New Pictures of Elder Logan!

the Mission Pres. and his wife are very nice we stayed at their house on day one and i was rebuked for not having my driving record (hint: i kinda need it i guess.. if you could send it i'd be glad :D) but there was about a third of us that didnt have it so no harm done yet. (there is a Three week initial no driving policy) I love my new companion Elder Johnston, he is nearly fluent in spanish and it REALLY helps to have him here, i am understanding the language better every day .. but i can still only get my point across very simply. about every other person we speak to is a spanish speaker. Tucson is pretty much Hesperia..... with lots of cacti... i feel right at home.. lol i really like the area and am getting to know it pretty fast because my mission has a 3 hour daily bike policy ... so im out usually for about 4 hours biking and talking to people. um usually i wakeup at 6:15 do a 30 minute excercise consisting of pushups, situps, planks, handstand pushups, and diamond pushups, (only 10 each of the last two) but usually 40 to 60 pushups and situps.. then its shower and study time starts at 7 to 8 then breakfast then 1 hour comp sudy 1 hour language study and then (just for first 6 weeks) there is a 30 min role play.. then around 11 or 1130 we either eat an early lunch to save time or head stright out into the field on our bikes, and stay out until dinner around 4 or 5 and then its in a car till 9 (but thats like 3 out of 7 days it pretty much varies depending on what meetings we have throughout the day.   Thats so Exciting about the house!!!!! i'm happy it worked out for you. i am running low on time though so i'd better say hasta proximo semana.   -Elder Logan

Ok so I am actually in the Tucson Stake Senora branch and my new companion is Elder Johnston. He is a really cool Elder, I think we will get along just beautifully. I already have a bike, it cost me $150 and I got it from Elder Valintine, I met him in the MTC and we are pretty good friends.. It cost him $200 when he got here 6 weeks ago, but he hasn't needed it yet, so he sold it to me for the $150. It's nice.. I also got a pillow a blanket and a helmet at Walmart and I havent had to use my debit card yet but probably will by next Monday (p-day), so make sure it's nice and balanced so that I can buy like $30 bucks worth of food ... So ya, Mondays are Pday but every six weeks there is a transfer day on Tuesday and that day then becomes P-day. I will ll try to let you know the week before transfer week, but if you send me a Sunday night E-mail every week we will be good. I love you mom and everyone else who is reading and supporting me. 

I DID enjoy my first Airplane ride..its pretty much exactly what I expected. So just one other thing--- My call letter said the address was 1848 E River rd ste 102.. but it's 1840 E River rd ste 102 so either way that will get to me. Oh and that's changing next month sometime because I get a new Mission President. So write me within the hour or I wont get it till next week.. (which is fine as well)

                     -Elder Logan

Okay... The last two weeks I have gotten your letters, so keep doing what you're doing :D I have recieved ALL of your packages and I got your package with the healthier stuff last night. Did you ever get the hand written letter I sent you in week 2 or 3? I promise that if you send me a hand written letter I will hand write one back. I have to go to the bookstore today and get more stamps, but I'll make sure there is an extra one for you :D I'm having a really great time here. I just mailed off some of my study notes and experiences to Ashley, but I forgot to ask her to make a copy for you... so (unless she is reading this) could someone ask her to ;p  I don't know what you all think about my weight but I was about 190 when I came in, and I havn't gained any really since then.. In fact, I weighed less yesterday. I also sprained my left ankle Monday morning walking to class... I mis-stepped and rolled the bugger. I'm walking on it almost back to normal, and I think it's a blessing because my ankle wasn't as flexible as my right one since I had the cast off. I'm doing 20 minutes of rehab a day now so that it will get as strong as it was in October lol.  Also, about pictures.. I CANNOT attach pictures to emails, and I CAN print them off in the bookstore, but it takes like 7 days .. so I had sent the WHOLE memory card of pictures (about 200 pics) to Ashley because I figured you would get them all too. I'll keep doing that and hope it's enough. I'm supposed to find out my travel plans this week, and I'm supposed to be allowed to call you when that happens, so I'll call your cell phone ok? (It should be like TODAY) but I'm leaving the week of the 14th. I love you all, and I will (hopefully) talk to you soon.. o (and i get to call you from the airport for sure :D)

I hope Taylor spells better in Spanish than he does in English!

well i just have two things to say right now... the picture of the sleeping missionary is elder sorrencen and he is somewhere in an MTC in guatamalla ... and the other thing is that after dinner last thursday i got a 7 hour stomach flu and dropped right back down to 187.. :) .. i havent been sick since then .... but the ruling stands.. DONT DRINK MTC orange juice.. even if you can everyday for a week and bee fine.. it suprises you... well you all mentioned that you were sick too  huh.. that one week cold is simmiler here.. but its a 3 day body cold 3 day head cold and then 2 day body soar kinda thing.. i had it in week three to four and had been drinking the glass of orange juice once a day since.. well ill write again later durring laundry and answer some more questions.. i love you all      -Elder Taylor Westbrook Logan

hola familia,

I know you probably already sent me something on here but again i only recieved dads email.. well my week has been good, my right leg has been yelling at me because i focus on my left leg more when i work out, and vice versa, my left leg doesnt like it alot either but i am getting stronger everyday, physically and spiritually, (but i think spiritual must weigh more, because i weighed myself yesterday and after my workout i was 193 .. i wont tell you what i was before the workout.. haha) but all is well and my teaching in spanish inproves alittle everyday.. im also thinking about doing a tape recording thing sometime this yea just so that you can all HEAR how im doing.. there are alot of elders doing it but i am not sure if any of you would want to hear my voice THAT many times a year.. well ill check in later to see if there is a new email, I love you all and keep you in my prayers... o and mom.. keep babying that leg.. its a pain .. but you dont want to have any pain for the rest of your life... -speaking of life and(my vast) medical knowledge.. i saved an elders life about three weeks ago.. he was in the final stage of staff.. i took one look at it and pleaded with him to get it checked Imediatly.. he had to be takin to emergency.. and i saved a second elder in the early stages of staff about a week later.. its so fulfilling to me that i can recognise some of these things and help people. (phisically and spiritually now :D -  com mi amor.. Elder Taylor Westbrook Logan

hola mi familia,

       Good job with writing on dear elder.com i received it last night... how is your leg doing mom? I hope it heals up nice.... i am learning soo much here everyday.. this week i am learning how to teach the first lesson in spanish.. (i can if i try already, but its still hard to expain things) its literally an adventure everyday.. my schedual is pretty nice..most days its get up and get ready and be in class a few minutes before 7. then personal study until breakfast at 8:15 then class twice a day for 3 and a half hours each with different teachers.. hermano Reichert teaches grammer and lessons well and then hermano Silva knows all kinds of laguages from experience and helps us sound like natives and works almost acording to our individual needs. usually sometime in there there is anouther hour and a half for companion study and an hour and a half for language study. luch is usually at 1 and dinner at six. 5 days a week i have an hour in the Gym sometime durring the day where i usually play volleyball, and sometimes foursquare, after i run alittle over 2 miles. im trying to keep busy and go into studytime with a purpose and stay on task the whole time. but i do get overwhelmed with all the goals i set sometimes but as i take them one at a time it usually works out for the best. I have two companions. Elder Warner who is a really good missionary with a well rounded personality and then Elder Jones who i can only relate to Andrew. he is a super hard worker who still thinks the idea of getting married someday is kinda icky.. lol and you can tell that he has lived his whole life for the purpose of being a missionary. He is currenty the District leador for this swich and im the senior companion.. and I thank Andrew everyday for teaching me how to live with someone this focussed and dedicated. I love both of them and wouldn't pick any other companions to star off with for the world. Oh and i found out who my companion would have been had i reported on dec 1st and lets just say i wouldnt trade my first companions for anything .. lol i have some pictures with him that im going to print out and send home .. it takes about 7 days so dont be discouraged if you dont see them for a week or two :D -Con mi amor

                                      -Elder Taylor Westbrook logan