Elder Braden Shumway

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