Washington DC South Mission: Week 41: June 1, 2015

Elder Chan from Hong Kong

Elder Frew and Elder Chan

Hey family,

Elder Blanchard and I are doing good. We got our car back earlier this
week which was really nice.On Friday all the cars in the mission got
tiwis put inside of them. Which is a little black box that reports of
your speed, not wear a seat belt, etc..., and reports it to the mission
president.

This week Elder Blanchard and I drove all over the place trying to get
a parking pass for our town home. It took us probably like 3 hours one
day to get a pass which was really annoying and irritating.

I went on exchange earlier this week with the Chinese speaking elders
which was pretty fun. Elder Chan is from Hong Kong, he and I went 
in his area and drove around the mission seeing people that spoke
Chinese. We went into Arlington and McLean which was pretty cool since
I've never been in that area yet. I would really like to serve in
Arlington sometime in my mission.

It's starting to get pretty hot and humid but we're in a car now so it
doesn't really affect us. I'm afraid that next transfer we might lose
the car because our mission is getting rid of 9 cars because so many
elders and sisters are going home this summer and fall. But hopefully
we will get to keep it. Otherwise it will really suck because the town of Burke

 is really big and hard to cover on bike. Also we're the only elders in the
ward so we would be covering all of it by ourselves.

Not too much happened this week.  
It's super crazy how it's been a year since I was graduating from
Placer. It's been a pretty quick year.

 Love you and talk to you next week

Elder Frew

Washington DC South Mission: Week 40: May 25, 2015

Washington DC TEMPLE: Transfers

Hey everyone,
So last Monday I hit a curb on pday and had to take the car in. We
found out that it did more damage then I thought. It needs a new
wheel, rim, alignment , and something else. The inspection said it
would be about 1000 dollars. So we've been on bike for the last few
days which has kinda sucked. We had a really good turn out for church
this Sunday though. We had 3 investigators come to church which was
really good. And one of them asked what they would have to do to be
baptized,

We had interviews this week with President Riggs for the last time.
This is his last transfer here and then he will go home which is kinda
weird. We are also having a training on Friday where we are getting
tiwis put in the car. A tiwi is a black box that gets installed to the
car and beeps at you  if you go too fast.

Today we went to the temple for pday. It was good. Then after that we
didn't really do too much. I found out that there is a guy in our ward
that knows Stewart Schulzke named brother Mann. He said that he was
his MTC teacher.
Sorry I can't write too much today.

Love Logan

Washington DC South Mission: Week 39: May 18, 2015

My new companion from Rexburg, Idaho

WE HAVE A CAR NOW!

Elder Frew & Elder Blanchard (Rexburg, Idaho)

Transfer Day: Farewell Elder Annis

A Good bye to one of my Favorite Families!

Hey Family, So this week was transfers. I'm now serving in Burke, VA. I'm in the

 same ward that President Riggs goes  with his family. My new companion is
Elder Blanchard from Rexburg Idaho. He is super cool. We live 
in a town home with four other missionaries. It's called the missionary frat
house. We also have a car which is really nice. Except I already
drifted into a curb, I got really lucky that it was only that. It's funny that

 this has been the week for car accidents. I'll be able to beat the heat this summer.

We went to a concert last night that was at stake center. It was Jenny
Oaks Baker and her family that plays a bunch of musical instruments
but mostly the violin. It's Elder Oaks daughter. I've never heard of
her but I guess a lot of people know her. It was really good. 

We also played a pick up game freshman after an appointment I will
send you a video of it. Told them if we beat them that we got to teach
them.... We won 16 to 3 haha. Elder Blanchard is really good at
basketball too. Sorry I don't have much time write today.  We have to
go to the hospital today during the day and give a blessing.

Love you all,

Elder Frew

**Note: I have a new address now (Thats for Sister Taylor)

Washington DC South Mission: Week 38: May 11, 2015

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOM!

Everyone skyped in at once, such a great day...

Hi Family:

Skype was a lot of fun. I will let you know what happens for
transfers this week. We are probably going to go to Mount Vernon today which
will be cool. I'll try and send some pics. Love Logan.

Last Week in MT. Vernon

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