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

Whats up family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last week until transfers!!! Odds are my trainer is gone.. but we will see! Everybody thinks im staying but we will find out for sure at the end of the week. My Thanksgiving was pretty good. I missed home a lot though.. We went to a turkey bowl with the YSA ward and that was a lot of fun actually. After that the zone went and played some soccer. I miss playing legit soccer so much! It was a lot of fun getting out playing again. Then we went to a dinner at our ward mission leaders house with all his family and everything. Then we went to a recent converts home and we ate there for a little while and just hung out. So yeah my thanksgiving was pretty good i did miss home a lot though. The work here is sooooo slow during the holidays ive heard. So nothing too special happened this week. Earlier this week we had a family home evening with a member and she has like 4 little kids and they took over 200 pictures on my camera haha they loved it. And their daughter made me build her a spaceship out of leggos and if i stopped she would threatin to rip my planner haha they are such a fun family. We didnt get to see any of our investigators because they were all out of town. The teaching is so slow right now. Yesterday at church was a lot of fun. We had to go in and answer some questions from the little kids and taught them about why were out on missions. They are so funny. On wednesday we are going to teach the seminary.. we will see how that goes. They arent gonna be as funny as the primary kids just ebcause thats not even possible but it will be a fun and a learning experience! :) Mom thats so sweet you went to black friday! you never would do that! I hope you got me some cool stuff haha jk :). I only have to miss one more how cool is that?? I remember last year when i was in the middle of EVERYBODY just having a good ole time but i almost died becuase people are crazy haha its so much fun! Congrats to Makaila for being engaged!! That is crazy!!!!! I was thinking the other day that if im gonna get the nephew i have been dreaming of Brayton or Justin needs to get married within the next year because a pregnancy is 9 months (if you guys didnt know.) Time to get on top of that brothers!! I need addresses to Moms brothers and sisters (including Jarens tranfer address if he gets transfered) and thats all. I have everybody elses address that i need. HUGE shout out to the Mitchells!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooo much for the gift!!!! I appreciate it soooo much!!!! Shout out to Bryson Clark. Headed to Michigan English speaking! Yeahhhhh state side english! Thats wussup! he leaves the same day as trenton.. that is nuts. Miss those kids. Anyway..... I love you guys sooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pray for you each every night. You all mean soooo much to me. If there is anything i can do for the family please let me know! Can't wait to hear from you again next week!! LOVE MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!! Elder Howell/Teaskie/Tbone/T/Lilt is out!

Hellloooooo Family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sooo... to being this off i have to give a big shout out to my brother/best friend from birth trempin neilson! CONGRATS MY MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm really upset though because my package didnt come on saturday.. i bet its back at the apartment right now. I'll watch the video when i get home. It better be there. I can't believe he is going to Chile!!! I heard from some emails haha I'm soooo stoked for him!! Little jealous because all my friends are out of the country learning spanish or some other language... BUT this is where the Lord wants me so im satisfied :). Thank you for sending the package though.. i'm sure ill get it. I'm doing just dandy out here. Been thinking a lot about home lately because of the holidays and what not haha but i hope you all have excellent holidays. Black friday is coming up feel free to buy me tons of awesome stuff to put in my room for when i get home.. just sayin ;). For Thanksgiving this year I get to do a turkey bowl with the young single adults ward here in davis. I'm pretty excited for that. The spanish elders that live with me got permission for the whole mission because they were curious what they could do. After that were going to the ward mission leaders house for thanksgiving. Supposedly he is gonna have tons of family there so that could be awkward kinda haha but it will be fun. But after that were headed back off to work unless we find somewhere else to go. Were allowed to go and hang out with families and stuff to build relationships but we havent really gotten invited anywhere else. We will figure it out :). I'm so happy that you guys get to go to st george this year. I havent been there in foreverrrrr. Hope you guys party it up there. Be safe. Nothing too special happened this week... Like really haha. Were teaching this lady Marilyn who we ran into outside the library last week. She loves to show us pictures of her past.. its kinda hard to stay focused because there are soooooo many. We have to just tell her to stop sometimes so we can teach her haha. The sisters in our district had a baptism on saturday so that was a good experience. I was a witness and ive never done that before. When she went under and i looked at the other guy for confirmation i felt like a football referee for the field goals haha it was pretty funny. We were going through our formers and we thought we should go see this Curt dude. He is awesome!!! He is this black guy that LOVES the Lord!! he is so funny. He has lots of health problems so hes kinda hard to understand sometimes but he has the accent and enthusiasm of the black people haha i love it! We will be going back to teach him this week. He doesnt know if he will join the church but he is really interested in the priesthood. We will see how that goes. Those are our 2 newest investigators though. The work is starting to pick up again. I love the ward im in so much. I have been biking in the rain a lot lately. Its kinda fun actually :). Thats so funny hearing about janaes baby. I have yet to see pictures of him so i hope to get them soon. I miss that little guy!! :( I can't believe the Mitchells are already home from their mission.. thats so nuts. I hope they enjoyed it even though it was difficult. I dont know exactly how theres was but missions are sooo difficult. But I learn something new everyday. But.. thats probably because i dont know that much in general so there are many things to learn from :). Congrats to Miranda and Miles. Shouldnt they be having a baby soon? They should get going on that.. hahaha. I miss my family!!!! I love them soooooo much!!! I have the best friends in the world. I cant believe so many people are getting their calls and/or leaving. Thats soooo sweet. I miss my good ole friends. Crazy to think that some of the friends that left really fast after high school go home in less than a year.. whoaaaaaaaa. Times flies!! Time is going by pretty fast for me. Honestly some days are slower than others but for the most part its going by fast. I get along with elder blake really well. He is a goof. He understands my humor thank goodness. If he didnt i would die...... we think he will be leaving at the end of this transfer. He is kinda trunky but im trying to help him out as he helps me out. Thats how companionships work my dear friends. Christmas is coming up!!!! Mom... I have no idea what i want. I really really dont. Maybe some ties? I would like skinny ties if i do get any. Maybe some garments? Gosh Idk mommy I don't really need anything i dont think!! Ughhh just surprise me unless i give you some ideas in the coming weeks. Now the question is.. what can i get your guys for christmas!? :) Well... I hope all of you are doing well. Miss you all so much! Have a greattttttttt thanksgiving! I hope as i go back to my apartment my package will be there. If not.. I'm gonna fight some people because im so huge ;). Love my family and friends sooooo much!! Thank you for everything you guys do for me!! Peace out until next week. DJ Teaskie/Elder T is out!! DUECES!!

Hola mi familia!!!!!!!!! (I wish I knew spanish) Hi my favorite family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hows everything going in the utah snow?? I miss that stuff so much!! Its freezing here at night and there isnt even any snow. Whats the freezing cold without snow?? I'll never understand Northern California. It just rains here sometimes and that's it. On the bright side I don't have to shovel any walkways or anything.. haha not like i ever did that at home anyway. Right dad? ;) I'm sure you have already caught on by now that I am able to email today! We are at the stake center in the family history library. Unfortunately, I forgot my usb cord for my camera so you wont be getting any pictures today :( thats my bad. I knew i was gonna forget it. I'm retarded. Glad to hear that everybody is staying busy! But lets be honest.. you guys are not as busy as me.. :) kidding! We are all working hard and playing hard. Thats how we live :). I'm always so exhausted at the end of the day! Its nuts.. im sure you guys are exhausted too working to get money. I remember when i worked to get money... not. I never did ;) hahaha I went out to the mailbox on saturday expecting my sd card... and there was NOTHING! I was sooooo disappointed haha. TRENTON GET YOUR CALL!!!!!!!! Congratulations to Zack!! I miss and love that kid. Tell him congratulations for me puhhleasseee! I cant believe he is going to Ecuador where Madi was. That just blows my mind. Also congratulations to John Gleason (Gleags) he is going to new york new york spanish. Thats where Dallin Vanmondfrans is I think. I'm so happy to hear about all these people about to get their calls or getting their calls. The ladies are going to go out too! That is awesome! Crazy how they will probably be home before me.. hahaha. Thats awesome though. This work is going hard. I'm not looking forward to everybody speaking spanish around me though when i get home ;). Anyway.. My week was pretty sweet! Last week when we left the library after emailing there was a lady outside who pulled me and a spanish elder aside (Elder Lenen) and talked to us for a little bit and me and Elder Blake picked her up as a new investigator a couple days later. That was a miracle. Right place at the right time. We will see how it turns out. Her name is Marilyn. Me and blake were walking our bikes through an intersection at night and these 2 cars crashed into each other. It was the most retarded wreck i have ever seen. People are dumb haha. But no it really was scary we rushed over to see how everything was and they all were perfectly fine. I thought i was gonna have to save a life but it didnt happen. The only thing the passenger of the car that caused it was worried about was finding her glasses. I walk up and say "are you ok" "yeah can you find my glasses" hahaha uhh yeahh.. i guess that was the most important thing to her in the moment. I also saw an asian riding her bike the other day run into a parked car in a intersection.. that was really funny hahaha i tried to hold in my laugh. She was perfectly fine. She was sooo embarrassed though. One night me and blake were riding our bikes and some dude stops us and wanted to talk about the gospel. So of course we pulled over to a table and chatted. Turns out this guy is as high as a kite because he has prescription weed card or whatever. He asked us if we smoked or drank and what not hahaha. but we talked about the gospel and met up with him a couple days later. He was a Jehovah Witness who knew sooooooooo much about the Bible that i didnt even know how to respond to him. He ended up dropping us because he is hardcore Jehovah. Hmmm what else happened this week. Some teenage kids asked me and blake what planet we were from hahaha people always give us so much crap its a lot of fun. We also had interviews with President Alba. Mine went well. I love that guy. He is seriously the most christlike man everrrr! I don't think I have anymore special things to tell you guys... things are just going well here. The work is a little slow right now but im having fun. I miss and love you all soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!! My testimony has grown so much while ive been out here.. Its super crazy. Anyway.. I think its time for me to get going. Trenton i cant wait for your call to come!!! Don't go spanish so I have somebody to talk to. ;) I LOVE MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS SOOOOO MUCH!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

Family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Just another week here in Davis California. Thank you sooooo much for the package. I was sooo excited to see the pictures that were inside i was so freakin happy. Idk what to do with the sheets though.. haha i dont relaly need them but ill figure it out. Well.. Most of my week has to do with the camp I believe. The beginning part wasnt that special. Camp liahona was awesome!!!!! It was such a great experience. I got to meet so many missionaries. I got to talk to Elder Dax Johnson who went to Jordan. That was pretty sweet. We had so many devotionals and little class things. Their goal was just to strenghten our faith and get us more motivated. It definitely worked. On our way there my ride took the coast line there. It was soooooo cool! I got to see the ocean when the fog was all around. It was so cool looking. I have a couple pictures Ill send. Also on our way there i saw a 2 point buck. Wow major flashbacks haha i didnt get any pictures though because we didnt have time to stop.. we were already running late. But it was awesome! We also did some service with cutting down huge trees and carrying the wood down a huge hill. of course I was the one carrying the biggest ones just becasue im so huge. haha NOT! But it was such a great experience. I stayed warm except for the showering. The showers were FREEZING!!!!!!! Never been so miserable in my life haha. A really cool thing we did was praying in the trees individually for 30 mins. That was an amazing experience for everybody. Except i knelt right beside deer poop. That was kinda distracting thinking about hunting and stuff but i kept control.. hahaha :) Earlier this week I was able to give 2 blessings in one day. That was really cool.. i felt like a big deal :). Our recent convert deborah that just got baptized was struggling so we went over and gave her a blessing and then at dinner with a recent convert named steve who is the most interesting guy ever needed a blessing. he is actually getting evicted from his house.. its sooo sad. I love that guy so much. But he will figure it out. Halloween this year was just another day for us haha. They didnt want us out late because of all the crazy college kids that are here but it was pouring rain at night so it wasnt as crazy as i thought. We had to ride our bikes in it and it was a blast! I love the rain! It was super cold though.. I wore justins coat thing he gave me. That thing is amazing. We had dinner at a members home and that was like the most exciting thing haha but we also made shirts before we went home for camp liahona so i guess that was the most exciting thing. I wanted to go out trick-r-treating and dress up as a missionary but we didnt do it :( ;) haha. How was your guys halloween?? Did you go trick-r-treating?? I bet dad went out. I dont really have much more to add. Maybe a little story.. We forgot about our appointment on Tuesday and we were with the Sisters and we cant drive in their car but we had to get back to our bikes FAST. Soo about 3 blocks away I gave the sisters my backpack and shoes and booked it to the church to get my bike soo fast hahaha they were dying laughing. I was stepping on so much crap like branches and rocks it killed. People were looking at me like i was an idiot. I loved it. But thats basically all that happened this week. I dont really need anything from you guys. Thank you so much for the package again. I love getting those things I feel so cool. I hope everything is going well with you all. I miss you all soooooo much! But I know this is the right thing to do and I'm freakin loving it!! Some questions I have are hows Mac doing with the winter?? Do you think he will make it?? If you have to take him to my room I dont care :). Idk why i said some.. because i think thats the only question i have haha. I just hope you guys are doing well let me know if your man AKA Elder Howell can do anything for you. Love you all sooooooo much!!!! I have the best family ever!!!!!!!!!!!! OH Btw.. I cant wait for Trenton to get his call!!!!!!!!!! Thats sooooooooooooooo exciting!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah buddy!!!!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!! Thank you family for all you do for me!!! BEST FAMILY EVER!!!!!!!! (sorry about the "!" got a little carried away...) Until next week..... Your man.... DJ Teaskie... Elder Howell.... Is out!! PEACE! :) Gotta go save Gods children!

Everything is going well here of course! I'm a missionary.. things are always going well! Glad to hear the family was able to go out hunting again. Too bad there wasnt any success though.. if i was there we wouldve had success.. just sayin :). Elder Rollins called!! yayy!!! i miss that kid! He is soooo great. Nicest kid i have ever met by far. New roommate is elder lenen from idaho. He is such a great guy as well. he has been out for about a year. Elder Blake is from ohio since you forgot.. I cant wait for my package!! i have been waiting for it.. i go out to the mail just waiting for it and it doesnt come :( haha jk but i cant wait! happy halloween! I missed the howl this year.. that was kinda disappointing :). But for halloween this year we can go to a members house and chill or just chill in our appartments. Last year they got to play ball like all day long but we cant this year :( just my luck but its whatev. Oh and i talked to trenton about his video of the call. I actually sent him a memory card that i want him to put the video on. you can put it in a camera or download the video onto it from the computer. whatever works. just send it to me asap after he gets the call. im sooooooooooo excited!! Mom i did not get the picture of grant i dont think ill have to go through my emails and try to find it. i miss and love that kid so much. Stay safe in park city. hope all goes well there. There hasnt been any really new stories to tell for this week. Just workin hard and trying to get new investigators. We actually had a miracle happen. A guy we have been working with hasnt been to church in YEARS. We got him to come on sunday!!! It was awesome!! Something funny that happened this week was we were walking around downtown Davis on Friday night and we got soooo much crap! it was hillarious. people were saying so much stuff to us like nice costumes.. and some homeless guy was like mormons huh?? we said yeah for sure! he said keep walkinggg.. we busted up laughing and then he mocked us. hahaha i felt bad for a second but it was funny. I also got a flat tire on my bike and had to walk like 3 miles to go get it fixed. I have the best luck. I was just laughing because something about being on a mission every little thing in this world makes me laugh :). My knowledge of the gospel increases everyday. I get sooo exhausted by the end of the day but its so worth it. I love the people that i get to teach and meet. We are working with that 90 year old still. it was really cool earlier this week when we taught him. At first he wasnt interested in praying AT ALL. BUT by the end of the lesson we committed him to praying. We have an appointment with him tomorrow so we will see how that goes. Hopefully he has been prayin his old heart out! great guy. We all leave for camp liahona this thursday-saturday. i'm so excited!! not sure how its gonna turn out but im really excited to see what happens. Ill take some pictures and what not. I dont have many pictures for this past week im really sorry :( i kinda forgot to take some. in the next email ill send a couple. one of the pictures is an elder named elder hunt who was standing while bench pressing or whatever. that was a lot of fun. Our district switched up a little bit this past transfer. There are 4 sisters and me and Elder Blake their names are Sister Hernandez, Sister Ika, Sister Briggs, and Sister Uehara. Sister Hernandez gives me soooooo much crap. She says i reminder her of her little brother so she has to give me lots of crap. we have a good time. we went to a baptism yesterday that sister hernandez and sister uehara taught. that was a great experience. It was a young couple that have a little kid thats like 3. sooo exciting to know they are gonna be sealed in a year :). I love going to baptisms!! the spirit is so strong there. no way you can deny it :) Anyway.. i think thats like all i have to say. nothing too special is going on. just working hard and riding my bike all the time. Hope all is going well. I love you all soooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for everything you guys do!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have the best family ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry got carried away) But im gonna get going.. i pray for you all every day. Until next time... Elder Howell is out! LATER!