Wednesday, Sept. 17th, 2008
Hi Mom and Dad!
How are things with you? Well you asked about driving? Yes, they do drive on the other side of the road it is a little bit crazy. I was just thinking of telling you that because they have me driving one day a week so that when my comp leaves I will be able to do it. ha-ha its not that bad its just a little weird. I have not messed up yet but my Companion comes around the corners sometimes and forgets and almost hits cars straight on, He is a little cocky so he tries to show off a little bit you know how them Texans are, He is cool though. I did sent some pics home so you should get those I have not received a letter yet. The package didn’t come in and it turns out there really not a problem to get, I asked the Senior couple and they said that its never a problem it just takes a long time. I have not received anything since I have been out here just a package from Alexa that was given to me when the Zone Leaders came over, they were in Puerto Rico so they bring stuff over. I have not even received the newsletter for the month of September, so I don’t know. Time is flying by so fast I have almost been here for a month which is crazy . My 14 month mark is tomorrow so that is cool. We have interviews and Zone Conference tomorrow so I get to go down to St. Thomas so I am pretty stoked for that. Well my investigators are awesome we picked up five more family members of Shirley and Bernadette so we are working with them they are from Haiti. I forgot to tell you that there all really cool they speak French and English there parents all speak French and don’t understand English so that is crazy. It is so much fun though there are 8 total that we are teaching, but three of them have been baptized so we get to teach a big huge group that is fun. I really enjoy it, we are also still teaching Diana’s family she is from Guyana by the way and she is Indian so that is cool, no one is really from Tortola. They all just work down here. We are also teaching a girl named Elizabeth that is from the Dominican Republic she did not come to church last week but we are working with her. She is very open and is interested at what we have to say. That book you are reading was the one that I was trying to find, that’s funny that you picked it up. So how long has Dad been in Alaska? Seems like it has been forever. I loved the superman shirt I love getting things like that! I am working out in the morning and night to try and loose some weight I can’t handle being fat anymore! I don’t know how much I weigh because no one has scales here . That is so awesome to hear about Jay and Tina! I am glad they have the desire to go to the Temple that is so awesome! Everything is so good here! I love you and wish you the best week!
Logan
9/11/08
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Hi Mom and Dad!
I love it here we had two baptisms last Saturday one was Diana and the other was a girl named Cherly she is 8 and Diana is 25. Cherly is a sister of a recent convert that has been coming to church for quite some time and has had that desire to be baptized so she asked us and we said of course so she asked me to do it, because I seem to be the funnier of us two and the younger ones seem to like me more so that is cool but I baptized her and Elder Dixon baptized Diana so we both got to go down into the water so that was awesome I loved it seriously, never in my life have I ever been so happy! I also got to confirm Diana on Sunday so that was a really spiritual experience for me, I absolutely loved it, it was awesome to just let the spirit dictate to me what exactly needed to be said at that time. Well we also have lots of investigators right now we are actually teaching four other family members of Cherly and Bernadette and they are progressing quite well they all said they would read and pray and come to church so that is exciting I am so excited for them. Manuel had to go back to the Doctors for a week so his date is postponed for now but we are going to get him baptized but we also have Diana’s father who has excepted to be baptized on the 27th of September so that is exciting we are baptizing a lot here and the work is just coming along really well so that is just awesome, I will send you my memory card home you just have to send me a new one because I left my other in my bags in Puerto Rico so the day you get me that I will send it straight home to you, but as for packages we have to be careful because they said sometimes they never get here. I will let you know what exactly happens I think it should be fine my companion really does not know to much he listens to other people all to often and does not figure it out for himself. As for the mail it comes straight here they have a little store that brings it in so that is how we get it. The thing is that I am hoping that we can stay together for another transfer that would be cool so there are about 29 missionaries coming this next few transfers do you know any Arizona missionaries that are coming? I have my Spanish scriptures I am fine. We get our mail when it comes in I think that it takes a little longer to get here than home but we shall see. The Virgin Gorda Elders have the same address as us so they receive mail when we do they just come here every weekend and get it from us. It would be cool to have a Christmas on this island. Tell Elder Keir “hello” for me and that he should write me a letter that would be sweet to hear from him! Give me his address and I will throw him a letter. Oh yeah that reminds me I need a long sleeve shirt we don’t have to wear our suits to church and I left my long sleeve at home. Could you send me one that can have cuff links? My companion gave me some so I would like to use them. I will send some pics home this week. I love it here and well I am glad that things seem to work out. I pray for everyone every single night and want everyone to know I love them so much! Thank you for everything you do for me! Have a good week Peace, Logan.
Hi Mom and Dad!
I love it here we had two baptisms last Saturday one was Diana and the other was a girl named Cherly she is 8 and Diana is 25. Cherly is a sister of a recent convert that has been coming to church for quite some time and has had that desire to be baptized so she asked us and we said of course so she asked me to do it, because I seem to be the funnier of us two and the younger ones seem to like me more so that is cool but I baptized her and Elder Dixon baptized Diana so we both got to go down into the water so that was awesome I loved it seriously, never in my life have I ever been so happy! I also got to confirm Diana on Sunday so that was a really spiritual experience for me, I absolutely loved it, it was awesome to just let the spirit dictate to me what exactly needed to be said at that time. Well we also have lots of investigators right now we are actually teaching four other family members of Cherly and Bernadette and they are progressing quite well they all said they would read and pray and come to church so that is exciting I am so excited for them. Manuel had to go back to the Doctors for a week so his date is postponed for now but we are going to get him baptized but we also have Diana’s father who has excepted to be baptized on the 27th of September so that is exciting we are baptizing a lot here and the work is just coming along really well so that is just awesome, I will send you my memory card home you just have to send me a new one because I left my other in my bags in Puerto Rico so the day you get me that I will send it straight home to you, but as for packages we have to be careful because they said sometimes they never get here. I will let you know what exactly happens I think it should be fine my companion really does not know to much he listens to other people all to often and does not figure it out for himself. As for the mail it comes straight here they have a little store that brings it in so that is how we get it. The thing is that I am hoping that we can stay together for another transfer that would be cool so there are about 29 missionaries coming this next few transfers do you know any Arizona missionaries that are coming? I have my Spanish scriptures I am fine. We get our mail when it comes in I think that it takes a little longer to get here than home but we shall see. The Virgin Gorda Elders have the same address as us so they receive mail when we do they just come here every weekend and get it from us. It would be cool to have a Christmas on this island. Tell Elder Keir “hello” for me and that he should write me a letter that would be sweet to hear from him! Give me his address and I will throw him a letter. Oh yeah that reminds me I need a long sleeve shirt we don’t have to wear our suits to church and I left my long sleeve at home. Could you send me one that can have cuff links? My companion gave me some so I would like to use them. I will send some pics home this week. I love it here and well I am glad that things seem to work out. I pray for everyone every single night and want everyone to know I love them so much! Thank you for everything you do for me! Have a good week Peace, Logan.
9/4/08
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Hello. I am glad you liked the birthday note,it was the least I could do. I am glad that your birthday went well because I wish I was there but I will be there for the 50th ha-ha to funny you will be turning 50 when I get home, ha-ha well that is cool. I will send my memory card home I just need you to send me another because I left the other in my suitcase back in Puerto Rico. Yes, that is the address you can use, and by the way you should get another letter I sent it to the old house that was before you moved so it should be there soon and I am sending another today, as for the moving I am so sorry I wish I was there to help you. I bet Dad and Granpa will have fun in Alaska. I am sure that Grandpa will be just fine he will probably have a really hard time there but he will just love it, I am just glad that he gets to do something that he ahs always wanted to do. I sent you a postcard home so you could see what it is really like here in Tortola. Let me tell you Mom I have never really been so much happy serving here on this island has meant the world to me. I had such a hard time in Puerto Rico and well its just been so awesome here. While I was in Puerto Rico I really was just going through so many steps and was not that happy but I love it here so much, the people are awesome! I love the views, I love working here and hope that I will be here for a really long time. As for old people I have gotten over that I love them now that all changed while I was in Puerto Rico. Diana is coming along well she has been taught everything. She is ready! She is super cool, she is super ready and loves hearing the gospel. Manuel is doing well he is lacking just a few of the commandments but he will be baptized its awesome. The black people that are here are from Tortola it started out as a slave place so that is where they all came from. The island is not that small, it is a small place but we are the only missionaries here so its cool it’s big enough. Oh, I took a small 8 person plane to get here it was an experience let me tell you. We will get to St. Thomas by boat. My companion is really cool he is way awesome, once again he has the same time as me in the mission we came out together but he was in the group that went to Santo Domingo. Mom I love it here so much, the people are awesome! I love hearing about all that is going on thank you so much for informing me I will keep everyone in my prayers! I need new garments so if you could send me some. I am sorry that I have spent so much money, I just came out here with nothing and everything is so expensive. Yeah its crazy so we get 300 dollars every month, but it goes fast. I will budget my money better this week. Well I love you and hope all is well! Send my love to everyone. Love Logan
Hello. I am glad you liked the birthday note,it was the least I could do. I am glad that your birthday went well because I wish I was there but I will be there for the 50th ha-ha to funny you will be turning 50 when I get home, ha-ha well that is cool. I will send my memory card home I just need you to send me another because I left the other in my suitcase back in Puerto Rico. Yes, that is the address you can use, and by the way you should get another letter I sent it to the old house that was before you moved so it should be there soon and I am sending another today, as for the moving I am so sorry I wish I was there to help you. I bet Dad and Granpa will have fun in Alaska. I am sure that Grandpa will be just fine he will probably have a really hard time there but he will just love it, I am just glad that he gets to do something that he ahs always wanted to do. I sent you a postcard home so you could see what it is really like here in Tortola. Let me tell you Mom I have never really been so much happy serving here on this island has meant the world to me. I had such a hard time in Puerto Rico and well its just been so awesome here. While I was in Puerto Rico I really was just going through so many steps and was not that happy but I love it here so much, the people are awesome! I love the views, I love working here and hope that I will be here for a really long time. As for old people I have gotten over that I love them now that all changed while I was in Puerto Rico. Diana is coming along well she has been taught everything. She is ready! She is super cool, she is super ready and loves hearing the gospel. Manuel is doing well he is lacking just a few of the commandments but he will be baptized its awesome. The black people that are here are from Tortola it started out as a slave place so that is where they all came from. The island is not that small, it is a small place but we are the only missionaries here so its cool it’s big enough. Oh, I took a small 8 person plane to get here it was an experience let me tell you. We will get to St. Thomas by boat. My companion is really cool he is way awesome, once again he has the same time as me in the mission we came out together but he was in the group that went to Santo Domingo. Mom I love it here so much, the people are awesome! I love hearing about all that is going on thank you so much for informing me I will keep everyone in my prayers! I need new garments so if you could send me some. I am sorry that I have spent so much money, I just came out here with nothing and everything is so expensive. Yeah its crazy so we get 300 dollars every month, but it goes fast. I will budget my money better this week. Well I love you and hope all is well! Send my love to everyone. Love Logan
8/31/08
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Hi Mom and Dad!
My experience this past week has been
absolutely amazing I love it here so much its awesome my favorite part is that I can wake up ever morning and look outside and see mountains on the left and right and then a straight look at the beach which is cool, I am literally serving in paradise! You asked if St. Thomas was in my zone and it is. It is right next to us, its about a 45 minute boat ride to get there that is where the Zone Leaders are so once every transfer we get to take a boat over there have a conference there, so that is going to be awesome! We do have a couple missionaries on our island there names are the Solomon’s and they are from Snowflake,AZ they are super sweet they help us out a lot! There are us and the senior couple on this island. We have two Elders that are on Virgin Gorda that come over once a week for district meetings, that are in our district so that is cool. I love the people here, they talk to you as everything is a story and they are hilarious and so awesome. You asked if I use my Spanish well happens that there are lots of Dominicans that come here for work so we have a Spanish group here. Which is way cool so I gave a talk in Spanish last week for the Sacrament meeting, they meet in the night for an hour. My companion is on his fifth transfer here so he is getting a little bit lazy but its all good because he is cool and he has had lots of success. I am hoping that he gets out of here next transfer just because its getting hard for him to work.I feel as if I am in a totally different mission. I sent home a letter but it takes like two weeks I forgot that you guys were moving, so it will probably take longer. We have two baptismal dates that we gave this week one to a lady her name is Diana she is super cool she is Indian but is way awesome she cooks Indian food for us every time we go ever so that has been cool getting some different types of food. Then there is Manuel who speaks Spanish so its been cool teaching in Spanish because my companion does not know Spanish very well so I have been doing a lot of that work. Will you call Lillian to tell her that I got sent to an island and I am sorry that I didn’t have the chance to say good bye, everything happened so fast she knew that I was leaving but I didn’t even know I was going to an island until like the night before.The Branch here is so awesome there was like a record high of like 42 people in church, the church is a rented space at the top of a three story building so that is cool. I love it here and tell everyone that I love
them! Love, Logan
Hi Mom and Dad!
My experience this past week has been
absolutely amazing I love it here so much its awesome my favorite part is that I can wake up ever morning and look outside and see mountains on the left and right and then a straight look at the beach which is cool, I am literally serving in paradise! You asked if St. Thomas was in my zone and it is. It is right next to us, its about a 45 minute boat ride to get there that is where the Zone Leaders are so once every transfer we get to take a boat over there have a conference there, so that is going to be awesome! We do have a couple missionaries on our island there names are the Solomon’s and they are from Snowflake,AZ they are super sweet they help us out a lot! There are us and the senior couple on this island. We have two Elders that are on Virgin Gorda that come over once a week for district meetings, that are in our district so that is cool. I love the people here, they talk to you as everything is a story and they are hilarious and so awesome. You asked if I use my Spanish well happens that there are lots of Dominicans that come here for work so we have a Spanish group here. Which is way cool so I gave a talk in Spanish last week for the Sacrament meeting, they meet in the night for an hour. My companion is on his fifth transfer here so he is getting a little bit lazy but its all good because he is cool and he has had lots of success. I am hoping that he gets out of here next transfer just because its getting hard for him to work.I feel as if I am in a totally different mission. I sent home a letter but it takes like two weeks I forgot that you guys were moving, so it will probably take longer. We have two baptismal dates that we gave this week one to a lady her name is Diana she is super cool she is Indian but is way awesome she cooks Indian food for us every time we go ever so that has been cool getting some different types of food. Then there is Manuel who speaks Spanish so its been cool teaching in Spanish because my companion does not know Spanish very well so I have been doing a lot of that work. Will you call Lillian to tell her that I got sent to an island and I am sorry that I didn’t have the chance to say good bye, everything happened so fast she knew that I was leaving but I didn’t even know I was going to an island until like the night before.The Branch here is so awesome there was like a record high of like 42 people in church, the church is a rented space at the top of a three story building so that is cool. I love it here and tell everyone that I love
them! Love, Logan
8/24/08
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Hi Mom and Dad.
Your so lucky that I love you and am writing you. Ha-ha its all good you probably forgot that today is P-Day for me , you can write me double next week. We got transfer information my companion and I are both leaving he is going to be a Zone Leader and I am going to the island of Tortola so that is the exciting news of the week. I am super excited I get to teach the gospel in English so that is way cool. I got your package Thank you so much! Tortola has a truck so I will be in a truck and then my new companion is going to be Elder Dixon he is from Texas I have never met him so we shall see, its all good no matter how he is I have the opportunity to go to an island which I was never expecting. I have to pack a 50 pound bag that is all I can take with me so that is going to be tuff. I m super excited I never thought that I would go. Tortola is suppose to be one of the prettiest islands its next to St. Thomas. I will probably go there when we have conferences. I am excited to see St. Thomas too. Things are awesome I have had an great week we had two investigators in church Monique who has a desire to change her life, she has been on and off the streets since she was a teenager and has a desire to change and loved church. We were going to give her a baptismal date on Wednesday so we are going to try and stop by and do it tonight. I had the opportunity to talk to Randy and Lillian they don’t really understand what I am doing we tried to explain but I don’t think they understand. We were going to do service for them yesterday but the other Elder Perez is sick so we had to take him to the doctor so its all good. I am bummed that we are both leaving because its always harder to get the other missionaries to work with your investigators because they did not find them so they don’t work as hard with them, but we talked to the assistants so they will make sure they are working with them. Its going to be crazy to be gone from Puerto Rico everyone says that it is a totally different mission,I probably won’t write as much while am in Tortola I will see how everything works out there. Well I love you so much and send my love to all! Who won so you think you can dance?
Love, Logan
Hi Mom and Dad.
Your so lucky that I love you and am writing you. Ha-ha its all good you probably forgot that today is P-Day for me , you can write me double next week. We got transfer information my companion and I are both leaving he is going to be a Zone Leader and I am going to the island of Tortola so that is the exciting news of the week. I am super excited I get to teach the gospel in English so that is way cool. I got your package Thank you so much! Tortola has a truck so I will be in a truck and then my new companion is going to be Elder Dixon he is from Texas I have never met him so we shall see, its all good no matter how he is I have the opportunity to go to an island which I was never expecting. I have to pack a 50 pound bag that is all I can take with me so that is going to be tuff. I m super excited I never thought that I would go. Tortola is suppose to be one of the prettiest islands its next to St. Thomas. I will probably go there when we have conferences. I am excited to see St. Thomas too. Things are awesome I have had an great week we had two investigators in church Monique who has a desire to change her life, she has been on and off the streets since she was a teenager and has a desire to change and loved church. We were going to give her a baptismal date on Wednesday so we are going to try and stop by and do it tonight. I had the opportunity to talk to Randy and Lillian they don’t really understand what I am doing we tried to explain but I don’t think they understand. We were going to do service for them yesterday but the other Elder Perez is sick so we had to take him to the doctor so its all good. I am bummed that we are both leaving because its always harder to get the other missionaries to work with your investigators because they did not find them so they don’t work as hard with them, but we talked to the assistants so they will make sure they are working with them. Its going to be crazy to be gone from Puerto Rico everyone says that it is a totally different mission,I probably won’t write as much while am in Tortola I will see how everything works out there. Well I love you so much and send my love to all! Who won so you think you can dance?
Love, Logan
8/13/08
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Hi Mom and Dad,
Well its awesome to hear that you had such a good time in Michigan. I bet that was great to see all of your family considering it doesn’t happen that often. Thanks for sending me a package I really appreciate it. My knee is okay since I am in my car but it doesn’t hurt that often because of the car but I guarantee that if I am in a car for a few months I will be fine that I know. Life is crazy I am grateful for the opportunity that I have to serve and its only 11 more months. I have been back for more that three weeks that is so crazy. Yesterday we had the opportunity to hear from President Johnson he is head of the Caribbean now, since President Mask got sick. Pres. Mask is now in Utah working on preach my gospel. It was so awesome to hear from him yesterday he is such an inspiration, he talked to us on how we are doing right, but we are not relying on the spirit and its so easy to loose it. We definitely have to be more conscious it was so awesome because President was so nervous. It is awesome to know that he knows that he has authority and it just shows how humble President really is. Next week is transfers one of the assistants is going home so I get to see him leave its cool he is one of my favorite missionaries, its awesome. I really don’t want to leave this area but it’s bound to happen, so if it does it is no big deal to me. I have had so many cool experiences since I have been back! Yesterday we had the opportunity to give three blessings it was super cool. I will write those in a letter its been a great learning week. Time is going to pass so fast I have to make worth of what I have because I don’t want to leave knowing that I didn’t do all that I could. I love you guys so much! Oh, and have fun packing!
Logan
Well its awesome to hear that you had such a good time in Michigan. I bet that was great to see all of your family considering it doesn’t happen that often. Thanks for sending me a package I really appreciate it. My knee is okay since I am in my car but it doesn’t hurt that often because of the car but I guarantee that if I am in a car for a few months I will be fine that I know. Life is crazy I am grateful for the opportunity that I have to serve and its only 11 more months. I have been back for more that three weeks that is so crazy. Yesterday we had the opportunity to hear from President Johnson he is head of the Caribbean now, since President Mask got sick. Pres. Mask is now in Utah working on preach my gospel. It was so awesome to hear from him yesterday he is such an inspiration, he talked to us on how we are doing right, but we are not relying on the spirit and its so easy to loose it. We definitely have to be more conscious it was so awesome because President was so nervous. It is awesome to know that he knows that he has authority and it just shows how humble President really is. Next week is transfers one of the assistants is going home so I get to see him leave its cool he is one of my favorite missionaries, its awesome. I really don’t want to leave this area but it’s bound to happen, so if it does it is no big deal to me. I have had so many cool experiences since I have been back! Yesterday we had the opportunity to give three blessings it was super cool. I will write those in a letter its been a great learning week. Time is going to pass so fast I have to make worth of what I have because I don’t want to leave knowing that I didn’t do all that I could. I love you guys so much! Oh, and have fun packing!
Logan
8/11/08
Letter August 6th, 2008
I am so glad to be here it has been awesome to come back to say the least. I am back here in Puerto Rico I got put into an area called Guaynabo with another Latin companion, who is awesome and I love very much. Believe it or not he is more random than me which is hard to believe because that just doesnt happen very often. I am super excited because I got put into the area of my second cousins who are non members, so you never know what can happen. Hopefully the best. Man things are so crazy I am grateful for this opportunity that I have to serve and be in the work again! I know that this is where the Lord wants me to be and I wouldn't have it anyother way.. I had a had an amazing experience this week. I went on trade offs with the a ZL, Elder Howell from Kansas. We had been working hard all day long, we were at the point to either take a break to eat because we were waiting for a member. We just kept going and talk to people. Elder Howell decieded we would contact a old investigator who was almost baptized, but took another route, and it never happened. We stoped by and she shared with us on how her nephew had just passed away, so we all shared stories. I shared a story about my Grandma, because I did not know her too well, but I know that I will someday, because this is possible thru the plan of salvation, that God created for us. It was way cool, the spirit was so strong. We talked and talked, I asked her how she felt when she read the B.O.M., and she said that it was a very special feeling, one that she could not explain very well. We told her that, that is the spirit testifying of the truthfullness of it all. We extended a baptismal invite, and she accepted, so we gave her a date. She was so happy, and you could really tell. It just shows that the Lord knows what is going on, and that everything is possible, you just never know what the Lord has in store for you and that his hand is in this work, and it is true! I know that all is going to be well and the Lord will bless me for this descion that I have made! Well I love you all! Love, Logan
7/25/08
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Hello!
Well my arrival in Puerto Rico was way good. I arrived on time at like 8:30 pm and had my bags and everything and President Dewsnup and his wife were waiting for me outside because they could not come in where the baggage claim is I guess I am feeling like a missionary now don’t have much choice. My plane ride from Georgia was a good one it happened to be that a Mormon family from the metro ward was sitting right next to me. It was pretty funny they had four kids and he was there for the FBI. I slept in my apartment last night I am in Guaynabo, which is our cousins area. How crazy is that? I got dropped off at my house right after I got off the plane, President just talked to me in the car and was super cool. Well yeah so my companion is Elder Perez {the other Elder Perez it is not my same companion from before} He is way cool and hard working. He is from Puerto Rico, so I am in the house of the AP’s so that is way cool. No big deal its fun there, awesome. Well love you so much. I have to go they are rushing me out of here! Well I love you guys so much! Have fun.
Peace, Logan
Just send the package to the office because the assistants are always there.
Well my arrival in Puerto Rico was way good. I arrived on time at like 8:30 pm and had my bags and everything and President Dewsnup and his wife were waiting for me outside because they could not come in where the baggage claim is I guess I am feeling like a missionary now don’t have much choice. My plane ride from Georgia was a good one it happened to be that a Mormon family from the metro ward was sitting right next to me. It was pretty funny they had four kids and he was there for the FBI. I slept in my apartment last night I am in Guaynabo, which is our cousins area. How crazy is that? I got dropped off at my house right after I got off the plane, President just talked to me in the car and was super cool. Well yeah so my companion is Elder Perez {the other Elder Perez it is not my same companion from before} He is way cool and hard working. He is from Puerto Rico, so I am in the house of the AP’s so that is way cool. No big deal its fun there, awesome. Well love you so much. I have to go they are rushing me out of here! Well I love you guys so much! Have fun.
Peace, Logan
Just send the package to the office because the assistants are always there.
7/21/08
Good News
A month after surgery Logan was cleared to return to full time missionary service!
He leaves for Puerto Rico on Tuesday, July 22nd. He is excited to finish his mission.
Way to go Logan... we are so proud of you!
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