Aug 25
Hey everybody it's your favorite missionary in the whole world. It's Elder Shumway! Things have been great here at the MTC.

Monday night me and my companion, Elder Weston, taught our first true investigator. It went really well. She accepted to read the book of mormon and pray about it. These past few days have been really stressful. We really don't have a lot of freetime. We have class for hours each day. I am so glad I'm only here for 2 weeks and not 9 weeks cause I think I would go crazy!! I also hardly get any sleep. Most days I get about 7 hours of sleep. On a lucky day i will get about 8. And now that I am district leader I have to go to a few meetings early in the morning. And always feeling the spirit also drains my energy and just makes me exhausted.  

In one week I will be on a plane bound for Philadelphia!! I wouldn't mind just leaving today. I'm so glad I don't have to learn a language. Good old English is good enough for me. I hope everybody is doing great. I have had so many great experiences here at the MTC. I cant wait until I tell you stories about people that I will be serving. 

Tonight we are having a devotional and a general authority is supposed to come and speak to us. Don't know who it is yet, I hope its Elder Holland. During that devotional i'll get to sing cause I am in the choir. It will be so loud cause about 1000 missionaries are singing in it.