Mom, I know it has gone by fast. There is a saying here in the missionary life,"days feel like weeks and weeks feel like days." And it really has felt like that. It went by really fast. I'm glad to hear that you had a great week at work. Glad to hear about the rain. The temperature is cold here. It snowed a little bit this morning. I have an app on my ipad that tells me how the weather is in Gilbert. I would love an electric blanket. That will definitely keep me warm in these next several months.  I did get the things from amazon last week and I am very grateful cause they just came in the nick of time. I'm very grateful. I would actually love it if you would send me my old basketball shoes or some newer ones.  I've gotten a few emails from Cindy too. She writes really long letters!!! That made me laugh when you told me that she cries sometimes.She is really awesome and so nice. Maybe invite her to when I skype on Christmas.  I'll try and get in touch with Luke and continue on talking with Teryn. He is a great guy and I'm glad that you invite him over.  Man that is a scary situation. Good job and using your "strong" muscles. I will keep her in my prayers. I wish I could go to the temple and put her name on the prayer roll, but I cant. Its weird that Sadie is getting married. She is like my age! I did give her the right number, but we will try again. I got aunt Jill's cookie, but they are all gone now.  1: Yes 2: Haven't done really any service last week. Except I mowed the lawn today for free.  3: Ok, we haven't talked to him since that one time. We actually have two people with a baptismal date!!! Love you too, Elder Shumway   Questions... 1Do you have an umbrella?2 What service have you done this week? 3 How is Jack doing? Braden Douglas Shumway	12:26 PM (2 hours ago)
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Hey everybody. How's everybody doing? I hear that it's raining a little bit in Gilbert. Here it was snowing! This morning October 19, 2015 we woke up and there was snow on our grass! I am a little scared now. I don't like the cold! I'm an Arizona boy! But I will deal with it cause I know that this is where the Lord wants me to be.

So this week had a lot more success than last week. We had a referral sent to us a few weeks ago. A woman named Danielle wanted a Book of Mormon and so we stopped by and gave her one. We talked about it and set up an appointment for last Saturday at one. We discussed the first
discussion and really hit hard on the divinity and truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. We talked about how the Book of Mormon is the evidence of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was a great lesson and another man was there who lives there and his name is Dante
and we both invited them to be baptized. They both accepted! I was so stoked! We are shooting for the November 15! I pray that they will be ready to be baptized on that day.

Something else that was awesome that happened was that a man named Bro Moore who is less active and had gotten in a motorcycle accident not to long ago and almost died. He broke a lot of bones in his body. Me and Elder Lewis have been meeting with him quite often and he loves it when we come. Anyways he came to church Sunday with his girlfriend who is not a member and I was really excited when he came. Hopefully this will be the beginning of something great.

Last night we were at a members house for dinner. And they had their grandpa over who is not a member. He told us that if we gave him a 50 digit long number he could give it back to us forward or backward just by memory! So we gave him one and he gave it back to us just as he said he would. It was really cool. He said we could do it with anything even with our missionary discussions. He told us to come back and he would help us remember those discussions. We will definitely take him up on that.

Love you all. The gospel is restored and there is a prophet of God on the earth and the Book of Mormon is the word of God.
Love Elder Shumway

P.S. I get to go to the priesthood restoration site tomorrow. This includes the sesquehana river. I am so excited for that!

Hey little brother. The week was great. We had a lot more success this week. We are almost out of ketchup. That's funny that mom tells you that cause I think she used to tell me that too and so do people here. I'm having a great time on my mission. I got an umbrella. Great job on your book report keep it up! That is for the picture. Miss you too.
Elder Shumway


Hey Lila. Week has been pretty great. Sorry to hear about school. I didn't really like school either, but it goes by really fast. That's to bad you had to take the tracker. Does the big car work now? Great to hear about the rain over there. I loved it when it rained. Here when it rains it's super cold rain and the weather is also super cold. We had fast Sunday last Sunday. I read that you might have a gift for me and would love it. I did buy an umbrella. The leaves are slowly turning colors. I'm gonna send you a leaf sometime probably. Miss you too.
Love Elder Shumway