Dear Dad,

Good afternoon. Mom told me it has been raining quite a bit there.
Here it's been pretty mild. Been some rather warm days which I'm
pretty happy about. I hope the tracker will run well. Thanks again for
all you do for our vehicles. Mom told me a little bit about the
Shumway reunion. I always felt awkward at family reunions cause I
didn't know a lot of people there. Mom told me about the gift she had
gotten for you for Valentine's Day and how she thought there was 100
reasons in the book but only 90. She also told me about daisy. Sad to
hear. I hope she perks up more and will be healthy for a long time.
The best thing about the week. Well I got a new suit! Also got a
pretty good looking tie for free. I'll have to send a picture of them
to you and mom. The only probable with the new suit is they forgot to
take off that gray plastic thing and so I'm gonna have to go back to
kohls and have them take it off. Thanks for all the sports updates.
Cousins went to New Orleans huh? Who did Sacramento get? Sorry kenly
wasn't there. Ring around the rosy is the greatest! I would totally
fall down if I was in your class. So transfers will be the 7th of
March. So about two weeks. Thanks for your prayers. Have a great week.

Love Elder Shumway

Good morning mother. It hasn't been raining here. It's been pretty
nice. The weather is warming up very nicely. Shumway family reunion
huh? I always felt weird at those cause I didn't know a lot of people
either. I wish we could have done some like games as an entire family
to get us to know each other better. Maybe like a huge game of
football. I'm sure Dan and Kristen are very busy with their kids. They
are probably growing up really fast. Tanner talks now? He wasn't
talking before I left. I'm excited to see how much he talks.

I'm glad Paul is more than welcome to call. He loves to call people
who are parents or family of missionaries. I guess you had been
texting him his week too. Carson told me last week a little bit about
the volleyball team. He should get a lot of playing time.

Well Elder Fifita doesn't really know how to cut hair. He's just watched people
do it and gave it a try and I let him. He did a pretty good job. I
think it was also his first time. He cut it with the clippers that I
have.

Church went pretty good. We had a good amount of attendance. Not for
investigators but for members. Only Sister Russell came. Yeah it's
been super frustrating having them not show up to church. Not sure
what else we can do we've tried pretty much everything. We haven't
been able to teach the boys for a few weeks because they've been
"sick". That's what their mom says. I hope Sister Russell comes around
too. She is still smoking. We do teach her at her house. She lives
with her husband who is a member. Her house does smell like smoke but
it's not that overpowering. She usually just stays in one spot and
smokes there.

I wish I could have been with you to protect you from the  Cindys "hood". It's
probably safer for a man than it is for a 14 year old girl. I'm
excited to hear what you guys are going to do during spring break.
What might you do in California? When is spring break?

Yep my package did come and I'm grateful for it. So I gave most of the
candy to elder Fifita and he's eaten all that I gave him. I've eaten
like one or two of them, so not much. We haven't used the gift cards
yet. There's a Dairy Queen pretty near us so we are going to go
sometime soon. Haha did you laugh because you miss counted on the book you made dad? Hopefully
it will come in the mail soon. Wow Jill got a vacation to Hawaii!
That's nice.

Yes I did get a new suit. One problem is they forgot to take of the
gray plastic thing on my suit. And they are super hard to take off. I
noticed it when we were about to go to church yesterday. So I'm gonna
have to go back and have them take it off. I like this suit a lot. I'm
going to try and keep it really nice.

Wow so it looks like teryn got in a fight huh? Did he go to the doctor
that I went to?

I have been wondering what you are going to do with that extra space
now that you sold the trailer. I'd move the trailer over there and also the metal stuff. At
least the big stuff.

That's super sad about daisy being sick. I don't know what you should do. If she
gets really sick and there's not much we can do. I don't think you
guys would remove the mass or anything like that would you? It would
probably cost a lot of money. Glad to hear puggles is doing well.


Love Elder Shumway


Happy President day everybody! So not much to report this week. This
last week we had a great lesson with Sister Russell. What probably
made it really good is that she was asking some really great
questions. We had taught her the plan of salvation and it went really
well.

Also something that was a pretty big milestone I would say on my
mission happened yesterday. Yesterday I achieved 18 months in my
mission. Man the time has sure gone by fast. Can't believe I only have
about 6 months left in my mission. It really has gone by very fast.

Anyways love you all and hope you're doing great. Have a great week.

Love Elder Shumway

We asked Braden to send us a picture of his new suit and tie.  He did.