Logan home...

Hello friends and family,

As some know, our Elder Logan Wells has returned home, after 10 months of serving the wonderful people in Puerto Rico. He is in the process of getting ready for knee surgery. He returned on Wednesday, May 14th. Logan seems to be doing awesome. He is hoping to stay in missionary mode, to make it easier to return and finish his service. Check in for updates, I will try to post them. Thanks to everyone for all the love, support, and prayers. We so appreciate it!

Letter Home

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Hola Madres con Padres,

Life here in Aguas Buenas Puerto Rico is kind of boring. Not much happens here unfortunately. We have had the opportunity to go the doctor twice this week, so we got to go to Bayamon.
We had a family of some less actives come to church this past week it was so awesome we had a family home evening with them it was super special, the spirit was so strong the Father had not been to church in years and he came this past Sunday it was so awesome. I love helping out the families, I heard about the two new temples being built one in Gilbert and the other in Gila Valley. I hope that they are not done before I get home. I never imagined four temples in the state, but that is so awesome! What a blessing to the state of Az. The big news is that Quentin L.Cook from the Quorum of the Twelve is going to come visit us on the 13th of June that is so awesome I am so excited. I hope that he will announce a Temple if he can do that I don’t know or maybe he is going to organize another Stake here. Hopefully they will announce some kind of news, we are all waiting anxiously. On Mother’s Day I will be calling home, I am so excited! I am going to call from the church we can have as much time as we want. Hopefully I can talk to Colten too somehow. Oh, I need a couple of things butterscotch morsels because you can not find them here even at Wal-Mart. We had zone conference this past week and it was so awesome President Dewsnup talked about faith. I talked about it on the tape so I you will hear all about it. I am going to send you a new tape front and back. Some is for everyone, the girls at the shop all of them. Nothing that exciting has happened here I am out of minutes on my calling card so I will just buy a new one today, no worries!

PS If you could find my von zipper sunglasses that would be awesome they should be in my car or in the house or in your car I bet your wearing them this day! Well I love you your awesome Love your son, Logan

Yes.... Pictures

I just love getting pictures! Oh how I miss my "boy"! Looks like he is doing just fine though.

Enjoy! We did!

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Hola Momma & Papi,

The thing with the ties is that yeah I have a ton but the ones that I don’t like I share with the world, I cant wear the skinny ones I am way to fat and well you know I am a sharing guy, I have to have the best ties in the mission and well there are people that have better than me, ha-ha no but I love everything that you send me you don’t have to send me any if you don’t want to, yeah so you wanted to know all about my area it is incredibly pretty and yes poor but hey its not that bad the average probably include all the people that don’t work and trust me there are many, I will write on the backs of them next time, I like keeping my memory cards until they are full because I always send them home and well don’t get some of the pictures that I want so well you can just be patient. Hah jk.That bus picture is in Rio Piedras train by the way, you could send me some contacts I got my glasses adjusted yesterday. Yeah .we didn’t have investigators in church we had some less active members that have not been in awhile. my new apt is pretty awesome it does not have ac but its in the mountains so it is plenty cool in the night time, I really like it its spacious and has couches that is some luxuries that are not usually found in our houses, but its all good, so far my favorite apartment was the one in Caguas, by the way Caguas is right down from us we are the mountains of Caguas. that is so awesome that you heard from Pepe I knew that she was staying in Samoa but tell her that I love her and hope all is well, tell her when I go on my honeymoon maybe we will come to Samoa. I plan on being married the same week Colten gets home. If I send you a letter home for her will you make sure that it gets to her? That is to bad bout Granpa we shall see if he is still alive when I get home. I hope so because it’s sad but I don’t even know him. All is well I wrote you a letter and it’s in the mail today so you will get it soon. Well my comp is from the Dominican Republic again and he came out at the same time as me and his name is Elder Perez he is pretty cool he says that he is not hurting anymore so I really think that he was just faking so that he didn’t have to ride a bike anymore he woke up this morning and said that he is not hurting. It’s all good though life is crazy and well has a good week, so my emails are so longer than Colten I win. Ha-ha peace Logan

April 15th, 2008

April 15th, 2008
Hi Madre and Papi!
Papi don’t worry about us boys being gone, it will be super fast because look I have 9 months out and it feels as though I left yesterday. Well the thing is that I am getting transferred so crazy I was not expecting it at all. This past week we have been looking for an apartment because there are going to be more Elders coming to Caguas so we are going to have 4 because it is a huge pueblo. I am super excited. because there is so much area to cover that it needs to have more, there used to be six here, its the fact that so many people are leaving and President is not receiving any new missionaries they are being forced to shut areas down so, its difficult but there needs to be more Missionaries here so I think that the Lord knows that there has to be more. Well it’s so crazy. I cant believe it well the thing is that they told me that I am leaving but I think that it is just the other side of Caguas at least I hope so because I have moved so much I will be in my fourth area, I definitely need more time in Caguas, well you can tell Dad that I found a guy that we can go fishing with he is super cool, they are probably in there late thirties well he asked if we wanted to go fishing but we can’t so I said when I come back after my mission we will definitely have to go. He said that he would take us and the wife would hang out with you, they speak English their names are Sunni and Carlos there so awesome they made us dinner last night and she asked me what I wanted and of course I said that I wanted Mexican food so she made us tacos, how cool is that? She is super awesome! Elder G**** is staying here in this area so we will not be companions anymore thank goodness I sent you a letter last week or a couple of days ago I don’t even know anymore you really just forget the days of the week and they all seem to blend together. The letter from Miss Kimzey was great and yes I understood every word I will get her a letter in the mail this week. Things are definitely crazy. Tell my brother that I love him and that he is my heroe. I got the ties that was exactly perfect I love them. Tell Daniel Thank you so much, I am so excited though the work is good we are working really hard I will get you a picture and a tape you can hear my crazy comp! Well I love you so much and hope that your week is awesome!
Peace ! Con Amor, Logan

Letter 4/9/2008

Hello there Mother and Papi!

Elder G**** is from Aguadilla but he was born and raised in New York until he was 16 so he knows so much more English than Spanish, and he doesn’t talk like a Puerto Rican so he is American to me. I did not baptize Natalia her Uncle did but it was still super cool she is 12. I need Dale and Michelle’s address. Maybe her email so I could email her? That is good that Dad is spending time with Granpa The family did not watch the movie with us but they did come to a church activity that was held the night before on Friday, there car broke down so he had to fix it the entire weekend. Did you take in the part where he talked about the members and how they need to find those people for the missionaries to teach, you don’t even know how true that is. Every missionary was like clapping there hands when he said that. I got the letters that you sent along with the pictures yesterday and I got the newsletter Saturday, or Monday actually I don’t know. You can always forward Colten's emails to me I email him but its always awesome to hear the other side to. I could only imagine my little Papi and how sad he is but tell him to suck it up and get over it. That is the “no feeling Logan” coming out, ha-ha. But no it will always pass, the crazy thing is that I have missed everyone but not nearly as much as I thought I would. Life is just so crazy, I think that I am finally into this missionary life thing because everything just comes so natural now and life as a missionary is just second nature. I really cannot imagine not being here, I am enjoying serving the people and meeting the everyday challenge we are faced with. Well I just want to let you know that I love you guys and well at least you are not stuck with someone 24 hours a day. At least you can have a little bit of freedom!
Well have a great week!
Love You, Logan

Some pictures

Here are a few of the pictures that Elder Wells has sent home

letter 4/2/2008

So I am in Caguas and well my companion is from here his name is Elder G**** he is way crazy he is definitely a nerd and says that he wants to know everything and take over the world, a bit of a wack job if you ask me, but it shall be interesting, I am just hoping that my knee will be fine, with all the walking I was doing it was still hurting but I just didn’t want to go home so I told a few fibs to stay out here, but I have a car now and well it shall be really good, I am in the largest ward in all of Puerto Rico and supposedly all of the members here are really cool and help with everything, its super sweet they have dinner nights for the missionaries so we are going to get fed all of the time, well President told me that if the other two baptismal dates that we have get baptized on those exact days then I am allowed to go to those baptisms so I am hoping that I will be able to go to the baptism this Sunday and then the one on the 13 so that should be really cool because I love the people over there and they are the first persons that I am going to be visiting when I get back to this place that is for sure, I loved it over there and had the best time, it was quite a shock when I found out I was leaving well with all of the work that we were doing it was a bit of a downer well it is all good now because I think that I am going to be awesome here because I think they need someone with a little bit of street smarts here because the other guy that was here before me still didn’t know where to go he used a map the whole time and was here for 5 transfers, so crazy lets just hope that he doesn’t kill himself in the other area because its difficult, but man the other two people that are in my district seem like they are from another world, so we shall see what happens, it will definitely be a little bit different considering my whole mission I have been around normal sane people, well who knows. My companion is the driver and well doesn’t have a clue I had to tell him how to get home and I had only been there for two hours, how funny is that? I love you all! Elder Logan Wells

Letter from March 26th, 2008

March 26th, 2008
Well how are you? By the time that you get this you just might be done with Colten for the next two years. Well I got all the packages and the letter. I hope that you got my letter I sent some pictures home too.

I am so excited for Colten his adventures have started it will be a long journey and its not as easy as everyone thinks it is. I heard about the live session a lot of the missionaries do it before they go into the MTC, I just can't believe that he is already there I feel like he really just got his call yesterday, he kind of did. so crazy! So you packed Colten suitcase? Basically you did mine too. That is super exciting; he needs to gain some independence. So awesome. So Colten made money for his mission that is super awesome, well that is so unfair! Oh well I don’t need anything because my Mom treats me the best in the world so its all good with me.

So I am in Caguas and well my companion is from here his name is Elder G****.He is way crazy! He says that he wants to know everything and take over the world, a bit of a wack job if you ask me, but it shall be interesting, the things is I am just hoping that my knee will be fine, with all the walking I was doing it was still hurting but I just didn’t want to go home so I told a few fibs to stay out here, but I have a car now and well it shall be really good, I am in the largest ward in all of Puerto Rico and supposedly all of the members here are really cool and help with everything, its super sweet they have dinner nights for the missionaries so we are going to get fed all of the time, well President told me that if the other two baptismal dates that we have get baptized on those exact days then I am allowed to go to those baptisms so I am hoping that I will be able to go to the baptism this Sunday and then the one on the 13 so that should be really cool because I love the people over there and they are the first persons that I am going to be visiting when I get back to this place that is for sure, I loved it over there and had the best time, it was quite a shock when I found out I was leaving well with all of the work that we were doing it was a bit of a downer well it is all good now because I think that I am going to be awesome here because I think they need someone with a little bit of street smarts here because the other guy that was here before me still didn’t know where to go he used a map the whole time and was here for 5 transfers, so crazy lets just hope that he doesn’t kill himself in the other area because its difficult, but man the other two people that are in my district seem like they are from a different world so we shall see what happens, it will definitely be a little bit different considering my whole mission I have been around normal sane people, well who knows. My companion is the driver and well doesn’t have a clue I had to tell him how to get home and I had only been there for two hours, how funny is that.

We didn’t do anything that special for Easter just the church had a thing in the morning at five o clock in the morning that less active and our investigators wanted to go so we had to wake up at 4:30 never again in my life. We didn’t really have any appointments we visited some members and they cooked some fish for us. It was really good.

So is Chad ready to get out of there to, I wanted to write him a letter I just don’t think that he would get it in time so I will just get one sent off the MTC for him. So who is Kelcie Allen marrying you should send me a copy of her announcement. Well things are different but it will be good.

Love you! Logan

Letter March 12th, 2008

Hi Family!
Yes I got the battery I forgot to tell you last week that when I was doing laundry the battery fell out of my clothes and well it works fine so I guess I will have an extra battery.

I watched the DVD that you made with us Wells Missionaries and absolutely loved it for sure.

I know that President knows what is going to happen because we had zone conference on Monday and he said that he heard from the doctors and that he was going to call me and today is Wednesday so I will call him today and he will probably call you after. But there is no doubt that everything will be okay.

I figured that Colten would speak it really is not that big of a deal really.
That is super sweet that Stacey and Sherry are going to come for Colten’s farewell, give them a big hug for me. Okay.

I have the greatest story this week it was so awesome so there was this kid his name is Andres well he is super cool he said we could come by his house and well we went by there on Monday and well he started talking to us and it turns out that he has been taught the discussions before and so we started asking him questions taught him the first and second lesson he already knew everything and then we watched “Finding Faith in Christ” and he loved it and then he was like when can I get baptized and we asked when do you want to get baptized and then he said when can you baptize me and we said this Sunday well he was super excited because he has wanted to get baptized for over a year I don’t know what happened but he wanted to be baptized and never was so he is super excited and never had I seen such a person prepared as he was. so coooooool. Well he then prayed and he prayed to be able to serve a mission go to the temple and be able to be baptized. The cool thing was, was that the Dad gave his permission and all was great. He is super excited and everything will be good. We also have been working with a lady named Heidi she is super cool she didn’t come to church last week but she wanted to. She is a single Mom and well we taught her and she was crying listening to our message and the spirit was super strong we are just hoping that she will act on our message and not let Satan grab hold of her. So well its super sweet the work is crazy here, the Ward is working really hard and they are begging to see the fruits of there labor. Jonathon will get baptized this Sunday to he is only a 8 year old kid so its like he will get baptized its just teaching him because we have had to teach him at the Church so we haven’t had as much time to teach him because his house is to crazy and well so what can you do, he might get postponed for one more week if we cant get to his house and teach him. But the work is definitely great, our Ward is starting a dinner sign up sheet in the Relief Society and so we will get a lot more food. Its way sweet though.

The only thing that I really want at this time I some cool Easter ties some light striped ones even if there silk that is okay. I hope that you put some ties in my package you just sent. I sure have missed getting them. You could send Elder Polanco a package he would love that he does like lots of chocolate and so that would be cool he would be grateful for what ever you gave him.If you wanted to find a cheap pair of pants for Elder Polanco his are all really small he needs like a 36 because his are all like 32 because he is getting fat.
I have not had the chance to get to old San Juan yet but we will hopefully this transfer one of these P-Days. The only game that I played in the MTC was four square and me and some of the other missionaries made jokes that we were going to come back with our tags and play one day. haha.I don’t know how I handled 9 weeks in there I don’t think anyone knows how they do it they just do, no but I had Elder Alexander and some cool missionaries we kept each other sane.
The Good Byes are not that big of deal, I look back now and see how funny we all looked. Only if we knew before hand what we were doing. It’s sad but for sure it’s all in your head. I cant believe that I am going to be out for 8 months Stefan is out 16 and when I left he had 8 and seemed like he was gone forever man time is such a weird thing. The cool thing is when we have a year out that will be the bomb.

Well Elder Tanuvasa and Elder Bangart and Elder Camden all left my zone and we got two more Latinos and another Elder that came out with me that has been out in the islands his whole mission. He doesn’t understand any Spanish and especially the Puerto Ricans so well he asked me if I understand and I said that I understand about 90 percent and he said that he will never be able to do it, its just so funny because I remember being in that position and thinking that I would never understand anything and well I understand almost everything. So crazy. Well life isn’t so bad and well I am definitely keeping busy ! I love you all so much! Peace, Logan