I'm still dreaming of bed bugs unfortunately. We recently saw one on
Thursday climbing up our wall while doing weekly planning. We were
super paranoid about it. Ever time I'm in my apartment now I just feel
itchy. Mostly because we are paranoid and stressed out about this
situation.

Friday we told our mission president about it because we had zone
conference. He told us that we need to get out of there are go live
with the Spanish elders for a little bit so we can get this problem
takes care of. So we are, unfortunately there is a nice soft carpet
for me to sleep in at night. It's not very soft. Just some advice to
future missionaries if you run in with bed bugs just go hard at trying
to get rid of them. I have no sympathy at all for them. Anyways this
is he bad part of the week.

The good part is that Jachin who had the seizure last week is doing
better. He still is suffering from a concussion. From it he's lost
some memory. He doesn't really remember having the seizure or even
remembering that we were there. But he's doing better.

We had a lesson with an investigator of ours. His name is Darin. He's
super awesome. He loves Joseph Smith! He is on the verge of being a
golden investigator, he just needs to come to church. I'm super
excited about him right now. We will definitely be trying to get him a
baptismal date soon. He's been investigating the church for a while
and is a super knowledgable guy. He's a free mason and we told him
that Joseph Smith was one as well and now he loves him even more. So
that's a good part about this week.

And that's about it. Lot of our time this week has been taken up by
this bed bug problem. The mission office has basically told us that we
are most likely going to move out of our apartment into a new
apartment and I'm super excited about that too.

Love you, be safe, and don't get to hot over there in Arizona.

Elder Shumway


Dad,  All is going pretty well. We are playing basketball right now. It was
quite an experience. I was trying to stay calm. Other people were not
keeping calm. Sorry you were so sick. I wish I could go see creed.
Looks like a pretty good movie. Unfortunately I've never really been I
Philly. Good for the Dbacks. Hopefully they will do well this year. I
miss sports so much. I saw that Calvin Johnson is retiring. That's
sad. The Cardinals are smart like that. Hopefully they will win the
Super Bowl next year. Wow she's getting married? That's crazy! I will
keep up the work.

Carson,

No way the radio in the Tracker works! That's awesome! I wish I could have figured it out when I was
driving it. Good job at doing well at volleyball. Good luck at the
Higley game. Hope your doing great too.

Sam,

Hi Sam. Lost another one! Gross all bloody and at church! What are you
going to do during spring break? Good job getting your bear. You have
a great week too. Love you.

Lila,

Hey Lila. Lucky your in spring break. Good job at doing well on your
Galileo tests and being able to go to amazing jakes. I eat 
sometimes to much at buffets too. Amazing jakes is super fun too. Lucky you get to
go to the movies. My week was not too fun. It's not to cold anymore. I
do like Elder Gibbons.
Love you too

Mom,

I'm glad that you have spring break. Sounds like Carson is enjoying

volleyball. Hopefully you guys can find something to do this spring
break.

Yeah he sisters sure are lucky. So let me tell you something. We still
have bed bugs. One was crawling up the wall last Thursday while we
were weekly planning.Fridayy was zone conference and we told President
Stephenson and President Anderson about it. They are both in the
mission presidency. President Stephenson already knows about our
problem and they told us that we need to get out of there are move in
with the Spanish elders for a little bit. We cleaned and cleaned our
apartment and sanitized the things that we were going to take. And for
the past couple of nights I and Elder Gibbons have been sleeping on
the floor in the Spanish elders apartment. Not fun! So this week
wasn't to fun for me.

Great job on going to the temple. Keep going. The temple in Philly
looks awesome. I've only seen pictures of it. Looks like the building
outside is all finished. And they just put up the holiness to the Lord
the house of the Lord sign.

No new car yet? That's too bad. Hopefully everything is okay with his
family. Hopefully you can get something soon.

I did get the package. Those cookies were delicious. Elder Gibbons was
thankful too for his stuff.

Yeah that is a crazy story last week about calling 911. Well I wasn't too scared. In the ways of
training there's not much you can do for a seizure in the case that I
was in. You basically just have to let them go and make sure they
aren't banging into anything that can hurt them. With his concussion
he's lost some of his memory. He doesn't remember having a seizure or
remembering that we were there, or going to the hospital. He lives
with them cause that's the only place he can. I think his mom left him
and his dad is in jail and he lives with his grandma. And houses like
this are all over here in the ghetto of Wilmington, Delaware. I was a
little scared, but not too much.

Elder Gibbon is really good at the piano. I don't have any piano skills. I did
know that I was recording him. He doesn't really have any family that
writes him except for his dad and other missionaries.

Day light savings is weird and unnecessary! I don't understand why
they do it. The weather has been really great.

1: It's a pretty large apartment complex. I don't know if I also mentioned this.
But sometimes when we come home at night our apartment sometimes
smells like marijuana.
2: Omni 1:26
3: Yes I do feel your prayers.

Love you too,
Elder Shumway