Could you send me any names that still need to be baptized. If there
are any please send soon. We are going to the temple  Saturday


Hello mother.Sunday was pretty good. Didn't have fast Sunday
yesterday, just a normal SundayFastSunday was theSunday before
conference. It was that way so people can bear their testimonies about
the temple dedication the week before. Carson said that it's fall
break and he's been working a lot. What have you been up to? Sister
Wojcicki was indeed at our branch conference yesterday. Did you get
her picture? Yeah I was on exchanges with some other elders. I was in
reading for about three days. It was pretty great. Got to see and talk
to some awesome people. I miss reading a lot. Thanks for being nice to
the missionaries.

Haha that's a funny story about the cake. Did you ever make the cake
he wanted? Lila is going to be 14! Is she going into high school next
year? I don't remember what they fed us. We are over there quite a bit
and they are super nice to us. How we found them, Lori's mom called
the church phone while we were at the church and we talked to her and
said that her daughter who is from California has run away with this
man in Pennsylvania and she's worried about her. She asked us to go
check in her. So we did and Jon wasn't there at the time but Lori got
him on the phone. Jon wasn't interested in the Gospel, he just had a
couple of questions about us and what we do. He did want us to come
over for dinner cause he though we were pretty cool. And the rest is
history, Jon kept asking questions and we answered them. Questions
that his pastors and ministers were never able to answer and he kept
getting more and more interested till he finally wanted to get
baptized. I'm going to send you his testimony that he gave us. Jon has
made a good recovery and has gone back to work today. He asked for a
blessing from us yesterday that he will be strong and not be involved
with other truckers foul language. It was awesome.

I don't know if we have had a ton of affects from the hurricane. It is
a little chillier. There were some pretty dark clouds yesterday but we
didn't get any rain. I was thinking about Torie and how she was doing
for the hurricane.

Yeah Elder alstroemerias and I are getting along pretty well. I'm glad
I'm with him. Yep he is from Utah. I don't know about his mom very
much. He doesn't have the best relationship with his family.

That's great you are talking with Elder Lewis. I've been emailing him
a little bit. He seems pretty bored now that he's home. I'm glad I was
able to be with him too. He was a great missionary.

Courtney just had her first transfer? She must of been in that area
for a long time. That's funny about the members wanting to buy her a
house. Yeah Ashlyn has told me that he's in her district. Colten flies
out soon huh? That's great, I'm excited for him.

I'm glad you got the package. Jon gave it to me for free. The Rocky
thing is just a headband. I just wanted to send something else that
would fit and that was the closest thing. Thanks for putting it away
and keeping it safe.

1: Didn't meet anyone too interesting this week. Has been a pretty
stressful week.

2:Haven't been in touch with Mason for a little bit.

3: I'm doing ok with daily exercise. It's really hard. Especially now
that when we wake up it's super dark and cold outside and you don't
want to get out of bed.

That's great you all have joined a gym. I hope you guys stick with it.
It's hard to exercise on the mission. Keep up with it.

Love Elder Shumway

The week was stressful because we've been dealing with a couple of missionaries that drive us pretty crazy. Thankful one of them goes home this transfer and the other one is probably going to get transferred. Also I've got some bad news about Nicki. Nicki has been in contact and has obtained anti Mormon material and has been involved in an organization that is against the church and now she wants nothing to do with the church. She has threaten to call the police if somebody tries to contact her.