Good morning. It was a pleasant surprise for me to get this email
earlier than I usually do. I got it at the beginning of second hour.
Thank you.

So how did dinner go last night with Teryn? I haven't talked to him
for a little bit. I'll email him today and see what's going on. Thanks
for being nice to him. I'm sure he's struggling right now. I think he
really wants to get out on a mission.

Josh got a snake huh? That's pretty cool. Does Lila want a snake now
too? That's great Josh has a job. He's got a pretty good employer too.
I'm glad he is more confident now. Has put in any weight or is he
still a rail? Lori showed me the picture of you guys at Gecko. What is
360? Carson took the tracker! It is a chicken magnet!

Fall break is over now. Sounds like you all had a great break. Now
time to go back to work and school. Sounds like Lila is making a lot
of great decisions and setting some great goals. What's twitterpated?
She's excited to go to stake dances? She's crazy! And she's getting so
old.

Yep you did get many pictures of me this week. Also a video talking
about if my tie is long enough. I did enjoy going back to reading for
a little bit. I love that area. It is still my most favorite area. I
wish I could go back. I saw Sister Smith when I was down there and I
saw bro smith at our branch conference 2 sundays ago. He has a stake
calling and he was at our branch conference.

Good luck on being healthy. I've noticed it's a lot easier to be
healthier back home. Here there is a lot of Pennsylvania Dutch food.
Which means a lot of fat and a lot of carbs. I also can't go to the
gym which is super hard and there's not much to do around here as far
as exercise goes.

The temple was great! I loved being there. The temple is really
beautiful. It's interesting when you standing outside and it's loud
because of the city and then you go inside and it's totally quite and
you can't hear the city at all. I got all nine names baptized and
confirmed. Jon had a really great experience because he got baptized
for his father and grandfather. Didn't get to go around Philly after
that. We were all pretty tired so we just went home. I don't think
I'll need the names. I think I'll just send them back home. I might
keep one in case we go do a session. I sent you another female name
this morning that needs everything done I think.

Yeah Elder Ostrom and I do get along great. I'm very confused by that.
If this was her first transfer that means she would have been in the
same area for 13 months. That is almost unheard of in the mission
field. Wow she comes home super quick. I think I'm getting Colten's
letters.

Yeah the other week was very stressful. It will come to pass,
hopefully sooner than later. The missionaries that are stressing us
out are definitely leaving. I say that because one of them goes home
in about a week and the other one has been here for 6 months. I don't
know if I'll be transferred. I have mixed feeling on that. What has
happened to Noah? I have no idea. We haven't talked to them at all. We
aren't allowed. Nothing from Mason this week. He has been hired on to
be apart of the trump campaign in some way. He sent us a picture last
week that I will send you.

1: Yes we are wearing sweaters now. I am not using my electric blanket
yet. It's not cold enough for that.
2: Didn't meet anybody on the streets. Haven't done any of that
recently. Been busy doing other things.
3: Plans for this week, well the biggest plan will be Saturday
cause we are having a mission wide conference in broomall. And Elder
Lynn G Robbins of the presidency of the seventy will be coming to
speak to us.

Love Elder Shumway