Hi Everyone:
So I found out this week that Rob Hild my buddy from BYU got his mission
call and was assigned to serve in the Washington DC South Mission also.
I was super excited to hear that. He was the guy that I have the picture with
the Stadium of Fire concert at BYU over the 4th of July this summer with
Charles Abuou. He will be out here in June the transfer that our new
mission president comes in and President and Sister Riggs go home. We didn't really
have too much success this week. We did a lot of knocking on doors and
didn't have any luck with it.
I got the letter from Ken and Mary Taylor and it had a Chipotle gift card, Thank
YOU TAYLOR FAMILY. Yes, mom I already sent them a thank you note too.
I also got your Valentine's Day card in the mail too. Thank you!
Transfers are this Thursday so we will find out if Elder Tesch will
stay with me 1 more transfer or going somewhere else. We're thinking that
he will probably stay but you can never know. It has been super cold
here this week. This morning it was 8 degrees and with wind chills
it's even worse. It's suppose to get down to 3 degrees this week and
probably get snow again.
Today we're playing soccer instead of basketball. I was feeling pretty
sick this morning but I'm feeling a bit better after some Meds. What medical
schools did Derek get into? And where are did they decide to go?
I will let you know what happens at transfers this week.
Love Elder Frew
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Washington DC South Mission: Week 25- February 9,2015
Hi Family,
So this week pretty much stunk. We have 5 of our investigators moving
out of town. We really only have 1 left and she's not that solid. So
we are trying to do a lot of finding. No one wants to talk to us. And this
weekend was just the cherry on top. We had three different times where
we were knocking on doors and we were told that
what we were doing was wrong and that we should go
home and re-think what we are doing. Two of them were people that we tried
to stop by and to teach. So it was not the greatest week.
Nothing to report on this week. Today for p-day we're going to play
basketball at the church and President Riggs is going to play with
us again. Transfers are coming up again on the 19th. This transfer has
gone by really fast. The next one will be my 6 month mark.( February 20)
Yesterday it was in the high 50s which was so nice. I decide that I hate the
cold weather on a mission. I just want it to be warm outside. I just
have to endure another month or so until it gets warm.
Not too much to talk about this week.
Love Elder Frew
(Letter received via snail mail)
Dear Mom and Dad,
I figured that since I wrote Daniel and John a letter that I would write you guys
one too. The only problem was I had to decide if I would use this paper or a
sticky note....hahha
I really love Mount Vernon a lot. I love my companion, Elder Tesch. We don't really
have anyone who is close to a baptism yet. There's a guy here who is ready and
has been for quite sometime but isn't married to his girlfriend and doesn't want
to get married.
Elder Tesch and I have been doing lots of finding. Our most promising investigators
are moving away. I love the ward here however we don't get fed as much as we did
in Lees burg. Although we do have 3 sets of missionaries in our ward boundaries, so
that's pretty understandable. If you want to send me some gift cards to subway or
Chipotle that would be nice.
Thank you for all that you do for me and all that you have always done for me.
I miss everyone and especially Ofelia. But not like in a bad way.
Love your Son,
Logan
So this week pretty much stunk. We have 5 of our investigators moving
out of town. We really only have 1 left and she's not that solid. So
we are trying to do a lot of finding. No one wants to talk to us. And this
weekend was just the cherry on top. We had three different times where
we were knocking on doors and we were told that
what we were doing was wrong and that we should go
home and re-think what we are doing. Two of them were people that we tried
to stop by and to teach. So it was not the greatest week.
Nothing to report on this week. Today for p-day we're going to play
basketball at the church and President Riggs is going to play with
us again. Transfers are coming up again on the 19th. This transfer has
gone by really fast. The next one will be my 6 month mark.( February 20)
Yesterday it was in the high 50s which was so nice. I decide that I hate the
cold weather on a mission. I just want it to be warm outside. I just
have to endure another month or so until it gets warm.
Not too much to talk about this week.
Love Elder Frew
(Letter received via snail mail)
Dear Mom and Dad,
I figured that since I wrote Daniel and John a letter that I would write you guys
one too. The only problem was I had to decide if I would use this paper or a
sticky note....hahha
I really love Mount Vernon a lot. I love my companion, Elder Tesch. We don't really
have anyone who is close to a baptism yet. There's a guy here who is ready and
has been for quite sometime but isn't married to his girlfriend and doesn't want
to get married.
Elder Tesch and I have been doing lots of finding. Our most promising investigators
are moving away. I love the ward here however we don't get fed as much as we did
in Lees burg. Although we do have 3 sets of missionaries in our ward boundaries, so
that's pretty understandable. If you want to send me some gift cards to subway or
Chipotle that would be nice.
Thank you for all that you do for me and all that you have always done for me.
I miss everyone and especially Ofelia. But not like in a bad way.
Love your Son,
Logan
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Washington DC South Mission: Week 24: February 2, 2015
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| JOHN'S BAPTISM : JANUARY 31-LEESBURG, VA |
Dear family
Last night was the super bowl and I heard that New England won. Last
night we really had a funny night. So we went to a dinner at a
members home who's from Siri Leon in Africa named brother and sister
George. We walked in there home and he's got the super bowl playing on he
big screen and Elder Tesch and I are just like "praise the lord"! He
asked us if we were allowed to watch it. And the other elders who were
with us told him that we weren't supposed to watch it. Then he was like
"even on a day like this"? the other elder was like Ya. Then he was
like well you will just have to use your free agency then. Ha ha that
sounded like something I would always say when I was back home. Ha ha
so he kept it on. But we then had dinner and they made some Ghanaian
food for us. And it was super, super strong. I barely could handle it.
I started chocking almost. Our clothes smelled like the food even
when we left their home that's how strong it was. Well, anyway the table was
sitting pretty close to the TV so Elder Tesch and I made sure we got
the seats facing the TV so I got to catch quite a few "glimpses " of
the Super Bowl. I saw gronks catch and most of the 1st half. I
honestly wasn't even listening to most of the dinner conversation and
then Elder George called me out... He looked at me and was like "are
you even listening to me right now? Ha ha he's like looking right at my eyes. He
was just laughing at me hahahah. He didn't even care. This member is
super , super funny. But then the freak in sister missionaries came and
we had to turn it off. Brother George was like "we got caught", when
the sisters came in.... Oh I saw he new Jurassic park trailer too.
That looks super cool.
John was baptized on Saturday. John and his wife had to go to work so
it was at super early like 8:45 am. We showed 5 min late and they were waiting for us
because I was giving the talk on baptism. I was a little disappointed. As soon as the
baptism was over John had to leave for work so I only got like 2 photos.
There still wasn't a ton of people there either from the ward to support
him. Probably because it was so Fricken early. And I hardly got to
even talk with him. His daughter is on date for next week to be baptized.
That's really good. But I'm not sure if I can get permission to go again.
This week for pday Elder Tesch and I stopped by the vitamin shop and
picked up some protein. And now we're playing some ball. I've been
using my George Foreman grill a ton, pretty much everyday. Ha ha good
deal. Things are good. I'm started to really like the ward. I got an
email from kofi today seeing how I've been and was asking about our
family. (Kofi is one of Logan's good friends he met at BYU. His family is from Ghana and he's currently serving a Spanish speaking mission in Alabama)
Love you all
Elder Frew
Monday, January 26, 2015
Washington DC South Mission: Week 23: January 26, 2015
| Dear Family; |
8:21 AM (10 hours ago)
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| So I got your package this week in the mail thanks a lot . But please | |||
don't send those "kind"bars anymore. I'm not sure if no
one back home didn't want those so you decided to just throw them in there
for me to eat. But those things taste bad. ha ha.... So Saturday
was John our investigators baptism back in Lees burg. We had a senior couple drive us
about an hour to the church only to find out when we got there that
John and his whole family had the flu. John still showed up and was
about still going through with his baptism except he still felt sick and his
family wouldn't have been able to make it. So we encouraged him to post pone the baptism
till next Saturday. Also for some reason, the ward didn't know that the baptism
that day so there was like 5 members there. I guess Ames didn't tell the ward about the baptism.
John' s baptism has been on date for a month. Anyways so next Saturday we will go back
again to Lees berg for the baptism. Afterwards when we found out the
baptism was going to be postponed we went and watched the senior
couples grandson play basketball which was kinda fun. It brought back
memories of when Elder Tesch and I were both out on the court.
one back home didn't want those so you decided to just throw them in there
for me to eat. But those things taste bad. ha ha.... So Saturday
was John our investigators baptism back in Lees burg. We had a senior couple drive us
about an hour to the church only to find out when we got there that
John and his whole family had the flu. John still showed up and was
about still going through with his baptism except he still felt sick and his
family wouldn't have been able to make it. So we encouraged him to post pone the baptism
till next Saturday. Also for some reason, the ward didn't know that the baptism
that day so there was like 5 members there. I guess Ames didn't tell the ward about the baptism.
John' s baptism has been on date for a month. Anyways so next Saturday we will go back
again to Lees berg for the baptism. Afterwards when we found out the
baptism was going to be postponed we went and watched the senior
couples grandson play basketball which was kinda fun. It brought back
memories of when Elder Tesch and I were both out on the court.
This week we had a pretty productive week. We did a lot of finding since we
don't have really any solid investigators.
don't have really any solid investigators.
This week after a member dinner Elder Tesch and I found a straight bar for working
out just sitting on the street. That was cool. It's a little rusty but
still pretty nice.
out just sitting on the street. That was cool. It's a little rusty but
still pretty nice.
We also went on exchanges with the zone leaders. I went with
Elder Macias who is a Spanish missionary which was super fun.
I didn't really expect to say anything really because everyone we visited only spoke
Spanish. So I would just kinda sit there and listen, trying to pull out what they were talking about.
Then at the end of the appointment I would just say like buenos
Dias or noches. Or me gusta tu Casa.... Just stuff I remembered from High School
Spanish class. Elder Macias is a really cool zone leader. Elder Tesch had to go
with Elder Macias companion. Ha ha.... . We also had zone
conference this week. It went from 9am to 430 pm. It went by pretty
fast though.
Then at the end of the appointment I would just say like buenos
Dias or noches. Or me gusta tu Casa.... Just stuff I remembered from High School
Spanish class. Elder Macias is a really cool zone leader. Elder Tesch had to go
with Elder Macias companion. Ha ha.... . We also had zone
conference this week. It went from 9am to 430 pm. It went by pretty
fast though.
During the meeting President Riggs was telling us that
when we are teaching the "Law of Chastity", we need to use specific
words. And then he asked us what words he meant? Some sister was like
"sex"... Elder Oyler was sitting right in front of me and he started
laughing, the he looked back at me and I just started laughing. Then
President Riggs looked at me and asked what I was laughing about so I
just blamed it on Elder Oyler. Then President Riggs was like Elder Frew using very
specific words describe to me the Law of Chastity. I asked him
"what are you getting at"... and then he told me again to explain
specifically what we don't do (in front of the whole zone and the AP's,
and what not). And I was like "uhhhh. We save our....uhhhh. We don't
have sex till we're married". Then he was like what else...."uhhhh we
keep our minds clean"..... What else?.....( I turn to Elder Tesch and asked if
I got most of it)...then President asked what do we not do with
ourselves? And I was just hesitant about saying it.. And eventually I
said it , and we don't do it with ourselves. Anyway the whole zone thought
that it was super funny and then afterward the meeting was over
President Riggs came and gave me a big hug.....
when we are teaching the "Law of Chastity", we need to use specific
words. And then he asked us what words he meant? Some sister was like
"sex"... Elder Oyler was sitting right in front of me and he started
laughing, the he looked back at me and I just started laughing. Then
President Riggs looked at me and asked what I was laughing about so I
just blamed it on Elder Oyler. Then President Riggs was like Elder Frew using very
specific words describe to me the Law of Chastity. I asked him
"what are you getting at"... and then he told me again to explain
specifically what we don't do (in front of the whole zone and the AP's,
and what not). And I was like "uhhhh. We save our....uhhhh. We don't
have sex till we're married". Then he was like what else...."uhhhh we
keep our minds clean"..... What else?.....( I turn to Elder Tesch and asked if
I got most of it)...then President asked what do we not do with
ourselves? And I was just hesitant about saying it.. And eventually I
said it , and we don't do it with ourselves. Anyway the whole zone thought
that it was super funny and then afterward the meeting was over
President Riggs came and gave me a big hug.....
P-day hasn't been too fun so far.
We went and stopped by a potential investigator this morning even though it's p-day
and he wasn' t there. Now we're just sitting at the library. It's
raining and kinda cold. Things are good though for me here in Mount
Vernon. I Realized how good it is to be with Elder Tesch when I saw Ames
again on Saturday. Although Elder Ames did give me a watch and a tie when I
got transferred which was nice of him. My six month mark is coming up
soon and its tradition to burn a tie.
I don't remember if I told you this but we found out who our new
mission president is going to be when President and Sister Riggs go home this summer.
It's David Huntsman, the brother to Jon Huntsman. I guess his dad was
the mission president in this mission when he was a kid which is kinda
cool.
We went and stopped by a potential investigator this morning even though it's p-day
and he wasn' t there. Now we're just sitting at the library. It's
raining and kinda cold. Things are good though for me here in Mount
Vernon. I Realized how good it is to be with Elder Tesch when I saw Ames
again on Saturday. Although Elder Ames did give me a watch and a tie when I
got transferred which was nice of him. My six month mark is coming up
soon and its tradition to burn a tie.
I don't remember if I told you this but we found out who our new
mission president is going to be when President and Sister Riggs go home this summer.
It's David Huntsman, the brother to Jon Huntsman. I guess his dad was
the mission president in this mission when he was a kid which is kinda
cool.
Love you all Elder Frew
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Washington DC South Mission: Week 22-January 19, 1015
Dear family,
Last night our Ward got invited to an interfaith choir thing that had
like ten churches sing. It was at a baptist church which was kinda
cool. I think that was the first time I've gone to another church
before. Praise the lord! So that turned out to be actually pretty fun.
Johns baptism is Saturday, which I'm really excited about. So more
about elder Tesch he is from Eden Utah. He played basketball football
and track in high school. He has a football scholarship when he gets
back to play at weber state. Things are a little slow in the area. We
don't really have any consistent investigators except for one family.
Not too much to Talk about this week. Today we're playing ball at the
stake center. Elder Oyler and elder Mathews are here. Love you all
Elder frew
Last night our Ward got invited to an interfaith choir thing that had
like ten churches sing. It was at a baptist church which was kinda
cool. I think that was the first time I've gone to another church
before. Praise the lord! So that turned out to be actually pretty fun.
Johns baptism is Saturday, which I'm really excited about. So more
about elder Tesch he is from Eden Utah. He played basketball football
and track in high school. He has a football scholarship when he gets
back to play at weber state. Things are a little slow in the area. We
don't really have any consistent investigators except for one family.
Not too much to Talk about this week. Today we're playing ball at the
stake center. Elder Oyler and elder Mathews are here. Love you all
Elder frew
Monday, January 12, 2015
Washington DC South Mission: Week 21- January 12, 2015
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| MY NEW COMPANION: ELDER TESCH |
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| ADDAE FAMILY |
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| JOHN & BAHARS FAMILY |
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My new address is -2659 Arlington drive apt.202
Dear Family,
So Monday through Wednesday I tried to say goodbye to some of the families that were in the Potomac crossing Ward. Sister Anderson took us out to lunch since me and Elder Mathews were leaving for sure. I loved the ward but I was ready for a change. Tuesday night I was up till 1am getting packed up for transfers and then I got up at 6am because Elder Ames had to be there early for a training meeting. So we drove down to Centre ville for the meeting. It was a whopping 8 degrees that morning. Recently it has been so cold here.
Anyways so as I was going into the transfer meeting I was dreaming of what 3 things I wanted to happen...... 1) I was hoping to serve in Mount Vernon because I thought it was a cool area when I was there for a baptism. 2) I was hoping to be In the same zone as Elder Mathews or Elder Oyler. 3) and lastly I wanted to get a cool companion.
What sweet,sweet music it was to my ears when I heard that I was going to be serving in the Mount Vernon Ward, and that my new companion was Elder Tesch (he's a big dude and he got some scholarships to play football after his mission, he's yoked out of his mind and is super cool), also Elder Mathews was called to be in the same zone as me which is the same zone that Elder Oyler is in.... So I got literally everything I was ever dreaming of. I've got a cool companion and I'm around some of my favorites missionaries in the mission; Elder Mathews and Elder Oyler, and I'm in the area that I wanted to be in...... I guess this is my reward for trying my best to love Elder Ames.
I will send some pictures of John and Bahars family. And also the Addae family. Dad asked how John and Bahar are doing.... So Elder Ames messaged me and told me that they are still doing good. John is the one getting baptized on the 24th and Bahar is already a member. I guess their daughter Tatia who is 13 is also on date now for baptism also. I will be up here hopefully for the baptism. For pday today we are just playing ball at the gym as usual. We went to chipotle for lunch.
Also you can send the package now.
Love you all elder frew
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
Washington DC South Mission: Week 20- January 5, 2015
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| CHRISTMAS DINNER |
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| Our Pday at the Washington DC Monuments |
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| Elder Frew with John and Bahar Family |
This week we have transfers on Thursday. The calls will come in
tonight telling us who is going to be transferred. John and Bahar came
again to church this week for the fourth time. They stayed for 2 hours
too. Elder Ames and i taught the gospel principles class the second
hour. Her and John are making some serious changes in their life. We
have another lesson with them tonight on the word of wisdom. They are
still on fire. For New Year's Eve we got to watch two movies. I
rallied all the elders to watch space jam. The sisters were kinda
ticked but it made my night to watch it. We also watched how to train
your dragon two. Today for pday we're having a nerd war as our zone
activity. Things are going good. Nothing too exciting is happening.
Basically just getting ready for transfers. Talk to you next week
Love elder frew
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