Hey Lila! It's great to hear from you. Lucky you get a break. Here it's seems like we never get a break. I unfortunately never saw the blood moon cause it was really cloudy last night😩. Patriarchal blessings are really awesome and I wish I got mine earlier a cause it would have helped me a lot more through high school. Just have that in the back of your mind if you ever feel like you want to get yours. Everything's going great and it's not cold yet, but next week we have to start wearing sweaters.
Love you Elder Shumway

Dad,

Today is a great day. Some other elders have their washer and dryer broken in their apartment so they have to come to our house and do their laundry. But today our washer broke! So we called our landlord and he said he would just get us a brand new washer and dryer! So we get a new washer and dryertomorrow. And the ones we have now are super old and it's only a matter of time till they brake. So yeah so far it's been a pretty good day.

The pope did draw a huge crowd but it didn't get over here though thank goodness. Thanks for updating me on all the sports back home, we never know how it's going. And I'm the only one who cares in my companionship. Elder Lewis could care less if he knows or not. Good luck with the grass.

Love you Elder Shumway

Mom,

I did receive a package from her. I would love to write her a letter. Can you give me address? This week has been interesting. We've been really busy and a lot has happened. Happy to hear that Sam's party went well and he is now ten years old. Firehouse sounds good right now, but I haven't seen one out here yet. There are also no in-n-outs out here either and that makes me sad. And balloon popping brings back memories. 

That's to bad about sis slade. They need to get her better! That's probably really scary when that happens. It's a good thing that she was able to get her sight back that morning. 

The teaching is going okay. We have some people that when they make an appointment and we confirm it with them earlier and we go and knock on their door and they aren't there, it can be really frustrating. But that lady that we found after we fasted is probably our biggest hope right now. My day is like never ending work and now breaks. Especially this week cause I was on exchanges with the district leader and the zone leader on Tuesday andWednesday. And they like to go hard! Yeah I'm never t feeling super awkward anymore.

1: I would love some more winter stuff like a long sleeve shirt and a hoodie. 

2: My shoes are doing just fine, but I can already feel them wearing down.

3: We mow our yard every other week.

Love you too, Elder Shumway