Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! This week was good! Lots of fun stuff.

-We celebrated Sister Benson's birthday and we has a feast! We had crab, shrimp, potatoes (which I made), corn, and I made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies (my time at Twisted is paying off).

-I did a virtual tour with my family which was so fun! It was my first one so it wasn't perfect plus it was raining but it was still fun to so with them.

-We had a Next Chapter Dinner for the Heatons. They are the sweetest couple ever and I'm gonna miss them.

-There's this restaurant t here called Down The Block across from the temple and it is so good. So if you're ever in Kirtland you should go. These people paid for our food and the owners gave us fried dough with chocolate and caramel for free when we waited for our food. I love nice people!

-EASTER! We did a devotional in the temple in the morning and it was so good! The spirit was so strong! One of the senior elders sang "He is the Christ" and it was amazing. The talks were about the Atonement and the Easter when Christ appeared in the temple and they were all stories I've heard before but they hit different that day.

My spiritual thought is the quote I'll attach. Christ loves us all individually and he would have still gone through Atonement even if we were the only one on the Earth.

Love you all!

Sister Benson's bday dinner

Easter

Next chapter dinner

Easter Dinner

FOMOOSE

It's p-day again!

This week went by pretty fast. 

-We did exchanges which was good. I spent the day with one of the STL's (Sister Altman). 

-One of the senior sisters painted eggs for us for Easter and they are gorgeous!

-We had stake conference Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday they had a string quintet play "There Is A Green Hill Far Away" and it was amazing! We had 2 general authorities speak (from the 70) and our stake president was called to be a member of the 70 so pretty cool. Stake conference is where the FOMOOSE comes in. One of the speakers said that you should have FOMOOSE over FOMO and FOMOOSE is Fear Of Missing Out On Spiritual Experiences and I just really liked that. And credit to Sister Hendrix she's the og one with this email title.

-Today is p-day and pretty much just got lunch and went shopping.

That's pretty much it. 

Spiritual Thought: In the October 2024 General Conference Talk, "Ye Are My Friends," Elder David L. Buckner (of the 70) said, "We must live our life so that the world does not see us but sees Him through us." 

I love this because we need to strive to be an example of Christ and people will notice that light. That light makes such a big difference!

Thanks for the love and support!

-Sister Kapp

The Egg

Blossom Temple Pic with Sister Lane

It's me again

Hello everyone! Hopefully you're not sick of me since I have 2 emails so close. Not many things happened since Friday, but I'll give you a run down on what did:

-We worked in the temple Saturday. We gave 1 tour but that's okay because it made it so we didn't miss any conference.

-Sunday we didn't have anything till conference, so it was nice having some time to get some good studying done. We were at the village Sunday and did 1 tour and the family was great! It was so fun! And we only missed 10 minutes of conference so we were definitely super blessed.

-Today we went to Walmart which I never thought I'd say that Walmart would make me happy, but it does since it's a little taste of home haha. We got lunch, went to a gift shop, and picked up ice cream for the house. Now we're gonna clean, workout, and make dinner. So a pretty solid day.

-Conference was so good! I love how centered it was on our relationship with Christ and being more like Him, especially humble. This is so important for everyone and as a missionary it is such a good reminder for me.

Spiritual Thought:

Yesterday in General Conference Sister Ruina said something on the lines of, "I am not the voice in my head or the mistakes I have made. My worth is constant."

I love this! It is so easy to pick ourselves apart but how God sees us what truly matters! He loves us and sees us as His children because we truly are!

Love you guys!

Pictures:  P-Day Festivities

I can officially give temple tours!

 Hello everyone!

My p-day got moved to today because we had a temple trip today. Here's some of the main stuff that happened this week:

-Last Thursday was the anniversary for the 189th year dedication of the Kirtland Temple and they had a program for it and the sisters sang in the choir so that was fun. And a male quintet sang If You Could Hie To Kolob and it was so good.

-Yesterday was the anniversary of Christ appearing to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the temple, accepting it as His house. And I got to give tours at the temple yesterday, so I felt super blessed with that opportunity.

-We had what's call a Next Chapter dinner where we celebrate and say goodbye to missionaries because one of the senior couples was leaving. It was a sad goodbye because they were amazing.

-On April Fools the sisters in my house switched name tags to throw off the senior couples. It was a fun, harmless prank.

-We passed off the Kirtland Temple tour so we get to work there now.

-Today we got to go to the Pittsburgh Temple.

*Spiritual thought: God hears our prayers even the prayers of our hearts. So I wasn't having the best week because life isn't perfect and being a missionary can be hard. So all I wanted was to see someone I remotely knew, but I doubted that would happen. Then one days these people from Clinton came and I was like okay that's cool but I didn't know them but it was something. Then this girl I've known since kindergarten and her mom who works with my mom and their family came and it just made me so happy. Then after that 2 people/families came who know people I'm friends with. It really spoke to me that God truly listens to my prayers even though they might seem silly. So I just want you all to remember that God listens to your prayers sometimes. They'll be as straight forward as my experience and sometimes it might take effort from us to recognize it, but he does answer them! 

You all are amazing and I love you all so much!

-Sister Kapp

Temple Trip

Next Chapter Dinner

Temple Dedication Commemoration

Tour Passed Off

 Hi everyone!

I feel like a lot but nothing happened this week all at the same time.

We spent about 3-4 hours studying everyday to work on one of our tours. We also practiced segments one of the tours everyday. After all that studying, we passed off our full tour and start giving them tomorrow! 

We had an extra p day on Friday since we only had a half one the week before. So, we went antiquing, thrifting, and got ice cream. Lots of fun but we were all tired by the end of it.

We had another game night. One of the senior couples brought the best cake ever, and I don't really like cake so that's saying something.

We also got our church assignment. We're in the Perry ward which is a nice 30 minute drive from our house, it reminds me that I'm not in Utah and that there aren't churches on every corner here. But my ward is good, very small, but we have some entertaining half deaf old ladies so it's fun.

Spiritual thought: In the Kirtland Temple tour you learn about the effort that the saints put into building God's home. They did their best to make it the exact way God wanted it. Though it wasn't perfect, God still accepted it. This is just a good reminder to us that though we're not perfect God will still accept us.

Love you all! Thanks for the love and support!

-Sister Kapp

Post tour pass off

P-day activities

The Whitney Store

Go to the Ohio

Hello everyone! Like the title says I'm now in Ohio. Finished up the MTC now getting ready to give tours.

The last week of MTC we had a devotional on the importance of the garment from Mathew L. Carpenter of the Seventy and it was super good. This was our last day with the elders so they gave some of us sisters a blessing before we go and it was a powerful experience.

On Monday and Tuesday in the MTC I started my Ohio training. My teachers were great and did a good job at preparing us for what was to come at the site. Part of our training was giving a tour of the MTC which went well and was a cool experience to learn more about the history of the MTC.

Wednesday we had a 2:30 am wake up call and got on a bus, the front runner, tracks, and 2 planes and now I'm in Ohio.

We got to tour the Kirtland Temple the day we got here and it's really neat. I won't lie, I was so tired so I'm excited to go there when I'm more awake. 

We've be able to tour all the sites, so the Temple, the Smith home, the Johnson farm, the Ashery/Sawmill,  and we've gone through the Whitney Home and Store many times since that's the tour we need to have learned by Thursday.

I've been able to give segments of the  Whitney Home and Store tour and it's been really cool learning about it.

But yeah preparing for those tours is what I've mostly been doing.

Some other stuff is that I got a new companion, Sister Lane! She's awesome, she was one of my roommates in the MTC. We have 6 sisters in our house and they were all in our MTC district so it's been fun. Our house is from the 1800s so it has some funky characteristics.

I learned that it's tornado season so that's a new thing for me.

We had game night with the Senior missionaries Saturday which was so fun! The seniors are awesome and spoil us so much!

There's a commemoration for the Kirtland Temple dedication and all the Sisters are singing in the choir.

Last but not least, I've officially been a missionary for 1 month! Pretty crazy.

Spiritual thought: Something I have learned here is that God truly does provide a way. I've seen it in the history of the restoration and in these fast few days as I have been trying to learn the tours. It takes effort but know that God will always help and will make His will possible.

Thank you all for the love and support!

I love and appreciate you all!

-Sister Kapp

Said goodbye to our teachers

                                      

                                           Last few days being comps with Sis Hendrix

Sister Lane

Ohio Sisters & President and Sister Frischknecht

                                                            Kirtland Temple

I had to show off my backyard

Last Week of MTC

Hello everyone! Like I said I have less than a week left in the MTC, crazy! 

This week was good. So, let's get into it.

We had our first sacrament meeting Sunday and it was the most spiritual testimony meetings I've ever been in-it was so neat! My companion and I taught part of the relief society lesson on the Holy Ghost and it went good! This coming up Sunday I'm speaking in sacrament on the Book of Mormon so hopefully it goes well. 

All the girls in my district decided to sing in the choir and we got to sing in our devotional. The devotional was so good! A member of the presidency of the 70 and his wife spoke.

We have been able to go to the temple twice already and are going again tomorrow. We get to do all the different ordinances and we're doing sealings tomorrow which I'm so excited about.

On Wednesday my comp and I went on an adventure to the endodontist for her to get a root canal. It went good and she's doing good. Honestly it was really nice to get out of the MTC for a little bit.

My comp and I had our final practice lessons this week and we got a perfect score on one...I honestly don't know how cause the lesson kinda went all over the place but hey we'll take it. The other one we had was so spiritual. We showed the video of the first vision and after that the spirit was so strong.

Something funny about being in the MTC and a missionary in general is that you don't get a lot of entertainment, so little things just become so funny. My comp and I we're trying to do a practice lesson with these elders in our district during class and we could not stop laughing, I honestly couldn't tell you why. Then today we had a devotional on "preparing for the field" and they taught us through a play they performed, and it was just so funny and entertaining for us. 

But yeah that's my week.

Spiritual thought: Boyd K. Packer said, "When you repent of your sins there is no trace left of those sins...The Church of Jesus Christ, bares no scars." (this was shared during our Tuesday devotional)

I just love this because I feel like as people we really hold onto every mistake we make and struggle to forgive ourselves, but it is important that once we repent God remembers them no more.

Love you all!

Temple trip with my district

Walks with the Sisters🫶

I ❤️ my comp