WASHINGTON DC SOUTH MISSION: WEEK 101: JULY 18, 2016

My last comps: Elder Taggert and Elder Taylor

Sister Gisseman

Hey Family; 

So Wednesday night we got the transfer email and found out that both elder Abney and I were going to be transferred and that they were going to put sisters in the Brambleton ward which is great. That area has had elders in it since the dawn of time and never has had any baptisms. So sisters will be a good change of pace...So elder Abney got sent to Reston, VA and I got put back in the Potomac Crossing Ward where I first started my mission off at! I was pretty excited to leave Brambleton and get sent here. So Sunday I got to see all the members and it was really great. We had dinner with Sister Gisseman who's going to hook us up with a Pentagon tour...You asked about the capitol? I will see if I can find a member that can take us through. I've done it once with a member that other missionaries knew but I'll try to see what I can do....Being back in the Potomac crossing ward is great! I'm with Elder Taggert and Elder Taylor who also just got transferred in. Elder Taggert is from Arizona and Elder Taylor is from Utah. They moved the last two elders that were here because of....Well lets just say there was a 60 inch tv in the  apartment when we showed up and the place was trashed...So we had to clean up the place and throw the T.V out......So that was pretty much our week. We did service for a lady in P.C who is really going through a tough time and stopped by people in the area book..

On Friday I went and did a session at the temple with the departing missionaries and President and Sister Huntsman. That was really good, but strange thinking that I'm going home. On the way down I was just thinking "How is it already over"? It just doesn't feel like I'm going home at all. I've had so many memories, experiences, and lessons learned that it will be hard for me to leave it all behind. But I'm also excited to be done. So after the session was done President waited outside the Celestial Room and gave all the missionaries a hug once they came out. I really love President and Sister Huntsman. I'm glad you will be able to see what great people they are. You should offer to take them out to dinner when you get here or leave them a gift card if we don't have time so they can go out...I've also been setting up dinners with recent converts assuming dad will pay the bill for them ;).Sorry this is scattered but after the temple we had dinner at the Huntsman's and then my two new companions picked me up.

(Now The Gospel According to Saint Logan)

I'm very glad that I've had the opportunity to serve a mission here in the DC South. It has changed my life and has prepared me for the life after the mission. The last few weeks I've had trouble sleeping because of all the memories that come into my head at night of the lessons I've learned, the experiences made, along with just overwhelming feelings of gratitude and love for God allowing me to come here to DC. And also for the help I received from him before my mission and during it here...I bought some melatonin though so I'm sleeping much better now haha....The mission has been the hardest two years of my life up to this point. But it was so worth it. As we go through trials and hardships our faith is increased and made stronger, if we turn to God and don't murmur asking "Why are you allowing this to happen" or "why is this not happening". Testimony can't grow without it being challenged. And my mission has made my testimony stronger for sure. I will cherish the time I've had here to preach the True Gospel of Jesus Christ as restored by the Prophets. I'm glad I don't have to deal with the nay-sayers anymore but even Christ was persecuted for teaching truth so why wouldn't those who do the same receive it as well. I haven't been a perfect missionary but I've tried my best to do Gods will for me. I still make mistakes and sin and I will do the same when I get home. But one of my strengths is being willing to take the bullet in the chest and "just repent" when I need to. I'm grateful for you mom and dad for your examples and for your faith and diligence in keeping the commandments and doing your best to teach us the gospel and other correct principles. And with 4 missionaries(5 unless beaker screws up the dynasty), 5 eagle scouts, 2 married in the temple for eternity, 1 Young women Medalion thing haha, a son in med school and 1 with a real job, and most importantly a family that is close together.... you can only see the fruit of couples that strive to live according to the gospel. I'm grateful my brothers who set the bar of serving a mission and my sister as well for being great! I strongly believe that God is real and he loves us more then we realize. That that the feelings from the spirit aren't the effects of a "frenzied mind"...After Christ and his apostles were killed very "plain yet precious" principles of his gospel were lost or changed my men who had no desire to Follow Gods will at all changed doctrines, ordinances, a teachings that Christ taught. God prepared people and places so that the fullness of his gospel could once again be giving to his sons and daughters that love him and do his will. God reached out to 14 year old boy who wasn't perfect but was striving to do know Gods will and his truth. That boy would over time would receive those truths that were lost or changed through out the rest of his life. Those who are willing enough to do Gods will can know if what I've said is true if they are willing to read the book of Mormon with an open heart and willing to change their ways. If they do this they will know by the spirit of God which come through feeling of love, joy, and peace. If they apply the teachings of the book of Mormon they will draw closer to God and have a desire to repent and live according to Christ's gospel. Christ's atonement makes it possible for us to become clean from our sins, overcome addictions and habits, change the nature of the flesh, give us the strength to go through trials and hardships, and to feel peace in a fallen world...These are some of my things I've come to know over the course of 23 months. I love you all and will see you in a week.

love Elder Logan Frew

WASHINGTON DC SOUTH MISSION: WEEK 100: JULY 11,2016

T-Minus 2 weeks

Hey Family,

So this week we have transfers on Thursday. Not sure what president is going to do with me because

 I'm going home two weeks after the regular transfer time. I could just stay here in Bramble-ton in a trio

 until you get here. But I also could just go to the mission office and be an office elder for 2 weeks which 

president mentioned already. That would be my first choice ha ha. This week we had a lesson with a guy 

named Christopher. I think he's more curious about what we believe more than about acting. But it went 

well. Other than that nothing too exciting happened. I went to my last new member fireside last night. 

Lots of my missionaries and a good amount of my companions are flying home Thursday like Elder Blanchard,

Elder Severe, and Elder Brooks-by.

I still haven't been able to hear if we can get an extra ticket for mom at the white house. I wouldn't plan 

on it though. My ward mission leader screwed the pooch and didn't read my text right when I told him how 

many were coming.. Sorry! But I am trying to get us a tour with a guy who works at the pentagon. Correction

I got tickets for tour to the pentagon. I want to see a lot of people as well. We should be

 pretty busy the whole week. I've already read the talk that mom sent me. Thanks for sending me the whole

 talk anyways ha ha. Our i pads have every talk possible you can get.

I've also been calling some of my recent converts to set up dinner times for when you get here so we can go out. 

The Clements are going to get us free tickets to Mount Vernon hopefully and said we can just do dinner the 

day we go there because they live like 5 minutes from the estate. Those tickets aren't cheap either. Probably 

saved dad at least a hundred bucks. HA HA. Well I'm excited to see everyone in not too long. Its been hard 

to stay motivated. Especially with all my auburn friends getting home. But I will do fine. If I've made it 

this long I can do another few weeks. 

Love you All,

Elder Logan Frew

 

Washington DC South Mission: Week 99: July 4, 2016

Hey family,
Happy Fourth of July! Thanks for the videos of the reunion. I love
getting videos of the family. I think it's so funny that mom gets the
camera out to make a video for her boys on missions and Derek and John
are like "hey stop! we're doing this right now ha ha! 
Anyways This morning we had a pancake breakfast with our ward which
was ok. The pancakes weren't all the great and there's not really any
members of the ward that were close with which kinda stinks but oh
well. Afterward we went shopping and now we have a BBQ with our zone.
Tonight we're going to watch fireworks with Sanjay in lees-burg. I also
bought a facial trimmer for 10 bucks which includes an eyebrow trimmer
accessory so my eyebrows will be on spot when I get home 😏. This week
we had a lesson with a new investigator name Douglas. We actually
tracked into him like when I first got here and he didn't seem super
promising so nothing really happened. Then we called him during weekly
planning and set up a lesson with him. Hopefully we can get him to
church this next week. Other than that nothing too exciting happened.
 Alright love you all and see you in 3 weeks. I'm trying to get us tickets to Mount Vernon
as well as a Pentagon tour possible but we will see.

Love, 
Elder Logan Frew

Washington DC South Mission: Week 98: June 29, 2016

T-MINUS 30 DAYS LEFT: CRAZY

Hey family,


So we had a good week. On Tuesday Taco Bell gave out free Doritos
locos tacos. So we went inside and got our free taco and then went
through the drive thru to get another one. Then we went to a half Taco
Bell half KFC one and they said they weren't giving out free tacos
because it's half and half. But we still got 2 free tacos. Later that
night we went to the temple and did baptism and confirmations with our
ward. We also helped move two families this week.

Alright so here's the funny story of the week...So Friday we have
weekly planning where we are in our apartment calling people and
setting up appointments etc... and we had just got back from doing service
so we showered and I decided to just stay in my garments for weekly
planning. Anyway there comes a knock at the door and so Elder Abney
runs and puts some clothes on to open it and no one was there. So we
just kinda left it. Well about 5 mins later there is a knock at the
door again. Elder Abney again gets up a see who knocked and  it's two
maintenance people. So he answers the door and they said he needs to
do something with the water heater because the gas was turned off in
the whole building. Well Elder Abney had forgot that I was still spread out
on the couch in my garments. So  the two guys walks in and I'm just
sitting there and they say "hey" and walk out on the patio. After I
realized that two guys just saw me in my garments I walked into the
other room until they left....after they left I walked out kinda
laughing but was like "what the heck are you thinking".

We also picked up a couple of people who could potentially turn into new
investigators this week. Hopefully we can find someone that can get
baptized for when you all come out. That's what I'm trying to make
happen.


Love you all
Elder  Logan Frew

WASHINGTON DC SOUTH MISSION: WEEK 97: JUNE 20, 2016

This is about a months worth of recycling we saved up and dumped in a missionaries apartment.
(My mom always taught us to recycle)

Happy Father's Day,

I sent dad a letter this last week. So hopefully you guys got it in

the mail already?

So my ward mission leader works at the White House for secret security

and said that he could probably get us a tour of the White House when

you guys come out. So I thought dad would be excited for that.  We

didn't teach any lessons this week. It was overall just not that

great of a week.  We sat in on a Chinese lesson  where they just watched the video

"Meet the Mormons" in mandarin for an hour. Then afterwords had Chinese food with

the bishop, he is from Taiwan. I'm already running out of stuff to talk

about because nothing really happened this week.  We had a zone

training which actually was really good and yesterday for church the

speakers did really well. We had interviews with President Huntsman.

And Sister Anderson also took us out to lunch at a restaurant in our

area this week too. I guess I will just have to do  a Dallin Penny

letter this week...hahha.  Sorry for not writhing much.

 Love you all

Love Elder Logan Frew

WASHINGTON DC SOUTH MISSION: WEEK 96: JUNE 13, 2016

Hey Family


So this week we went on an exchanges Tuesday with the zone leaders
which was good. Elder Sanders came out with me and Elder Snow went to
Del Oro and is really cool. So we did that. Then Wednesday we had a
lesson with Diana. We brought our ward mission leader who is a convert
and taught the plan of salvation. It went really well. The only
problem is that she's moving on June 27th to the Ashburn Ward so we
will have to pass her off. But other than that nothing too exciting
happened. 

This week we have interviews with President Huntsman, zone training,
and few other things. Yesterday Elder Abney and I spoke in church along
with a couple who are leaving to be mission presidents in Brazil. It
went well. I may be able to send you the talk because the bishop
recorded it to send to a family who couldn't make it to sacrament.


So Grandpa Dale passed away I guess. That's sad and super heart breaking.
We are going to have to find someone else who can say "Hey watch it" now.

 Well I don't have too much else to write about.


Elder Tesch went home on Thursday which is pretty weird. He's starting
football camp for Weber state.


Love you all
Elder Logan Frew