Sylvia's baptism was awsesome!

Oct. 14: hello, how is everyone doing? things are going really good. we have been staying really busy and it seems like everyone is doing really good. that was pretty awesome to be at Kelly's house when you were on the computer. oh man those puppies are incredibly cute i wish i could play with them. I received the package and thank you so much and its cool to look through the football roster and stuff but it makes me miss it. thats fun that cute Wes stopped by, he's hilarious, hopefully he doesnt go down to byu! im jeaulous to hear that mom is making cafe rio pork i have only had that one time on my mission and it was like a year ago that stuff is amazing i cant wait to have it again along with barbacoa and molca salsa and lone star taquira those places are legit. we do get free filibertos down here so thats sweet its kinda like molca salsa but not as quality. well it should be interesting to see what happens with transfers i thinking i will probably get transferred cuz we had interviews yesterday and pres asked my comp if he would be comfortable if i left so... but you never know, its pretty likely that i stay too. i would like to stay for a while though cuz we have quite a lot of work going on and things. on sunday we put 2 more people on date we had a really good lesson with olivia and kristen and they both have felt the spirit and cant deny it but they didnt feel ready for a date but there was some solid fellowship there. one was a recent convert and one was less active most her life but they told them what was up and we were able to give them a date so that was sick and we are going to the visitors center tonight to watch the joseph smith video with them. Sylvia's baptism was awesome there were a lot of people there she invited a bunch of her non member friends and things so that was cool. then drew past his interview to get baptized so he is going in the water this Saturday and there is supposed to be a big crowd so that will be awesome. the savior of the world was awesome we had a really good showing of our investigators they really enjoyed it and lots of members invited their non member friends and stuff and we have gotten 2 referrals already so thats sweet . but other than that we have still been waiting on a few frustrating people who we cant setup lesson with, some people have way too busy lives but we have some really good potentials so things are really going good. p days have been pretty good we have been playing a lot of basketball last week we played so0me football that was really fun today we are meething with the mesa zone to do a combined zone p day dont know what were going too but it should be fun. and i think we're going to do a little bit of fishing as well so that should be good. we forgot to buy hot dogs for bait hopefully we will have something but i think thats about all ive got, but i dont think i really need anything but i would love that cd of kalai if you can find it but thank you all for your support and love, have a great week

Just got to keep at it...

Oct.7th: the mission today is great. we are in kind of a rush cuz we are headed off to a bbq that sis Craig the mission Pres's wife is doing for our zone so that should be fun. It seems like everyone is doing great. that is funny that mom chats with sister Zeigler, i bet that's a good time and it is true that you guys have a lot in common she is awesome. haha. you finally sent my package maybe i will get it today cuz i will be at the mission home, that would be exciting. but i do have one huge request and it has an urgent sticker on it one of my favorite bands came out with a new cd! his name is kalai and he is mormon and he came out with a cd of hymns if you could get that to me it would amazing. i am so jealous that mandy is buying a puppy for tammy and herself without me being there. i miss max and puppies so much! yesterday i saw a cocker it was cute. thats funny that riley is going to homecoming you will have to send me some pics. and i cant believe it is 40 degrees there, its actually starting to be nice weather here, its amazing, feels so nice and incredible to know that i doint have to put up with the heat again. things are going great last week was a little rough it was slow didnt teach as much as we wanted too. but things are better this week. we had a really good time watching conference got to watch all of it. went to breakfast with our investigator Drew, he's still doing good, gettin baptized the 17th, Sylvia is doing great had a lesson last night she is gettin interviewed tonight and she should pass and she should get baptized this Saturday so thats exciting. we had another good lesson yesterday with a recent convert she is 10 yrs old and her dad is not a member but he sat in on the lesson and was really interested and asked questions and things and is going to read and pray about the book of mormon so thats really awesome and he is a black belt in ju jitsu and things, he fought mma for a while, he's intensely strong and big and all tatt'ed up, but a really nice guy. yesterday was really successful with street contacting we got 4 really good potential investigators just from talking to them on the street, all seemed interested and set up times to come teach, so thats exciting and all the others that we are working with were still trying to set up lessons but things are still looking promising. we should be able to put Sylvia on date this week and her friend really soon too. so we should set things up for next transfer too its crazy how fast time goes. this transfer is winding down quickly i dont really know is there is any cool or crazy stories this week except talked to a lesbian the other night who served a mission and everything. it was pretty ridiculous but funny cuz my comp really had hope and faith that she would come back and change and she said she was going to come to conference and she gave us a wrong number and stuff so.. i dont know it will be interesting if we come across her again my comp is pretty upset, but its all part of the experience, just got to keep at it. thank you so much for all the support and love the mission is the greatest enjoy your week and keep it rollin along.
love elder knaphuis