The Work is rolling on!

Thats fun that you saw Elder Rice´s mom, and that card board cut out of him is really funny!   Jackies Lake Powell trip looks like it was way fun.... I'm kinda jealous our youth conferences were always kinda... not like that. Then again we didnt really have the resources that they have in Utah. SARAH IS GETTING MARRIED???? Thats great!  Shes def one of my fav cousins.  Shes got a good head on her shoulders, and thats kinda wierd that im gunna be there for it.  I'm so used to missing weddings and babies being born and big events like this.... wierd. As for the talk, just let me know what the bishop wants me to talk about and I'll be happy to give a talk.  Ha at least this time I'll have some time to prepare. I think I get the message your sending about the talk when i come home also...I'll be sure to not just give a "this was my mission" talk. I remember those kind of talks as well, to me as a kid I'm pretty sure I enjoyed those more but I remember Bishop Worthen saying once that when you come home from your mission you should not give a talk like that, it should be a talk that enlightens others and not just a recap of the past 2 years of your life. Ill do the best i can plus add some spiritual experiences from my mission that helped me a lot.

As for this past week, now that the mundial is over, the people are all more friendly and accepting.  We found 7 new investigators this past week so thats good.  We just need to get back up the standard of 12 now. The good part is that the ward members have been helping us a lot going with us to lessons.  They even help with all the games, so with that we have been keeping a steady 10 lessons with members present. So "Go ward members!"  On Tuesday we had district meeting and we decided to go out and look for people to come into the church to tour it and teach them a little. It worked out a lot better than I thought it would.  I went with Elder Keller from the offices and we had a great experience finding four people together. It was a great success and we´ll probably do that again in the future.

Now for some of the bad news.  This past week I got sick.  It started Wednesday and I was in bed dying until friday evening. Then Saturday we had a service project helping a member build his house, and I started sweating really bad even though it was freezing outside (i felt like i was going to pass out). So I took a rest and luckily didnt get sick again. Then Sunday it rained and now the entire zone is sick except for me :) However I did slip and fall a couple times cuz my shoes dont have any traction walking in mud.  So that was unfortunate, but things like that happen in the mission.

The office elders are starting to call me and Elder Stienkuhler [who went out with me from the MTC] these days telling us to cut our hair and start packing and a bunch of stuff.  Its wierd....and kinda like their teasing us cuz it still doesnt feel like we are leaving yet. Im glad I'm ending near Elder Stienkuhler cuz he keeps reminding me to start buying stuff and reminds me of a lot of things.

Youre all in my prayers, i love you all

elder schupple

ps the pics are of of me and my comp, Elder Roy, we're in in this store because we were visiting a member and I remembered you wanted just us 2 so I had the member take the pic.  Also included are some  pics of the filters for the water that we were using.   I changed them after who knows how long...ya. Plus there are some pics of Argentine $
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Claypole and Elder Roy are great! / Pics of Gustavo&Jimena wedding & baptism!

We had a great week! :) The good news is that Claypole is a great area and we found a bunch of new investigators this past week. The ward is kind of small, only about 40 people come to church but the members are great and the bishop seems to be animated to work with us so these are good things. Other good news is that my companion actually isn't disobedient.  I'm not sure why everyone told me he was but from all Ive seen so far hes pretty obedient and wants to be a good missionary.

The bad thing about the area is that elder Roy and his last comp kinda killed the area the last transfer. Meaning we have pretty much 0 investigators, which is a bummer. What happened was Elder Roy went up to senior comp last transfer and came to Claypole and his comp was an american that was really new and didnt understand spanish.  So when elder Roy got here they didnt understand each other and the new elder hadn't really learned the area very well with his first companion so they were both kinda lost and all that jazz, so elder Roy did what he could do and started doing contacts and that's all they really did-- which isn't the most effective thing to do. So now we are here together and its going very well.  We had a drunk guy invite us in the other day and ask us to say a prayer for his kids, so we did and got a return appointment for when he wouldn't be drunk.

So ya that's pretty much the area so far. Thank you so much for the packages... the peanut butter and chocolate got here without melting or spilling, so thanks a lot!  I had a great birthday!   Elder Velasquez is in my zone again and he made me Peruvian food and cake. So it was all around a good day. 

Will you please wish Gpa Schupple a happy B-day for me and tell him thanks for the present.

This week I was thinking a lot about trials in that if we don't learn from the first one Heavenly Father will prob keep sending a similar one until we learn.

Thanks for all your love and prayers.  I love you all.

Elder Schupple 

13th Transfer to Claypole/Elder Roy new comp

Sorry the new computer here in Claypole doesnt let me send pics so I'll try to find another one. Arg! How frustrating but no worries... all is well.

Yesterday we went around saying goodbye to Platanos by going to the bishops house for lunch.  We ate choripan.  Then we went to call home for Mothers Day.  Then we went to say goodbye to the Arocha family which was very sad.   Jimena, Gustavo and Santino cried. I recorded a video of them saying goodbye to me and it was very nice. I'm excited to be able to send the pics but no worries ill try to send them next week.

I love you all and hope you know your in my prayers.

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[From the information from the Mothers Day call, Elder Schupple was transferred to Claypole...which is about 1 hour due west of Platanos .  His new companion's name is Elder Roy...also a Latin...and they both will be senior companions, with Austin acting as District Leader again in this new area.  With 2 transfers left in the mission--12 weeks--He was very sad to leave Platanos--one of his favorite areas of his mission.  Elder Schupple's 21st birthday is happening this Friday the 14th of May!  Happy Birthday!!!]