I hope everybody had a great thanksgiving. We sure had a great one. We
had about 4 meal appointments. I tried my best to not eat too much at
each appointment. I did struggle a little bit on the last one though.
We were able to be with some amazing members on thanksgiving. Our
branch is awesome for letting us come over on thanksgiving.

This past week has been pretty good. Sister Kaufman and Sister Gibson
both came to church yesterday. I was really happy that they came. They
both are progressing well. Our last appointment with sister Kaufman
went really well. We taught her about the prophet and we watched a
couple of his talks from past conferences and towards the end of the
lesson Sister Kaufman says that she does believe but she still needs a
little more time to get baptized. Her husband Brother Kaufman is
trying to prepare on receiving the priesthood. They also are both
pretty heavy smokers and it's hard for them to quit. Sister Gibson is
doing well. We have a date for her to be baptized which is Dec 10th.
It's tentative right now because she too has a smoking issue. We will
continue to help both of them as much as we can.

It is getting quite a bit colder and the Christmas season is here too.
I'm grateful for this time of year so we can celebrate the birth of
our savior. If you haven't seen it yet there is a great video the
church has made about Christmas, I encourage you to watch it. It is
called #LightTheWorld and it is really good. Will probably be one of
my favorites.

Hope everybody has a great week, miss you all and stay warm.

Love Elder Shumway

This is Kory and Bro Moore. Awesome members in the Reading ward. I used to teach kory and now she is baptized.

Hi dad, great to hear from you today. Thanksgiving went very well. I

am very thankful for the food. Thought I'd send a quick message to mom
for her birthday. I hope she liked it. What was it like to meet Elder
Ostrom's parents? I also heard that WF football won the state
championship. Good for them. Also congrats to ALA for winning their
championship too. Did you go to both of those games? Good job for
being the hero on thanksgiving. I'm sure that was pretty scary for
you. Glad everybody is ok. What kind of phone are you getting? What
did mom get for her birthday? She's 42 right? She doesn't really look
any different. Haha that's funny about porter. Did you talk to him
afterwards about if he enjoyed the talk?