Hey everybody. It's me Elder Shumway. Sorry I didn't send an email last week we were just really busy and I wasn't able to send one. But I am this week!!!

These past few weeks has been really interesting. Pennsylvania is so much different than Arizona. There is no circle k or sonic or in-n-out and that makes me sad. I'm here in my first area, I'm in reading, Pennsylvania. I've heard that it is the second poorest town in the United States. And because of that you would think that people are humble and would want to listen to us, but no one really wants to talk
to us and everybody smokes! In the city people are all squished together and there is a lot of diversity here. The roads are horrible and it rained a lot on Saturday and every road seemed to be flooded. It's starting to get colder and I don't like it! October is when we have to break out the sweaters. But that's not for a couple of weeks.

Cool experience this week. I was on exchanges with a Spanish elder and we were street contacting. We had been talking to people all day. Then we go to this street that is popular for having drug dealers on it and this man who's name was mister Leon comes up to us! He was really nice
and he wanted us to share a scripture and just talk so we did. We asked him if he would like our card but he didn't want it. He then gave us a hug and we were on our way. This is a weird experience because usually we are going up to people and this man comes up to us. Hopefully that will happen a lot on my mission.

I know that this gospel is true and that if you work hard and obey the rules then miracles will happen. Till next time every body.Elder Shumway

I got caught "praying" for a long time

 And this is a picture of my companion.