I was transfered to Moore OK. It is a city that has been nailed by many tornadoes Including the famous May 3rd Tornado. This city is blended in with the South part of the growing Oklahoma City. Elder Ali'ifua and I are the zone Leaders for the South Zone. Elder Ali'ifua is Polynesian and the most MASSIVE elder in our mission. When he goes home he will play football for Utah State. I think we will have fun together.
Our mission has emphasized finding Families and future families. When Elder Callister came and gave a training, he said "Go to the mini-vans!" We focus on finding families and future families. We cover a ward and a singles branch. The family ward starts at 9 and we leave a little early to go up to Midwest City where the singles branch starts at 12. I've never been to a singles ward or branch before. It is super fun to be a missionary there. We had a baptism yesterday in the singles branch. It was great!
A cool miracle happened on Saturday. We returned a missed call from an unknown number Saturday night while we were planning. Andy, the young man on the other end of the line said to us "I'm thinking about converting." We were shocked to hear this. People don't just come to you and ask to get baptized. You have to go out and find them. So this was a huge shock to us. We invited him to church and arranged a ride for him. The members of the singles ward are great member missionaries. Andy came to church and stayed for the baptism afterwards. We called him that night to ask him how he liked church and he said that he loved it and that it was better than any other church he had ever been to. We felt like we should set a baptism date with him over the phone right there....so we did. He has a baptismal date for Oct 28. The Lord Has blessed us.
Love Elder Shumway
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