Elder Sam Shumway

Welcome back to my stream of conciousness! Where every sentence is typed out by yours truly! Everyone buckle up because if grandma got ran over by a reindeer then who knows who they'll go after next! tuesday- did some service for members in the spanish branch where we cut fruit and raw sugar cane for like an hour. then we called people and see if they wanted to talk about our Lord and Savior. Then knocked some doors, found some people who said that we could come back. then stopped by less active members, no one answered :( then ate some tamales at the place we did service. wednesday- opened my beautiful package that was underneath the tree and yes my favorite present was the oreos! then we studied at the church for a while. then went to a members house to call the fam and eat some good food! then went home early and had a christmas zoom meeting thursday - another zoom meeting. went by a ton of records. friday- lessons cancel :(  ate some in n out. saturday- went on splits had an am...

Alright alright yall calm down now. I know yall are excited but I can hear ya all the way from California! This week was crazy because I was double covering an area with a temporary companion for a couple days. And I also got a new companion.  Tuesday- stopped by some friends. Sadly caught one of our friends vaping  .  Then did some work in another area and put someone on date to be baptized on Dec 29th. Then finished the day off with some choir practice.  Wednesday- double covered again! Found some people who were interested. Then went to go to the church meet our new comps. Then actually changed our minds and went to in n out. Met my new comp, Elder Boyd, he was hungry so we stopped to get some McDonald's for him.  Thursday- visited our records. Ate an amazing dinner.  Friday- multi zone conference! Drove 2 hours to Santa Barbara. Sang a musical number in Spanish because our district is like that. Then I drove us all back to Paso Robles. Then had a member...

There goes another week in beautiful California! Thank you all for tuning in on this week's broadcast of Elder Shumways life! I'll try not to strain your eyes too much! Tuesday- went through a lot of old records Wednesday- exchanges! Did some service putting up no parking signs. Went door knocking, found a lot of Spanish speakers.  Thursday- more exchanges! I was a English Elder doing Spanish work so I didn't understand a lot! Friday- ward Christmas party. We met a few people that members had invited and started talking to them.  Saturday- this was my favorite day of the week! There was a festival thing where they closed of an entire street and the whole town came out to walk the street to see a bunch of booths and businesses handing out free stuff. So of course we had to take advantage of that. We talked to a whole lot of people as they were walking by. We handed out a Bible and a couple book of Mormons and a WHOLE LOT of Jesus pictures! It was super cold for my Arizona bl...

Do I hear applause??? Thank you thank you for the warm welcome and as always thank you for reading this email. I'll try not to strain your eyes to much with this email.  Tuesday: lots of phone calls. Taught a couple lessons Wednesday: did some service for the wonderful city of Paso Robles. Also went to 2 urgent cares (I'm okay, it was for my comp, and he's okay too)  Thursday: had a mission Zoom and a lesson with our friend Ruben. Got some Cold Stone after some companionship council (sorry to flex on all my friends outside the US ) Friday: Interviews with our mission president. Ended up going to 2 more urgent cares. Also apparently medical care is crazy here in Cali because they are always PACKED. We met this interesting homeless guy named Jesse. He was kinda interesting and definitely didn't agree with a lot we were saying but we said a prayer with him and he thanked us for it. Went door knocking and found this nice guy named Brad. He sounded a lot like Bradley Wilcox....

Hey everyone! Thanks for reading my emails! Welcome back to the life of Elder Shumway where everyday is an adventure!  Tuesday- went on exchanges and spoke some Spanish (I dont know spanish). Found a nice cat. Talked to a really cool guy while he was raking leaves. And promised cookies to one of the Spanish elders friend's.  Wednesday- stopped by some friends and they had to reschedule their lessons. Had a really cool lesson with our friend Joel.  Thursday- THANKSGIVING! Did some service and ate some Thanksgiving food. Took a meal to our friend David. Had a lesson with two of our friends and their dad cooked us some WAGYU STEAK! Friday- a really cold day on exchanges. Basically just went door knocking for a few hours after that.  Saturday- met with our friend Linda who loves to talk. Some members brought us some dinner. Then had a couple lessons reschedule on us. Also got bashed on a subject that made no sense but I won't bore you with the details.  Sunday-...

Super great week this week!  Went by super fast and P day has felt even faster!  Tuesday- had a great lesson with our friend Ruben.  HIGHLIGHT: we helped reactivate a recently baptized then turned into a "do not contact" member.  Wednesday- had a super cool zone conference where president talked about the story of Alma and Amulek. (Sick story btw) Thursday- met with our friend David. And had a member dinner with a super cool family where half of the family worked at a mental hospital and had some... interesting stories.  Friday- stopped by a LOT of records to see if anyone was interested again.  Saturday- (not so fun day) sadly all our lessons canceled :( but then we found some people who are potentially interested!  Sunday- two friends came to church and we had a lesson with Javier.  Monday- (today) played some volleyball (woohooooo)  went shopping, and ate some in n out (yum). Super grateful to be serving in Paso Robes! Shout out to ELDER B...