Well as you can see from the title the bed bug still lives. So last
Monday was the final treatment for our apartment and after that we
could move back in and the bed bugs would be gone. So we were like
yay!!! So we move back in there and the first night Elder Gibbons has
one bite from some sort of bug. So we say we will give it one more
night. So we do and the next morning this is Wednesday morning we both
wake up with several bites. So we were then just done with this
apartment. So we said we are never going to sleep here again. So we
tell our leaders and they say to move back into the Spanish Elders'
apartment and this time we are super careful about moving back in. We
sanitized everything super well. We also were told that we would now
be moving apartments. So this week we've spent some time
apartment/house shopping. We've found some nice and reasonable places,
unfortunately the decision is not for us to make. But pretty much
anything else would be better than that apartment.

So other than that we watched conference and it was great. There were
some amazing talks and messages given. Also the church is adding four
new temples! That is super awesome. As far as teaching goes it's been
a little slow again with this bed bug catastrophe. We were able to
teach one of our new investigators. She is from a part member family.
She lives with her grandma who a member and gets sick a lot. We found
her by doing a stop by with bro finch our ward mission leader. She had
taken the missionary discussions in the past but nothing really
happened because of it and after we taught her this week I can kind of
understand. I say this because she told us that she does not believe
in God. So because of that belief it is really hard to teach her. So
we will see what happens with her.

Sorry this email couldn't be a little longer. Once we get our new
apartment we will be a lot more busy. Love you all. The church is true
there is a prophet on the earth today and he is being led by God. I
know it. It's been reassured to me by the spirit this past weekend. I
love our prophet President Thomas S Monson.

Love Elder Shumway


Conference was really great. It's crazy how I've already gone through
two conferences on my mission. I've only got two more left! No m&ms game?
That's okay we didn't do that either. There were a lot of great talks.
That talk on fathers was really good. Are you referring to the one
from elder Christofferson? Dad is great. He probably fell asleep
during that talk right? Four more temples! That's awesome. And there
in some pretty far away places. One of my favorite parts about
conference is when temples are announced. It's such a blessing to have
the temple near you. Unfortunately I probably won't be in Philly when
the temple is dedicated because all the sisters are supposed to help
with the tours for the open house. I guess we aren't pretty enough. I
have a feeling I'm going to stay here for a while.

Yep the Michael Jackson sure is an interesting house. She's a huge fan! Even after he's
dead. She will hopefully come to church. She just needs a ride cause
she doesn't have a car.

I do love to play basketball. It was really hard to say no. I got the
package and thank you for it. Elder Gibbons said that now he is super
prepared to go on many trails because of all the trail mix. Thank you
Sam for the money. I love getting money. I don't care if Sam has
boring stuff to tell me I will read it and respond to him. That's
awesome that Lila is doing that. Her letters seem to get longer and
longer.

The spanish elder don't have bed bugs anymore thankfully. They haven't been bitten in a
while and they haven't seen any either. What we've been doing is
drying our clothes and that kills them. I won't need to buy new
bedding cause I can just dry them. Our plan right now is we are
definitely going to be moving. We've been looking around recently and
have requested some to the mission. We will see what they say. It's
super uncomfortable to sleep on the floor. Especially with nothing
else. So our apartment....so they sprayed for the last time and said
that everything is good and that we can move back into our apartment
and that the bugs should be gone. So we were like sweet! So we move in
and the first night elder Gibbons has a bite. We gave it one more
night and I wake up with more bites and so does he. So we move back
into the Spanish elders apartment and we are super carful not
transferring them again. Then later we go back to our apartment and
begin cleaning it thinking that we might get rid of them by cleaning
like crazy. While we were cleaning we found a bed bug that was alive.
So obviously the treatment did not work and they are still here. So we
tell the mission office and everything and they said that we are just
going to move. We gave the apartment office the termination order and
said that we would be moving soon. So yeah that's basically what's
happened this whole week is just dealing with this problem.

That's super nice that you invited the sisters over for dinner. It's the best
when we have dinner at a members house. Nice you get to go on splits!
Have fun! Splits with members are the best! And it's not really that
hard. I mean I do it everyday. Well not splits but I do do missionary
work which is what you will do. Yum venezias! Sorry to hear about
Carson didn't like the hot wings. Hopefully he will feel better.

Yeah I'm super disappointed that I don't know how to cut my hair. From
now on I'll just have another person do it and not me.

Actually this transfer I am staying in Wilmington and I'm staying with
Elder Gibbons.

1: We went to a members house and ate their food for Easter.
2: I am able to take more pictures.
3: Most of the sessions we watched it in the church. The last session
we were able to go to a members house.

Love you


Hello Lila. My week was pretty good. You probably did well on those tests. Sorry to hear about your crazy scary teacher. Just remember that after this year of school you will probably never have to deal with him again. The Papas moved to Colorado? What is infection? I remember shin splits. They are super painful. That sounds like a pretty cool movie. Would you go see it again? I loved General conference. Everything was really great. I really liked President Nelsons talk in priesthood session. I am not getting a new companion. Love you too.

Carson, 
The tracker still isn't starting yet? Are you going to get a new
battery? Are they going to get the truck? Sounds like a pretty sweet
truck. Also super old. Good luck with volleyball.

Dad
Conference was indeed great. I did get to watch all of it. It
definitely gives you a boost. Did you fix all the problems in the
Nissan? Are you going to get a new battery for the tracker? The pool
got used? It is pretty hot over there already. Sounds like some good
food at venezias. Haha that's a funny story of you getting pooped on by a bird.
 Seems like this sort of
thing happens to you. You either fall on your back or your already on
your back and people laugh and no one helps. I'm sure it was super
funny. That to bad about AJ. Is Patrick Corbin back? How's Goldschmidt
doing? We've found a few potential apartments, but it's not really our
decision. Transfers I am staying here with elder Gibbons.