7-28 Another Email, more pictures!

The bird really, really wanted to peck my ear. But look at its feet! They are sooo cool!
The kid in the orange is my convert I wrote you about!

 

 

July 28th Pictures

July 28th

Here's the pictures of the awesome baptism I was talking about!

 

That's the mountain that blew up in the backround and made all the people move into my area. All the natives now live inland because most of the houses blew apart on the mountain.

 

Oh yeah, and that's the senior couple from Olympia! They are my FAVORITE! They work with us all the time! They have the sweetest spirit! The husband preaches like a prophet, it's a miracle just to be able to watch him preach. They are the Doyles,  they are the one's who told you when I'm gonna skype you and stuff! They came to the baptisms!

 

 

 

July 21st Pictures!

A few of the baptism's and an Elder from New Zealand, Tonga and the girl is from Samoa and she danced at PCC night show.

July 21st Kumusta!

Hello Family!

I got chased by a cow because I wanted to touch her calf.... Hehe.

We just had 2 baptisms on Saturday and have 4 more this Sunday. 2 Of the baptisms fell through but They will get baptized next month. 6 baptisms is still a good number and the Lord is pleased. The standard of excellence is 2.

Transfers are next week and I think I am going to get transferred. 

While our investigators were getting interviewed for their baptisms, one of our investigators didn't show up, so we ran to her house and started walking to the chapel when the rain started pouring on us. We hid under a roof and I said a quick prayer and told them that if we start running to the church it would stop raining, because they weren't allowed to get wet cause they were sick already. As we started running the clouds above us started parting and the rain ceased. The Lord even prepared the way for us to dry off by parting the clouds by the sun so the heat could dry us off. When we arrived at the chapel there was a huge rainbow arcing the chapel and at that moment I knew that it WAS true, and NO unhallowed hand can stop this work from progressing. She was then interviewed, passed and got home safely.

The rash is going away now! 2nd doctor I went to was better than the first. He said I don't have allergies and that the other doctor isn't smart haha. I believe him because his medicine works! Sleep was only hard the first night but now its OK!! 

Watch the leadership (first presidency) Its called "Harnessing the power of the members". We all watched it, it was really good!

I got bit by an ant for the first time in my life. Just thought I'd tell you that it wasn't that bad hehe.

But I will tell you want is bad. I woke up in the middle of the night because I had a dream that a rat was biting me so I woke up. For some reason my foot hurt super bad and I was way confused. Then I feel something on my foot and kicked it off and hear rat screeches and realize what happened. My dream and reality were the same, a rat was biting my foot. It wasn't a kolipoki kind of thing but it still hurts. Nothing will ever stop me from tracking. I said a pray that it wouldn't return, put socks on and fell right back asleep. We had killed a rat the day before so maybe his brother was mad haha.

With all the baptisms, I have been working my companions butt off hahaha. It's fun working my companions hard. They'll appreciate it in the future hehe.

Chloe got called to the mission next door!!!!!!!! I'm sooo excited for her, you have no idea!!!! We can speak tagalog together!!!!

Tell her to email me! 

I love you family! Thanks for the awesome letters and prays. Prayer is powerful! 

Ingat!

Elder Kapeliela

July 14th

 

Hey family!

I figured out that I go home on July 2nd, 2014!!! Do you realize that this is less than 12 months left!!! I'm snowboarding down this mission and like snowboarding, I don't know how to stop or slow down So just close your eyes and open them and I'm home. All the trainers that trained my batch are headed home so it is crazy seeing how fast this is going! I'll be home for the 4th I think! I've had 7 companions now all of which are Filipino.

At our Zone Conference, Elder Ardern came (of the 70) and gave us instruction. He is a brilliant man with profound knowledge of the Preach my Gospel. I learned sooo much from him. 

During the lunch break we ate at a restaurant and got to sing "Called to Serve" in front of the working staff. It was a great experience!

I also noticed in the new Liahona, that the former mission president in University Place, Elder Pearson is now a 70. Man, that caught me of guard when I saw his talk in the Liahona about prayer with a story about Ben, my old class mate and track mate! I admonish you to read it! It's great and my prayers have changed because of it!

On exchanges this week, my companion was Elder Solomon from New Zealand. It was one of the best exchanges I've gone on!

Thanks for your prayers! Almost every night I know that you pray for me as potential problems are always miraculously avoided.

I love you all! We have 2 baptisms this Saturday and 6 the next Sunday! 

Ingat! 

Elder Kapeliela

July 7th

 

No one told me how their 4th was!! Mine was awesome! I sang the "National Anthem" a ton haha. And the lightning gave me a SICK show! The lightning was gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Over the sea!!! It was epic! and far away, so I was safe haha. Soooo cool, I cant wait for you all to come here and pick me up!

This last week was alright! My companion got sick so we didn't get to work that much. I had a lot of time to read the bible, so that was nice! I finished Luke and almost all of acts! Acts 20 through 23 are my new favorite chapters!

We're going to the mission home later because We fulfilled the zone goals!!!! FOOD GAMES!!! FINALLY!!! I haven't done anything fun because there are like 20 new rules that we've been living. Seriously... I haven't had real fun in like 6 months........

I'm so happy about all the mission calls!

Macklemore apparently blew up!! Is Bianca still dancing for him?? Hopefully, I can get a spot on his dance crew after my mission. LOL

The new famous song here is Gyomi a Korean song, its actually really catchy, I learned the dance too haha.

We have 5 baptisms next week. We're blowing this branch up haha.

We had 9 investigators at church on Sunday, so It's been a good work!

Next week I've been out for a year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! It'll even go by faster after that!!!! That means Dad served the same fire extinguisher twice now and the next time he goes back to that business I'll be there with him!!! 

Haha, I'm definitely not done with my mission though, I have many more miracles to witness!

Love you all, thanks so much for all the letters!!