Everything is going Great, its almost breaking 100 here but transfers are only like 2 weeks away soo i might get sent out of Tucson then.. or maybe not... lol .. My teaching is getting better as i study preach my gospel more and more is coming back and i'm still learning something new EVERYDAY! Disneyland is still the best... i don't care what anyone says :D Let me know something that you learned during women's conference with mom :D or a funny story of something that happened when mom was there (something's bound to happen). I Love you Raechel and ill talk to you next week _-Elder Logan..

ps somehow i got the nick-name elder Logano or ( Lo Gano) and they say its porque Logano Todo ,..which either means i win everything or i eat to much lol . (psss im losing a little weight so i don't think it should be the second one lol)

Elder Logan is Back!

Elder Logan had to take a 6 month hiatus from his mission August 2011 - March 2012. He reported back to the Tucson, AZ mission at the end of March and will finish out the last 16 months of his mission. Here's his latest update from the mission field:

I LOVE it when i get THREE EMAILS!!!!!!!!!!! its the best :D today was a Temple Trip so i dont have as much time as usual due to the nearly 6 hours of driving there and back still so much to do today like laundry and shopping and answering your and mom and DADs letters lol i just hope to get a few chances to make up for the three wimpy emails im going to have to write today in the coming year ;p im doing really good im in south Tucson and im in a three some and i love both of my companions a ton and one of them is from Equador and is helping throw me back into my nearly fluent spanish.. the listening part cam back within a week now im working on the using part but its not very noticable the biggest problem i have is that i have forgotten the way that the lessons are outlined so im trying to teach in a different language somiething that i cant remember the order to in english so im Studying hard and i feel like before the transfer is over ill be back in FULL swing I LOVE YOU and I LOVE your emails :D i cant wait till next week already :D

Well mom... i just hope you know I CAN write in an email AND a letter .. i hope i can get alittle something in an email... but i know with school started you probably passed out at the computer and then when you get this email the !Ding! will wake you up... not much to report we started working with two part member families on geniology and it seems to be getting the whole family alittle excited.... cressel (the zazuetas 15 year old) read a verse in the book of mormon, sang part of a hymn AND said the closing prayer... paso a pasito she'll come along (step by little step) lol  We also had a ward activity on friday and we had a Mom and son come to that... please pray for Elsa and Efrain to find the church building agin next week on sunday around 11 am :p thats about all i've got for you ... I love you and i will talk to you later.. (oh and ill try to get out a written reply by tommorow letter wise.. :D +___----Elder Logan.

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

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

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.

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