Mom,
Good morning. Yep April has sure has gone by quick. I'm really looking
forward to Mother's Day as well. My week was pretty good. Bro Wright
is doing okay. He's worked a lot this week and he works in southern
Delaware. He said he was coming to church but he'd be a little late.
Unfortunately he wasn't able to make it at all. So that was a bummer.
I thought sister Cathey had MS? He will not come back before he dies.
Bro Trice doesn't want to fight it anymore. Which means he's done
living and just wants to go home cause he's been in the hospital for
months and is in a lot of pain. We are still visiting them but it
doesn't look like the baptism won't happen on this side of the veil.

Yep Mothers day is coming fast. My new apt is about 14 minutes away so about 3
miles. The building is nice. A lot nicer than the one we are in right
now. We have not found any bed bugs or bed bug bites. It is getting
warmer. We do have a dryer so I can put all my things in there to make sure the bugs dont follow us. For
the package you could just send it to our apartment address. It will
probably be right at our door and safe too.

Well I'm actually an AP. That's why I'm standing next to president in the picture.
That meeting was super great. The district leaders were trained on a
lot of things. There are a lot of awesome elders in that group.

Those are some good men in the bishopric Bro Johnson and Bro Gale. I'm not surprised that Chance
has gained some weight. I'm sure he's trying to lose it soon. He's
also coming home super soon. So is porter and Brandon. That's crazy.
Member involvement is huge in bringing back members of the ward who
are less active. Some people think that it's just the missionaries
job, but it is not. We are here to help the ward. It's not the other
way around. So president Derrick is right you guys need to get to
work. I'm super disappointed that bishop carpenter is no longer my
bishop. I'm gonna miss him. Which ordination is this for Teryn?

Church is still at 2pm huh? Is that a good thing? Do you wish it was
earlier. Here we have church at 9:30 which is sort of nice. Except
when our ward mission leader wants to meet with us at7Am before
ward council. We've stopped that cause it was really hard. Especially
when we were sleeping on the floor. So we've moved that meeting to
Saturday nights now. Maybe you'll finally go back into relief society.
I remember you said that you wish you could go back in there. Maybe
this is you're chance. Maybe dad will get called into the young men's
because of Carson or Sam who is not to far away from it.

That's awesome that Tate will soon get his mission call. If you could
please take a video of it and send it to me. I'm sure you know that I
like watching those kind of videos. And the same for Colton. I'm glad
things are going well and that dad is feeling better. I hope it
continues to be like that. Carson looks like he's playing hard in
those pictures. I do pray that she will recover

1: No I dont need the Ensign that's ok cause I have the gospel library app on my iPad which
has all the conference talks.
2: I do not know what apartment the marijuana is coming from.
3: There are members in my apt building but they don't want anything to do with the church anymore.

Love you too
Elder Shumway
P.S. I'm not actually an AP I was just kidding.

Good afternoon everybody. So this week was pretty great. So in explanation of my title, on Tuesday we had a super busy day. We went out with our ward mission leader and taught a lot of lessons and also getting in some less active hunting. We had no money and no food and we hadn't had lunch so we asked if he could get us lunch and so we went to this awesome cheese steak place, we have been there before and it was super good. So this time it was also super good. Later we went on splits with some brothers in the ward. Elder Gibbons went with the former bishop of the ward and I went with the current stake president. We both had a very successful night. The when we get back and meet up Elder Gibbons has cheese steaks in his hands for dinner which was bought for us cause we still had no food or money. So we had cheese steaks for lunch and dinner, but I'm not complaining they were super good. And the next day some members took us out to five guys, so we have been eating super healthy this week.

Brother Trice is not doing so well. He has decided that he is done and doesn't want to fight anymore. So once the infection is cleared up the decision is to take him home and let him pass there. So the baptism will probably not happen. But it will happen.Sister Trice has told us that it will get  done in the temple.

We haven't seen brother Wright this week. He works a lot in southern Delaware. He also wasn't able to make it to church. He is still doing well though. We are brainstorming what days would work best for us and him to go to the temple. We are thinking the second week in may would work. So hopefully we can get him to the temple then.

That's pretty much it. The work is picking up a lot we are seeing a lot of miracles happen and I am excited to see what is in store for this area. 

Love Elder Shumway

Dad,

Hello. Yes I do have leadership role. I am a district leader here in Wilmington, Delaware. I told mom that I was an AP since I was standing next to president. Sorry you had to sit in those hard metal chairs during stake conference. Yeah I know who the counselors are in the bishopric. Those are really great men. Especially Brother Gale. I didn't know that Bro Rudd was a counselor in the Coronado 2nd ward. That's great the Dbacks are doing better. I didn't know that they got new uniforms. Any chance that you could send me a picture of them? Ooh that's too bad for the warriors. How long is he going to be out for? How did he hurt himself? Mom told me that Tate is waiting for his call to come. That's exciting. Hopefully you do get to go and watch him open it. yeah he should just worry about those sort of things when he gets back home from his mission. I'm sure he'll succeed at anything he does. I'm sure he's excited to graduate in the next little while. I remember I was.

Love Elder Shumway

Sam,

Hi Sam. Wow only 20 days left of school. That is super sad. Don't you wish it was more? So you got monk dvds huh? Why do we have to get a new DVD player? How come you are changing TV providers? Is Dish kind of getting old? Man getting all this new stuff for your feet and it's not even your birthday! I will be safe and conquer.

love elder Shumway