So this is actually my weekly email. I was super tired last week. So
an update on the bathroom. Everything is back to normal and everything
works. We were so thankful for that. Now we don't have to stand in
that dirty water while we shower and are now able to use a working
toilet. Hopefully nothing else breaks in our house for a while.

So this last week has been pretty good. We gave three other people a
date to be baptized. That makes it ten. Danielle is going to be
baptized this Saturday. Unfortunately we might have to drop some of
them other people cause they are not keeping commitments. They say
they will do all we ask them but they just don't. The most frustrating
thing is when they say they are definitely coming to church and you
get to church save them seats and they never show up! But the church
is still true.

So a cool experience we had. We were walking down the road and we were
about to go to an appointment we had. We are on our way and the I hear
someone say "sir!" And I turn around and there is a man in his row
home and yelling at us to come in. So we go over and we knock on the
door and they let us in. His name was Jose, he called us in cause he
wants to stop drinking. He doesn't know too much English so we simply
taught the restoration and after the lesson we called the Spanish
Elders and sent the over there to talk to him. They did and they gave
him a Book of Mormon and they will keep working with him.

So it snowed on Tuesday. It was so cold. We were driving in a snow
storm on the way to an appointment we had. It was so weird. It was
like my first one ever! And the next day was so freakin cold! We
walked just about all day and me being an Arizona boy I was freezing
and my companion who is from the state of Washington isn't even cold.
And it's going to snow this weekend. I am not looking forward to that.

The Lord has definitely put us in places where we can talk to people
who are prepared to hear the gospel. We got a referral a little while
ago and we set up an appointment with them and we taught the the plan
of salvation. We invited the to be baptized and they accepted. They
are a family of three. I am really excited for that.

I love being on my mission even though there are good and bad times.
It's also cold here if I haven't mentioned that yet. But seriously I
am in the best mission in the world. We have a temple coming soon and
it is going to be awesome. The church is true!!

Love Elder Shumway

Mom, 

The teaching is going a lot better. We are teaching a lot more
lessons. I was tired and I did not want to write sweetly email. I
might make that a thing every now and then. Yeah the tub is not
usually like that, but it's all fixed now. We already cleaned it. It's
been fixed for almost a week now.

He is a nice guy. Wow you are just getting so many new friends on
Facebook because of me. Yeah that is to bad for Elder Murphy, at least
he gets to be with his family for a little bit.

No I didn't like them I wasn't able to sleep that night cause I was
too scared. How old is Hannah now? I think we should go when I get
back and I want to see with my own eyes what I was so scared of.

Thanks for the package coming soon. I do feel like I've lost a little
weight. Thanks for outing that money in the bank for me.

Wow Jill is awesome. That's so nice of her to do that. She should come
over here and come clean our house. Well it's not that dirty. We do
have a few dishes. The carpets were just cleaned on Friday, so that
was good. The bad part is that our landlord threw out 3 of our lamps
and now it's a lot darker in our house. I guess they were a fire
hazard.

If grandpa needs to do it again I would love to see him. Oh and get a
free lunch. The weather is going to get pretty bad here looks like.
This Friday and Saturday it's supposed to snow a lot. I'm glad I'm not
surrounded by snow yet just like Elder Coon is. We did have a little
snow storm on Tuesday. It's was my first one. I'll send you a video of
it. The weather does look awesome in Gilbert.

1. I have not used the hot hands yet.
2. Well there not really baptisms, they are just people with a date.
We now have ten total. Some of them I'm afraid we are going to have to
drop though cause they aren't keeping their commitments.
3. My favorite thing is that he is my first companion that is
coordinated and will play basketball with me. He is also a super
obedient and hard working missionary.

Yum taco salad sounds super good right now. I would just love some
care rio too. Have fun at that party and also I guess tomorrow is my
five month mark! I miss grandma too. I'm sure she is super happy right
now.

Man that is probably so frustrating. I hope she can get better and go
back to her normal self. It's good to see that she had a few days of
relief. And what a coincidence that it happened to be at her daughters
wedding.

Heavenly Father does have a plan for us. There's a really awesome
Mormon message by Elder Christofferson, it's probably one of my
favorites it's called the will of God. I encourage you to watch it it
is super good. It gives me a lot of comfort.

Love you, Elder Shumway

Hey Lila. My new companion is awesome. His name is Elder Selby. He is
an adrenaline junky. He will do anything crazy. My week was good, very
busy. Good to hear your not sick anymore. Thanks for emailing me. Have
a good week.
Love Elder Shumway

Hey Carson. Glad to hear you are doing good. I heard that you are now
teachers quorum president. Make sure you magnify your calling. You'll
do great in volleyball I'm sure. Tell me how the team does this
season. Nice you'll be on varsity. Trek is so much better than getting
a license. A license isn't even fun to have. I loved trek, you will
love it too.
Love Elder Shumway

Hey sorry I didn't email you last week. We were busy with the plumbers and being stressed out because of that whole situation. Sorry to hear some of you are sick. You think it's cold out side over there? Here it's 21 degrees outside! I heard the cardinals beat the packers in overtime. I think Seattle got creamed last night by the panthers. I'm happy about that. Will the cardinals play the panthers next? Yeah I have an awesome companion and we are seeing success. That's great that Carson is now teachers quorum president. I was happy to hear that sister slade did better those few days. I'm sure mom has been super stressed because of her and Lisa's son. I didn't hear anything about that here. I don't think anything will happen here, we are pretty far away from Philly. Hey have you seen the new movie "creed" yet? I guess it rocky training apallo's son. 

Love Elder Shumway

Hello Sam. Yep dad did tell me that the cardinals won. That is just
awesome. Have fun at the birthday party. You have a good day too.

From Elder Shumway