Elder Sam Shumway

Hey everyone thanks for reading my email! This is my email! tuesday- We did some service in the morning and had some lessons that cancelled on us. wednesday- stopped by a ton of friends we haven't been able to contact in a while but sadly they weren't home. We also had a really long lesson over the phone with our friend Danyasius and our Ward Mission Leader. I also explained a book to Elder Raff that i read senior year. Shout out Kate and everyone working at C1 Apparel (I told the same story to them one day). thursday- interviews was awesome! I took a lot of notes about how they want us to change our finding methods and the most effective ways of finding. we talked about how the person whose gonna be baptized in 3 weeks is gonna be found but they can be found easier and faster when we are diligent and use certain ways to find them. we then had a few lessons and had dinner with our friend Matthew whose on date to be baptized this week. friday- Awesome day. we had exch...

hey... everyone.. im here in california... talking about Jesus with everyone.. hope everyone had a great week! yeah but i don't remember what happened this week. i met like a ton of atheists this week... like probably more than my entire mission combined. it's interesting because you get so used to always talking about God and helping people grow their faith but your brain goes blank when you can't really do that. It reminds about how King Lamoni was taught. A little update on teaching side of things. Our friend Matthew is on date for the 16th so please prayer for him. We also have about 4 people we want to invite to be baptized this week.  oh yeah! im also in a trio right now because someone in my district had to get Emergency Transferred and our new companion is a spanish missionary so that means i got to go to spanish ward and i understood about 30% about what was happening so that was cool. today we went on a hike for our district activity and then went to c...