HIIIIIII BEST FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So as you know i did get a new companion! Lets just say we have totally different personalitys. But i know i can learn a lot from him. I get the feeling im only gonna be here for 5 more weeks we will see though! At the beginning of this week he had to go to Sacramento for a doctors appointment. So yes i did get to leave the mission and go to downtown Sac. It was pretty sweet! I got to see the capital and they had a huge party thing going on there outside for christmas. We didnt get invited.. Jerks!! :( hahaha but it was way cool going to Sacramento, loved it. Davis is awesome! i love it here. I have become close to some people i feel. Me and my new companion Elder Wykle are trying to contact and find new people. Its hard but we are pushing! :) BTW my new companion is from Texas. Anyway..... so we are working on finding some people. Nothing big is going on here with investigators. We are just working hard on finding right now. So on Sunday i was leading Elder Wykle to church on bike and for some reason he looked down and when he looked up i was gone! hahahah so he went one way while i went anohter and we got lost for about 15 mins. I didnt know he was gone for the longest time. I looked back and saw so many ways he could have gone and i kept praying in my head wondering what to do. So many ideas came to mind but when i would go for it i had a bad feeling. I finally picked a road that i felt good about and i kept going just hoping it was the spirit and i kept biking just waiting to find him and finally i saw him up ahead just standing next to his bike hahahah i was laughing pretty hard. So that just explains my companion. :) This transfer is a temple transfer so we get to go to the temple! I'm not sure which week its gonna be but we will find out soon :). My new zone is ok.. I miss our old zone so much!! Yeah mom i heard you are talking to sister H. She is awesome! I miss her a lot. She was like a mom hahaha it was awesome. I can't think of much more to say.. :( this week was just an interesting week trying to get wykle all settled in and me trying to figure out how to lead the area. Haha its weird leading the area. Idk what im doing... im still green as can be! :) Madi is going to Seattle!!!!!!!!!??? Whoaaaa!!! DAD ITS YOUR MISSION BRO!!!! :) I'm sure ill be getting a letter from her soon. Well i hope so atleast haha. Thats way exciting though! When does she leave? With the people writing me... Madalie is by far the most consistant hahaha i can always count on getting a letter back from her asap! Marlies writes me every once in awhile im sure she is super busy. Im writing somebodys sister from my mtc district hahaha and a couple more people from school that you wouldnt know i dont think. Its sweet hearing from the people of the real world :). I LOVE YOU GUYS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! I have the best family and friends in the world!!!!! Until next week your friend... your son... your brother... your grandson.. your nephew... is out!! Elder Tanner J. Howell. Peace :)

Whats up family!!!!!!!!! Elder Howell here!!!!!! Sorry you did not hear from me yesterday... On transfer week or whatever you will hear from me on tuesday not monday... Mom i know that you got a hold of sister hernandez. She is awesome btw.. BIG NEWS!! Well not really big news but its news everybody saw it coming. I am staying here in Davis and my trainer elder blake just left me. he is going to vaccaville! I have a companion coming in whose name is elder wykle. I have heard he is an awesome guy. I'm sure we will have a great time together. its gonna be weird because i now have to lead the area and get him in the groove of the ward and stuff. Wish me luck ;). No it will be fun and good for me. The work here is still pretty slow. We talk to that black guy here at the library all the time and he came to church last sunday! That was awesome to see him there and he said that he loved it and that he will be coming back. We will see what happens with him. Everything is still pretty slow.. we are still teaching and seeing people but no serious committments or anything. This time of the year is really hard i hear, but all i can do is keep pushing! :) Mom for the christmas stuff yeah just do as President Alba says.. he knows best haha. i'm curious to see how Christmas turns out this year. We had the christmas devotional at the stake center on sunday and during that they have what they call a creche festival. Where hundreds of nativity sets are set up in the gym from all sorts of religions and people. Its soo cool! I have a picture that i'll send you! What are your guys plans for Christmas?? OHHHHHHH which reminds me. Soooooo... We are given the option of skype or phone. We can either skype for 30 mins or call for 45 mins. I'm leaving that decision up to you guys! So let me know what you would like :) It has been raining here for the past like 4 or 5 days. Its crazy! Riding my bike in it is pretty intense haha sometimes it will come down super hard.. and other times its just sprinkles. You never know when its gonna change it just happens so fast. Luckily right now its not raining so im actually dry for once. The weather is so weird here this time of year. Or probably always. I'm used to snow and all that good stuff haha. Momma if you could send me those addresses i asked for last week. I kinda need those :). So funny story.. we have been talking about getting a christmas tree for the apartment and i came home yesterday for the night and elder lenen and elder johnsen bought one! haha i am gonna have my first real christmas tree! they stuffed it in the back of the car with part of it hanging out the windows while driving on the freeway. The car is a mess right now. Good thing i dont have to clean it out ;). Mom say hi to Judy, Chet, and Bishop Greer for me. I miss them!!! :( I heard BYU is getting Jabari Parker... if that is true that is sooooooo sick! We gonna take national championship! haha I also heard the BYU plays San Diego St. Go Cougars!!! Gosh....... I wish I had more to tell you guys.. but im just doing missionary work there is nothing new with me. The only thing really is that i'm gonna miss my zone and my district! :( a lot of the people that i became close to are leaving. Everybody but 2 companionships are getting new companions. I'm gonna miss all of them but i'm sure ill see some of them again. Anyway... Time for me to bounce! I LOVE YOU GUYS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! Let me know if i can do anything for the family or for the friends. Until next week... Elder Tanner J. Howell is outtttt! Peace my dudes