Hey Carson. Congrats on those wins. Do you think you'll make the
playoffs? Block schedule at school this week. That sounds like fun. Those two hour classes
are killer. I did not enjoy them myself either. But high school goes
by so fast. I went super fast for me. Summer is almost there. Just
keep working hard and doing what's right.

Mom
Happy Easter. Unfortunately my air mattess is out of commission right now. We
are down to one air mattress because I was ironing yesterday and the
mattresses were by the bed and I set the iron in the board and it's
near the mattress and it burned a hole through it. I must have not
realized what I was doing. I didn't get much sleep the night before.
The reason is because we found 7 bed bugs here in this apartment now.
So we had to dry all our clothes and bedding and leave them in the
car. So I slept on the air mattress with no pillow or blankets and
neither did any of the other elders. So last night I had to sleep on
the floor with no air mattress cause I burned a hole in it and I have
no pillow or blanket cause we can't bring them in cause they will get
contaminated again! It's been a very stressful week.
Anyways.......yeah that video is funny. Actually it was Elder Torres
who did it. I am super tired. It is hard to wake up because it's still
super dark outside. I don't understand daylight savings, it's super
dumb. We have not gotten our apartment back.

You can just go ahead and send the package to my apartment. I will get it
eventually. We go over there to get mail every now and then. I will
definitely need the money. Everybody here is broke cause we've been
having to buy things to get rid of these bed bugs.

It is interesting about Elder Murphy. I'm sure they'll do just fine.
She was a really prepared person for the gospel. Elder Gibbons was
involved in her baptism.

I'm glad that you are enjoying your time off from school. Yep time is
going by fast. I realized the other day that in the 18th year of me
being alive I've been open my mission longer than I've been home. I
wonder why the sisters cancelled dinner. We would never cancel a dinner
appointment here. I think that's super strange, idk they are sisters.
They do some strange things. Lucky the Easter pageant! That is super
good. Was it the same as last years?

I'm sure Dan's excuse for no cats is that heads just keep falling off for
some reason. I'm glad that they are cat free too. What are they going
to do with the new litter? It's good that Courtney is still trying
hard. Companions are sometimes hard to get along with. That's to bad
about Andrew. I will definitely email him and talk with him. I'm sure
he's having a hard time with that broken arm. And he's also not the
most social able person ever. That's great that Derrick is going to
minnesnowda (Minnesota). Good luck to garret too. I'm sure kammy is
excited for him cause she went to chile too.

It's a pretty good looking car. I like it already. Sorry about the
seat belt breaking. Hopefully it will be the only problem. Dad also says that
it needs an alignment. That shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Yes I have heard about the attack in Brussels. It super sad. Good
thing that they are expected to live. I've seen some pictures on
mormonnewsroom and they are really cool. Nobody here has really talked
to us about it that much.

1: The teaching is going better. This week was a better week. I don't
like to say it but Elder Gibbons can be pretty lazy sometimes and
doesn't like to go out and work. That's kind of why the teaching
hasn't been so great this transfer. A little buddy told us that he's
probably going to get transferred. So hopefully I can get a new
companion that likes to work.

2: I like living with four elders, but I would rather in a larger
apartment that has more than one bathroom.

3: I tried to cut my hair, but it was so bad that I just buzzed it. I
think I did a one. It was super bad.

I'm pretty confident that I will stay here. One of our zone leaders
Elder Clark mentioned that I would be staying.



Lila
Hey Lila. My Easter was ok. So what's happened so far in the book? Is it your favorite? I'm excited for this package. Elder Gibbons is ok. This week we found more bed bugs in the Spanish elders apartment and I'm not to happy about that. That's great that the sister missionaries will be coming over during priesthood session. What are you going to do? Mmmmmmmm yum kneaders. That's a good place. The sandwiches are still pretty good. My favorite restaurant in Wilmington is also a gas station and it is called wawa and they are all over the mission. Love you too.


Things are going ok. It could be a lot better. You can read in the
letter I sent to mom about why. I'm glad things are going well over
there. You mowed grandpas lawn all by yourself? I bet that took a while. Is Coleen still
living there? Mom sent me a picture of the Altima. It's a good looking
car. Those are hopefully the only problems that it has. We didn't have
an Easter egg hunt unfortunately. We were hunting for different
things. Good job for Carson in getting the golden egg. Yum that sounds like a delicious dinner.
Thanks for trying to invite Teryn I'm sure he didn't have family time
on Easter. Wow garret is leaving this week! He'll do great. Mom didn't
tell me what everybody got. That's great that Mackenzie spoke in
church and also that the ward is still growing. I am also looking
forward to conference. I love conference. Im sure I will get a lot out
of it. Sounds like Carson is doing well at volleyball. Im trying to
take car of myself. The bed bug problem is not fixed yet. Anything new
in the sports world?

Good afternoon. So this week a lot has happened. A lot good and a lot
of bad. So to start off I will explain the title of this email. We are
teaching a lady who is a less active. She is super awesome and we've
been teaching here for a little bit and she loves Michael Jackson. She
is like the head of his fan club. She told us that when his 45th
birthday rolled around she headed the party and was able to sit across
the table from him. And her walls are covered with Michael posters,
pictures, toys. I will send pictures.

Also this week we had a basketball tournament at the church.
Unfortunately we couldn't play cause the rule is that we can't play
with members on any day except pday. We really wanted to play but
couldn't. We did get an offer my the guy in charge. He new that it was
a rule but he later asked us that if we played how much trouble would
we get in? We told him we would probably get in a lot of trouble and
said thank you but no thank you. It took a lot of me to say no.

So some bad news this week. So we are living with the Spanish elders
right now while our apartment is being treated for bed bugs. We tried
to be super careful about giving them to the Spanish elders.
Unfortunately on Saturday the day before Easter we found six of them
under Elder Steils bed. Elder Steil has been getting bitten like crazy
and we now know what from. So we had to clean everything and dry
everything so we could kill them if they are in our laundry. But we
couldn't bring them back into the apartment because they would get
contaminated again. So Saturday night we got to sleep with no blankets
or no pillows. It was not fun. Yesterday I accidentally pierced a hole
in one of our air mattresses while I was ironing my clothes. So last
night I got to sleep on the floor. Today we are able to go back into
our apartment cause the treatment has been completed and we shouldn't
have any more bed bugs. So tonight I'll be able to have a good nights
rest.

The church is true. Jesus Christ has risen from the dead. Love you.

Elder Shumway