Elder Sam Shumway

So two ducks walk into a resturant and they sit down, order, and eat. When the waiter comes over and asks how they're going to pay one of the ducks look over and tell him "put it on his bill...."  Anyways after that horrible joke I am still alive and well here in California! Saw a lot of miracles and here's a little update.  -this week we had our friend Belen, who had come to church last week and then proceeded to drop us and tell us she's not really interested, reach back out and told us she is actually interested in having lessons. It was because she realized she had been feeling the spirit and was having spiritual experiences. It was super awesome because me and my companion included in our fast last week that our friends would have spiritual experiences and keep meeting with us. So we gave her another chance... -during one of our studies this week we were at a park and I saw this woman walking down the road who kinda looked that the one woman in the yellow jac...

Anyways... we may or may not have been given alcohol twice this week. WELCOME to my email where I forget everything that happened this week and try to dig in my mind for all the gaps that i am missing! -had zone conference on tuesday -We met a woman named Belen. She was scared to let us down and that she was gonna say she wasn't going to come to church but after teaching the Plan of Salvation she said she would come to church. -3 of our friends came to church. 2 of them we had never met before. -Sat next to Belen and she kept comparing everything to Catholic church. Explained what Gethsemane was and who President Nelson is. She was very nervous at first but about 15 minuets in she said she wasn't nervous anymore and we told her that was the spirit. -Our friend Bethany (first time at church) got up and bore her testimony. It was awesome! -Gave this guy named Brad a Book of Mormon. - finished the Book of Acts and poor Paul is suffering big time. I got to feel...

So this week we got to see some really cool miracles that God just dropped into our laps. Like some REALLY cool miracles. TUESDAy So tuesday morning we were having a lesson with our friend George at the church. Right before we start the lesson we see a college student walks to the door so i think *oh cool a YSA member*. Well I get up to go to talk to him and he says that he needs an interview. So I said "well our Bishop's not here right now but is there anything else we can do?" and he says... "I want to learn more about the Book of Mormon"... *wow okay so he's not YSA*, we got his phone number and told him we'd call him after out lesson. His name was Anson. Well to continue with that miracle we continue to teach the Law of Tithing to George with ABSOLUTLEY NO ISSUE OR HESITATION GEORGE COMMITS TO IT! He in fact does the math and tells us "what is *x amount of dollar* to me when the Lord can use it better". Wow George. Crazy faith. He also told...

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my emails! I don't have a whole lot to say but some very cool things happened this week! -We had this referral named George who we gave a 3-week baptismal date and he's super excited. He said giving up coffee will not be a problem for him and he doesn't like any of that other immoral stuff. He sadly couldn't come to church this week because he went to the urgent care and seems like he had food poisoning. He felt so bad that he couldn't come to church. -Had transfers and i am TRAINING AGAIN!! My trainie is Elder Sweeny and he's pretty cool. We've read a lot of the same books so we connected over that. This makes it 3 transfers in a row for training... -I tried something really spicy with our friend Collin who has a baptismal date in December. See the vid in my photo album. IT WAS VERY HOT. i start laughing because of how hot it is. -A very nice catholic man invited us in his home and fed us chicken pot pie. His kids also showed...