Big News!

  We recieved transfer info last night. I will be going to Quail
Creek as a Zone leader in the Quail Creek Zone. My companion will be
Elder Anderson. I don't know much about him but I have seen him around.
He is one of the only missionaries who parts his hair. That is all I
know about him. Haha! I'm excited. The Quail Creek Zone has the most
Sisters in it as well, and they are all in one district. haha! They
call it the relief-society district. It will be interesting having six or eight sisters in the zone.

   I am nervous to be a Zone leader. I have no clue what they even do.
   Here is somthing funny though; when I became district leader, my
Zone leader (Elder Phillips) trained me in what I needed to know and how to
minister.  Now I am becoming a Zone leader and the AP's will train me.
Elder Phillips is now one of the Assistants so he will be training me
again!  I think it is funny.


  This week has been OK. We didn't have too much success finding people
but we met with most of our investigators and less actives this week.
It is hard to get people to come out with us because there are six
missionaries in this ward and each companionship is always trying to
get members to go out with them.

     The work is hard and the weather is hot.  ( the last few days it
have been over 100 ).  And sadly, my bike has been retired.
Before my mission I bought a schwinn from Wal-mart. It has been a pain
my whole mission. Slowly it has fallen apart. In Elk City the gears
stopped working. In Norman the brakes stopped working and the petals
were stripped. The bearings in the pedals and wheels were shot. It
could barely still roll. Then the shifter stopped working. So one day I
tried to fix the shifter so it would work with the gears. Somehow I
was able to get it to work so we left the house to ride to an
appointment. I rode my bike for about 20 yards when the shifter siezed
up and caught on a spoke. The rotating spoke pulled the derailer all
the way around and snapped the chain!


     It was a tragic day. I knew that my bike would die one of these days but this was soon.   I took
all of the pieces of the gears and the shifters and brakes off of the
bike so that I could see if it was all fixable.....but that is when I
realized what a mess I was in and that nothing on that bike is worth
fixing or paying for.  It is totalled. I don't have any pics of it.
Maybe next week I will send some pics.   But I might need a new bike.
Hopefully I  can get one from the mission office that a missionary
left behind. Next transfer there is a missionary going home that is
leaving his bike. Hopefully I can use that one.


Love ya'll


Elder Shumway