Sorry to hear that your spring break went by really fast. Seems like
you guys had a lot of fun though. My week went pretty well. I am
staying warm. I think this last week will be the last cold week we
have hopefully. I'm ready for spring and not having to wear a sweater
anymore. In this next month or so I will be sending more warm things
home.

It did surprise me that you were with Lori. It made my day. She is
very nice. I hope she's doing well. What did you guys talk about? She
is very nice and funny. Yes they do have Elder Tuttle in their area
now. I wonder how he is now. I've never served around him so I don't
know how he is. Yeah she does call me Elder Russell. I guess she
thinks I look like him. I'm excited for them to move to California,
then we can visit them more! Yeah Jon and Elder Lake would talk about
video games a lot and me and Lori would just talk. I did get the
picture from both you and Lori. It made my day.

Knottsberry farms looked like a lot of fun. I would have loved to have
gone on the fun rides. I do enjoy roller coasters. Lila told me about
a few in her email. Seems like they were a lot of fun. She said that
Sam was the one that was chickening out on a lot of them.

The beach looked like a lot of fun. Even though it was cold I'm glad
you guys had fun. What was the temperature like? I remember the last
time I went to San Diego there was a lot of seals around and they did
not smell very good. I would love to go with you guys when I get home.
Sounds like the boys didn't have a lot of responsibility. How many
days where you in California. Good thing you guys didn't get totally
lost on the way home. I love the pictures already. You guys looked
like you were having a lot of fun. I'm sure it was a lot less
stressful with a smaller family.

I remember going to the Mormon battalion. I think a Shumway was in the
Mormon battalion. I think he was just a private though.

I'm sure Courtney did great on her talk. Sounds like my other cousins
are doing ok. Hopefully Blake and Ashley can find good significant
others.

Sorry to hear about Paul. I have no idea how he is doing. I sent him a
letter a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I have been using the wrong
mailing address. If you could give this to him that would be awesome.
The address is: 26 N Ladow Ave Apt 12-C Millville, NJ 08332. I know he
deals with depression. He'd always ask Elder Fifita and I to pray for
him, I didn't know he hurt his back. I miss him a lot. He's one person
that I am going to continue in staying in contact with when I get
home.

Yes Armando is going to be baptized this Saturday. I'm really excited
for him! The one in the video is not him. There's a missionary and his
name is Elder Soto and the other young man is Alonzo. He is an awesome
young member who comes out with us all the time. So we are actually
trying to change plans for the baptisms. Robert is living with his
girlfriend right now and so we had the idea of having them be married
on the 15th and then he would be baptized the next day which would be
Easter. So far they say that's ok with them. Ishmael would be baptized
on Easter too.

I'm glad you got the names I sent you. Hopefully you can get them
done. There are some baptisms there so hopefully Lila can do those. I
also have two male names with baptisms needed and I'm going to go to
the temple April 8th and get them done then.

Seems like Sister Whis is feeling better. Sorry to hear about Daisy.
There's not much we can do. I'm sure there's a lot of excitement
waiting for both of those calls. I'm excited for them too.

Car issues are not fun. Hopefully everything will go back to normal
and there will be no more car problems.

Yes I did run out of time to send out a weekly email. I'll be sure to
send one out today. Yep 2 weeks until General Conference! I'm really
excited for that! Yesterday was Grandma and Grandpa Shumway's
anniversary! Wow that's great. They were amazing people and I miss
them a lot. They were great examples to all of us.

Love Elder Shumway

Happy Monday everybody. Sorry I didn't get a letter out last week. But
I am sending one out today. We have been very busy these last couple
of weeks. We have some great investigators who are progressing very
well. Armondo who is the 12 year old will be getting baptized this
Saturday. We are also working with 2 other men. One who's name is
Robert. He is a very prepared man. The only problem is he needs to get
married to his girlfriend who he is living with. The other man we are
working with is a man named Ishmael. He is also a great guy. He's come
to church these last two sundays and loves it. He also loves how his
name is in the Book of Mormon. He is progressing very well. But yeah
that's all of our investigators who are progressing with a date.

That's my report for this week. Hope everybody is doing well and
staying cool. Here it has been pretty cold. I'm trying to stay warm.

Love Elder Shumway


Hi dad. It sure looks like you had a lot of fun in California. It was
foggy huh? I think it would be a whole lot of fun to go again when I
get home. Lori is really awesome. I miss her. Yeah she does have a
loud voice and she doesn't care either. I'm glad I was able to meet
her and I do think she will be a life log friend as well as Jon. Hope
you have fun in your meeting. Talk to you later