Elder Sam Shumway

ok. so. A LOT of stuff went down this week!  -On monday I bought a pair of jeans and a tie for a birthday gift and got to open my birthday package with my parents. -Talked to a guy in the Target parking lot who knew a member in one of my last areas. He wasn't interested at first but we just started talking about who he knows and he commented about how the members son had passed. Then we started talking about the after life and I got to share with him a clearer view of our theology and then he wanted to talk about Grace and Works. fun convo. -So we got a referral for this guy named craig last week and he was weird at first but then a few days later he wanted to meet. Me and Elder Murset went back on forth on if we should call one of our members whos REALLY good at finding out stuff about people. Finally, that morning we reached out to her and a little while later we got a call and the member said "how did you know?"... turns out the dude had done some bad things. so yeah. ...

Good afternoon to everyone who reads my emails!! Some cool stuff happened this week. -We had Zone Conference and President Rodriquez showed us this video about the calculations of how big the universe is and how there like 4X as many suns than all the grains of sand on the earth. He then explained how everyone of those are numbered and how God can comprehend all of us and knows us by name. -We also played basketball with this dude named Ryan who was going to the singles ward but got really busy. He's been going through a tough time recently so we got to teach about the Atonement and how it could help him. -We had this whole situation with our friend Jay. He had a baptismal date and was YSA age so we were planning on passing him off to the Sister missionaries. We had a great pass off lesson and told him that he was also gonna meet with the Sister missionaries and take lessons with them. We explained that it wasn't going to change anything that we would still call and ...

This week was super interesting. Everyday I meet people and i have the thought "you could really REALLY need Jesus in your life". And that's exactly what I try to help them do. Sometimes it goes good and sometimes it doesn't. This is pretty much my first area where I see people, who we would probably refer to as "tweakers", pretty much everyday, multiple times a day. My heart gets really sad when I see them. I know that God loves them and is sad at the choices they made in their lives that put them in that situation. We're semi teaching this guy named Bruce whose life has gotten really messed up from drugs. He loves church but it's really hard for him to progress so please pray for Bruce. On a happier note, we gave our friend Jay a baptismal date and he's excited to work towards it. Also this week our friend Pedro showed up to church and our members made him feel super welcome. He also had a lot of clarifying questions about the Book of Mormon so...

Good Morning to everyone who reads my emails and for those of you who don't read my emails good afternoon! I'll start with some general information first. I got transferred from Westlake to San Luis Obisbo or SLO for short. It's pretty much paradise! The weather is the best and we got some really really cool friends. I'm still DL but just over a whole new district. Some cool things that happened *got told by 2 separate people on 2 separate occasions that I have a good frequency(dont know what that means) *met my new comp and he's from Gilbert AZ! He literally lives right next to my high school. If anyone knows Sterling Murset that went to Queen Creek High School, that is my comp. *we did some parking lot contacting and seems like its great to find but they dont progress very far. *played a cool new game for District Activity that involved drinking lots of soda. kinda feel sick now. *adding this line cause im trying to think of more things *found out my shower has mo...

hey everyone! a lot happened this week, like a ton. I won't get into it but its safe to say that I will probably be transferred and after multiple calls with our mission President and phone call with the Stake President and a couple talks with the Bishop (who are all awesome) the situation should be remedied soon. I feel like that's pretty suspenseful so I think I'm gonna leave it at that. On a happier note. i got to eat dominoes pizza twice this week! I got to read scriptures with one of my favorite members named Gaga. Ill have some pictures below. Had some really cool member meals this week. most of this ward is awesome! Had a really cool talk with one of my Zone Leaders who is super cool. shout out Elder Knight and Elder M Larsen. anyway thats all i got for this week! everyone stay chill. church is still super true!