Washington DC South: Week 37: May 4, 2015

Hey family,
This week we had zone conference. It was good but kind long. 
President Riggs made me conduct the music. I didn't know how to lead so I just sang in front of everyone then he came up and showed me how to do it in a sense.

 There was a baptism this week in our ward for the other
elders. We found a family tracking that the mom grew up in Utah and
had a lot of Mormon friends but never was baptized. She had ancestors join the church in France and then moved across the plains with all the pioneers. After convincing them to let us come back  we set up a time for next weekend. It was a good week. 

We also have a stake cconference this weekend. Along with the regional conference. So we haven't been able to get to many investigators to church. Although we do have people that are progressing. 

 We are working with a recently married couple that are 21 and 20. Elder Annis is older than both of them. We also had dinner with our investigator Owen. That night we he had three dinners. Kind of felt sick afterwards, but I'm all good.

Today we have a zone activity playing kickball and also Frisbee. I can
talk to you Sunday about applying for schools. But I think I want
to apply to Utah State, BYU, and UVU. I don't want to apply to BYU
Idaho. I think that would just be a waste of money cause I don't want
to go there.  I will call you Saturday to set up a time to Skype. But
more than likely will be Skype at around 3 to 5 your time. We're
finally getting the bedbugs removed. The only thing thing that sucks
is we have to pay 75 bucks because we weren't ready today when they
came to spray. Elder Annis got kinda pissed at the people because they
tried to make us sign something for the 75 bucks.
Anyway sorry it's short today. I will talk to you later this week.

Love elder frew

Washington DC South Mission: Week 36: April 27, 2015

Elder Ames and Elder Frew

Congrats to Derek for graduating from BYU. I liked the pictures. That's so cool that you talked to M. Russell Ballard too. How did Daniel like Mormon prom? This week we had two lessons with our investigator named Rose. I don't know if I told you about her yet. She is from Bolivia and has two little daughters. Her two older brothers served LDS missions when she was really young although she never was baptized or doesn't know a ton about the church. The two little girls are super smart though. They probably know more scripture stories than some of my companions I've had. Anyways we took a member that is Brazilian to our lesson with her and it went really well. I think they are good people that will be receptive to baptized. They were  just recently baptized in a Baptist church but they said they would be willing to be baptized again, if they found out it was true. So things are going really well with them.

 We went to a baptism for some missionaries in our zone. They did the baptism in the Potomac River which was kinda cool. The water was probably freezing. It was frozen over just a few months ago.

Last Monday there was a tornado warning so we had to go to our apartments early that day. We were at the very end of our area so we biked as fast as we could back to our apartment. I think we got from one end of the area to the other in 15 minutes which is really fast. Today for pday were playing Frisbee and soccer at the park right by us.

I don't think I don't I mentioned anything about the bed bug problems we had. Yes, bed bugs are actually a real thing... Elder Tesch would sometimes get bit by bed bugs and we didn't really do anything because I never got bit. However Elder Annis has gotten eaten alive in the last 2 weeks that we have been together. So we searched the box springs and found a bunch. It was super disgusting. We took both box springs and put them in the garbage and then we went to the store to get bug killer. The leasing office already came by and inspected it and told us that on Monday they will call us and let us know when the new apartment is ready. They said, "Let us know when its ready but did  not doing anything".  So we went to Walmart, bought bug bed killer and sprayed the shiz out of our bedroom and the mattress. Then we had to let it air our so we needed a place to stay.

I saw on Davis Jenkins blog that it shows all around the world who is
visiting his page. You should talk to Lisa and figure out how to do
that for mine.

Love Logan

Washington DC South Mission: Week 35: April 20, 2015

Elder Tesch and Tony and Elder Frew (Tony's baptism)

Elder Frew and Elder Tesch

Hey family,

First off did you guys get the letter I sent that had a bunch of

photos? I sent hat awhile ago and I wasn't sure if you got those

yet? So we had quite a day Saturday. We woke up at 6am and worked out

till 7am. Then we had the Elders with a car drop us off at the church

right after that in our gym clothes to start filling up the font.

They dropped us off and they went back to get showered and ready for

the day and told us they would be back to pick us up so we could get ready.We

were expecting them to give us plenty of time to get ready since the

baptism was at 10:00am.. Flash forward to 9:15am and they finally came back

to the chapel and to pick us up. We drove as fast as we can go to our

apartment which is at least ten minutes away for us both to get

showered and get everything we need for the baptism. I've never gotten

ready so fast in my life. Elder Annis and I were showered, with our

suits on, hair done, and everything we needed in less than 7 minutes.

Oh and we got a call from the Elder Tesch right before saying he was

going to be late and that I should bring clothes to baptize Tony in

case he was unable to get there on time. So we get everything and

the baptism clothes and the other elders finally come and take us back

to the church at 9:45. Out of all the days in the year they decided to

be late the one day we finally have a baptism. Anyways but once we got

there it seemed to go pretty well. I got pictures with me and Tony

since Elder Tesch hadn't showed up yet. I was in my white clothes and ready

to do the baptism once the program started. I gave a talk on baptism

which went well I thought, and right as I'm ending Elder Tesch walks in

the room with all his white clothes on too. Haha. So the program went

as planned after that. Elder Tesch baptized Tony and everything went

really well. Afterwards we went to Tony's house and had Pizza Hut Pizza and

hung out with for a little bit. So even though I am wearing white

clothes in the pictures I really didn't baptize Tony haha. At least it

looks like I did. hahha

We also had a good week besides the baptism. We street contacted 

a lady from Bolivia who had two older brothers on missions and

we're both members. She wasn't baptized though and she had 2 girls. We

are taught them the restoration and set up another time to come back

next week. We had the same thing happen with a guy named Alex who's

from Ethiopia. We taught him the restoration and set up another time.

And we also met a mom and a little boy from California who met with

the missionaries there. This week we picked up 4/5 new investigators

and also had a baptism so things have been going really well for us.

Another cool thing happened Saturday.... We were ridding our bikes

home from our dinner appointment across this soccer field when a group

of 12 guys were like " hey it's the Mormons ha ha" (in a joking way).

They asked us if we wanted to play football with them. When I had the

choice to go tract for a hour and half or play football my decision

was pretty easy. So we played football in our shirt and ties and got

super sore and sweaty. They did two hand touch for us since we were in

shirts and ties which was nice but the rest of the game everyone just

played tackled. Not too brag but I played pretty dang good. Especially

for being the only white guy besides Elder Annis on the whole field

Ha ha.  So after we were done playing we told them to hit us up next time they

were going to play football or basketball. As we started riding away I

thought that we needed to go back and invite them to come to church. I

figured at least one of them has to be interested.So we rode our bikes

back and to not make it awkward we gave them some left over food that

the member gave us for dinner and invited them to come to church with

us on Sunday. None of them ended up coming but it was still a lot of

fun. Saturday was one of the best days that I've had on my mission.

Sunday night we had a lesson with our investigator Barbara and it went

pretty well. We didn't teach her a set lesson just answering questions

to her needs. We have been trying to help her come to know the truth

of the gospel. But last night I realized that she doesn't even have a

knowledge of God. So we are trying to help her find that out first.

Love,

Elder Frew

Tony and his family and Elder Frew

Washington DC South Mission: Week 34- April, 13, 2015

PDAY  WASHINGTON DC

ELDER TESCH AND ELDER FREW

WASHINGTON DC

ZONE CONFERENCE

ELDER FREW AND ELDER TESCH

My New Companion: Elder Annis and Elder Frew

This week we had transfers on Thursday.  We spent most time before that
just saying goodbyes to the people Elder Tesch wanted to see. Then on
transfer day Elder Tesch was transfer ed and went to the
Ashburn area not too far from where I was at in Lees burg. My new
companion is Elder Annis. He's from Manti, Utah. He's really into
skateboarding and snowboarding. He's been pretty cool so far. Its been
nice be leading the area out again.

 So we had to move Tony's baptism to next Saturday because the family

 had a funeral come up. But everything is still going good and he's ready

 to be baptized on the 25th of April.  Elder Tesch will be back here in Mount Vernon

on Saturday so that he can baptized Tony. I'm glad that I've had the chance to be
companions with Elder Tesch for 2 transfers. I love that guy. Elder
Oyler left my zone and got transferred to the Oakton zone. I will
probably only be here for 5 more weeks.

We did a lot of finding this week and trying to talk to as many people
as possible. It was pretty funny so I was talking to this guy on the street

 about the Book of Mormon and the conversation was going really well 

when all of a sudden a super drunk little El Salvadorian guy comes up

 and tries to ask me for some money. Ha ha...He was so drunk that you 

couldn't even understand him. When he asked for a buck I gave him a 

restoration pamphlet and pretended I didn't know what he wanted. Eventually

 my new companion Elder Annis gave him a buck and he left. This week we had
some Siera Le One food with the George family. I actually was able to
handle it pretty well this time.

Please get back to me on the college stuff!
Love Elder Frew

Washington DC South Mission: Week 33 : April 6, 2015

Elder Frew and Elder Tesch: Visit Washington DC

Hey family,
So yesterday Tony had his baptismal interview with one of the
presidency of the mission because a zone leader cannot do it. And he
will be ready for baptism this coming Saturday the 11th of April! He is super excited
and we are also as other Tesch and I are finishing up our last
transfer together. Tony's wife got baptized in December, then his kids
got baptized while I was here with other Tesch, and now Tony will be
the final one to be baptized. Transfers will be this
Thursday and elder Tesch is almost 100% going to be leaving. I am
really hoping that I don't get stuck with someone I don't like. But if
not I guess I will just half to work it out. I have loved being
companions with elder Tesch. He will be here in the mission basically
the whole time I will be here which is great because all my buddies
that I've made here go home this summer and fall. He goes home one
transfer before me in July.

Conference was good this weekend. Tony (our investigator committed to baptism)
 has watched most of it and we invited most of our other people we've been working with to watch it.


One of the people that told us to go home and rethink our lives a few weeks ago actually 
watched conference too! I liked Elder Holland's talk about the kid who went
rock climbing with his brother. I also liked him Russell Ballard's talk
for priesthood. I also loved Willford W. Anderson who talked about
dancing to the music and hearing the music. I have really come to
enjoy watching conference as a missionary. I am not distracted to go
play Monopoly and risk. And I actually want to listen to hear what
they're saying. Does Daniel and John still go and do that? And did you
guys go to the stake center to watch priesthood?

The Lees are in are in DC? You should give me their number and also
text Chris lee and see if they would want to go to lunch. I am super
close to Mount Vernon I could ride my bike super easy. It would still be 
cool to see someone from back home.


Love you guys,
Elder Frew

Washington DC South Mission: Week 32: March 30, 2015

Hey family,


Elder Tesch and I had a pretty good week other than for Sunday. None
of our investigators showed up to church and one of our investigators didn't take the
word of wisdom that well. But I think that it will blow over, we just
need to meet with him and he will remind him what he needs to do. 

This week I went on exchanges with Elder Oyler in my area. We went and saw
some of the people he knew when he was in this ward. We also found
a new investigator together. Elder Oyler was like "that's more than we got in
Lees burg"! On Saturday, we had an Easter egg hunt with our ward and it
was freezing. Our ward also had an Easter program on Sunday because
general conferences next week.

I wrote John Motley a letter and I was going to send it but I wanted
to put a picture of the whole family with it. I will try and send that
to him this week or just wait till transfers and give it to the elders
in that ward. Transfers are not this Thursday, but the next. Elder
Tesch is more than likely going to be leaving. We asked President if
we could do three transfers together but he just laughed. I will be
here in Mount Vernon for probably one more transfer and then leave. I love being
companions with Elder Tesch though. He goes home one transfer before
 me so we will be in the mission for pretty much the whole time together.
 All my good buddies out here go home this summer and fall. So I'm
 glad Elder Tesch and Elder Rob will be here when they all go home.

We're going to DC again today for a p day.  I will try and send some
pictures later on today and may be a little bit more in the letter.
I'm doing really good.

Do you have any advice on how to teach the Godhead when people believe
in the Trinity. I have multiple scriptures in John and what not but
I'm curious if you had any advice and if you guys could help me out a
little bit and maybe something that stuck out to you mom when you are
investigating since you believed in the Trinity right?

Please do me a favor and get going on the college stuff that would be
a huge favor to me and also would keep me focused on the work if you
guys would do that for me. Also talk to sister Jenkins and sister
Trentman to see if we can be roommates with Davis and Chancey when I
get back. I know that UVU students and BYU students can live in the
same housing.

Love you guys and I'll write to you next week 
love Elder Frew

Washington DC South Mission: Week 31: March 22, 2015

Hey family

So we had a really good week. On Tuesday we had a specialized training
with our zone and the Alexandria zone. President and the ap's came.
They trained us on how to use the Book of Mormon, planning, and the
new iPads. It was good but really long from 9am to 4 pm. During lunch
we played a huge game of knock out which was fun. This week we also
met with our investigator Barbara Sandoval. She came to church on
Sunday with her daughter who is also named Barbara. That  was really
big. She hasn't come to church since we've been here. Tony came again
for the third straight week and he is doing really good. We set his
baptism date for April 11th rather than the 28 of this month because of
conference coming up soon. Transfers are on the 9th of April, Elder
Tesch will more than likely be gone and then I will stay in Mount
Vernon for 1 more transfer.

On Saturday night we went and had dinner at a members home with Tony
Clements our investigator who is on date. Brother Howard the member
cooked picana. It's Brazilian for tri-tip and it was probably the best
steak I have ever had before. And there was a ton of it! We didn't
even put a dent in the meat. It was Super good food.

I got your package In the mail this week. Thanks for the lobster tie.
I really like it whoever found that. Today for PDay I think we're
going to play football or soccer. Things are going good. It dropped down
to the 40s and 30s again this week which stinks. I'm so sick of the
freakin cold weather. Also make sure you look over the email I sent
about my college stuff. If you can find that out for me you will save
me time, stress, and being focused.  Here is  Elder Tesch and I last week
in DC.

Love Elder Frew

ELDER FREW & ELDER TESCH