Monday, July 25, 2011

Hola Madre,

well Im going to do something Durastic! Im only going to write a little bit to you right now in an effort to better motivate me to write you on paper... I bought 4 pairs of slacks and a new suit about two weeks ago so im going to use my wells fargo card here a few times for shopping and to send a package... ill try to get some of the money back on by next monday...I had a good week and we found A TON of new investigators ... like one a day at least... all with baptismal dates. but none of them came to church so it almost feels like all is for not... 0 progressing feels more like 0 progress. but we are doing the things that we are suppost to be doing so i know that god will bless me in the long run. ill keep thrusting my sickle in and maybe ill harvest some good seeds? lol well I love you all and its not too hat.. just between 99 and 105 so im good there.. ill talk  to you all next week. -ELder Logan

Elder Warner

Elder Sharp

Sunday, July 24, 2011


hola,
well mom its going good.  I have been managing to stay cool lately .. you know 101 107 no me importa ..(basically it means somewhere between 'i dont care' and 'no big deal')(or just it is not important to me...) haha but ya spanish is coming along just fine.. i dont know if its ever been a "struggle" but im definintly still learning... at least i understand just about everything now... you really start to feel like you've lost a few months of your mission studying a language and then realizing that your JUST starting to understand it.. and apperintly what you thought you heard three weeks ago isnt even close.. but i find solace in the fact that im helping Gods work progress " boldly and nobly" and that I am helping people hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their respective tongue... now i might not come back with the same wide variety of vocabulary as Andrew or Dad but i should be just fine holding a conversation with just about ANYONE who speaks spanish :P yay.. .... as you can see from the pictures a few Elders got transered today... I am NOT one of them... i now have the opportunity to Baptise at least one person this Transfer.. namely Dulce... Ramona to if she can quit smoking by this saturday... i know she can do it with the help of the lord. besides that there really isnt any cool news..... we did have a cool experience where we were walking past hre teenagers playing ball and we almost didnt say anything out of something like fear like " o they wouldn't be interested" but then i was just like o well here it goes... just like getting up to bear your testimony ... same feeling... you just gotta do it right.. lol so two 15 year olds and an 18 year old now have baptismal dates for the 20th of next month and said that they would pray to know it it was true ... it was cool to see the spirit work through me and Elder Adams... iv'e been trying to talk to EVERYONE but sometimes when you have a REALLY good day planned and NOTHING works out the way you wanted it gets hard to just walk up all smiley and say hello were the missionaries lol just sometimes.... besides then everything is muy bueno. i love you all and hope to hear again next week ---Elder Taylor Westbrook Logan

Monday, July 11, 2011

haha Yeah I heard there was a big dust storm or something like that... i think it might have started here in tucson... but then we got rain at the same time so it was just dirty rain... ya sure its been hot... but definintly tolerable ... by 4 o clock every day its over cast and windy.. at like 100 degrees though that feels soooo good... im LOVING the monsoons for that reason...I have been righting my personal journal on paper and mailing it to her once or twice a week... i think that will keep you all attle more caught up...
of cource ill continue praying for you ... and i know you'll do Muy excelente a su trabajo.. al la mejor... Usted va a recibir muchos ofrendas de los jefes. lol just for fun... i want you to be able to understand by the time i get back because me and Andrew .. pues, vamos a practicar nuestros espaniol cada tiempo que nos hablamos. so listen up mama. lol
As for investigators to pray for.. basically the same .. pray for ruben to come to church again.. and for hermana palafox que ella puede tener los bendicones de mostrando su fe. porque ella viene al la iglesia esta semana, ella va a estar expulsada... pero esperamos que ella vaya a estar bendicio de dios por mostrada su fe.
other that that pray that Ramna wont buy anymore cigarettes.. (she hasen't gon to buy them in about a week.. and smoked the last one she had on saturday night!) and that Everyone else wil get the ganas to come to chuch .. or like read and pray... lol that'd be nice tambien i hope that all goes well this week with everything that is going on.. i love you all and will talk to you next week.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Hola madre,
            well I hear raechel has received her endowments, how crazy. I'm really happy for her, AND really excited to hear what she was thinking about it all... (hint hint seester) its crazy to me now to think of home... and not know where it is or what it looks like....well besides those pictures.. lol... I'll definintly think about moving into our house when i get back... but it would be strange to not have my old room.. lol it really changes my way of thinking about it... Tell Grandma and Grandpa that ill be sending them a letter soon... I dont know why its soo hard for me to write everybody.. i sit down to do it and something ALWAYS comes up.. lol i'll work aliittle harder. As for Investigators...  well my new companion doesnt really think that any of them are progressing so he's all gung ho on dropping them and finding new ones...  which isn't bad i just have such attachments to my first investigators... i'd hate to just "leave them".. i feel like i haven't made a big enuff difference in their lives... like something should have clicked by now... and for alot of them it has... but they are just soooo attached to old traditions and habbits that they can't do anything ... so last week we gave them a bit of an eternal prospective and challeges a few of them to change and call us when they need help... but soo far nothing... I'msad to hear about the dogs... but their time has been coming... I just hope grandma and Grandpa dont take it too hard... they've always had dogs... are they going to get more? Yeah it had gotten to like 119 out here.. but then the monsoons started...... 10 -20+ mile an hour winds with more rain in thirty minutes then temecula usually sees in a week of rain... it floods and floows and crashes.... nearly a foot and a half high water in most places... we almost got caught in it.. we barely made it home about 8 minutes into the rain .... and the rivers were already a constant foot high... it was crazy... luckely we arent suppost to be out (in a car) in those so we got a quick little rest before we went out to work... but yes usually its out on bikes from 12 to 5 in at least 105 degree weather.. dry as a dust storm..... but yeah thats about it... we are working more on finding new people to teach this week.. pray for Ramona to see the truth about her 'friend' cig... that she will see he is a cunning devils advocate... and that she will have the streangh to beat him. pray for us to find some Children of god who are Ready to find GODs church on the earth. I love you all and ill talk to you next week.. (couldn't E-mail yesterday because things were closed.)
 
_---Elder Taylor Westbrook Logan

Sunday, July 3, 2011


hola madre,
                Well, all is well here, we have 12 people that we are teaching + a few im not counting.. these twelve could technically ALL be baptised in T-3 weeks... the chances are slim to none, but with god on our side.. EVERYTHING is possible,.... so La familia Caro,
1)Carlos, Maria,and Carla; the dad and mom just had their individual walls knocked down this last week and just need to read pray, receive there answer and be baptised... but they dodged church again this week... so we will be teaching more towards baptism and receiving an answer and the commandments and the blessings from keeping them.
2)Ramona, and Dulce ( whos 9); The Mom just needs to stop smoking but the Cigarette has such subconscous power and when it came down to it she couldnt even snap a little twig in half..(cigarette).. but we are still having her slow down ALOT.. down to only two or three a day.. so we are switching attention to the daughter.....
3) Maria palafox, Ariana(9), Alma(8): We just REfound this family they had been taught about a year ago and they need some help.. shes living with a guy that she doesnt love... she is illegal and were 90% sure she gets beaten.. but that she hits back now so he has stopped.... she loves everything that she has learned but the (boyfriend) husband doesnt like her meeting with us.. so we are going to try to talk to him this week... please pray for him to have a soft heart :D...
4)Ruben Rivera: We are going by on tuesday to make baptismal invitations with him... hopefully he chooses a date in the near future... like the 2nd or 9th... he's ready but wants to know more first... lol so we expained that baptism is the door that puts you on the path to knowledge and Eternal life.. (he make doors as a welder).. so i  think that ot him ready..
5)Jose : just needs to come to church and read and pray and know more... lol
6) carina(innactive member) Jesus(her spouse): She wants to come back to church and he kinda wants us to teach him so that he can find out why she believes its true...
7)Ernesto...  if he could except that God has an exclusivity agreement with this church he would already be a member...
8)George: old lonely man ...  just needs to come to chuch three times... but i think that he thinks its true...
recent contacts that want to learn more just pray for their hearts to be softened.. Deni, Olga, and Milagro.
wwell thats about where im at and i need to spout some spanish at dad and my mission president(last week for him.. they switch tomorrow)