Staying in ShowLow

Feb. 24 email:

well hello. how are you guys all doing this fine day. i didnt get transferred or my companion so.. but i think it should be alright its not as bad cuz i started driving the car again haha i dont have ride along going 10 under all the time. so it will be interesting to see if i spend the rest of my mission here that would be quite a long time 7 1/2 months but i think i could do it i like it up here. seems like you guys are having a good time. enjoying the olympics and things. thats cool that fill is tearing it up in ward ball hopefully they can take the chip. mom is having a good time with her scripture class and yoga. dad is staying busy with work lookin at some temples that would be pretty sweet. one of the bishops has a son who is 28 and he has mental handicaps but he is awesome and he knows everything about temples and i told them that you work on temples and he got really excited. thats fun that you are still talking to kelly she is awesome i havnt heard from her for a while you will have to tell her hi for me. thats good to hear also that you are spoiling the missionaries. its awesome one of our ward mission leaders has been down in the valley for the last 2 and half months and he takes care of us realy well and he's hilarious we are going out with him tonight to teach some lessons so it should be a good time. tahts pretty crazy that the gibson came home early and a crazy reason i heard about those missionaries dieing i think in romania thats pretty sad stuff. but thats good to hear that everything is going good with oly and utah for b ball as well. i will be home for the nba championship series so i would love it if the jazz made it. and yes that will be interesting to see if oly will choke in the playoffs as usual. who is playing good on oly and the jazz. thats funny that moses is gettin castrated on friday we saw some 2 week old puppies the other day they were pretty cute and we also saw some baby pigs the other day that was pretty funny i got a really good picture of me holding a pig. i finished another card off so i will try to get it in the mail today. but things have been going pretty good. we had a really good baptism of the half black. brittinay. hopefully she will stay active now with her parents being so bad. but i think if she stays involved witht te young women and things she will be fine. most of it is friendship. you were asking about advice for working with less actives. its all about friendship and invitations. its not scary to invite your friend to hang out. so it should be scary to invite your friend to ward party to hang out and then on the hanging out at church. you just cant be afraid of building friendships. the one of the most frustrating things about missionary work is we can only build a limited friendship. its up to the members to befriend them and help them out and continue to invite them to activities and church and things but most members dont understand thats what non members and less actives need. thats my advice. but the work has been pretty slow now but, the good thing with us staying together is that we know what it is that we need to do to improve and work on the get things rollin along with peeps to teach. i think i told you about john who wanted to be baptized the 6th of march well he called us the other day and said he lost the faith and things that he feels God isnt helping him enough we tried to talk him thru it but theres something wrong with him that we dont know i guess. but there is a realy cool member who is still going to try to contact him and get him to church. then we had a really good lesson with the adams. dafne has really been enjoying chuch the last little while and she is praying and feelin the spirit. she bought her husband and son nice sunday clothers so they dont look like punks and hicks anymore. so we gave her a baptism date this week for mar 13th. she is awesome she is cutting our hair today too, so that will be nice. then we had a good lesson last night with a part member named scott and he has been thru a lot and has met with missionaries and feels that its were he needs to be but has a smoking problem so hopefully we will be able to get him to come around. there is a few other peeps that we are working on but we are really trying to find new investagators and workin close witht the members. i do have a pretty funny story this week we ate with one of our ward mission leaders houses 2 times this week and they are older and one time we were standing up to leave and his wife farted. so that was petty hilarios then, the next night his grand kids were there and they were talking about his shower and how its really nice and has 2 shower heads and he went on to tell us how him and his wife shower together but not too often and things and i was dying i started to laugh. but it made for a good night. other than that we got another few inches of snow so that was a good time all is going good trying to stay busy and have a good time love you guys all so much thanks for all the love and support.
love elder knaphu