Arocha family getting married and baptized this week!/ Mothers Day call set up

The new house looks way nice.  Is it furnished already? If you want you can just take pics of my junk and I'll tell you what to keep and what to toss. The pics you sent of Jackie's b-day celebrations are awesome, and those little animals from Argentina are totally here... or at least walking around in the zoo here.  They are so weird looking.
About the time difference--Im really not sure what the difference is. I think its 2 or 3 hours. I'll probably call at about 5 o'clock Argentina time so that should be like 2 or 3 Chicago time.

This past week was pretty good. The poor lady that walked in on her husband having an affair did what we told her to do--she read and prayed and the next time we went over and she was doing a lot better.  I dont know....  yes i do... the spirit helped her so much. Ya we got there and she made us tacos and was just doing amazing. It was a serious blessing.

This upcoming Thurs the Arocha family will be getting married  then baptized on Friday and then the ward is throwing a surprise party after the baptism. Its just awesome.  I love Platanos so much.

This past week was a rather  difficult one  because I got sick.  It's funny tho because as we were doing contacts,  people would stick their heads out of their windows and ask what we wanted...and then because I've got a cough/sore throat,  when I'd try to respond back loudly,  my voice would crack--it was funny...but difficult.  Oh well it was another experience. But ya its going good.

Im really not sure who we could get to room with Brad and me at school... so sorry.

Youre all in my prayers.  Thanks for your love, I'll talk to ya on Sunday :)

love you all

elder schupple

P.S. sorry the pics I just sent didn't open...I'll resend them next week.  I looked  up the time difference and it turns out that Chicago is 2 hours behind Buenos Aires, so at 5 my time it will be about 3 o'clock your time.  My companion is going to call first so I don't know if it will be exactly that time but around 3 o'clock your time I'll be calling.

love you lots

Austin

I'll send the pics next time

Arocha family getting married and baptized before next week's transfer!

So this past week was a pretty good one.  First of all we went over to the Arocha family house again and we were just talking, and they told us that they decided it would be a good idea if they got married (yay) but then the dad said, "Ya in like 3 or 4 months I think we should be able to do it."  Elder palmer and I were like "Oh.... thats great but hey could you guys do it within the next 4 months cuz i go home in August." Then we started talking about how transfers will be coming up on monday and how one of us-- probably Elder Palmer-- will leave the area. Well they were just like "o really?"  Then the dad said, you know you guys have really done a lot for us bringing us the gospel, so as a gift for you and really for us, we are going to get married as soon as we can so we can get baptized while you guys are both still here. The wife pops up (she really wants to get baptized and has wanted to be married for the longest time) and says,  "I'll go take out a date this Monday so we can get married as soon as possible."  We were soo happy and hoping that the other one of us leaves the area but we are pretty sure that Elder Palmer is going to leave. So I'm pretty happy and excited. Ha oh but right before that, the wife pops open her Book of Mormon and says, "Elders I have a doubt...Can God command someone to kill someone?"  I knew exactly what she was talking about-- the part where nephi kills laban-- so ya she was kinda surprised about that but we explained it to her and she was pretty content with the answer although she still thought it was a little shady. So we invited her to pray about our explanation and we´ll see how that goes.  It'll go well, shes great, so I'm not that worried. 

I guess we´ll see what happens next week for transfers.

Love you all lots

Elder Schupple

Arocha family, Ricardo's investigators and speaking with friends from Ezpeleta

NO I'm not set on BYU-I.  I've been thinking and listening to a bunch of opinions from a bunch of different elders and I think UVU probably will be a better option... easier transition to BYU and all that jazz.
So this past week was pretty crazy, first of all we spent a lot of time looking for Ricardo and luckily we found him and he got confirmed.  Yay! very exciting! So we are all very excited.
As for other investigators,  2 weeks ago Elder Palmer and  we on exchanges with the district; he was in Platanos and I went to Hudson. Anyway when I got back he informed me that they were doing contacts and ran into this family that had been listening to the discussions like 6 years ago, or at least the wife was. They are awesome, she wants to get baptized so bad but needs to get married.  Her son Santino is ten and he loves the discussions.  Then theres the dad who wasnt really interested before and now is!  We are very excited for them they called the Arocha family and they came to stake conference yesterday and liked it a lot.  We were very excited. As for other investigators, the girlfriend of Ricardo who got baptized (shes a member and how we found ricardo) She has been having a bunch of problems lately with sick family and new houses and all that jazz.  Well her parents had been watching/helping her a little with this and they wanted to know how and why she has so much peace in her life in spite of so many problems.  So we are teaching them now and took out a baptismal date for 2 weeks! References are the absolute best way to do missionary work. It really helps a lot.
Yesterday was stake conference and I saw so many old friends from Ezpeleta.  It was so cool actually being able to talk to them because before I didn't know the language yet.  It was really cool. The pic of the dog is just a dog I saw that I thought looked like Toby. Ha!  So ya hope everythings going well over here.  You are all in my prayers.
lvlv
elder schupple