Another email

Hey mom,
Well i know i have sent you a few emails over the past couple of days and here is another one. Today My companion/trainer and i are just doing some things that we need to get done. My first area is a Biking area so one of the things we are trying to do is go about getting bikes. i know i asked you to maybe try and add some money to my account but if you could add some more, if you have already, or add a lot, if you haven't, i need to be able to purchase a bike and i think they are suggesting around $450-$600.  other than that, California is hot. At least, during the day it is hot. mornings and evenings are pretty cool so it isn't all bad. I am having a great time already. i am loving it! My companion's name is Elder Lund. He was just released from being a zone leader so that he could train me so i feel like i am in really good hands. He has already shown me some stuff that they didn't really go over in the MTC. Everything is going so well that i hope i can get things done. The area we are in was closed for a couple of weeks cause one of the previous elders got hurt and had to go for a surgery, so they put us here to take control. so we are already on the way to getting things set up here.

. . . everyone to write me as often as they can find time to. so if you can remind everyone in the ward and maybe put my mailing address on my facebook for me, that would be great too. and give the mailing address to zach so he can pin it up on the board at martial arts. i would love to hear from people there as well.

Anyway, i don't think i have told you this yet, but they are going to be splitting my mission come July. so depending on what area they have me in when that time rolls around, i might end up staying in this mission, or i will end up in the Irvine mission. so i hope, that i can just stay in this mission, cause i have already met most of the people that would most likely be staying here and i am hoping that the others from my district at the MTC will be staying in the Anaheim mission as well. but i know that wherever i end up, that's where i need to be. one of the reasons i hope to stay though, is cause i have met the mission president and he is a fantastic guy. I haven't gotten a chance to meet with him much 'cause this is only my second day, but i believe that i would like to have him remain my mission president, so because this is my first area, and because i am a trainee, i don't think that is the most likely course, but if they whitewash me out with my companion after these next three months, then i will have a possibility of being in the Anaheim mission still. Whitewashing is when they transfer both of the elders from the area out and bring in two completely new elders in. so my companion and i were whitewashed into the area we're going to be serving and if they whitewash us out, then i will have a chance of staying in Anaheim instead of Irvine. but anyway, i just wanted to get this out to you and i hope you all are doing well. i love you all and know that God is smiling on you too.

Love and Godspeed

Elder Jastal