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
Elder Shumway
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