Pictures from Typhoon Oct 14th

Some of the mess from the Typhoon.

Oct 7th Beach activity....

Oct 7th At the beach activity!

Eye on the food! :)


Looks like he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar! LOL


Hey, watch that arm of yours!!! :)

Oct 7th Beach Activity

I just got back from the beach!!! We played volleyball and ate the best BBQ stake, pig and fish mmm! I promise there will be pictures of this! We got to go there as a zone for achieving the Standard of Excellence. This is the third time in four months that we achieved the Standard the Excellence as a zone!

We have had some very spiritual days this week that I would like to share with you.

Firstly, we went to a mountain in one of our areas and decided that we wanted to tract it because there were 100's of house on this mountain and I've been in this area for over 5 months and I had not been up it yet. Well we decided to walk up it and try to teach there. As we were walking we saw a house with a tricycle on it (a dirt bike with a side car) so we decided to tract it since they could at least drive to church. He invited us in and we taught his whole family! There were about 6 of them and they all committed to baptism, and going to church. I then realized that he was a brother of a person I baptized in my last area Cabangan! It was totally meant to be that I met him! After that we decided to keep going up this huge mountain. While walking we saw a biker, he was going up a VERY VERY steep hill so he was GOOD (he was the champion of the huge Baguio city race). We kept up with him and eventually came to the end of the street. We found out that there was absolutely not one person in any of the 100's of houses that we always saw on this huge mountain. The man had told us that he cursed God the night before for "ruining his life" (He divorced his wife, he lost his job as a secretary to the Governor, and has no kids at his new home). While teaching him he knew that we were sent from God and he committed to Baptism, and receiving the Priesthood one day and most importantly he accepted that God is loving. We changed a family's life and a bikers life on that one mountain and I will always remember how the Lord sent me to these wonderful people.

Don't forget that God is loving. We were all like rocks, when we got on this earth and God chips us (gives us trials) that we might grow and become a beautiful statue and like our Lord Jesus Christ.

I love you all!

Elder Beau Kapeliela

Sept 29th The work is still on fire!

Hey family!

Thanks for all the awesome emails! You are always in my prayers. It's so exciting knowing whose going on missions, when and where! I feel like when I get home no ones going to be there!

 I had an awesome week! 

I don't know if you remember me telling you but when I got to this area we had 48 come to church. Last week the branch had 87 members attend and we also had 15 investigators that attended!!! 

Last Saturday we had 4 successful baptisms so we are literally ON FIRE in this area! We are planning on baptizing 11 this month. I am so ready to do this!!!!!

I can't wait to go into the temple and watch the new video!

Our zone accomplished the standard of excellence AGAIN for the 2nd time in a row! So we are all going to the mission again next Monday! We have 12 baptisms and 12 Less actives return! 

I love you all! Always wear your seat belts!

Elder Kapeliela

Sept 15th One year mark!!!

Hey family! Tomorrow I hit my one year mark in the mission!! Isn't that crazy? Lots of exciting things have been happening recently!

My companion Elder Wilde just got sent to the mission home because he's an AP now. My new companion is Elder Cobb from Charlotte, North Carolina where NASCAR, Michael Jordan, and bank of America started apparently haha.

I don't know if I told you or not but I dreamed that I became companions with the companion I have right now in the MTC and I hadn't even seen him until I got here. And Now we're companions. I know now why, we're doing great.

Me and my companion have 252 names of friends and family (non-members) that we are and they are praying for and we are going to go to. This has the potential of bringing hundreds to baptisms and I'm excited to share with you the miracles that are about to happened.

Read Alma 26:22 and there you will find out as we did how to bring thousands to repentance. I'm excited for this work. The Lord is hastening it and therefore we must think and work harder as missionaries.

I love  you guys so much! Take care.

Sept 8th

Hey! I had a good adventurous week I could say. There used to be 6 of us in one small house but now the 4 moved to another apartment. We spent most of last week looking and helping them move into their new apartment. We had to make high bars so no one could possibly get into the house. Missionaries need a safe place where they can relax and have no worries because sometimes the outside is a very very telestial place. On Wednesday my area splits into two and there will be 4 in the house again. It has been very quite in our house with just 2.

While on the way to my appointment I was riding my bike on the road and their was a dog just chillen and licking himself not worrying about a thing, even though it was a busy road. I ignored him thinking he would move but he didn't until the last minute, then we both moved, me turning and him running until we ran into each other and I flew off my bike after running over him with my front wheel ( I was wearing a helmet thankfully). My first reaction after getting up to recover was to protect myself from the dog cause he was PISSED, I shielded myself with my bike and their were about 20 Filipinos chasing the dog off. They then laughed with me and my companion about it, because it must of looked pretty crazy and the dog made a really weird noise haha, anyways I was fine and kept working. Nothing's gonna stop me from working every single day on my mission.

I'm loving my area and I won't get transferred (said President Querido) so I'm happy with that. We have 6 baptisms on the 21st hopefully. This area was really ready for me, haha. The area that I opened that hasn't seen missionaries is my most progressing area. I love being able to do what I want with my area for it's good. Missions are awesome!

I want you to remember to fear God always and seek his kingdom first.
Love you all!