Pic in Feb 09 Liahona, Travolta look alike? Weird investigator

NOOOOOO!!!! Oh man so I’ve been looking all week for this months Liahona [Spanish version of the Ensign] and as I was doing this I kept thinking, “Oh man I hope its not that one picture that I saw where I look like a freaking gordo [fatso]. So I finally found a Liahona and sure enough there I am front and center looking very stunning and very fat. O well I’m in the Ensign…... woo hoo in the Febuary one.
Anyway so mom apparently we look like movie stars, or at least actors. Everyone always wants to see the pictures I carry around of the family and the nieces. Ha so this inactive family saw you mom and was like, “Oh my goodness she is so pretty. She looks like that news lady from Colombia huh.” Ok… then they saw a pic of both of us and were like, “wow you look like John Travolta.” Ha! I was like “what? You’re crazy!” And they were like, “No seriously you could totally be his son.” So thought I’d share that with ya’ll :) Looks like I may have a career in acting.....
Ok now for the weird story of the inactive lady. Ok so we were visiting this lady and she starts blabbing about whatever and suddenly comes out and says that she wants to have another kid (shes 46 btw) So we started talking and were like, “Well your husbands dead. How are you going to do that?” And it turns out she has this long time friend who offered to be the father! Psh creeper! Anyway we started talking about the law of chastity and all that stuff and ya after all that she asked us if we could give her a blessing so she could get pregnant..... We were like, “Uh can we maybe do it the next time or something cuz we gotta go to a lunch appointment.” which was true but we really just wanted to call president and ask him what he thought about that. So we called him and he told us to tell her that we can give her a blessing but it will completely depend on her faith and her OBEDIENCE to the commandments… aka law of chastity. So ya we gotta go do that this next week. Ya wish us luck.
Now for a much better, not as weird story…So before I got here in this area, Elder Aponte and his comp had this investigator named Diego. Diego is 30 unmarried and wants to join the church, but he has this little problem, he has been having an affair with a married woman for a couple years. Ya apparently the missionaries had been trying to tell him to stop but he just says he cant, he loves her and soon she will leave her husband for him. Poor guy... actually no… poor husband that doesn’t know. So this last week we met up with him and he told us that he talked with his lady friend and decided to stop it because he wants to get baptized and receive the blessings from it. He also has a very special testimony about tithing he says he cant wait to be able to pay tithing. What faith huh? So ya that is the happy story of the day.
As for now we are trying to get the pictures working so I’m gunna stop the letter and work on uploading these pictures.
love you all
elder schupple
ps thanks for the pictures everyone. Happy Bday brit! :)

1st Baptismal date, BBQs, Movie stars, Fights in the streets

So this past week has been kinda hard but still way fun. Its a whole new world down here but I love it. Its way cool. Right now I'm loving Bolivians more than the Argentines cuz we are in a Bolivian area... so ya its fun. The language is way hard but I'm starting to understand a little more :) Ok first things first: Mom- one pair of shoes have cracked and give me crazy blisters under my toes so I've stopped wearing those. I went to the other ones, the ones I usually wear to church. They aren't very comfortable and rub against both of my big toes so they are a little.... reddish but so far they don't hurt so esta bien. Also just a small thing that doesn't really matter but the cd player doesnt really work. I dont know what its deal is. I turn it on and all that stuff but it doesn't wanna play any of the cds. Hmm what else....I don't know what to say cuz the only ones who wrote me this week were Jackie and Kara. Uh concerning pics, I have to download them onto a cd and send them soon. Sorry I'm not more on top of things but I just haven't had time to think about it.
Well this week was very exciting. I have my first fecha (baptismal date ) :) so I am way excited for that. Elder Tingey really wants to baptize so hes a great driving force always saying "dale dale" or come on! come on! We walk a lot. Its good stuff.... kinda. We also took away liquor and cigarettes from a member having a hard time with the word of wisdom, so that was fun. We had 2 asados (BBQs) this week, they were both amazing. One of them was cuz we did some service for this recent convert named David. We helped clean his yard. I ripped down a bunch of stickery ivy things from his wall, so now I have hives and a bunch of scratches. Its very itchy but it was fun... so good stuff :) Then we ran into 2 new investigators as we were walking down the street to our other investigators house. A couple of older couples stopped us and just started rambling on about how we looked like movie stars and how we looked so great. Ha! It was very funny. Then there was another time when we were in this ville (ghetto) looking for an inactive family but couldn't find them so we stopped and asked directions. As we were doing that we saw a fight. It was interesting. We didn't get to see much cuz it moved into a yard with a big wall but we heard lots of glass breaking and yelling. The lady we were talking to just shrugged and said "Those dang drug addicts are gunna kill each other now." Ha... OK then! We got a return appointment with her so we have to go back. I'm kinda scared but also excited :) Good stuff. Well I don't know what else to say so i guess I'll talk to ya in a week.

Love Elder Schupple

P.S. By the way, sending pics thru these emails works... so send some! :) I wanna see everyone. I cant remember if I told you last week but everyone here loves pics. Every time I'm over they always say tiene photos? ha si aqua :) I love it! Its so much fun.