Hi Carson, nice job at volleyball and at all those wins. How did chase
get hurt? You'll do great at setting. Good luck with combs and
Benjamin Franklin. Why are you playing them? I thought they were a
charter school? Hope your doing good too.

Mom

AH darn! I'm sure it was an awesome letter that you deleted before you sent. That's good that dad was awake the whole time during the conference. Well it's not too surprising to me that the sister get to help with the temple opening cause sisters are a lot more effective than elders. It's really interesting how there is a big difference between how elders and sisters do missionary work and who gets more success. If you go to when Elder Holland had that face to face for the young adults he says that one sister is just effective as five elders. So it practically doctrine. But we elders have accepted it and there's like nothing we can do about it.

Elder Gibbons tries to play basketball. He isn't very good. He says in Canada that sports aren't as important as they are in America. He never really grew up playing a sport. He's also super uncoordinated. They do play basketball but they have stuff to improve on. We play ball every now and then which is a bummer. I wish I could just go by my self. But I can't. Our companionship is doing well. We are just super different and have different personalities and stuff like that. But that's pretty much everyone of my companions. We are all super different. Lila sure does take it seriously. I'm glad she does. I love hearing from her.

Ok so bed bugs. We found another one in the  spanish elders apartment a couple of days ago which will hopefully be the last one, hopefully. The good thing is none of us have been bitten in a while. And we are never going to go back into that apartment to sleep. I start to itch when I come in too. It's horrible. And the marijuana smell is still there. That's a good idea to get a blow dryer, I think I will. We already did send our suits to the dry cleaner but we are probably going to do it one more time cause it's been a couple of weeks since then. How much money do I have on the card? I've used it a couple of times for bed bug stuff. 

Well that's missionary work for you not to answer the door when you knock. People can be very rude sometimes. And when that situation comes I would usually just keep knocking until someone comes to the door cause I know someone is home. 

Well I would like another pair of pants and some socks for my birthday. Eventually I will need another sweater, but that can wait for at least after summer. Other than that I will take anything. If the thing you bought is something I already have what should I do? I'm referring to a gps. Idk if that's the thing that they suggested, if it is I already have one. I inherited it from elder Murphy. It's crazy that I am almost 19. It's my last year of being a teenager! That's super weird. I am glad that the age changed to 18 cause I would just soon be leaving if it hadn't. 

Yep less than a month till Mother's Day. I'm really excited too. I know your anniversary is coming up. 22 years is a long time. Is that all your going to do for your anniversary? Mow lawns? 

Wow those are super sad stories. I really liked Darens friend Danny he was a cool guy. I wish I could've got to know him more. I've met people here on my mission like that and I love talking with them. And that's super sad about shelly. Will there be a funeral? 

1: We went online. But we found the one we are going to move into through a member in Newark, Delaware. 

2: The mission has plenty of furniture for us. 

3: Tracking?

Love you too

Elder Shumway

Hey how come Cindy hasn't written me in a while. I'm really missing her letters

Hello Dad. It's been raining over here quite a bit, it's actually been
snowing too. It snowed for a couple of hours on Saturday.  But hardly
any of it stuck to the ground. Mostly just cars and a little on the
grass. That sounds like a fun day. And a day full of nice weather.
Mmmmm yum ribs. I haven't had ribs in a while. I do get a steak every
single week here though. Good job for Luke Corbitt. Has he decided to go on a
mission? I remember he was pretty against going. There going to split
the stake on Sunday? That is quite a change. We will still probably have
president Derrick as our stake President right? So how do you think
it's going to be split?

Those darn Dbacks. I got to watch a little bit of a mets and phillies
game. The Phillies were struggling. Hopefully he dbacks will get back
on track and start winning some more. That's super awesome for the
Warriors. They'll probably beat the record. They will probably win the
championship. Thanks for being so nice to Teryn. I'm sure he is having
a rough time. He needs to get on a mission and forget about home.
That's sad that the girl didn't say yes.

I never would have guessed that you were all excited for Mother's Day.
I'm really excited too. Is church still at 2:00pm? We'll have to
figure out a good time. Carson can just drive the tracker. He should get a
job. It would be good for him. I'll keep up the good work.

Elder Shumway

Hi Lila. We have one but we haven't moved in yet. We are hoping that
we will soon. We are teaching some new people. We are teaching a less
active man named Brother Wright. He is super awesome. He really wants
to get back to church and eventually got to the temple. Not only did
it rain over here it snowed over here. I just ate a really good cheese
steak. Hey don't worry about school summer is on its way soon. That's
awesome that you went to Kammys bridal shower. When will she be
getting married? What did you learn on the ukulele?
Love Elder Shumway