Week #30

konnichiwa minasan

I feels like forever since last p-day, things where a bit hectic with transfers, i nearly mess-up with a train transfer and i lost my ticket in the process, thankfully i met other missionaries there and the guy who we spoke to was very nice and, thanks to all the evidence from the other missionaries he let me through without having to buy another which is really good cuz the Train ticket was like 60 bucks. after that i had other senkyoshi with me so it when smoothly, and we got to the plain just fine, i got to see a bunch of people again in Okinawa and some one from my mtc district, oh yeah  and my trainer area chourou is now a zone leader in Fukuoka so i got to see him again, that was cool.

And now i'm on to transfer 5 here in my new aria of shuri in naha Okinawa, its the only landlocked area in Okinawa and also the smallest, but its a ton houses and danchi(apartment building) more or less the residential area, but its great I'm loving it so far and the weathers actually been very nice, I'm just dreading when the summer heat decides to roll around,but, before that its getting in to rainy season here and its going to start coming down like crazy,

My new comp. is elder Zimmerman, he's great, super nice and I'm exited to really get to work with him, I'm in a four man again the other elders are inagaki and Richards chourou there also great and the last couple of days have been really good. the ward here is super cool we have a return mission president and a bunch of return missionaries, every one is super nice.

Now its p-day and I'm ready to get the work started with some knowledge about this area, and really get out there and serve these people, i love being back down here in Okinawa, the people are a bit more laid back and open to talking which is really nice.

Oh yeah we actually have a sort of oven now so i can make things like that if you send some recipes please.

Any way about out of time now, so ill leave you with with my usual susume

i love you all,i really don't know where id be without you, definitely not out here in this wonderful work that's for sure but really you have all been a light in my life that i could learn from feel love and warmth from and always receive help from. always strive to be that kind of person for everyone you meet. keep up the hard work and pray and seek always to do more

stay strong stay faithful stay diligent, just keep swimming

minasan wa otskaresama desu yo

aishitemasu yo!

Connor

Week #29

konnochiwa minasan.

I’m transferring, after 3 great transfers here in ouyam I'm headed on back down to Okinawa I'll tell you the specifics when I know. Unfortunately as we are moving into spring here in yamaguchi the sakura trees are about to bloom, and I'm leaving Honshu and heading to Okinawa which doesn't have sakura trees, right before they really bloom, zannen (unfortunate), but I'm exited to head back to Okinawa, it's gonna be a hot one summer in Okinawa is infamous for heat and humidity especially in the summer, I only hit the tail end of that when I was in Okinawa and some days were still pretty ridiculous. But, shikatta ga nai(nothing can be done).

On the bright side as far as the sakura trees go heavenly father knew how much I wanted to see them and provided a blooming tree, it was totally out of the way and unexpected but I got some pictures, its only in like fourth of the full bloom or even that but its something.

I just found out the name of my area is called shuri, so ya

This week has been really good we had a lot of chances to get out and dendo, which really raises the spirits high, I've been physically tired every night but happy every day, not kanke(relationship) issues really at all and I'm exited to continue in a new place.

We found a new investigator named Ono san he's 18 (just like me!) and going to the daigaku(college) for kiyudo (a Japanese archery sport) unfortunately when we came for the following app. he wasn’t home, zannen desu ne. But I hope they will be able to come in contact with him again,

   

The same day we contacted him was a big finding day, the most contacts and totsuzens (short lessons) I've ever done in one go, it was like 72 contacted people 11 short lessons 3 Books of Mormon and 2 baptismal invitations, it was like half of our weekly total in a day, the most important part however wasn't how many contacted, its really in those found it really helps to keep the spirits high when we keep our eye single to the work, focusing on finding those heavenly father has prepared. And we've definitely found some

Always remember your all as much of missionaries as i am the only difference is that i have the privilege to have this as my only responsibility, always remember that the best missionary work happens through members of the church, not through knocking on doors, the full time missionaries are just individuals who help the wards do missionary work, we're able to focus on those being taught rather than our job or our families but we also can't make the same connections with people as you can at work and through other things because we don't have the sufficient time, we however will happily accept anyone the members have invited. the missionaries are a tool for the Lords work and to the ward, the ward isn't a tool of the missionaries, work hard and keep your eye single to the work and you will see as many and more miracles than we do,

You are all missionaries even if you don't have a name tag, gambate kudasai and never forget, I love you all family friends and all, you're the best, stay strong stay faithful stay diligent just keep swimming.

-Connor

Week #28

i wish i could send you more pictures but my comp has told me to stop except on p-day and we are always packed on p-day i don't think we've been able to go on a zone p-day ever. but it's fine I'll try really hard to get some pics today and get them to you next week.

 so as for my comp. its mostly personal stuff i don't know it all my self suffice to say its stress stuff but we're doing good right now, and i understand how to help him, correction is hard but when its necessary i can still help,

   no worries, i have no intention to give up language study i still study every day, it just hasn't felt as effective as it used to, so I'm looking for other ways to study.

That's really cool that the party went well, i wish i could have been there for it. it must have been fun lifting the pig, i remember.  seems like the party is becoming more and more ya know big it's like we have more to it each time now, ill be exited to participate when i come back,

that's unfortunate that you have to live in Idaho weather right now, the last couple of days here have been beautiful, no wind about high 50s not a cloud in the sky, its great but I'm not going to like it for long once the heat and humidity spike in the summer its going to be reeeealy fun.

   nothing super interesting here aside from the progression of the kingdom but, ya know that's everyday stuff out here, Jordan. things are good here but lately there a little slow with a lot of inside work I'm eager to get back out and house, i never thought I'd say that.

 oh yeah, i meant to remind you, when i come back I'm not going to speak English until my welcome home talk. maybe it's a little mean but it will be fun i know it.

so, i gave a talk on Sunday, the first one since my farewell talk, and i at least was able to say all that i wanted to, but man Japanese is hard sometimes, but I'm starting to be able to say the same idea in an easier to say way so that i don't get held up for too long. every one said it was good but everyone also says my nihongo is good, so its hard to know when they really are just saying it.　anyway my talk was on the joy of missionary work and how by applying steps that missionaries follow to do it the Lords opportunity experiences way members can have the same joy and experiences.

the main points were, first we must make a commitment personally and to heavenly father that his work will come first and where ever you are you will strive to fallow his will and focus on that work.

the second was, praying for opportunities i never did this before my mission because i was afraid he opportunity would actually come and I'd be at a loss for words or just wouldn't know how to act, but really its nothing like pulling a Samuel the Lamenite, in most cases, with you friends just extending the invitation to talk about it is enough, its not something we should ever force on to a friend or any one, but make it an obvious part of your life and don't hide your feelings about it,

third is acting in those opportunities, like if your having lunch with your friend bob, you can say something like ( hay bob i want to share something with you that's important to me, but if your not interested in it after we talk please don't accept. ) this is important because we must recognize that they will learn when there ready to learn not when we are ready to teach them.

the forth more or less is about the above par about not hiding it, make church and work life one in the same talk about things you did at church or experiences from activities with your not yet member friends this gives them an opening to ask questions, along with that, don't flood people with doctrinal things that you like about the gospel. find out the interest why they have that interest and try to teach simply to the apparent needs. for example if they ask a question, a simple response o find out more is why do you ask,

  if we try these things in our lives every day taking every opportunity we will see success and we will really feel joy beyond that of what we expected .

    lastly, making goals and deadlines, like i will find someone who will accept missionary lessons by may 30th, then do all you can to meet that goal, and share the goal with heavenly father, he will help.

i encourage all who read this to try and fallow some of these principles, i know that is you do you will find so much joy and you will help many of Gods children to come unto Christ.i testify of that.

i love you and miss  you but not to much

stay strong stay faithful stay diligent, just keep swimming on through it all

Connor

Week #27

Konnichwa! Genkidesu ka?

Thanks for the encouragement there, thankfully we don't get doors slammed in our faces here everyone is super polite the worst we get is when people say "kekko desu." Things here are going well, and our investigators are doing well, we reactivated a dropped investigator and are working hard with him we have a few exiting things we intend to try to help all of them right now. The language is going well although I've fallen back into a study slump I'm bored of the study method so its not very effective any more, if you have any ideas i'll try them. On the bright side I did learn a lot while it lasted and I feel like understanding is becoming easier, its harder to translate now than it is to just accept things in Japanese, I look forward to more progress.

So as a health up date I started my mission an uncomfortable 310 lbs I currently weigh 270 and it continues to go down each week. I feel a lot more energy and we run a mile every Wednesday and Saturday and I can do the whole thing finally. Pushups are easier too!

Things really are great out here I'm loving and learning more each day and am so grateful for this opportunity to serve Heavenly Father. If you can find a book at Deseret Book called the "Power Of An Everyday Missionary", it's fantastic and it will help with all aspects of member missionary work, it doesn't seem intimidating at all now, READ IT!

That's all I've got time for now sorry. Thanks for all that you guys do have done and are, I love you all so much!

Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent, just keep on a swimming.

Love, your son, brother and friend

Connor

Week #26

konnichwa,

 

Happy to receive the recipes though seeing the ingredients now for the spare ribs I've been doing more or less just that but without the marinating iv been finding a few good ways to cook here and there and its been going well, another thing to add to the list of cook-able's is fish, unfortunately for most of the things made using canned products, we don't see much of them here unfortunately but it kind of forces me to cook with fresh veggies any way so its all good.

 

To answer your question about the letter from kaicho, we became co senior this transfer, didn't really change much since webber choro has been out twice as long as me, but they send the letter any way.

 

So we had zone taikai (conference) this week, yesterday actually, kaicho and the APs trained us about planning and teaching and related subjects, it was really good and its made me think a lot, I really hope to improve from it and will strive to every day I've got.

 

Here's a question for ya pops, how did you make proselytizing activities fun? Cuz any one who does any housing or streeting more or less receives the countless way of saying "NO" quite a few times so how do you keep things fun?

 

I'll keep gambaruing every day, but I expect the same from you all, to explain I will go through my end statements which I always send, stay stong- satan's got an army on his side to work against you every day and is a master at what he does but no skill can stand up to the power we can receive from heavenly father, when you stand firm and have the foundation of faith that he builds us on nothing in this world can break your spirit, 

stay faithful- we live in a world where the things around us change all the time, values are lessening and morals dwindling we however know the one who never changes (I am the same yesterday today and forever), we can always hold on to the lord teaches us because it never changes i may become more specific more understood but it doesn't change and if we have the faith to hold on especiallyto it especially when there seems talwayso be a batter way or no end, the blessings will be opened to us, we will see and understand what heavenly father wants for us.

stay diligent- always work forward  you cant ever let yourself say your done enough keep learning keep praying keep repenting keep serving others enduring to the end doesn't mean sitting it out it means doing the work through it, if we aren't moving forward we're moving backward.

 

I love you all so much, your the best family and friends an 18 year old kid serving his Lord in a strange country could ask for.

Stay strong, stay faithful, stay diligent, and just keep swimming; through it all.

Your son, freind, brother,

Elder Connor Kemp

Week #25

No jokes!?! I'm hurt.

But not really.

    Thank you for answering my call about the recipes, more or less i need healthy stuff of course although we can have something really good every once and a wile, mostly things using vegetable, I'm restricted to a stove a small toaster microwave and rice cooker so no oven stuff, other than that I’m pretty much good of any thing you like, i just need more variety.

I’m starting to do video journals, and ill wright down any big things that happen, iv done it for like 10 days now and I really like it, I feel like its easier to get out all that’s on my mind and its visible so that’s cool, I’m sending home my first SD with journals, i want to switch between 2 SD’s and send the other one home have you guys empty it and send it back if you could, and I'll continue to do that same thing so you guys can see me and what’s going on, where I'm at and such, i thought that might be kind of good for both of us, tell me what you think.

  the week was pretty good, lots of travel, we went to Fukuoka again for elder Webber's 2nd appointment both times we've taken he Shinkansen which is cool, i goes way faster than all other travel, 45 min by shink rather than hours by bus, so yeah way better. Sorry that’s the bullet train for you guys. Its like an airplane inside but way more comfortable, much less cramped and stuff.

  weather has been getting steadily warmer i cant wait till spring though for a little while it will be really hot cuz we don't get to lose the suits till the end of march, but such is life, at least I'm not in Okinawa the summers there are supposed to be bad  especially with the island humidity although I'm right on the ocean so we'll see how it is here,

You know what’s weird, I'm turning 19 next transfer, that’s really weird, also how fast this is all flying by i mean its really fast, i feel like it was just yesterday that i left you guys in the MTC drive way, then all the wonder of being in japan and now this all seems like every day life, i mean i recognize that everyone and everything is really small but it just seems so normal, i mean when did a Prius start looking like a medium sized car, I'll be honest its all leaving me quite confused.

Anyway we are slowly starting to get back out there as the weather gets better, the language is beginning to catch on, and things are progressing well this work moves forward like crazy.

As a spiritual message today my comp has told me. Repent ye repent ye all ye end of my house and friends and such, in the midst of our lives we sometimes forget that repentance is something we need always, its not always just saying sorry for single acts either, life needs to be a constant repentance process always striving to root out those things which are not good and live the commandments always, we cannot do this alone even if it seems like we can if we are not trying to improve something about ourselves every day something is wrong and we need to stop and think about our current life direction, pray always and stay humble, recognize that the fact of life is that we make mistakes every day and by ourselves we can't

Overcome a single one of those mistakes, because the price for a single sin is an eternity of separation from God and guilt for that sin, the only way they can be paid for with any hope of salvation I through the atonement of Christ and through that repentance that is what enduring to the end means, not holding your ground but moving forward,

i love you all, never forget your savior, cuz he didn't ever forget you first, love your savior because he loved you first, repentant and accept the saving he is offering because he paid the price first.

Stay strong, stay faithful, stay diligent, stay loving, stay repentant your the best, I love you.

Bubby,

Elder Kemp 

Week #24

right, i guess it was a little mean but as for where I'm transferring i wrote that in hiragana within the letter, but ill tell you what it says anyway, I'm not transferring I'm sticking right here in okuyama for another transfer, as is my doryo webber chourou.

 so we'll make the best of it as usual, ill admit through language study and such, i have been able to improve in speaking but i just cant seem to understand people, i try my best to listen but man, its just to many words to fast, it kills me because i want nothing more than to teach these people by what they need but i cant understand what they need, but sorry about that my little selfish rant, ill ganbara tsuzukeyo(ill continue doing my best), saigo made ne, (until the end, ya know).

aside from that im doing really good were slowly getting back to work here, since webber chourous been pretty sick up till now and is still suffering from it a bit. to day after lunch were heading down to fukuoka by shinkansen(the bullet train)(not the real translation but thats what you guys know it by.) so that webber chourou can get a checkup with the doc.

 

half the week was spent inside after having just gotten back out cuz the sickness came back a bit, but when we did get out on wednsday i think we found 3 potential investigators so that was really cool, we got out again yesterday to visit a few people after church, one morimoto san we had an appointment with but he was rather drunk when we got there so we rescheduled for thursday. then we went and visited some pi's fuji san and hashimoto san, with both we were able to share a spiritual message, so yokatta to that.

 

i'v lost a bit more weight recently I'm down to about 126 kilos or 278 or so lbs. i started at 310 when i got into the mtc. and dad remember how we got those belts and weren't sure how big to get them well im on the smallest hole of all of them right now and will need to make new holes if this  continues.

 

weather here is pretty cold most days although nothing compared to Twin Falls I assume. I'm  going to come back a wimp to the cold, i know it. but any way, we had a nice day yesterday and that was good since we had o ride the bikes allot.

 

as far as a spiritual message for the week ill simply talk about the power of patience something I've always struggled with, mom and dad I'm sue you can agree that i was an  impatient child and it s sill the same now i always want to be good at the language now, have a baptism now, but things don't usually happen as fast as we would like,ne(right?) well suffice to say i, however difficult it is to fallow myself, do know of the power of patience and hard work until the end, i recall back when i was down in Okinawa i went on junkai(splits) with our zone leader we hadn't seen much  with the little time we had, It was after conference, we had a little time while waiting for our ride so he decides to do a bit of housing in the area, still no success up until the last door of the last apartment, right as i was dang ready to head back because our ride was supposed to be there, at that last door we get an answer and are able to talk to this guy share a message and he says that missionaries can come back, after this we head back and get back to our spot right as our ride pulls up, i think i remember them apologizing for being late for whatever raason but it was the perfect timing.

    we cant always tell how things are going to play out, we don't need to know, we need only to trust in our heavenly father that if we do what were suppose to do and put our full effort forward he will make things work, we will all have those times when we knock on tons of doors with no answer or we study so hard but cant understand people, or  as with job we may lose all of wealth family and friends, but there is an end, one to each day to each hour, and as long as we are patient in our afflictions strive forward though the end seems far off we as job will have so much the greater than we lost.

don give in to the temptation to quit, strive for the goal press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, and what ever comes will be worth it, i know these things are true i know this gospel is true, i know that through christ any thing is possible.

 

i love you all friends, family, dogs, etc. you mean every thing to me and you have no replacement.

i miss you but not too much,

stay strong stay faithful stay patient in your afflictions, and i will too,

elder connor kemp 

Week 23

こんにちは、家族と友達元気ですか？

 

Mwahahahaha!, you will have to decipher it if you want to know what it says, but i suppose you already do something like that whenever you read my letters, my ego is warui, gomenne, it will probably only get worse as i try to switch more to nihongo,

 

this week has been kind of slow, we still don't get out much, because my comps. health is so up and down, but we are getting some good done, our apao has been neglected of a good deep cleaning for what seems like years so this has been an ongoing project, (to all moms everywhere: one blessing of the mission which I'm convinced is slightly directed to you is that, 1st missionaries cant work without the spirit, 2nd missionaries have a hard time feeling the sprit when there apartment is messy and dirty, 3rd and in conclusion missionaries learn to clean because the cant work effectively with out the spirit. aren't  you happy?) i have strongly gained a testimony of this as well because now that the apartment is clean every thing works better I've started losing weight again and the work can proceed!

 

let us pray that i bring this knowledge home with me. btw i just got my call for transfers aaaaand, わたしはふくおかにてんきんしません　やああああああ！ every body cheer! have fun with that. if you look up a simple hiragana chart you should be able to read it, so ganbate.

 

i've been drawing a little and am working on my own drawing of christ, i will send pics.

 

nihongo is going well i really like my language study plan and it works very well I'm slowly starting to be able to understand people allot better and will ganbaritsuzukemasho.

 

we are sharing a message to day about fasting so ill mention a little here,

 

a pattern exists within the scriptures when they talk about fasting, "and they did fast and pray oft" "for i did fast and pray much" etc. fasting doesn't go with out much prayer, fast sunday is usually enough fasting for the average life but it is easy to make its importance fall into the back ground, we have been commanded that we should observe the fast, but that doesn't just mean not eating on the first sunday of the month, fasting is not fasting unless it is accompanied by purpose of mind and much prayer, its just being hungry otherwise, it is a good practice to start your fast with a specific prayer dedicating the fast to a purpose and keeping that thing on mind throughout the fast then ending the fast with a specific prayer. with that when you have purpose to the fast the hunger isn't all that noticeable which is nice cuz i like food.

but anyway to end  my little shpeel i will simply bare my testimony that iv seen and felt the power of the fast its not always in the way that you expect or originally may have wanted, but heavenly father knows what we need more so than we do. and will answer to a faithful fast accordingly, please don't waist the opportunity.

i love you all sooooooo much i don't have enough ooooo's to express, i couldn't ask for better family and friends,and though I'm 1000 miles of water and 15 hours in the future from you i can always feel you as part of my life.

 

be safe, be diligent, be faithful, and send be recipes.

kemp chourou

 

It's like Being a Celebrity-- Me and the AP's

I think it looks a little funny out of context, but here you go!

 

Week #22

I'm going o have to keep it short unfortunately cuz we have an appointment today pretty soon, but as a bit of an update, we had stake conference this last Sunday and zone conference on Monday hence the late emails, the conferences were great Auyagi Chourou of the 2nd quorum of the 70  trained us on Monday it was really good. that was all up north in Hiroshima so so we had to sleep over for two days at the apartment of that areas elders, it was lodes of fun though, we found a new investigator right before we left for Hiroshima and he is who we are teaching today, it should be good, the language is going well as always, its just these in between times, that my natural impatience sets in, but its good. Our recent convert's doing really well and came to Stake Taikai as well.

 

I really cant believe that is already February of 2014, in 7 months my mission will be half over and this past 5 months has gone by in a blur, I'm starting to see my old comps words turn to truth, the days are long but the weeks are short the months are shorter and in the time it took to say that the transfers over, but that's next week so there is  still more to do,

that kind of leads me into my message of the week, it is much the same idea as yours, dad.

The time we have is a gift, before we came to the earth we wanted nothing more that to prove our love to heavenly father, we knew it  would be hard, we knew some of us wouldn't make it but we knew that in the end it would be worth every pain every loss every impatient moment, please don't waste this chance. It's the only one we get to do it right. if you've fallen away you can come back. his atonement is exclusive to no one but we have to make the change. i love you all so much, I'm not perfect but I'll keep doing my best, all i ask, all heavenly father has asked is that you do the same.

 

I miss you all, but not too much

 

Your friend, brother, son etc.,

Connor

Week #21

so to fill you in on my incredible week, i haven't seen more then 30 min of the sun for he past five days, my doryo has been really sick, so we were told to stay inside, on the bright side its given me allot of study time and i got through the rest of alma Helamen and half way through 3rd nephi in the book of mormon and a big lump of pages in jesus the christ, and i do intend to read it in japanese when iv finished in ego, but for me it will be a very large kanji learning experience at first cuz, I'v only really just started having a good kanji study and there is allot of them in that book, iv definitely warmed up o eating more veggies on my mission, our average meals consist of eggs toast and miso soup in the morning pilOvegies and rice for lunch with fruit then pilOvegies for dinner with fruit. its really good though, and i definitely feel a lot healthier. this coming week should be a lot more active i think, since my doryo is feeling better, i am rather exited to get going again.

my spiritual message this week is kind of about learning and how every one was right when they say that high school could have been way easier than i made it out to be, not really but thats kind of how i feel sometimes.

we have been taught always in the church of the importance of learning, one of the things that made Christ  the most amazing teacher aside from the fact of being half god, was that he knew lots of stuff, and used all those things that he had learned to teach people, in parables and metaphors wonderful examples that are around us all the time, and one of the best things we can study is the gospel because in the long run its the most important knowledge we can gain and there is so much of it. always study the scriptures and the material there is to study, expand your knowledge on many other things as well with the gospel as the base of it all and it will expand all that you learn as long as it is the truth.

and more than anything involve heavenly father in every part of your life, when you are earnestly seeking knowledge heavenly father will help. in return the best way to repay heavenly father is by serving him by using you new knowledge to bring more souls unto is kingdom.

please never forget Him or Jesus Christ capacity. they love each and everyone of us more than we have the human capacity to understand. and they will help us, hey will bless us, they can save us, we just have to have the faith to open the door.

i love you all and miss you all, but not too much,

stay strong stay faithful until the end,

kemp chourou

Week #20

Thanks for the story, that’s super cool, so I had my first experience baptizing someone this last Saturday, Kojima shimai is finally baptized! It’s so cool then my comp confirmed her on Sunday.

Things have been going pretty well so far the new language study plan has been working well so far at keeping me interested which is like crucial for me with learning things, I'm exited to keep it going, i think I've got another good 3 or transfers before I start feeling comfortable with it, but things are coming along. My comp and i are going o start eating allot healthier once we go shopping today so we shall see where that goes, and a really cool thing real quick, my comp had the phone in his pocket and took it out to do something and realized that he had but dialed someone we had never met but who was in he hospital and now wants us to come by and visit, super cool I’m thinking, the spirit works in mysterious ways.

One thing I’ve been doing allot of lately is reading Jesus the Christ I’m already half way through the thing and am loving every moment, the saviors life is so interesting and a wonderful example, I would strongly suggest the reading of it.

Oh yeah I need recipes, now healthy would be good, but also I want your recipe for short ribs dad that would make my day if I could have some of that wonderful stuff, and i kind of enjoy cooking now so send them all in,

That’s most all for now, ill leave you with this though, study the saviors life, he was and is incredible and your love for him will grow so much when you know that all he did and went through was for us from my own study i can truly testify that i love my savior Jesus Christ, i will never fully understand all he did for all of us or for me as an individual he knows all of our pain and all of our desires all of our need and all of our vices, he wants nothing but the best for us and has and has told us just how to do it "come fallow me" through this we commit to become his servant through it we become his friends and through i we become his children as the 2000 to Helaman, we can only become so much on our own, but through him there is no limit. Please don't fall astray; this is the only way,

I love you all with every particle of my being but greater than my love is heavenly fathers love and Christ's love, remember them.

I know this is where I need to be; I miss you, but not too much

Again, I love you

Elder Connor Kemp