March 24th: Excited for Conference

Man it sounds like things are going really well. things here are going good. we are seeing lots of progress but also having lots of set backs. we are making lots of new goals and i think i will be very busy the next two months. its pretty weird that im officially under two months left. its going by too fast. im excited for conference because i feel like it will give my lots of inspiration of what i should do when i get home. also we are having an apostle visit our stake for stake conferenece in April so that will be awesome. i heard rumors that its elder Bednar. im starting to have dreams of home almost every night so that has been kinda sucky. but im starting to get more excited about coming home. it will be really sad not being a set apart missionary but life moves on. my mission president said that my new mission call is my patriarchal blessing haha any way the father of the chartrand family got baptized this week so that is really awesome. now all seven of them are memebrs and can be sealed in the temple. well im getting a haircut today so that will be nice. and im lovin life. oh how did your eye surgery thing go?    LOve Elder K

 The Chartrand father

 The whole crew!!  They are all members now

March 16th: Fear not, only be believing

Fear not only be believing. ha this week was really good. we found 3 new investigators and they are all really solid. we also gave a few potentails to the sisters in our ward and they became investigators too. so we saw lots of miracles this week. one thing that is a little hard is we don't teach too often we mostly find. i think it is becasue my comp has struggled so bad his whole mission that he has never really even tried teaching someone, so our teaching unity is terrible, so God just has us find people who are in other areas or single women to pass over to sisters. but its all good. we are doing lots of practice teaching so he gets more comfortable. lots of the people we have found are on date to be baptized so its been really neat. anyway things are good here im excited but nervous to come home its wild that i now know the time of my arrival that scares me haha

STAY BLESSED  Elder Knaphus

to dad:

hey there! its not wildo baggins its gimly the dwarf with the battle ax. well thanks for telling me my flight info. thats pretty wild to think about. I'm not sure i like it. man it is wild to think Jon Deidrich is going on a mission. i still view him as a child. i think it will be pretty wild to see how much older people are. it might be weird for them to see me skinny too haha well this week was good for me. we found 3 new investigators and they are pretty solid. the only problem is one is in another ward and another is in YSA so only one we get to keep teaching. its been kinda funny in this last area. i think becasue my comp struggles a little god dosnt give us too many people to teach but we have been finding people like crazy. just for other missionaries. which i really actually enjoy. i have come to really love tracting. and most missionaries refuse to even go tracting so I'm completely fine with it because someones got to do it. anyway i love ya lots it sounds like things are going well

BYE    Elder Knaphus 

to Mandy:

I'm having a hard time figuring out what to do. I'm leaning towards staying at home cause then i can figure out career stuff a little easier but also i fear that if I'm at home i will fall back into bad eating habits and bad habits in general. i also think it would be fun to be able to continue doing lots of missionary work in Indy. but i signed up to take that fireman test that dad emailed me so i might look into that. im not sure. i have lots of ideas but nothing to solid yet.  anyway i love you to the moon and back! sounds like i will be seeing you at around 4:30 on may 22nd :)

LOVE YA    Elder Canophouse

March 10: I have had a milion answers to prayer this week

Things are going nectariney here!!!!!!!! its warm!!!!!!!!!!!!  my companion has experienced a mighty change of heart and is doing amazing. like he is honestly a top notch hard working missionay now. so that has been a mighty miracle. i have seen like a million answers to prayers this week so im pretty pumped. a less actie i fouund tan months ago is now fully active so thats neat. also we are just having tons of success in our area. our investigator showed up to church and really enjoyed it. he wants baptism at the end of this month. also another family we tracted into but passed over to the sisters came to church. so we had 7 investigators which is really good. i can feel God moving this work forward. thats good that Logan got a calling, i really want to be a ward mission leader when i get home. well on our p days we just meet up as a zone and goof off pretty much. i snuggle with elder Marsh a lot because he is in my district. i also play chess sometimes. I'm getting really good. you should tell Garr that i could beat the poop out of him. there isnt really anything fun to do in Edmonton. i could go to the zoo or the west ed mall but i have been to zoos and malls already in my life, so i really have no desire to waste money. ha but im planning on going curling with some members sometime soon because that would be realy awesome. you should study preach my gospel. its the best. well i love ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!      Elder Knaphus

to Mandy:

im so freaking good. how are you dearest sister? Sundays are a good thing. i felt the spirit a lot this week as well. we had a zone conference and our mission president threw down! it was so awesome. he made a new mission standard and he expects us to get 6 new investigators a week. so we are going to be working our little bums off. man i want to hear baby Scar singing. do you think she would want to make a blanket fort with me when i get home? what do you think i should do when i get home? im kinda scared...    well i love ya lots   Elder Chickie Knaphus

March 3rd: I feel like my time is growing short

Hello cute mom!

my week was great! it was really cold here. with wind chil it was almost -40 which is really bad. so we couldnt really just walk around or go tracting so we stuck to the busses and just talked to people. you don't have to worry about me getting a ticket because i don't have a car. this week was fun though i talked to lots of people on the bus and we met with some families in our ward. there have been six baptisms in Red Deer this month. it is a little hard struggling in this area and working really hard while all the harvest of my last area is being reaped. but thats okay. i see why i need to be in this area and things are going a lot better. its starting to get really weird i feel like my time is running really short. today i bought deodorant and i thought to myself this is probably the last  tme i will buy deo as a full time missionary. haha also we live really close to the airport so hundreds of planes fly over us each day. and every time my companion says woah that airplane is pretty close! almost two months away. ha hes a jerk.  but its all good it doesn't effect me to much. well mommy dear i hope you have a good birthday. i hope all your wildest dreams come true:D your the best mom a guy could ask for. im really excited to come home and give you a big ol hug! love ya!

Feb. 24th: the dad is ready to get dunked

I had a fine week. we found a new investigator but passed her over to the sister missionaries. we are having lots of success but its mostly for other areas. one person i found on the bus is getting baptized in a couple weeks. so that is neat. also the Chartrands are doing really good. the dad who is the only one who isn't baptized called the elders this week and said he was ready to get dunked! so thats super ccol. im pumped. that means in total 7 people in that family have now joined the church. well im staying in my area and keeping my companion. so thats fun. one of the sisters in our area is leaving though so that will be sad she was a really good missionary. do you not see the missionaries at church? i imagine they have missionaries covering every ward there. anyway im really trying to figure out what to do with my life when i come home. it will be fun to figure it out.   love yall!

To Mandy:

  man when i go home I'm probably gonna have like ten cavities. so that will suck. i might try to find a Mormon dentist before i leave and get some free work done. that's nice that it is warm in Utah. it is still -20 here. i thought i was going to get frostbite last night i was so cold walking home. man its so weird to hear all about my buddies hanging out with the fam and stuff. hopefully they don't all get married before i get back!  love you lots <3

Feb. 18th: Went to the Temple today

this week was great we have p day today because yesterday was family day here so everyone was home with family so we could work hard that day. and also we went to the temple today which was really great. i saw the new new video it was cool. do you still go to the temple often? we have been doing a butt load of finding. it has been good. right now two people i have talked to on buses are on date to be baptized. so that's pretty cool. also this week Cindy Chartrand got baptized, the grandma of the family i taught. so thats really cool. it has been a ripple effect. man I'm pretty pumped to come home and meet baby Scar she sounds so adorable. yesterday one the bus there was a lady with a 4, 3, and 1 year old. they were the cutest kids ever, they all had red curly hair. one of there names was Riley. and i became friends with them all then i started talking to the mother. and turns out that she went to our church for a little with a good family friend. and there 19 year old daughter has a friend on a mission. so that was really neat. she said she would love to learn more about the church. so I'm pretty excited to teach them. my comp is still doing good he dosen't wake up in the mornings so i pretty much just do everything myself but he will come work, so things are going really good. for my birthday just send me a letter. i honestly don't want a package for my birthday. just save the money so we can go shopping when i get home. anything you send me i wont even be able to use because i have too much crap to take home already haha. im not gonna bring home any clothes or anything so i will bring home a bunch of candy or anything you guys want. its pretty weird that my birthday is coming up. also this is the last week of the transfer so that means i only have two transfers left. pretty scary. well love you lots. <3
to Chris:

sounds like scar is in charge of our household :)  anyway the weather here is beautiful. it makes me a little scared because i have programmed in my mind that when it warms up i go home haha so thats fun.   well new things we are doing... on valentines day i bought a bunch of chocolate hearts and taped them to pass-a-long cards and gave away over 60 so that was kinda fun. we are starting to keep track of every single door we knock on. so that we can talk to every person in this whole area. we are trying really hard to get our ward more united, its a new ward in newly developed houses so no one knows each other and there is no fellowship. we need someone to do scone Sundays. i wont get my exact travel plans for awhile in fact i think they will tell you guys first. well sure love ay to death. 

Feb. 10th: My companion felt the spirit really stong this week

I get home on the 22 unless they can't book a plane or something weird. but the funny thing is this week i actually got my "trunky call" when they call to book the flight so i will know my travel plans next month they said haha thats pretty sad. we haven't heard anything about the olympics. and we don't watch TV either haha  this week was good for me we saw a great bounty of blessings. and we worked really hard. my companion felt the spirit very strong this week and we talked a lot and he is doing really good. and he has a desire to be here now. one cool thing that happened, we were talking to like an ancient native American guy and he randomly said. "we knew you" and i was like what? and he said before you came here(white people) we knew you would come. i asked him how his people knew and he told us Jesus Christ came to his people. we then told him we have a record of this account in our church and told him all about the book of Mormon it was super cool. he said the way he knew about Christ coming to them is because when he was little some of his elders where praying and Satan and Jesus both appeared and had a battle then Christ taught the two elders in his village that he came to them after he talked to the people in Jerusalem. pretty crazy stuff. anyway we also found a lost sheep this week and that was a miracle as well, just lots of cool things going on. 
 It sounds like Stu and Megan are gonna get married haha crazy stuff. I'm glad all my friends are still hanging out at the home. I'm grateful for you guys being so welcoming and having all my friends love our home so much, it has made a huge impact on my life. well i love you a lot peace!