Elder Sam Shumway

Hey Everyone!! hope everyones chillin... still over here being apart of the work of the Lord and loving it! Had interviews this week and President gave me some really great insight about what i should do about some of our friends. Also got bashed a few times this week and testimony and Doctrine is unshaken. Church is the truest thing ever! Had this guy beg us for money over the phone... another dude was chiling on a bench and started just yelling at everyone around him.. and another guy told us he had been addicted to fentanyl and he told us it wasn't worth... crazy what people will tell you after 10 minutes of talking to them.  Today we played volleyball for district activity. anyway we gonna try to extend some baptismal invitations to ALL our friends! heres a couple pictures:

Hey everyone! This week was a great week. This week me and my companion listened President Nelsons talk about always finding joy. We had a lot of fun this and took a few side quests.  We got to take a youth tracting with us. We ended up finding an inactive member and he gave us Root Beer, he sadly wasn't interest though but don't worry we'll go back for him. On Wednesday we had exchanges and I was with Elder Fox and my brother LOVES to sing so it was a party the entire day. We also had a fire lesson. When my brother Braden got back from his mission he showed us and object lesson where you use a friction pen to write down sins on a stick figure and use a lighter to burn away the ink and it symbolizes confirmation and the Gift of the Holy Ghost. This Saturday we got to see Gaga. She's an elderly member and is super lonely. every week we get to go over and read a chapter of the Book of Mormon with her. It's amazing to see how she can be so happy and faithful e...

First of all Happy Mothers day to my mom! Love You! experienced some cool miracles this week. One of them was running into this member who hasn't been active in years and didn't know how to get in contact with missionaries. Her name is Yolanda and she thought the closest church building was in Burbank which is like an hour drive. Turns out the church was actually just down the street. We had another miracle last night when my comp felt prompted to stop by this dam and take a look while we were waiting for our lesson to confirm. We ended talking to this guy who at first was not about us and was like "i do not want to talk to you guys or talk about religion". We told him we wouldn't talk religion with him but about a half hour later this man walked himself right into a chill lil Restoration lesson about prophets and the Holy Spirit and the Book of Mormon. We had another super cool miracle. so on saturday we went over to a member's house that can't always com...

Hello everyone! I have been transferred to a new area. I am serving in the Lake View area in the Newbury Park zone.  Also something super crazy happened! Elder Bednar came to the mission and the whole mission met at one building and we had a 3 hour meeting although it felt less than 1 hour. It was pretty interactive and he asked us a lot of questions and helped us a lot with teaching. One thing he made sure that we knew is how much the leaders of the church love us and how much they pray for us. He also took a moment to thank the senior missionaries and told them how worth it is to be serving the Lord.  Someone in my area that I've able to meet is an elderly woman named Gaga. She is wonderful and even though she has had one of the toughest lives i've ever heard she still has a beautiful testimony. We got to give her the sacrament yesterday and before we started she prayed one of the most beautiful prayers i think i've ever heard. Gaga has lots of health problems and has i...