Hola Famila,
Man things are great; I am staying with Elder Osterloh in this area again so that is definitely pretty cool. We are pretty close and he makes me laugh a lot so that is awesome. But he is so excited to get that package. I already told him. But I like how you knew I was not getting transferred before I did. Seems like they like to keep us on the edge of our seats. Pretty funny. Man things are great. I got the package this week.. I loved the Doritos and the cookies man I think the cookies were gone by the next day. You know that they are my absolute favorite. So yeah. Man I appreciate you guys so much.
SO I am going to do this little book of all of the ugly dogs that I see in Puerto Rico when I get home so if you see dogs on my card don’t erase them because its going to be awesome. So I got my first close encounter with almost getting bit. Hahahaha. So I was walking down the street and there was a dog with a puppy in the middle of the street. We walked by and accidentally scarred the puppy so the momma dog freaked out and came after me. and I held my backpack in front of me and it was trying to bite my backpack but luckily it backed off but it was definitely crazy, I was a wee bit scarred but all worked out. Then the animal lover came out in me and there was a kitten on the side of the road crying so I picked it up and brought it to the neighborhood hoping that it would cry and somebody would take it in.
So the ties are way cool those are exactly what I want just always be looking because all my ties are falling apart and I cant wear all of them. But there is a brown thick tie in my room that I bought awhile ago but never wore it; it is on the back of my door along with the volcom tie if you could send that one to.
So we dropped Epy the older lady because she would not come to church and we invited her to be baptized and she didn’t want to so, it was hard but we are going to go see her in a couple of weeks to see how everything is and if she might have the desire to go. We have met so many people this week we have met a couple of families so we are starting to teach them. It’s just all going well. So this transfer we hadn’t baptized anyone but I am pretty sure we will have a couple this week we are going to invite this lady to be baptized today because she is awesome and I am pretty sure she will except so that will be awesome.
One bad thing this week is that training meetings are over so I will not be going to see all my buds anymore but that is all good. But it’s crazy because we have already been here for six weeks and there is so much area that we have not yet explored so this next six weeks we will find a lot more people and explore our area. We have an area where it is all over the mountains and we have it so we are going to try to find a lot more people.
Well things are good and I can’t believe that time is flying by so fast. Well I love you guys so much. You’re amazing.
Peace,Logan
10/29/07
10/25/07
More MTC pictures
I hear that the Elders play tricks on some of their remaining MTC buddies, so I guess they built a wall from all of the boxes they had recieved while there. Too funny. Boys will be boys.
Well, I think this means "Peace", I am out of here. Notice the rooms looks cleared out.Yeah, Pictures from Elder Wells
This Logan showing where he is headed(I think every missionary sends home pictures like this)
Here Logan with friend, Elder Max Crandall,
Max is heading to Washington, Everett mission
Here is Logan with some Mesa friends.....Elder Scott Ball, headed for Italy Milan, and
Elder Jeff Stoker headed for Russia, Samara
The District, All Puerto Rico San Juan East Missionaries
Logan in the MTC laundry mat
Logan and another Mesa friend, Elder Jake McGhan,
Jake is heading to Califonia, San Bernardino mission.
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Dear Family,
Things were good this past week. Many things happened. Time is flying by so fast, I hit my 3 month mark, insane. I really cannot believe it.
Well next week Wednesday is transfers, they call us on Sunday and tell us if are staying or not. Then if we are leaving our area they will have us go to the meeting on Wednesday, and they call your name and tell you where you are going, without telling you before, they just announce it, it is then you find out. You then run and find your new companion and where you are going. Pretty intense, huh? But more likely I will probably stay here for a couple of transfers at least. Which will totally be fine because we starting to find more and more people to teach, so that is cool.
I finally got to drive a car. Can you believe I haven’t driven in 3 months? It felt so good to drive. I went on a trade off where I went to another area and I was with Elder Opurto, who is from Aruba. He doesn’t have a drivers license, so could not drive. My license is still good, it was so great to drive again. I loved it.
Oh, and I never told you last week I went on a trade off with our Zone Leader, Elder Powers. Well they are on a island called Vieques, it took about 1 ½ hours to get there by boat. I gave my first blessing in Spanish, it was awesome to feel the spirit guide me as I gave it. We had lots of visits to do, and did many things for the members there. After we were done we went to the church building, let me tell you there were HUGE spiders on the wall. They scared me, I wanted to scream and run, and it was so funny because I did exactly that… I screamed and ran. But it was fun.
Hope you have a great week.
Love You All,
Elder Wells
Dear Family,
Things were good this past week. Many things happened. Time is flying by so fast, I hit my 3 month mark, insane. I really cannot believe it.
Well next week Wednesday is transfers, they call us on Sunday and tell us if are staying or not. Then if we are leaving our area they will have us go to the meeting on Wednesday, and they call your name and tell you where you are going, without telling you before, they just announce it, it is then you find out. You then run and find your new companion and where you are going. Pretty intense, huh? But more likely I will probably stay here for a couple of transfers at least. Which will totally be fine because we starting to find more and more people to teach, so that is cool.
I finally got to drive a car. Can you believe I haven’t driven in 3 months? It felt so good to drive. I went on a trade off where I went to another area and I was with Elder Opurto, who is from Aruba. He doesn’t have a drivers license, so could not drive. My license is still good, it was so great to drive again. I loved it.
Oh, and I never told you last week I went on a trade off with our Zone Leader, Elder Powers. Well they are on a island called Vieques, it took about 1 ½ hours to get there by boat. I gave my first blessing in Spanish, it was awesome to feel the spirit guide me as I gave it. We had lots of visits to do, and did many things for the members there. After we were done we went to the church building, let me tell you there were HUGE spiders on the wall. They scared me, I wanted to scream and run, and it was so funny because I did exactly that… I screamed and ran. But it was fun.
Hope you have a great week.
Love You All,
Elder Wells
10/15/07
Good morning family!
I wanted to let you all know that I love you guys and that I have definitely felt your prayers this last week. The work is definitely picking up for us thank goodness. We have met so many people this week a family a few new investigators and a gangster guy who is really excited about Joseph Smith who wants to know so much more. The mission has picked up so much and two years doesn’t really sound that long anymore.
Our landlord is amazing and she cooks amazing food for us she cooks us food almost everyday. She cooks so much better than me so what a relief. No we don’t have ac, I always think after we have been out all day and get home it will be cool, but it is not. I am starting to get used to it, and it doesn’t bother me much now.
I sent the memory card home on Tuesday. The letter probably got there early because we sent them way late in the week so that threw it off.
So we have transfers on Halloween that still baffles my mind because that means I will have been here for six weeks when that comes around nuts.
When you take gospel class you realize how true things really are and it opens your eyes. Man I know exactly what you mean. I love studying Joseph smith he seriously is so amazing and the more I learn the stronger my testimony is of him.
Man I am so proud of Colten. He is amazing. I know that he can go on a mission and what a powerful missionary he will be. So awesome.
Man I miss sushi that is so good, you didn’t like it. I hated it the first two times but it only gets better, so good. MMMMMMM.
Yeah I will buy the bike today more than likely yeah having a bike at every house would make sense but I definitely can take it with me where ever I go. We have a bike rack we put on our car. Pretty cool. I can’t believe I have been out for three months I still can hardly believe that.
Well all is well and things are starting to work out and I am so happy to share this message with the people of Puerto Rico they definitely need it. Well all is well thanks for everything and I will make sure to write everyone a letter this week. I got them all yesterday and I have to write eight people. Well I love you all. Until next week. Elder Wells
I wanted to let you all know that I love you guys and that I have definitely felt your prayers this last week. The work is definitely picking up for us thank goodness. We have met so many people this week a family a few new investigators and a gangster guy who is really excited about Joseph Smith who wants to know so much more. The mission has picked up so much and two years doesn’t really sound that long anymore.
Our landlord is amazing and she cooks amazing food for us she cooks us food almost everyday. She cooks so much better than me so what a relief. No we don’t have ac, I always think after we have been out all day and get home it will be cool, but it is not. I am starting to get used to it, and it doesn’t bother me much now.
I sent the memory card home on Tuesday. The letter probably got there early because we sent them way late in the week so that threw it off.
So we have transfers on Halloween that still baffles my mind because that means I will have been here for six weeks when that comes around nuts.
When you take gospel class you realize how true things really are and it opens your eyes. Man I know exactly what you mean. I love studying Joseph smith he seriously is so amazing and the more I learn the stronger my testimony is of him.
Man I am so proud of Colten. He is amazing. I know that he can go on a mission and what a powerful missionary he will be. So awesome.
Man I miss sushi that is so good, you didn’t like it. I hated it the first two times but it only gets better, so good. MMMMMMM.
Yeah I will buy the bike today more than likely yeah having a bike at every house would make sense but I definitely can take it with me where ever I go. We have a bike rack we put on our car. Pretty cool. I can’t believe I have been out for three months I still can hardly believe that.
Well all is well and things are starting to work out and I am so happy to share this message with the people of Puerto Rico they definitely need it. Well all is well thanks for everything and I will make sure to write everyone a letter this week. I got them all yesterday and I have to write eight people. Well I love you all. Until next week. Elder Wells
10/8/07
Hello Family,
My week has picked up so much. Everyone has said that the first week is the hardest, but I am definitely getting used to this.. Oh as for the praying I have never prayed so hard in my life and felt so close to my savior. That is awesome that you are taking an institute class, are there a lot of people or is it just younger or just older people? As for the Mom and daughter they blew us off so who really knows I know they felt the spirit and just have to make that right choice, once they feel the spirit Satan works so hard on people, but they have to make the decisions on there own. We got to watch conference in English which was definitely a relief we watched every session including priesthood. That is awesome to hear about Colten man I am so proud of him he has sure stepped up to the plate. Man that so awesome. I am utterly thrilled for him and I know that heavenly father is looking upon him with desire and knows that he will be such a powerful missionary. Thanks for everything that you sent me. I will probably get it this Saturday because we get stuff when we go to the mission office and that is Saturday for training. Yeah I ate at Fuddruckers it is in our area its so delicious I am going to send my memory card home today we are going to the rain forest so I want to send some pictures home with that. Yeah we cook a lot and our landlord cooks a lot for us also she is an older lady she loves cooking and she cooks us a meal almost everyday. We don’t have maids. I am totally good on contacts I have 8 or nine pairs left I am making them last as long as I can. But things are awesome we are teaching a few people the lord has blessed us so much the hard part was just getting started because we had to start out with nothing and we can see our work finally paying off. But its way sweet, I really just miss the cleanliness of home there is basically nothing clean around here, its beautiful but just not in the cities. Its way fun though I get to see two of my buds from the MTC more often because we are in the same zone so that is way cool. I am teaching this older lady she is reading the book of Mormon and loves it but doesn’t understand prayer and the importance of it but we are working with her and she is definitely progressing. Its way cool. So I have to buy as bike so I need just a little bit more money in my account because I have to buy one. But things are great I know that things will work out just pray for everyone that you know and everything will work out. The things that make us sad are only there to make us stronger. Well love you guys and your all amazing. Love, Elder Wells
My week has picked up so much. Everyone has said that the first week is the hardest, but I am definitely getting used to this.. Oh as for the praying I have never prayed so hard in my life and felt so close to my savior. That is awesome that you are taking an institute class, are there a lot of people or is it just younger or just older people? As for the Mom and daughter they blew us off so who really knows I know they felt the spirit and just have to make that right choice, once they feel the spirit Satan works so hard on people, but they have to make the decisions on there own. We got to watch conference in English which was definitely a relief we watched every session including priesthood. That is awesome to hear about Colten man I am so proud of him he has sure stepped up to the plate. Man that so awesome. I am utterly thrilled for him and I know that heavenly father is looking upon him with desire and knows that he will be such a powerful missionary. Thanks for everything that you sent me. I will probably get it this Saturday because we get stuff when we go to the mission office and that is Saturday for training. Yeah I ate at Fuddruckers it is in our area its so delicious I am going to send my memory card home today we are going to the rain forest so I want to send some pictures home with that. Yeah we cook a lot and our landlord cooks a lot for us also she is an older lady she loves cooking and she cooks us a meal almost everyday. We don’t have maids. I am totally good on contacts I have 8 or nine pairs left I am making them last as long as I can. But things are awesome we are teaching a few people the lord has blessed us so much the hard part was just getting started because we had to start out with nothing and we can see our work finally paying off. But its way sweet, I really just miss the cleanliness of home there is basically nothing clean around here, its beautiful but just not in the cities. Its way fun though I get to see two of my buds from the MTC more often because we are in the same zone so that is way cool. I am teaching this older lady she is reading the book of Mormon and loves it but doesn’t understand prayer and the importance of it but we are working with her and she is definitely progressing. Its way cool. So I have to buy as bike so I need just a little bit more money in my account because I have to buy one. But things are great I know that things will work out just pray for everyone that you know and everything will work out. The things that make us sad are only there to make us stronger. Well love you guys and your all amazing. Love, Elder Wells
10/2/07
October 2nd, 2007
Dear Family,
I have written two letters now they should be getting there very soon probably today. We have had to change our P-days to Tuesdays for the last two weeks because of zone conference one week and the other reason was because we did not have our car because the zone leaders came in from one of the islands for meetings with Pres.Dewsnup so we had to give up our car for a couple of days but we more than likely will be doing email every Monday. Well I live in the area of Conovans you should be getting my address on the letter they made us write the first night we were here. My companions name is Elder Osterloh he is from Sandy Utah he has been out in Puerto Rico for 6 months so 8 months total. He is really cool we get along pretty good thank goodness because it would be so hard to have a hard difficult companion in the beginning. Well not going to lie I hated missionary work the first week I was here but pretty much everyone does. But I am definitely starting to love it now thank goodness. The guy we talked to under the light pole never showed up for our appointment so that was kind of depressing because he really seemed like he needed the gospel really bad so hopefully he next time the missionaries come around he will be better prepared. We can only teach those that are prepared for the gospel. But the exciting news we did have a daughter and a mom that we taught yesterday that were really cool they invited us into there house and we got to know them and taught them the first lesson and then they made a commitment to read the Book of Mormon and they committed to come to general conference with us on Saturday they seemed really excited she daughter had attended church when she was in Chicago so that was cool so they seem like they are definitely ready. Well the talk at church went really good so much better than expected because I always seem to choke and I didn’t so that was way awesome. Our chapel is located Rio Grande it is about fifteen minutes away from our appt. The people are pretty friendly here they are really prideful of there Puerto Rico. Well President Dewsnup is way cool we didn’t really get much time to meet him but I will over time, his wife is really sweet you can just see how much she loves missionary work, and can tell that she thinks of us as her little mijos. Yeah I got all the stuff I really appreciated the book it was way cute. I Know the ties that you sent me are polyester but there are cool ones that are thicker ties that are polyester there like 80s ties but I love stripes so any striped tie is cool. Oh yeah there is this girl in my ward her name is Naysha Rodriguez she was in Justin’s ward for a while she lived in Florida she said that he came over and ate at her house all the time her mom was in the relief society presidency but ask him about her. Really funny how things like that work out. My companion’s roommate at BYU Is named Elder Ringwood he is serving in Mesa so if you see him tell him that Elder Osterloh says hello. But I can’t really think of anything else right now. But I love you and thanks for all of the prayers I can feel the impact of all of them. We have a couple of investigators just pray for them to feel the spirit and keep there commitments. We don’t have any upcoming baptisms and as for the ocean were not suppose to encourage it but they really would rather have them in the chapel because they have chairs and the spirit is more present there. As soon as I have a baptism I will let you know.The area is actually not that bad it’s really fun I like it a lot. The mosquitoes are not really that bad. I love you all! Peace and Love, Elder Wells.
I have written two letters now they should be getting there very soon probably today. We have had to change our P-days to Tuesdays for the last two weeks because of zone conference one week and the other reason was because we did not have our car because the zone leaders came in from one of the islands for meetings with Pres.Dewsnup so we had to give up our car for a couple of days but we more than likely will be doing email every Monday. Well I live in the area of Conovans you should be getting my address on the letter they made us write the first night we were here. My companions name is Elder Osterloh he is from Sandy Utah he has been out in Puerto Rico for 6 months so 8 months total. He is really cool we get along pretty good thank goodness because it would be so hard to have a hard difficult companion in the beginning. Well not going to lie I hated missionary work the first week I was here but pretty much everyone does. But I am definitely starting to love it now thank goodness. The guy we talked to under the light pole never showed up for our appointment so that was kind of depressing because he really seemed like he needed the gospel really bad so hopefully he next time the missionaries come around he will be better prepared. We can only teach those that are prepared for the gospel. But the exciting news we did have a daughter and a mom that we taught yesterday that were really cool they invited us into there house and we got to know them and taught them the first lesson and then they made a commitment to read the Book of Mormon and they committed to come to general conference with us on Saturday they seemed really excited she daughter had attended church when she was in Chicago so that was cool so they seem like they are definitely ready. Well the talk at church went really good so much better than expected because I always seem to choke and I didn’t so that was way awesome. Our chapel is located Rio Grande it is about fifteen minutes away from our appt. The people are pretty friendly here they are really prideful of there Puerto Rico. Well President Dewsnup is way cool we didn’t really get much time to meet him but I will over time, his wife is really sweet you can just see how much she loves missionary work, and can tell that she thinks of us as her little mijos. Yeah I got all the stuff I really appreciated the book it was way cute. I Know the ties that you sent me are polyester but there are cool ones that are thicker ties that are polyester there like 80s ties but I love stripes so any striped tie is cool. Oh yeah there is this girl in my ward her name is Naysha Rodriguez she was in Justin’s ward for a while she lived in Florida she said that he came over and ate at her house all the time her mom was in the relief society presidency but ask him about her. Really funny how things like that work out. My companion’s roommate at BYU Is named Elder Ringwood he is serving in Mesa so if you see him tell him that Elder Osterloh says hello. But I can’t really think of anything else right now. But I love you and thanks for all of the prayers I can feel the impact of all of them. We have a couple of investigators just pray for them to feel the spirit and keep there commitments. We don’t have any upcoming baptisms and as for the ocean were not suppose to encourage it but they really would rather have them in the chapel because they have chairs and the spirit is more present there. As soon as I have a baptism I will let you know.The area is actually not that bad it’s really fun I like it a lot. The mosquitoes are not really that bad. I love you all! Peace and Love, Elder Wells.
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