung

District