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

One of the best weeks of the mission!

No I don't have a problem with going to UVU. I heard it was really expensive but whatever... you know better than I do. Oh and thanks to the heavy influence of Utah/ Arizona friends down here, my opinion has gone up about 8 fold about moving to Utah, so ya that sounds fun. Mom you should meet Elder Gublers mom. Hes a funny kid and we have been in 2 zones together already. You'd probably like her. OH also ask Steve how many elders were in his mission. And that's funny that Brad is dancing with Jackie and that shes making him work out. I also hope grandma starts doing better. Thats interesting that you said that about dad always trying to be fun/funny because I got to know this new elder and he told me what I appear to people that don't know me. It made me very content to hear what he said. He just said that I always appear happy and trying to have fun. That made me happy for some reason.

As for this past week, it was great we only found 5 fechas but had 31 other lessons and almost 10 with members. We took out another baptism date and are going to take another one out tonight, then 2 more tomorrow, and we should be baptizing this upcoming sat hopefully. But that's not even the best part about this past week. So we found this MARRIED (thank goodness) couple on a contact we did, so we entered their house and began to get to know them, the lady began to tell us that she had a dream a while ago where she was with a couple of her friends and the friends started doing weird things like smoke and do drugs and for some reason she said that meant the church of Jesus Christ wasn't on the earth anymore, then later on in the dream there was a boy from the united states that came down to visit her to tell her that the church of Jesus Christ had been restored again on the earth.

O my goodness I was just all smiles and couldn't believe what she was telling us because they had never talked to the elders before. Then she continued to another dream she had where she met God and began speaking to him, and he told her that she was one of the elect and that she was saved to come to the earth in the last days. She asked God what that meant and if she was supposed to be a pastor or something and He said "No dont worry I have a plan for you."

OH my goodness when i heard that I was ready to shout with joy. I could not believe what she had just told us. I was in such shock, I didn't even know what to say, so I took off my name tag and showed her the name of our church and how everything she had just told us were things that we teach in our church. We have a return appointment tomorrow where Elder Palmer and the zone leader are going to take out a bap date with them. I'm kinda bummed that I wont be there but at the same time I'm soooooo excited because tomorrow I get to do what I've wanted to do my entire mission-- I'm going back to Ezpaleta! (very near to my first area-- Quilmes) They tell me Maria is still active and sometimes asks about me and is preparing to go to the temple :)..... I am sooo very excited.

Yesterday Elder Palmer and I had to speak in church and it went very well, but what made it awesome was the fact that a member from Ezpaleta was there and after they came up to me and gave me a big hug and told me how great it was to finally be able to actually talk to me and hear how great my castellano is now. (I couldn't speak the language very well when I was there) Oh goodness it was one of the best weeks of the mission.

Hope everything is going well at home. Some members tell me that the world is coming to an end in Haiti because of the earthquake and the states too, so hope yawl are OK. I love you all so much. You're in my prayers.

lvlv

Elder Schupple