We miss Elder Nalder / zone conference & service projects

Hi family,

No we weren't the 2nd top baptizers in our mission we were 13th but in our zone we did pretty great. HA its kinda funny mom... we are kinda having the same situation with investigators and missionaries. Remember my side of the story where the elders  almost destroyed the referral that the Stake Presidency's wife gave us because they had other appointments to go to like weddings and other stuff?  Well the one trouble maker missionary got transferred out but when Elder Nalder got hurt guess who came back to the area to do the lessons with this  referral?  ... ya this same missionary.  Well the stake presidency's wife thought we were joking that he came back... but no.  So ya we all miss Elder Nalder cuz the investigators liked him and everything. But we are just guessing that heavenly father knows what He's doing. So thats kinda funny.  I heard this quote once that says the church has to be true cuz if not the elders/sisters would have destroyed it a long time ago. I dont want to tell the sisters how to teach the lessons but  prayer is kind of a big deal.  Has she never prayed at the end of the lesson? Oh well thats their jurisdiction.  I dont recieve inspiration for her so ya just pray she feels the spirit. Ill pray for her also, and it might not be a good idea to mix dating in with the lessons--it sends mixed emotions, and she might get the wrong idea of why your trying to get her to listen to the discussions. Again thats just my opinion so ya.

Well im kinda bumbed cuz I have my camera its plugged in to send pictures but I cant seem to get the pics to pop up esspecially cuz i took a bunch of pics this past week so ill keep working on that.

And hey old man dad happy 50th b-day and also kayla happy bday.  Dang i cant believe its already been a year since I said this a year ago.

This past week we had zone conference and a service project so it was kind of a slow week concerning datos and all that jazz but it was still a very fun week. Goodness i cant believe how fast time is going.

I hope everything is going great, hope dad and kayla have great bdays.

lvlv

elder schupple

P.S.  No I didnt feel the earthquake in Chile or anything.  Hey mom  I got my release papers, and they are asking for  my bishops address and stake president's.  They have  Pres Labrums, Bishop Hartjes and our address but they want to know where I'll be flying to and who will be releasing me and all that jazz so they can buy  my plane ticket.

District and leaders meetings/ Rainy soccer and broken ankle/Cruising in baptisms & lessons

 That is crazy Christian Austin is home already!  These past 2 years have really been flying. Im really happy to hear that my package got there.  I was so nervous it wasnt going to arrive, and wow I thought I had
bought little jerseys but they look huge on the girls but still adorable, so thats good. And those pics of them pointing to Argentina made me so happy. As for school either one--UVU or LDS Business College-- sound good to me.  I'm just glad I'll have some time to be with the fam before I start school. Oh mom could you tell Steve Branham to give me his address at school so I can send him a letter please. The pics of St George look nice and dry with a lot of red rock. Elder Palmer has been telling me a lot about Utah and how in St George there's a lot of red rock.  I dont remember anything about it over there. So will I be flying into Chicago or Utah? 

As for this past week, a lot happened, first we had to go down town Buenos Aires so Elder Palmer could do his documents, but it was during district meeting so we were trying to hurry back so I could do the dist meeting which didnt end up happening... but o well, the zone leaders did it for me so it turned out to be ok. On Tuesday I woke up with a little bit of a head ache but we still went out to work.  We ate lunch and after that I layed down cuz my head was killing me and when I woke up I felt sick.  I had  a 102 temp so I took a tylenol that they have for us in the appt and tried sleeping while Elder Palmer went out with a member to our citas.  Well it was pretty bad so I took another tylenol and then realized that they put a whole lot more punch in their pills here than we do in ours-- instead of putting 200 ml in each one like we do in the states they put in 500 ml and ya I took 2.  So I started getting kinda loopy and couldn't really sleep and when I did sleep I had weird dreams.  It was a long 24 hrs for me. The next day I had a leaders meeting and I had to to no matter what.  So the next morning came and I still felt a little weird but got up and went to my meetings and felt ok by the end of the day. So that was an interesting way to start off my week. Oh, after we got back from the capitol and raced to the district meeting, they had pretty much finished and were about to go to lunch, so we were on our way with everyone and guess who stopped me?.... Yup Maria from Ezpeleta! (which is next to Quilmes...my first area :) She was waiting for a bus and saw me so she stopped me and said in English (just in case I was still having issues with the language) ¨Do you remember me?¨ So that was amazing and I finally got a pic of her. Her husband is coming back from the states to visit again and she is planning on him getting baptized.  So ya it was just a very cool reunion. It made me very happy.

 Today was another crazy day. It was Preparation day and so I  made some plans to play soccer and ping pong with a bunch of elders in the church right next to our area. So we were all having a great time, until it started raining really hard while we were playing soccer.  Nobody wanted to stop and what made it worse, we were playing on very wet and rainy grass.  It was way fun until Elder Nalder and Elder Wanless ran into each other and Elder Nalder broke his ankle.  Hes in my district and now we are all really worried about him and hope he doesnt have to go home. So ya pretty much that is what has been happening in a week. Hope all is well with everyone at home.
P.S. This past transfer Elder Palmer and I were the 2nd highest baptizers and lesson teachers so we are just cruising along inspite of everything. 
Thanks for the email and letters,
love you so much

elder schupple