Elder Schupple

Elder Schupple

Monday, December 14, 2009

Service project for handicap kids







Happy B-day Keira! I cant believe how big she is getting... every day bigger and bigger. In the one pic with mom, she looks like Kayla. And wow that is quite the set for the Christmas pageant. I hope everything goes well with that. As for the Christmas phone call I think it will probably be at like 3 or 4 depending on who calls first, which will probably be him, we will talk more about it this week and ill get the precise hour.
Today was an awesome day, we did a service project in a school for handicap kids. We played soccer with them and sang/played the guitar with them. There was an elder who was really good at drawing and he spent the entire time drawing the kids (he had a big line). Then i busted out the pics of the fam, and everyone just swarmed me. It was so funny... they would take the pics out of the album and all that stuff. I had such a fun time being with all of them. Then there was this girl in a wheelchair, and she would not stop looking at me. So i talked to her for a while and then moved on to another station. Ha... well she talked to my zone leader Elder Trent and said, "I like that one. Will you go tell him?" Ha... so he came over and told me. We both laughed and we kept switching stations. I started playing soccer and my other zone leader came up to me and said that girl in the wheel chair wants to talk to you, so i went over and she just said, "you play soccer very badly, you need to think more." So i asked her, "About what?" and she said "I dont know. What are you thinking about right now?".... I was like, "I dont know...I guess my nieces." and she got mad and started rolling away. So I ask her what I should think about and she just pointed to herself and says, "Me" Ha!... it was funny. She is 13 and her name is valeria. She didn't want to talk to me after that and every time i would look over at her she would look away really fast. Ha! Oh goodness. It was a funny experience. Then we handed out presents (some wards from the states sent us 2 suitcases full of presents and the 2 zones with the best service projects got to hand them out... we won) It was really nice to see these kids get a present each. It makes me sad to think that it might be the only present they receive this Christmas. I was so happy to spend a little time with them. They are all such angels.
As for my favorite scripture, I think it might be d&c 82:10 or 58:26-30 where the lord says, "Who is he to justify sin?" It is a very interesting scripture that made me think.
Good luck with the pageant. I'm sure you all will do great. Sorry this is so short the computer is giving me problems. I'll send pics next week cuz this one doesn't have the usb port.
lvlv
elder schupple

Monday, December 7, 2009





Wow those are some crazy pics of the cultural hall. I remember that fountain thing for Britney's wedding. I remember it was quite a bit of work. I'm sorry I cant be there..... :) Anyway so this past week was a crazy one. First thing that happened was exchanges with the zone leaders. I went to their area with Elder Wells (This is the second time I have done them with him. The first time was a year ago when we were in the same district with Elder Jensen... kinda fun huh :)) We had a great day (pretty much the point of exchanges are to see how the elders teach and spend their time) So Elder Wells wanted to see how I did contacts, so I went up to this house where there was a lady washing clothes and a guy just standing watching, I said hi and they just smiled and told us to come in. Ha so we did and it turns out they had listened to the discussions a while back but the sister missionaries never came back! So after that Elder Wells just smiled at me and said, "Good contact elder schupple." We both laughed and went on our merry way, so the exchange went well. Later in the week I got sick. It was not pleasant, lots of vomit and other stuff and fever. So that wasn't so fun, but i got over it quickly. The next day we went to an area that was pretty far out in our area to look for some new investigators and of course right when we got out into the middle of nowhere my tire popped, the tube and the outer part just went boom! It was so loud I thought I got shot. So we had to walk to a bike repair shop, where we asked the guy how much it would cost to fix. He said 50 pesos and I only had 30, so we had to walk to the closest member which was not that close to ask for 20 more pesos. Luckily they had 20 and we got the bike fixed. In some good news, we found some new investigators and so that will be fun. I'm excited. Also this next week I get to do 2 more exchanges with my district cuz there were some low numbers this past week and so I've got to go tell them how it is and all that jazz. So ya that's what my week will be looking like. It'll be fun.
As for the calling thing on Christmas... ya I'll probably just call again. If we going to do another chat room conference call thing I need the number again. If not just tell me where to call.
Love you all for being so great. You are in my prayers
lvlv
elder schupple

p.s. OK...we´ll add in some singing contacts :) love you mom have a great week love you