March 17th, 2026

Blind Leading the Blind Hello Everyone!!! How is whatever you are doing? You should email me and tell me about it😁😁😁please. So Élder Vargas, my little Mendocino, left Monday afternoon so I had to be in 1 trio for like 24 hours with an Élder Kinghorn and his kid (trainee) Élder Hix. I don’t like …

March 9th, 2026

They Took Him From Me!!!! Guys it’s still raining a lot here. I’m literally just serving in AZ but everyone heckles me acting like they’re gonna get my opinion on global politics. Please email me. If you do you have my heart forever. I’ll start off with the bad news. We got Emergency Transfers or …

March 2nd, 2026

Avengers Endgame Sacrament Meeting/ We Met Hitler!!!! Hey everybody! Please send me an email😭 On Pday we had everyone and their mom at our apartment. We didn’t really do anything but we just sat around and talked. We did make some bomb pancakes that morning though for breakfast. Tuesday nothing really happened but we did …

February 16th, 2026

Face Volcano and St. Johns Pretty above average week but there were a few highlights. For P–day I lived up to my Gardner heritage and played golf but also lived up to my the heritage of my uncles and brother because I played horribly. I didn’t put on sunscreen of course and got super burnt. …

February 16th, 2026

Water Buckets but an Empty Font Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! Thankfully nothing insane happened here like there sometimes is but I hope everyone’s week was great!  So we were hoping to baptize our friend Pablo this week. If you don’t remember him, he’s the GOAT from a few weeks ago, please go read my emails …

February 9th, 2026

6 Months, Bomberos, and Baptism 6 Months in the mission🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Gone by so quick and an amazing week for completing 6 months. Finally made contact with the mom of the 2 girls and grandma we were teaching 😬😬😬 The Mom was mad because we were trying to coordinate with her to be able to teach …

February 3rd, 2026

Cut Trees and Roots Settled Hey everyone!!! Second week in the second area was really good and we should be having some baptisms here soon🌊💦💧 Pday: All the Elders in our District came to our area because it’s only like a 30 minute bus ride. We went and got breakfast and then afterwards went shopping …

January 26th, 2026

Don’t Worry, Be Happy Hey Everyone! First week in my new area and it’s going great!  Monday: I got to my area at like noon and right as I walked into the terminal, by accident met the Branch President of my area. Waited about an hour for my comp, Elder Vargas to get here. Dropped …

January 19th, 2026

Long Walk and an Even Longer Travel Hey everyone!!! Sorry for not emailing last week. Had a super busy PDay but also not an eventful week last week, so I really didn’t have much to write about. Last week: Literally nothing but working. Didn’t have much happen minus a drunk guy stopping us in the …

January 5th, 2026

New Years Exchanges Happy New Years everyone!!!! I hope you all had an amazing New Years so far and are doing your resolutions Pretty baller week this week! Monday we were gonna reattempt the hike we tried to do a few weeks back but got shot down by Interviews with my Mission President. It was …