Hi Lila. My week was great. Yesterday I was able to go to the temple. It was really pretty. I sent mom some pictures. A new sister missionary from PA in your ward that's sweet. Sounds like you had fun with Brooklyn. Love you. 

Elder Shumway

Hi grandma. Don't worry I got your email. Sounds like you had a great
time at he family reunion. I'm sure it is a lot more beautiful and
cooler over there in Idaho. That building is really old. Did the organ
feel different than from playing a computer organ? I'm sure it sounded
different. It probably sounded more authentic. I hope you got a
picture of it at least. I'm sure your bishop was very glad to see the
Dayleys back in town. You have been doing quite a bit of traveling
recently. Are you enjoying your traveling? Love you grandma.
 
Elder Shumway

 This week was amazing. The best part of the week was yesterday when we
went to see the temple. Man it is so beautiful! I will send pictures.
We went with a couple of our investigators. We went with Jon and
Mason. They are both doing great. They both came to church yesterday.
We left for the temple right after church. The drive was about two
hours long. At this time the democratic convention was going on as
well. So there was quite a bit of traffic. Kind of scary too, cause
there's some crazy drivers in Philly and a lot of them.

Also  Fridayy Jon got into an accident in his truck(he is a truck
driver). He got hurt a little bit. He hit his head on the windshield
and now theirs a crack in it(the windshield not his head, just to
clarify). He was taken to the hospital and he was in a lot of pain.
Lori who is a member and also Jon's fiancé called us to give him a
blessing. We came and gave him blessing. I had the opportunity to be
the voice of the blessing. I felt prompted to bless him that he would
be able to come to the open house Sunday with us. And wouldn't you
know he was able to come. He did have to go in a wheelchair during the
tour cause it was hard for him to walk. Also another crazy thing too
is that they took some X-rays and thankfully not a thing was broken in
his body. Just goes to show the power of the priesthood.

Things are going awesome here in PA. I am really enjoying my mission.
I'm so glad that we are getting a temple soon. I wish everybody could
come and see its beauty and feel of its spirit.

Love Elder Shumway

 Mom,

Also I am needing another flash drive. Also if there's anyway you can
get one of these it would be awesome.

I did take pictures of the temple. I will send them today. Mason did
come with us and he thought it was amazing. I would ask him what he
thought of it and others asked him the same and a lot of times he
would say that there's no words to describe it also that he is
speechless. So he really liked it. We had two other people come with
us. We had Jon and Lori come with us. They both enjoyed it as well. I
do like Pottsville. Unfortunately Pottsville isn't a ward, it's a
branch. The branch is small with a lot of older people and not the
best leadership. In the branch they basically just switch around jobs
when it's time. It is awesome to have elder and sister black. They are
super nice and are very wise. And they don't have to follow a bunch of
rules like we do. We see them a lot actually. We see them at least
three times a week. We do our laundry in their building and that's
where we are right now and elder Lake is going to get a haircut from
sister black. So we see them very often.

Thanks for that picture of porter and his parents. Porter is very
skinny. I'm sure that porter enjoys to be home too. It's kind of hard
to see growth in just a picture. He still looks the same to me. Just
skinnier. I remember him being a very soft spoken and it drove me
crazy sometimes when playing tennis with him cause I could not hear
him. From what you're saying he sounds likes he got worse. Seems like
the Derrick family is getting smaller and smaller. They don't need a
large bench anymore.

I have not told her what I have done in family history. I'm trying to
work on not talking about me and talking more about others. Speaking
of temple name I'm sending back mine right now because I'm not doing
anything with them and I figure that they will get done faster if I
send them home. So I'm sending them home today. I hope Jill can get
those names done. How in the world did James get all those names.
Seems like he has a lot of time on his hands.

I would love to see all Chance and Carson in a picture. I haven't seen a picture of
chance for a long time. I'm sure thing will change a lot when I get
home.

Happy birthday to Daren. That's great that Tate has already had a
baptism. That sounds like an experience that he will always remember.
That's great that Brooklyn came over. Thanks for getting Lori's email.
She has always been a very nice person to me.

Yeah Elder Lake doesn't really make emailing a priority on Pday. I try
and email everybody I can. He is also getting pretty trunky. He goes
home in five months and is looking forward to it more than he should
probably.

That sounds like a good responsibility that you gave Carson letting him drive to Thatcher. I'm glad
nothing bad  happened too. I don't know if you would let me do that
when I was his age. Would you?

Wow first day of school today. Summer went by really fast. That's
great that Carson is going to be able to drive to school everyday.
Hopefully that will be a good experience for him. Hopefully the truck
can be in working order soon.

1: I didn't see too much but there was quite a bit of traffic With the Democratic convention. I did
see a plane with a banner following behind it say vote for Hillary!

2: I don't really know a lot about what's going on with the election.
We have been given a rule out here that we are not to talk about
politics at all.

3: We are not fed everyday. We are fed every so often. Haven't had
anything that I don't like.

Love Elder Shumway

It is called a sd to lightning adapter. I'm sure if you just search it it will come up. Also make sure it goes to an iPad mini please.

Also, I've been noticing that I'm not really getting answers to the questions that I write in emails responding to the families. I have questions in there that I really want to know. Can I encourage the family to write me back when I respond to them with questions. Love you

Sam

Thanks for helping Lila with babysitting. I heard you like throwing
knives now. Do you have any pictures of them. Are you starting school
today?

Hi dad. I've been looking at the weather this past week and it does
seem like things are rather warm over there. Try and stay cool the
best you can. Sounds like porter learned a lot on his mission. Also
sounds like he's having a hard time speaking English. I'm sure he'll
get used to it soon enough. I wonder what chance did to hurt himself.
I would love to hear from him and see how he's doing. If you ever get
the opportunity could you let him know that? My week was really great.
The highlight was probably yesterday. The temple is so beautiful and
the spirit is soooooo strong. We had two investigators come with us.
We were going to bring about five more but they canceled on us last
minute which was a bummer. Not too surprised about the Dbacks. Darnell
Docket is back? I guess that makes sense that he wants to retire as a
cardinal. He as there for a long time.
Mason is doing great. He really enjoyed the temple. He said many times
that there are no words to describe how he felt or how beautiful the
temple is. He is progressing. He's been coming to church and we are
still set for the 6th of August. The Humidity isn't that bad right
now. There has been some nice breezes thankfully.
Love Elder Shumway