Whats up Sandy, Utah!!! AKA Best family ever!!!!!

Elderrrrr Howell here in the family history center. This past week was prettyyyy good! 

I just wanna say that Grandma Howell is a fighter... she is in my prayers and i hope all goes well for her soon! Keep fighting grandma i love you sooo much!!

Mommmmm it sounds like this young womens thing is gonnna be sick for you! I love it! You got to go to the temple and do some baptisms that is sweet! i hope you still have the calling when I get home because I wanna come teach the class with you hahaha. 

I have no idea whats going on on mothers day yet. They havent quite told us I think it will just be a phone call but im not sure. Whatever it is im defintely looking forward to it! Miss you all so much! Can you believe I got my call almost a year ago? I cant remember when i got it but i believe I got it in May. but who knows.. my memory is terrible for some reason haha. I think I got it from my momma ;) hahaha 

Dad it sounds like you finally have to do yard work by yourself.. hallelujah. I was so unselfish and helped you wayy too much hahahah jk i know i needed to help more :( ill be better when i come home :)

Brayton I love you bro keep up the good work bro!! :) Love you so much!

Justin I love you man glad to hear all is going well thank you for everything!

Thank you for being the best family EVER!!!!!

Soooooo anyway about this past week. It was pretty sweet! Yesterday Crystal was able to attend church!! Yeahhhhhhhh buddy! As far as we know she liked it. The ward was soo welcoming to her it was sick! She is still struggling with her family and smoking but i know the Lord is blessing her so much lately. I love this work and watching people change. Its impossible to deny this church when you see these things happen. Hopefully she can get baptized by her date!

We have learned a ton of different things to help us become better missionaries and I have tried putting them to use but its sooo hard haha. I pray that I will be able to make these things my strengths and bring more of God's children closer to Him :)

The other day we had a way interesting experience. We had an appointment set with some random lady and we went and of course she wasnt there. We were about to leave when a lady came outside and said "hey guys" were like  "heyyy.." haha then she just broke down and we were like uh oh.. whats going on. She told us that she is an alcoholic and that she hates herslef sooo much. It was probably the worst thing i have ever heard somebody say about themselves.. it was so sad! So we offered a prayer for her and it meant so much to her. After the prayer she just went inside and broke down.. we havent been able to see her since then to see how she was doing but it was NUTS.. we didnt know what to do after she walked inside.

I think i told you about Brenda and Esmiralda. The 17 year old twins we have been teaching. They havent made it to chruch again but we had an appointment and Brenda told us she felt the spirit when she was reading the Book of Mormon! She thinsk its true but isnt sure haha idk why she is still questioning! She felt the spirit!! We asked if theyd be baptized and they said yes but we were unable to set a date with them. They werent sure yet. Hopefully we will be able to set a date with them soon. I wish they would come to church! But they say they always have something going on.. but thats gonna change :)

We were able to get Elder Smith to meet basically all our investigators which isnt that much.. but yeah it took a little to get to see them. This coming week we hope we can pick up more. We need to get FAMILIES FAMILIES FAMILES! We will see what happens!

I have been keeping in touch with trenton sounds like he is in quite the culture shock haha. I can only imagine how big of a change it is.. he will get used to it though im sure. love that kid.

The fassbinders sent me a package so if you could thank them that would be greeeatttt! Ill send them a thank you card this week but you guys should thank them too :).

Mom dont worry about that packages haha its not a big deal at all! Really though dont worry about it. Thank you for everything you guys have done for me while I  have been out here. I know it was a HUGE sacrifice on all our parts. Even though im exhausted by the end of the day and that this mission is the hardest thing i have ever done I know we are recieving many many blessings :). I pray for you each every single day. I miss you and love you all sooooooooooooo much! I'll talk to you again next week! :) If my letters suck and are super boring.. let me know and ill see what i can do to improve them haha i dont wanna bore you guys to death :) LOVE YOU!!!!!!! peace dudes

Hey family!

Hope everybody had a great Easter. Mine was pretty good. A member had us over for dinner so it was pretty fun. Definitely miss home during the holidays sometimes.. haha but thats ok.


Transfers are now here. I will be staying here and the new missionary coming in is named Elder Smith. If its the kid im thinking of then he came into the field with me. He wasnt in my district though so i have no idea what hes like. Elder TImberlake is headed to Woodland. Gonna miss that guy.

My week has been pretty good. You think I would have a lot to tell you guys but I dont.. :(I'm sorry haha) A lot of people have been out of town because of spring break. We met with Crystal the other day and she is struggling so bad with her family.. Its rough,  her step dad is an alcoholic and tears the family apart. She needs a different environment so badly. Our other baptismal date named Andy got evicted so we have no idea where he is.. haha freak. BUT we did have a sweet miracle the other day. We were walking and you remember Charlie? The Jehovahs Witness? Well we saw him drive by so we booked it and tried to find him in a neighborhood. We finally were able to find him after tons of running. He is doing pretty good he was so glad to see us. He told us the new place where he was living which is really close to us! But... we went to go see him and a guy said he moved earlier that day. Sooo.. were not quite sure whats going on. I hope Heavenly Father keeps placing him in our path because he really needs it.

We also found a less active that we were able to get to church on Sunday. She hasnt been to church since her teens. We have some members that are doing a really great job fellowshipping her. Its really exciting. We tracted into another less active and we noticed she doesnt have ANYTHING in here apartment because she lost it all in storage. So myself  and Elder Timberlake were out and about and found a nice couch that we hauled over there. that was sweet we put it on a shopping cart and pushed it over haha people were looking at us like what are they doing... but she was SOOO grateful. It was a really cool experience.

As far as investigators go its kinda the same. Well we did pick up a little family but we arent sure how legit they are. They are soooooooo busy and we meet again on the 12th. Her husband is a jerk she says and wont talk to us but her and her kids will. Hopefully things work out there   Gma and Gpa Thorne had some of the cousins email me that was sooo sweet! That meant a lot to me. Mom that reminds me i wanna see Grant do the dance :) haha i have seen that dance a lot. I miss everybody so much.

Yeah Mom I cant believe how many people are out on missions right now that I graduated with. Its so nuts. Its nice for me to know that..It kinda keeps me going sometimes. Especially today haha. Today I have thought about home quite a bit.. idk why its weird but yeah it will be fine no worries :) I just miss my favorite family ever thats all. :)

Well.. time for me to bounce my dudes. I love you all so much and I pray that you will all stay safe. I want you all to know how important this Gospel is.. We are in the final days. Its very important that we all pick it up. The Lord needs us.. I love you all so very much! Take Care! Elder Baller is out until next week!

  This is a picture of from left:  Elder Timberlake Tanner, and Elder Bezzant a Spanish Speaking Elder Tanners mentioned before. They are at the Sacramento Temple.