Monday March 13, 2023

Hello everyone, this photo deserves a new post for this week.  Meet Elder Chappell!  He arrived here in the mission Last August.  He is from Glenwood, Iowa.   We are 4th or 5th cousins, we are not sure but we will figure that out when we can be together with our family search app to know for sure.  Just before we left to come out on our mission my brother Dean and his wife Peggy called us, they were still on their mission at the Winter Quarters historical site in Nebraska.  They said that they had come to know a Chappell family that lived in Omaha and their son was on a mission in the Honduras San Pedro Sula Este mission, which was exactly the same mission where we were going to.  They also said that they had met Sean, now Elder Chappell, there earlier.  They also explained our familiar relationship.  I don't remember exactly what it was but his mom and dad are both from Utah, but moved out to Iowa after college and schooling to work and that is where they have raised their family.  Our Zone had a p day activity where we all went out to the beach and had a lot of fun.  It was great to finally meet him, since we knew that he was here but we had not had the opportunity to meet him until now.  Since it was Monday he and all the missionaries were talking with family back home and Elder Chappell was talking with his older brother who is now on a mission in Tegucigalpa Honduras.  He ends his mission this next July so they are hoping to get together somehow here and spend a part of a day out doing missionary work.  He seems very committed and seems to be a great young man.  It was great to finally meet him since we knew he was here somewhere.  It was funny, he said that his mom was not too happy to have two of her sons both serving in Honduras, but if that is where we are called it must be the right thing.  He has four brothers and two sisters. 

The missionaries do a lot of walking, this is Elder Steele and Elder López, every day all day, and it it hot.  They are pretty amazing. 

El Progreso Zone p-day in Tela




This is our Tela district right now,   Elder Steele from St George, Elder Wixom from Cedar City, Elder López from Mexico Elder Penrod from Arizona, and Elder and Hermana Chappell


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