Hello best family ever!!!!!!! This past week was pretty good. I love my new companion. This week we had to give up our most solid investigator Mario away because he moved to a different ward. He is in a part memeber family and he is so solid. He comes to church every week and knows everybody. This past week he had a huge concern with the Joseph Smith Story so we taught him the importance of prayer and reading from the Book of Mormon. He understood that very well. Now his only hold back from baptism is that he is scared of what God is gonna have him do. In priesthood he brought it up and we had a discussion about it. I hope it helped him. He is going to be baptized so soon i feel it. We had a VERY spirtitual lesson with him. He knows its true. He is just scared. I cant wait to see him get Baptized. Hopefully U'm still in Vacaville when he does. Other than that we have picked up a couple new investigators but nobody really progressing yet. Missionary work is so frustrating when people dont keep commitments or recognize how important this gospel is for their salvation. A lot of people just go throughout this life thinking there is no purpose. I dont get it. I would be sooooooooooo lost. Im so blessed to have grown up in such a solid family. i love you dudes. We have a LA in our ward. He is homebound though so its not his fault he is less active. He actually doesnt have legs and has soooo many medical problems. It's so sad to watch him struggle. He has such an amazing story concerning his life and we're trying to get his story in the Paper or in the Ensign or something like that because his story would touch sooo many lives. I would share it with you but its sooooooooo long. To Make a kong story short he was a drug addict and turned down Missionaries for 17 years then one day they ran into him and he was at his lowest and listened to what they had to say and it changed him sooo fast. He once had both legs but had to get them both amputated. Soo sad. His faith is incredible though. His story makes me think that people can change. The Atonement has sooo much power. Sometimes you can feel like there is no hope, but that is denying the Atonements power. We had a Zone Conference and Woodland Zone (my last area) this Zone and Fairfield. So i got to see a lot of the friends I made in Woodland there. That was a lot of fun. President Alba slammed down on us on how we need to pick it up. Its so hard sometiems because we cant control peoples agency. Were working hard though, but just like anything there is always room for improvement. Hes trying to get this mission motivated because once Pres. Bunker left it kinda went downhill so he is trying to pick it back up. Hopefully people understand how important it is that we listen to his council. We had a little testimony meeting after for the farewell missionaries and a few mins of open floor. And yes i got up... it was super weird hahaha people from the Woodland Zone came up to me and told me how much i have grown and what not. I'm still the same me though. Freakin goof :). There was a great spirit there though. Thats really all the special events that happened this week. Of course there are some other events that happened, but it would take FOREVER to share them all. I actually had a guy come up to me holding his baby and said kiss my baby i know youre from the Lord. I was like uhhhhhhhhhhh I dont think i can do that and he got so mad hahaha so awkward. People are funny. Speaking of babies I need a nephew and I NEED pictures of Grant please! Mom you have sooo many figure out how to send them to me :) gracias mama. Mom im so glad to hear you got a calling!! Thats so exciting! You are gonna be great at it I know it. If you need anything from me like stories or something let me know. I'll hook you up. I'll hook a mama up. Trenton has a month left!!! Thats so sick. I gave you the right address to my new place so im good there. Hopefully my homies know so my letters dont go to davis. Speaking of davis. yes im getting fed here more than davis actually. We have dinner everyday. I love this Ward. The only problem is getting them out on splits. If anybody has ideas on tips to encourage members for splits or motivate them with missionary work let me know. I'm doing great though here! Mom yes i did hear from Elder Blake kinda. There was a relayed message to me saying he loved me and his first date back home was awkward hahaha i love that guy. I hope everything is going well back at home. I miss you all so very much and pray for you each individually everyday. Im sorry to the other family memebrs that i cant email :( im so very sorry. Its hard i know.. I'll try getting you letters as much as possible. I love you all soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!! If there is anyting i can do for you guys just holla atcha boy. Peace out until next week!

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Family!!!!!!!! Soooooooo... I'm here in Vacaville!! Wussup!! :) I love it here. My new companion is Elder Timberlake. He is awesome!!!!! He is pretty shy but he is a lot of fun. He is from Gusher Utah. HICK! Hahaha I love him. It was really nice getting away from Davis even though I loved it so much. I miss the people there, but im starting to love the people here. I actually went on a split with Brother Webb. Who is our dentists nephew!! That was pretty cool. Such a small world. The weather here is amazing!! Not gonna lie i love it. Utah weather sounds like it sucks. :) sorry peeps. Vacaville is sick. Elder Wykle did stay in Davis. The missionary that replaced me is solid i hear so they will get things going there. I have only met like 1 solid investigator. His name is mario. He is soooo sick. He is catholic and he is just struggling to know if Joseph Smith truley restored this gospel. He will come around though. He is super solid. He actually just moved over to the 5th ward i believe so we had to give him up :(. There is an elder in 5th ward that justin might know his brother. This elders bro served with justin so that will be kinda interesting if they know eachother. There is also a LA here who is home bound. He doesnt have legs and is just stuck in his bed basically but he has the strongest testimony and positive attitude about everything. Such a great example to me and i realize how blessed i am. I love the ward so far. Its great here. Today for pday we played football with some teens and bishop and some missionaries. That was so much fun. So many good memories. This little girl got nailed in the head with the ball and it was probably the funniest thing i have ever seen. Something you would see on americas funniest home videos. I have to apologize to those i cant email anymore. I'm so sorry. If you write me though ill write you back i promise. This will just prove who my real friends are ;). No but actually you guys can email me and ill write you a letter. Ill do my best :). Love you guys so much! I need Jarens address too btw. That would be grand. I will email trenton and gparents starting next week. I'm just kinda running short on time today because we played football forever. I have asked some missionaries in the room if they know ashtons but they dont. Ill keep an eye our for them though. I'll also finish sending out those thank you letters dont worry. Trenton got his endowments out! Whaaaaaaa! Thats awesome! Did you guys go to the draper temple? I wish i couldve been there :( thats okay though. I cant believe he leaves in like a month. That has flown by. I hit 5 months tomorrow. Whoaaaa.. I miss you all so much! But I know that I'm doing the right thing. I have seen how blessed I am and how much I can apply into my life when I get home. Yesterday was awesome. There was a fireside that all the singles went to and lots of missionaries here in vacaville. Pres and Sister Alba spoke and so did this guy named Blake Andrews. Blakes story is unbelievable. He has had such a crazy life. The topic was a mighty change of heart. Blake has been to jail soooo many times and is not afraid to share his story. He has had a HUGE change of heart. It was so awesome to hear how the atonement can change ANYTHING. Its soooo awesome. Well... I hope you are all doing well. I keep you guys in my daily prayers. I miss you all sooooooooo much, but im glad to know you are taking care of my room. I miss that thing ;). Thank you for everything you guys do. I love telling people about my family. I'm so blessed to have such a great family, friends, and support system in general. Peace out fellas until next week!! LOVE YOU!!!!!!

Hey family!!!!!!! Sooooo... I got some news for everybody. But first there are some rules that President Alba has layed down very strongly. Some of these rules really bug me but I know they are coming from the Lord. This mission supposedly needed them. I guess a lot of people have become O.C. (outta control.) So let me touch on a couple of these rules. I'm NOT allowed to email anybody except for mom, dad, brayton, justin. THATS IT :(. I'm not even allowed to email grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, nothing! Its so hard.. I'm pretty frustrated with the rules, but its okay. I have been emailing a couple of friends especially Trenton.. Idk what to do about that one.. I want to email him because it will take forever to talk to him while he is in Chile, but like I said president watches who were emailing and he is laying down these rules hard... Ugh. Also... we are now not allowed to have toys or anything like that.. soo.. I'm sending my car back home :( it was fun while it lasted haha. There is a member here that is giong to send it off for me.. or drop it off in march when she goes through sandy. No need to keep an eye out. It will arrive when it does. I trust her. Another rule is were only allowed to listen to motab... ewwww hahaha. Last rule is no electronics. That was kinda already a rule but he slammed down on it so idk if i will be able to use those recording things that brayton wanted to send me. Sooo... yeah these rules are very frustrating but i know as im obedient that me, my area, and my family will be blessed. Soooooo... now im done complaining...... haha but I have the transfer news. I AM GOING TO VACAVILLE!!!! Its only liek 30 mins away haha so nothing too big but im leaving my greenie area!! YAY!! :) I'm actually kinda sad to be leaving here because i love it so much and im comfortable.. which is why im leaving :(. I'm so excited to see what the Lord has in store for me. I will be biking again... yayyy... :) Nah it will be good. My new companion is named Elder Timberlake. He is a super quiet humble guy i hear. People say im gonna love him. Elder Blake is giong home tomorrow. Feel free to search out for him and see how things are going. i'm sure he would love to talk. This past week was pretty good. Kanza (the african american) came to church yesterday to say bye to me and it sounds like he is gonna keep on attending church even though me and blake are gone. I actually had a really cool experience the other day. We were weekly planning and we were going through the formers. I found a former that i have been wanting to see but just havent yet. So i called him up and we started talking about his past and i started talking about the atonement. he then asked how to do i get to heaven, so i explained faith, repentance, baptism, enduring to the end. He straight up was just like I want to get baptized. I was like uhhhhh ok yeah so we set a date and said a prayer over the phone and that was that. BUT dont get too excited with this story ebcause its not a happy ending haha. I got a call at church and he said that god will direct him in his ways and he is fine where he is at. He has a mental disease where he is TERRIFIED of crowds. I think thats why he backed out ebcause he has to go to chruch twice before baptized. Soo.. it kinda sucks he bailed but thats okay because i feel like a seed was planted and he will eventually come around. Thats that latest news on our teaching. nothing too special is going on. The only special thing going on is that i'm leaving. Actually there is a funny story... Once again going through the formers and i wanted to go see somebody that lived by us. Well we went over there a couple times and we could hear the tv on but she would never answer. Well one day we biked by and there were cops outside her house. We were so confused, but then as we were biking by we heard a lady on the phone say "Gingers dead!' The lady that we have been trying to see was DEAD nobdoy knew though because she lived alone! Hahaha so crazy and sad :(. I need a new journal if thats okay.. I'm only down to a few pages left so if you could send it to my new area when i get you my address or just send it to the mission home and it will get to me eventually. Oh yeah where im going is where sister hernandez is. She is stoked to see me again. Yes mom my friends name is madalie and her mom works at costco haha idk how you ever got on that topic. That would be sooooooooo cool to do something fun when i get back. We gotta hit up a cruise again with EVERYBODY this time :). I'm used to the weather here.. its not as bad as utah at all. It is cold on my bike but a member made me a scarf which has helped out a ton surprisingly. but yes i am staying warm mom dont you fret! It will start warming up here soon. everybody is saying its usually not this cold here. Just my luck.. Whitney is already home?! WHAAAA!? Noo.... thats super crazy. Time goes by so fast. Well... I dont have much more to say. I love you all soooooooooo much. Please stay close to Heavenly Father and apply the atonement in your lives. The atonement can heal everything. Jesus Christ is our savior. He SUFFERED for all of us. Without him there would be no way for our awesome family to be together forever. REPENT the time is near.. we dont have that much time. We have procrastinated enough :) hahaha i know i sound crazy but really though lets pick it up. The Lord has hastened his work for a reason. LETS GO BOYS! and GIRLS! LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! I'm so sorry for those that I cannot email anymore... write me when you find out my address. Trenton... Ugh idk man this is gonna be hard. Stay safe everybody!! Mom and dad keep being the best parents ever. I brag about you guys all the time. Brayton and Justin keep on pushin guys I love you all so much!! Peace out!! Next email i'll be in Vacaville!!! Teaskie is out! :)

Hey family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sooooo.. im not gonna hold anything back. Right now is pretty hard being a missionary not gonna lie. Work here is super slow... i feel like i just ride around on my bike and get drenched in the rain for no purpose because its just so slow here. It doesnt help that my companion is getting super lazy. There is always one thing after another that is wrong with him. Its soooooo frustrating but im keeping my cool haha. Johnsen (the ZL) talks to me quite a bit about this stuff and we just try to work things out and see what we can do. Being a missoinary isnt as hard as its sounding right now haha. Its just been kinda slow lately and the holidays and everything. I know that ill come out of this stronger though. Other than that things are going well! I love the people im serving around and i love the ward! I think ill be leaving though.. mom and dad you guys dont think im leaving because ive been here for 3 months. i have actually been here for 4.. this is awkward :) haha but everybody thinks that im gone. i feel that i am gone too. We will see though where the Lord wants me. So transfers are this week so you wont hear from me until Tuesday!! I dont want you to get on monday and see that there is nothing haha. I'm really anxious to see what happens though. I'm gonna miss this ward when i leave. i have so many people that i want to come back and see when i go home. I know you are concerned about my cough... haha my cough is getting better! I went to go see a doctor in the stake and he just got back in town from utah. Guess wehre in utah? right next to wear Ryan, Zac, and Trevor live! haha it was so cool talking to him about that area and having flashbacks. he met zacs dad because he is the bishop. I felt like i was back in utah for a little. I miss utah! I wish it would snow here and the "mountains" here would grow. California is awesome though not gonna lie. My companion is doing alright. he always has something wrong with him and it slows us down all the time. i get so frustrated because i dont just want to sit around (i know that doesnt sound like me) haha but really! Im trying to love him but its so hard sometimes. I know things will pick up when i get a companion that wants to work and not complain about everything. he is senior comp and i do everything. Pshh whats up with that haha :). Johnsen has been emailing the president saying i need a different comp. The ZLs have been telling me how well i have been doing this transfer with everything. they say im a great missionary and need a better companion to keep on learning. I love those guys they keep me going. New years was pretty fun. We went to the Nyes house and celebrated it new york style. The nyes are such an awesome family. The sister missionaries that are in davis were there too it was awesome. Then when i came home i saw the pizza that the Thornes ordered me just chillin at the door haha it was so cool! We all enjoyed it! I got a letter from Madi the other day telling me about all the people that are going on missions are getting married. People are getting married!!? What the heck is going on mback at home. Thats so weird.. im getting so old. :) I'm so excited for all the girls that are going out. Weird to think they will be getting home at like the exact same time as me! I think its so funny how many people are out on missions or going out on missions. Only in utah.. :) Anyway... I dont really have any cool stories to tell since the work has been going pretty slow. I have done quite a bit of service though for members which is nice. It keeps me busy and builds a reltionship with them. I miss you all soooooooooooo much. I really really do. I sometimes think about what i would do to see you guys again for just 5 mins haha but i know what im doing is the right thing. Even though its really hard sometimes.. its totally worth it. The mission isnt for me, its for others. I love you all sooooooooooo much! Stay safe in the cold. Keep partying hard and being awesome. Peace out until next week! We'll see where i end up! :) TALK TO YOU ON TUESDAY!