Hi mom. Another fast week for me too. Seems like weeks just keep
zooming by. My week went pretty well. Yeah I'm really grateful that I
had some friends from reading come visit me. It was awesome to see
them. Dontà didn't come this week, cause the friends in reading needed
to stay there for their home ward. But they said they will definitely
come back with him sometime soon. It would be awesome to see him. I'm
gonna give him a big hug when I see him. I've pretty much got
everybody's contact info. I also have Facebook and that's a pretty
great was to contact people. I'm sure that these people will be my
friends for a long time.

I'm glad your lesson went well. It is a little scary when the bishop
comes and sits in on your lesson. I'm sure it is easier to teach older
kids. They are probably more mature and have a better understanding of
the gospel. Hope your lesson yesterday went well too.

Well the senior comp thing, president Randall chooses who's senior
comp. Elder Lake has never been senior comp his whole mission. And
he's been out for over 20 months. In interviews Elder Lake mentioned
this to president and I guess president let him be senior comp this
transfer. Which is fine. Does the senior comp have more say in stuff?
Well he should, but sometimes you can find a sort of lazy senior comp.
Which I'm kind of sad to say that I kind of have one right now. He is
getting better at driving. For not driving for over 20 months you need
to probably get used to it again. He's doing a lot better though.

I'm actually talking to Mason right now. He reached out to us today.
Will let you know next week if anything happens because of it. Jon and
Lori are doing great. The wedding is still on. It was funny, we went
out to lunch with them Wednesday and they told us they have a
problem. Jon needs a best man and he wanted his step dad to do it, but
unfortunately he won't be able to come. So Jon says that he wants one
of us to be his best man and the other to baptize him. He didn't care
who did what. We didn't care either. So we flipped a coin. Elder Lake
will be his best man and I will baptize him. That's the plan for now.
It may change. I think they would love a gift. Would you like me to
send you their address?

Thank you for the iPad thingy it will sure be useful for me. I'm glad
you were able to save a little bit of money on it. I don't know how I
could explain what I wanted by writing so I sent you a video. I'm glad
it helped. That table is actually my desk. I'll try and find a time
that I can ware the tie.

Haha I remember her. Don't remember what her name is though. I'm sure
she will be very cold. The weather is getting cooler over here. Fall
will soon be upon us. I'm excited for the beautiful trees. I'm sort of
excited for winter, sort of not. I like how it's not super humid and
hot, but I don't like how it's freezing cold. Sounds like you went to
a fun concert. Sounds a lot like what the piano guys do. Just in a
little bigger setting in an orchestra.

Sounds like the Flygars are having a fun time. That's pretty funny
that the twins aren't able to go swim in the ocean. Hopefully you can
try and get to both of their talks. I hope that Colten will stay the
full two years out on the mission. He can be a great example to his
younger brothers.

McCall got engaged huh? Good for her. Seems like every now and then
I'll hear that someone else has gotten engaged or is getting married.
It's really weird.

That's great you want to do those names when the temple opens back up.
I encourage you to. On Saturday we are going to the temple again with
another one of our investigators. We are also going to the priesthood
restoration site on Saturday with Jon and Lori. Super excited for that.

Your welcome for the hand written letter. I hope that everybody in the
family was able to read it.

Love Elder Shumway

Hi grandma. Sounds like a fun party. I'm sure you enjoyed seeing Jacob home. Seems like Jacob is enjoying his time in the military. I saw a picture of the new truck Jacob bought. Looks pretty nice. I wonder how many miles are in it. I'm sure the truck is a lot nicer than his Nissan. I'm glad you and grandpa are staying busy. Sorry you had to lose a lot of your piano students. I love you too. 
  

Elder Shumway 

Hi Dad. The weather is pretty nice over here. Still pretty humid
though. We do expect the weather do cool down in a month or so now
that fall is coming up soon. I'm sure sister Jensen is having a good
time at the temple open house. We are going back there on Saturday
again to take another investigator through. Also next Monday we are
going with Jon and Lori to the priesthood restoration site. I'll be
sure to take more pictures with me in them. Maybe I'll send some more
when we are at the priesthood restoration site. Jon is still
progressing well. Wedding is still planned. They are planning to get
married in the September 16 and Jon getting baptized that next
day.

The reading terminal market is a really fun place. I would like to go
there again. There were a lot of people there. And very noisy.

Mom did tell me about that orchestra. Sounds similar to what the piano
guys do just at a bigger scale. I'm sure you had a great time. That's
great that ALA pulled off another win. How about professional sports?
Anything interesting going on there? I guess preseason for football is
underway.

I hope the tracker will continue to run for a while. Is Carson still
driving it? Or is he driving the truck?

Love Elder Shumway

Hello everybody. It's been another great week here in Pottsville, PA.
The reason for my title is because of an experience I had this week
with Jon and Lori on Wednesday we had scheduled to go out to lunch
with them. They wanted to talk to us about something. We went out to
lunch and Jon spoke up and said that he wanted hi step dad who may or
may not be coming to the wedding to be his best man. Unfortunately he
will most likely not be able to make it. So he asks us that one of us
will be the best man and the other will be the one who baptizes him.
He said he didn't care who does what and we didn't care either. So we
were stumped as to how to decide who does what. So we flipped a coin.
And from the results of the coin Elder Lake will be the best man and I
will baptize. The wedding is still on for the 16th of September and
the baptism will happen the next day.

I don't know if I mentioned this in my earlier letters. But we have
another woman named Rochelle and she is on schedule for a baptism
date. She is going to be baptized on the10 of September and that
happens to be her birthday. So please pray for her. She is doing
great. She came to church yesterday and had a strong desire to be
baptized.

Next week won't have a lot of time to email because we are going with
Jon and Lori next Monday to the priesthood restoration site. I'm
really excited for that. Love you all, hope you have a great week.

Love Elder Shumway

Hi Lila. My week was pretty great. I did receive you email but I dint have time to respond to it. Sorry. Saw a picture of you doing the splits. I wish I could do that. Hopefully you'll have more events to talk about next week.

Love Elder Shumway

 Foot: A device for finding furniture in the dark

  Rochelle little puppy

A man I was with in Hazleton, Pa. The missionaries up there call him the Hazleton Moses.

Hello family and friends in Arizona. Sorry I didn't write a weekly
email last week. Pretty hectic. This week it's a little less busy.
This week has been great. The highlight of the week was probably going
to the temple again! Not only did we go to the temple, Elder Lake who
had previously served in Philly took us on a tour. We went to a place
called Reading Terminal Market. It's basically like an underground
place that has a lot of stores. It's so big that in the entrance you
are given a map, like the one that they give you at like amusement
Parks. It was a very big place. With lots of great food. Not to
mention there was sooooooooooooooo many people there too. Never really
been in Philly to see how many people actually are in this city. As we
were walking around we saw a lot of cool things. I'll send pictures,
every now and then you'll find somebody singing or playing and
instrument on the side of the road. It was really hot too. I was
sweating a lot and I'm sure everyone else was too.

Well that was pretty much all that was exciting. Oh wait so Jon and
Lori are planning on getting married in a few weeks. They want to do
it before the transfer is over so both Elder Lake and I can be there.
And then the next day Jin wants to be baptized. We are almost complete
with teaching Jon everything.

I also forgot that on Friday I hit my year mark. I feel so old now.
This year has seriously gone by very quickly and I've learned a lot
since I've been on my mission. I'm glad that I have another whole year
to go. Hope all of you have a great week.

Elder Shumway

Dad,

Hello, every thing is going well here. That's great the Shumway family
was very much involved in church yesterday sayin prayers. That's great that you all
were willing to give prayers in church. Yea I'm not really thinking
about coming home too much. I don't really have a lot of time to think about
it. I try and make our days as busy as possible and not waste time.
Time seems to go by faster when we do it that way. We did go to the
temple on Saturday. That was a lot of fun. We also had some down time
so Elder Lake took us on a mini tour of Philly. It was super hot but
it still was fun. I was wearing new pants. They are from the Salvation
Army. I will need to send things home once winter is over. Mainly my
winter gear. So until then I should be good.

Teaching is going pretty good. The best success we are having is with
Jon and Lori. Jon is doing great. They want to get married in a few
weeks. They want to do it before transfers so that Elder Lake and I
can both be there for that. We only had Jon come to church yesterday.
Crazy experiences, we did go to a place called Reading terminal market
in Philly. That was a bit of a crazy experience. It is a huge place,
filled with restaurants and stores and people selling things. Lots of
good food too. Not to mention also a lot of people. I'll send a
picture of it in my weekly email. Samuel the lamanite is a great
story. He must of had great courage to stand up to the wicked
nephites.

That's great that the Lambriggers came over. Family history is
something very important. I'm glad that you've recommitted to do more
family history work. Let me know how that goes.

Love Elder Shumway

  Braden, Read moms first! 

first i want to tell you that on saturday i got to ride the driving mower and that was pretty fun. Okay here is the really awes some part so you know the book how to be the best at everything well there is part in it where it tells you how to hypmitize a bird. so i did it and it worked it was so where'd but so awesome . i also think i'm going to be taller than mom so when you get back you are going to be amazed when you get home.

  love sam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sam,

I did read moms first. She said you had something awesome to tell me.
Really you had two awesome things to tell me. So you hypnotized a bird
huh? How did you do that? You're going to be taller than mom? I'm not
too surprised moms not very tall anyways. Haha just kidding, but
really she is kind of short. I'm sure you are going to be pretty tall
when you're older. Hopefully not taller than me. I'm sure I will be
amazed.

Love Elder Shumway

Mom,

Happy Monday. Yesterday was a pretty good day. The only investigator
that came to church was Jon. Put that's ok cause he's awesome! Also
some members of the Reading ward came to visit me because one of them
is leaving for College today and wanted to say goodbye to me. They are
great too and awesome friends. They were going to bring Dontà with
them but that unfortunately fell through. They said they might be able
to come again next week and bring him then. I really hope that
happens. I would love to see Dontà. How did your lessons go yesterday?
That's a good topic to teach about. People over here need to be taught
that lesson about how marriage is important.

Elder Lake says that it's brother Halverson who was his teacher. I'm
not sure if that's how you spell his name. Elder Lake does remember
brother Bentley a little bit. Never was taught by him though. Small
world. Things are going better. But they could still be better. I
don't know if I told you but Elder Lake is now senior companion. That
means he gets to drive and make more decisions I guess. It's his first
time being senior companion his whole mission. It was going to his
head a lot at first but now he's calming down a lot more, thank
goodness. He's not the bet driver unfortunately. He's getting better
though. Yes my release date is August 22nd of next year. I figured it
out because my previous release date was the 15th. Since the MTC got
extended to 3 weeks for English speaking missionaries. Missionaries in
the field would have an extra week on the mission, only for those
speaking English though. So at the end of my mission I will have
served more than 2 years!

I'm glad your feelings are not hurt. Thanks for understanding. We are
told not to friend or to accept friend requests from family members
and close friends back home because it can be pretty distracting. I've
heard that a lot of the Amish live in Lancaster county which is west
of reading I believe.

Have not talked to Mason for a while. Still not really sure what to
do. I keep offering to Elder Lake that we should just go and knock on
his door but he still doesn't want to. I'm glad I have a family that is

rooted in love and in the gospel. I've seen so many broken families
out here and it makes me so grateful for my family.

Yep we went to the temple again on Saturday. Lori is really nice. They
are awesome people. They are progressing really well. So for my shirts
I don't need anymore short sleeves. We were going to wear our suits
and I just wore a long sleeve. When we got to the temple it was really
hot so I just rolled up my sleeves. That was my new suit. It's really
nice I like it a lot so far. So for them getting married they are
tentatively thinking the 16th of September and him being baptized the
next day. That's a Friday and a Saturday. They are doing that cause
they want both Elder Lake and I to be there cause transfers will be
the 20th. Yes we will be going to the wedding.

So the iPad thingy it wasn't the thing that I needed but it is
something handy that I can use. The one you sent me is one that I can
hook up an HDMI cable and plug it into a TV. The other one that I
wanted that elder lake has is one that looks very similar but it has a
port where you can put your SD card from your camera and transfer your
pictures from your SD card to your IPad. I would enjoy one of those as
well. But no huge rush. I can just use Elder Lakes while I'm with him
for the next month or so. I have not worn the tie yet. I'm looking for
a day that I can. We are asked to ware professional ties. I don't know
if I'd call the tennis tie a professional one. I'll see if there a
time where it's appropriate to wear. I'll be sure to take a picture. I
will be sending a thank you not home today as well.

Don't think I know that missionary. He's been home for a while seems
like. Who's wedding reception did you go to?

Sounds like the Dayley family is doing well with Jacob coming home
soon and Colten leaving soon.

Wow Cason and Colten are already coming home? That flew by. And they
are going down to pick them up. There's quite a few families of
missionaries that do that here as well. I'd rather go home first. I'm
sure they are very excited. I wonder how much those twins have
changed. Tell them I say hi if you can.

Thanks for keeping up with the family history work back home. Has Dad
been more involved with that recently? I would love to go to the
temple and do a session. Hopefully in a couple of months I can. That's
a crazy story about our ansersor killing a bear. I don't think I would be that brave. They
sure had to live tough back then. I'm proud that my ancestors lived
through that time and we have their stories that we can learn from.

Hopefully the Broderick family can be more comfortable soon.

Wow that's great for Michael Taylor. I'm sure he will be a huge help. What
about some other young men? Like Teryn and Josh? And Garret? Where are
their mission calls. We've gotta have young men come and replace us.

Favorite moments in the mission. Well I've had a lot I think. There's
not just one that I would call my most favorite moments. I love going
to the temple. And also going to a baptismal service. Sometimes just
being with members who've I've now gained a friendship with and also
with other missionaries. These are probably my most favorite moments.

Hardest moments. Don't want this to sound cliche but the hardest
moments are the times when my companion and I aren't getting along.
Missionary work doesn't get me upset. The hardest moments are times
where I'm trying to learn patience from a person that I am with 24/7.
It's a interesting experience.

I will be expecting letter from everyone. I will be especially anxious
for Sam's letter.

Love Elder Shumway

*Thanks for letting me know about Taryn, Garrett and Josh. That's a funny story about porter  roll playing with Kymber before his date,HAHA. Sorry I didn't tell you I was senior companion. It really isn't that big of a deal.

*Where's my emails from my siblings? I want the good news from Sam.

*Haha sorry for the short joke about being short. Hope you forgive me. His letter was great. Are they in school? Yep former elder Murphy is working at the temple. It was really cool to see him. He kind of snuck up on me, it was really awesome to see him.

Hi Dad. Things are well here in Pottsville. Today is going well. We went
to the Salvation Army thrift store and I got a suit with pants and
another pair of pants for about $10. It was a really good deal. Our
investigators are doing well. We have not gone and seen sites or
played ball. There's not much to see here and there's no place to play
ball unfortunately. We were able to have two investigators at church
yesterday. I'm sure it was nice and hot in Gilbert. It's nice and hot
here too. With a little more humidity though. That's smart to drain
out all the standing water around the house so mosquitos don't develop in them. Haven't
been too many mosquitos here. Hopefully your plants may grow. Seems
like your faith is working with the watermelon but not the peas. Yeah
mom did fill me in about how the temple wentSaturdayy. That's great
Chandler got his mission call. I wonder if Fort Worth will ever cross
his mind? I hope you got that reference. Seems like we are all growing
up. It's weird to me too seeing a bunch of my friends going on
missions and getting married. I'm glad I can stay out here and focus
on the work and not have to worry too much about how everybody is
doing. I hope moms leg heals soon. Oh I heard that prince fielder is
retiring and also that RG3 is a Brown?
Love Elder Shumway


Mom,
Yep it has been a whole year. Crazy huh? Now it's the countdown for
sure. Your welcome for being the missionary in the family. Noah is a
great kid. He's so smart. I actually didn't find them. Elder Lake and
Elder Bair who was here before me found them. They were trying to
contact a potential investigator in a neighborhood and Nicki came out
and started talking to them wondering what they were doing. Noah is
only 8 years old. Oh that is Brother Bentley that was my seminary teacher. 
He was awesome. He teaches seminary at ALA? That's cool how he knew 
Elder Lake. Small world.

Yeah I'm pretty grateful and excited to use Facebook. We use it mainly
to keep in touch with people better. Also we use it to teach lessons.
It's really an awesome tool that we can use for missionary work. I saw
that you had friended me and I quickly deleted it because we aren't
supposed to have family members as friends. Thanks for that cool
picture of the Amish in line at the temple. I saw the same picture on 
Facebook. I really don't know how they got there. I would assume they 
got there on horses cause that's  how they get around. We really don't
 see any Amish people. A lot of them live more in the Pittsburgh mission.

So about Mason. So our old phone got a text from him a couple days
after the baptism. It was from him and he said that he would not be
able to make it to his baptism because one of his good friends
committed suicide earlier that day. This was sent Saturday and the
text was delayed a few days for some reason. We have been in contact
with him a little bit trying to meet with him. We are trying to take
this pretty sensitively.

Haha yeah Lori is awesome. I was really excited when I got that
Yahtzee. They are planning to get married soon. Some things have to
happen so they can. I won't get into detail cause it's kind of
personal to them and there's a lot to explain. But they want Jon's mom
who lives in Michigan to come but she lacks the funds. And also some
other stuff has to happen with her. But they are planning to either do
it in a few weeks! Jon is expressing a lot of interest on joining the
church. It is awesome! We have been reading the Book of Mormon with
him and he is gaining a string testimony. He's also coming to church a
lot which is awesome. And the Branch is fellowshipping really well
too.

I did get two packages. I got the one from the relief society and the
other one from you. I loved getting them. I loved the ties that were
in them. Especially the tennis one. Yep I'll be staying in Pottsville
for 5 more weeks now. You met someone who just came home from Philly.
What did he look like? Maybe I knew him. I'm sure he lived his
mission.

Thanks for trying to reach out to Nick Durrant for me. I hope he's doing ok. I
wish people would be more active in the church. It's really not that
hard. I think it's harder to be less active that's it is to be active.
I'm just always so confused on why people don't come to church.

Man you are rolling in some money! I'm sure you're happy that you got
a raise. Have you been able to work at all last week? I'm glad that
your leg is healing. I was a little worried about you. Wondering how
you are doing with your leg full of infection juices. That's nice of
Sister Slade to give you Netflix. Watch any cool movies? That ice
cream in bed with caramel sauce sounds good too. Hope you can get better soon.

Oh so about Internet. I was able to get a password from a missionary
up here. Hasn't really worked very well but I'm still going to test it
out. If it doesn't work it's ok I can live with out it.

Sounds like everything didn't go according to plan at the temple when Colten went through. I'm
glad everything worked out though. Speaking of the temple we are going
again  Saturday. Super excited. How's Colten's arm? Also speaking of
the temple. Nicki our recent convert who is Noah's mom went to the DC
temple Saturday and did baptisms! We weren't able to go cause it's
too far away.

You'll have to ask chandler, does Fort Worth ever cross your mind. I
hope you get that reference. I hope he has a great time there.

Family history in Sunday school huh? That's a good topic to teach about. Hopefully some
of you kids can take it more seriously now. It is something that is
enjoyable and you feel like you are doing a lot of good. Don't get to
do much family history work out here. I wish I could do more.

Wow the poor Broderick family. I hope all can be sorted out with the flood. I think that is
worse than coming home after a vacation in the middle of July and
realize that your AC is out. I would rather have my AC out for a
little bit than to be homeless. They are moving?

Teaching is going really well. We've been finding a couple new
investigators for some reason and that is going great.

Something fun that I did this week. We'll probably the most exciting
thing was getting the Yahtzee.

Lately we helped a family who is less active move. It was very last
minute. It was very hot and humid and I loved it cause I got to sweat
a lot.

Love Elder Shumway

Hi Lila. My week went great. This Saturday I get to go to the temple again. I'm really excited for that. Sorry you are already tired of school. What grade are you in? I forgot. Are you 12 or 13? I forgot that as well. Sorry for the whole fiasco at home with Sam throwing up when Mom and Dad were gone. I hope it all turned out ok. So what did you do with Sam that night? I'm sure it was really gross. Yep Friday it will be one year. And on the 22nd it will be a year till I come home. 

Love Elder Shumway

Hi grandma. Yes both of them will be soon needed to be put on your list. When I was told mom went to the urgent care because she had something wrong with her leg I got a little nervous. I didn't know what it was. Thankfully she's ok. I hope she recovers quickly. She seems to be doing better. I'm proud of Colten for going to the temple and taking out his endowments. I heard there was a little excitement along with it. Im glad everything worked out though. That's great about Chandler. I'm sure he will enjoy himself in Texas. Too bad he didn't get called to the best mission in the world, my mission. Sounds like Jacob is coming home soon. Sounds like he is having a lot of success with the Air Force. Love you grandma. 
  
Elder Shumway 

Hi everybody. This week was pretty great. Noah got baptized. He is
such an awesome kid. He is super smart. During the talks at his
baptism he would agree with what the people were saying and then
expound more doctrine after agreeing. Again he's only 8 years old so
it's super funny when he does it. I had the opportunity to baptize
him. Jon and Lori were also able to come too. Which was awesome. Jon
has just become more and more interested over time. Last night we were
at his house and he was talking about the baptism. He also said that
they need to hurry up and get married so he can be baptized.

Something else happened this week that is pretty awesome. Once upon a
time this mission was allowed to use Facebook. Then after a while it
was taken away. And this week we have been given the opportunity to
use Facebook to help others to come unto Christ. I've already seen the
affect that this can have on others. I am very excited that our
mission has the chance to use this great technology.

Love Elder Shumway

Hi Lila. My week was pretty great. We had a great baptism on Saturday. I hoped you liked the photos. Sounds like you've been dancing a lot recently. Got a picture of you and Sam playing tether ball in the rain. Did you enjoy that. Also you went out to lunch and to a movie with some of the family. Have fun at school. 

Love Elder Shumway

Wow that does not sound fun. How did Mom get it? What is MRSA?
Monopoly was fun last night and yes we were able to reach a lesson as
we played. We talked mainly about them getting married and when that
can happen and why marriage is so important. Sounds like you guys had
a great meal yesterday. Lucky you to do all that work. Sunday for
dinner we went to Jon and Loris and had breakfast for dinner. Carson
had to go to work on Sunday? I'm sure Lila and Sam are definitely not
excited to start school again. I wouldn't be. I heard there has been
quite a bit of rain. I saw some pics on Facebook with the temple and
lighting in the background. It was a really cool picture. By the way
our mission has Facebook back. Oh yeah the olympics. I totally forgot
about that. Hopefully the US does good this year. Basketball should be
exciting.

Mom told me that the wars had sent out a package for me. I should be
getting it this week most likely. I'm sure you have plenty of faith
that those plants would grow. You didn't tell the sisters that you've
grown up on doing that? I hope mom gets a speedy recovery. I don't
know a lot about this thing that she has. Please inform me what it is
all about.

Love Elder Shumway

Mom,

Haha yeah I'm glad that I got to see the Wojcickis. They are awesome. I'm glad you and Erin are friends. She actually reminds me a lot of you. She even reminded me of you even more on Saturday cause she cut her hair and it looks very similar to yours. We will definitely have to go see them together. Yeah Elder Lake and I get along most of the time. I was trying to cheer up Elder Lake a little bit on Saturday cause he felt a little betrayed cause Mason did not show up for his baptism. Noah did get baptized so that was good. I did get to baptize Noah. I will send a picture of us. Haven't had any contact with Mason at all. He's not returning our calls and texts also we just got Facebook back and he's not responding to our messages. But we know that he sees them cause we see his posts on Facebook. Very frustrating! Our next step? Well we don't really know. What I want to do is to go knock on his door. But Elder Lake doesn't want to for some reason. 

Yeah sorry if I confused you about that. Jon and Lori are doing great! They are a lot of fun to be around and are very nice to us. Yeah I am trying to keep the apartment clean. And it pretty much is just me cause Elder Lake doesn't help clean a lot. But that's ok. Oh by the way elder lake is staying for another transfer and so am I. So 6 more weeks together in Pottsville! 

Thanks for that picture. Porter is ssssoooooo skinny! His collar doesn't even fit him! Chance looks really muscleee. I'm excited to get that package. I always love packages. I will send a thank you note for it. Thanks for the extra cash, I always enjoy that as well. The CTR rings, well I haven't done anything with the CTR rings. Sorry, I didn't really know what to do with them. I also have not used the wax or eaten the jelly beans yet. None other missionaries want to do it. I'm glad those two are doing well. Hopefully porter can gain some weight. I'm sure you could definitely see all his ribs. Why was chance talking slow with a lot of pauses? Chance did write me. 

That's great Sam got his webelow. Thanks for helping him with that. I heard it's been raining pretty hard. Saw some pics on Facebook of the temple with some lighting in the background. Looks like you girls went to cafe rio for lunch.

Thanks for reaching out to Nick Durrant
for me. I always tried to be his friend and I do consider myself his friend. I wish we were closer though. I hope he's doing well. Is he or his family coming to church? 

I haven't gotten any money from grandpa recently. Hopefully I get it this week. My money is fine. It varies on how much I spend a week. Depends on what going on. Also depends on which area I'm in. I'm fine with money. We seem to be getting fed more after than we did at the beginning of the transfer. That's great you got a raise. How much? I'm sure Lila and Sam are not excited to go back to school. I wouldn't be.

Got dads email and I guess you have something called MRSA. Also got some pictures. They look pretty gross. Was it just full of infection juices and they just needed to drain it? Is this thing going to affect you a lot? What needs to happen so you can get better?

Sorry internet is getting pretty expensive. So what are you guys doing now. Are you just settling with the same provider or did you switch to something else? Comcast is huge out here. Well in Philly they have the Comcast building which is probably their headquarters. I don't know of any other way I can have internet other than that. But it's ok, I don't absolutely need it. 

The Condie family is great. Bro Condie used to be the bishop of the wars and he's related to President Monson. Cause Condie is president monsons mothers name. But they are a great family. And they also have a son named Braden. 

That's great Colten is going to the temple. Does he still have a girlfriend? That's also great that chandler is expecting his call soon too. Hopefully you can go. Mission call openings are awesome! We do have quite a few missionaries out right now. It sure is great isn't it? Courtney comes home in 6 months! That makes me feel old. 

You could always ask questions. Ask as many as you want. I will answer them.

Love Elder Shumway