Cat Tacos

Ok yeah I'm going to borrow a phone from some girl but she has gone to the mall so we are waiting for it. Also it was just light out and the service has been off all day! I'm at the cafe because we are totally on the in with the cafe owner and my companion is skyping his fam. (he didn't call when he was supposed to on Mother's Day, he called later)  They aren't actually open today but her boss is letting us use his laptop. She kicks us out but we are like her best friends!
Our phones are being dumb. All the other guys couldn't hear their families very well and they kept getting shut off.

You didn't get me anything for graduation.You said luggage and I said no. So you didn't get me anything. Don't give him luggage! Mine is so trashed! The color is changed, it has rips on it, the zippers are broken, the lining is ripped! It's terrible that i brought it to Africa!!!!
Maybe some candy.... I thought you counted my senior trip as my grad present. Yeah don't make luggage a present! so not nice! ill just carry everything I have with me! but yeah we need to go on a family vacation when I get back!!!

Wow so all that group is going out now?! (I told him about some of the kids going out on missions & coming home) That's freaking weird!!! Gosh dang it i don't feel like i'm as old as i am and that means they should be way younger!!!

Flip Rafes place sounds sick!!! Why do we not have a zip line at our house?! Yeah we need more than a steep mountain to make a zip line!

I told President Hill I need to come home tuesday or monday or else I need to come home earlier.

They are pretty crappy about us getting home. You will probably get something in 2 months.(I told him a friend of ours whose daughter comes home in Dec already has all of her her coming home details & paperwork. & I haven't heard anything and Aug is just around the corner) Yeah well if i can get home a little earlier that would be better so i had a little better time to prepare! 

Yeah im glad I was able to have such a wonderful mother who could help me see that past 12th grade I still have life going and i need to keep living it!!!

I had a place like that in Newtown.(we went to a graffiti alley) Ok well I will hopefully call you soon! But i'm getting out of the Cafe!

Monday, May 11, 2015

I sure hope i can make something good of what has been given to me!!! im trying to do my best!

Gracie: yeah I liked the name Gyata (jata)

Tay: oh goodness why you waiting to the last minute to get all your stuff done?! sheesh i always do my work as soon as I get it!

Ty: dude im pumped to be roomies! we are going to have tons of fun just flexin! doin some guys guys stuff!

yeah i slept really well! the rain last night helped lower the temperature so that was awesome! but yeah I took a little nap and enjoyed this afternoon with light off! but now im back how are you?>!

wow thats pretty sweet! yeah lots of people have a connection to this place so thats pretty interesting!!!

wooooooooooo calling home!!!!!!!!! I/m so glad i got to do that! my companion and i were having some trouble! Elder Miller wanted to skype his family so Aunty Peace the cafe  attendant next to her house and her boss the cafe owner came on their off day to come and allow him to borrow their laptop and chat with his family so i got to see them and that was really sweet! then the lady who stays next door to us Sister Peace allowed me to borrow her phone because the missionary phones are really terrible and the speaker and microphones dont do verry well. problem with her was she went to the mall yesterday and wasnt around for me to use her phone until it was almost night time! good news for that is we had a party going on all night and it was sweet!

Ty: wow that is good that the yard sale was so successful! hope the jammie run was nice!!! and i hope that you wooped in some volleyball missionaries!

Tay: wow horse trip into the mountains sounds so sick!!! I want to ride horses! yeah bro just plow through that school work because your going to be finished with school really soon!

Gracie: thats good that you still are the bomb diggity on drama! you are the drama queen!  so what do I have to do to get me some baby dragons?

Tali: good luck with your trip! i know you are already gone but maybe mom can say hi to you or something over thephone or I will just see you when you get back!

woo so umm this week we had some small fun stuff to do!

had a big old mission tour where 3 general authorities came and talked to us about some things we can do to be better missionaries. we had Elder Curtis, Elder Vincent, and Elder Evans. hta was really sweet to be able to talk to everybody and to have some nice inspirationan and drive to continue on the work!

also we... killed and at a cat last night.... woop woop!!!!  we went to a members after church where we were met with a dead cat! so we skinned it up and gutted it and took it home to cook! chopped it into pieces and boiled it! you wouldnt believe it but it is suuper tasty! jusst a fun way to try some new foods, try you some cat tacos!

Love Elder Legg

yeah im back on because the light came back on! woop woop!

yeah the were really good! not even joking! no my stomach is totally ok! (the cat tacos)

nope no way but hopefully for a while! because i like talking to my mommy!

eah i got that lagoon trip!!!

yeah well do something fun for tyson because he is awesome!

nope he hasnt told me anything about that! but thatd be good. Ill go to live with him in italy!!!!(his friend Austin)

you could only think of frozen that I muight have missed and want to watch. I just wrote down a list of 97 movies that are sick and have come out after me, the list lasts until the end of 2015. so yeah soon ill send that to you to get thinking. I dont know their ratings so a few might be R so you can remove those but most of them I think are good.

97 MOM!!!!!

yeah all the hunger games, the hobbit, maze runner, enders game! theres a ton!!!! 

the maze runner 2 is about to come out!!!

also teenage mutant ninja turtles

planes

avengers 2

big hero 6

both parts for hobbit have come out!!!

lego movie

guardians of the galacy

stup up 5

a freaking ton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nope no moneys on movies... but get them

also how to train your dragon 2

and so many others don't worry next week if I got the time or sometime soon i will send the list to you

5/4 Final Packages Sounds Great

Yeah man we have been looking at some of Connor's pic and he is having so much enjoyment!!!! (his good friend on a mission in Fiji)The beach is so sick!!!!!!
We are supposed to take a dewormer every  6 months,  but they don't really put an emphasis on it so hardly anyone even knows that you are supposed to. But imma take a big one before I come home!
You're gonna get used to me being out here, then imma be back ! So that's going to be weird!
Ok final packages sounds great! (I told him we mailed a package last week and will only send one more before he's back, so we can measure his return in # of packages to be sent)

What phone number should I call? When do you have church? I'll call late in the evening here?
I will maybe call at 7 my time and then you can receive it at like 1 your time? Sound like a plan?

5/1 Light Off All Week

Hey I'm glad everything is going so well!  Sorry I was just now able to get on because we have had light off all week.  It was pretty crazy!

I'm still worried about my housing! If I got to pick a room I'm down to have the room that the girls are in right now :) That would be coool!
Yeah I don't understand how everyone is already coming home! I'm just starting to feel like I've got mission figured out....... at least in part, but I guess not!
Haha that's good that Tay is doing so well! I hope hes being as sweet as he can be!
Tyson is such a stud! I hope that when I get home I'll still be able to dance, at least a little, because I've watched so much terrible dancing here that it's just pathetic. And I'm sure now I'm totally pants at it.

Hahahahahahahaha! Oh children please! Hopefully they try something while I'm there.  I'm so ready for a massive fight! (I told him about a family he knows who likes to "correct my behavior" at any public occasion--making mountains out of mole hills.  It's gone from mildly annoying, to amusing & laughable to us!!) I've been dealing with Nigerians who would threaten to stab you, as soon as look at you. And I've been listening to foolish small boys try to use the Bible to "finish" me for 2 years. I'm so tired of babies trying to throw a fit for stupid things. 
Today I was 10 minutes late to personal study, because I had to go to the toilet really bad right in the middle of getting ready.  So that took like 45 minutes, and some missionary had the nerve to tell me I wasn't using the Lord's time properly! I almost kicked him out a window! Ridiculous!
Well I Love mom don't worry!

This past week we have done some fun stuff! 
WE WENT TO THE BEACH!!!!! Woop Woop! This is my first time going here and it was awesome! Yeah I definitely love the beach and I am soooo going to live on one when I'm older!!! Of course we didn't get to swim, but we could put our feet in the water. And we know a lady from Wales that owns a bar there and has a volley ball net there that she lets us use, so we played a big game of beach volley ball and my body turned so red it was sick! I only got a few pics but I'll send those when I can!
That was the main thing, sorry like no time today because light just came and it will soon go ugh. It's been mostly good but this week has been rough!
Love Elder Legg

4/27 Kicked out of Cafe Again

Ok well if they think they can split up I have no problem sharing or sleeping in a tent or something!

Yeah we get some sick people and some more baptisms week! we are killin it!

Ty dude you'er having tons of fun!
Sorry getting kicked out of the cafe again today so I gotta go. I will try to get on small tomorrow and tell you about my week!

More Photos

BEFORE..........

After Super Missionary Clean Up!

Coconut Discus Throw Anyone??

Umm nope. One thing I have definitely learned on mission is I don't have to do anything I don't want to do. Even if you do the right thing, but  you have the wrong attitude then you still wasted your time. (I told him I've got him busy in the fall already & that I was sure he'd have a fabulous attitude) Yeah Imma be doing stuff, but I just don't want to pile a bunch of responsibility on my shoulders when that would be unnecessary!
yeah... or I could just go to school away from home and not really see you guys.... ha yeah but if I'm in a country without states tuition isn't more expensive.... if they sky is the limit I have an unlimited spherical plane to which I can meander. Or if you can't I can just drop out and move to Salt Lake with Cody and start some work down there or somethin... I mean why do I even need to go to school? (I told him he was much too sassy for 9am my time! & that he can't find himself a sugar mama if he's not educated!!! This was his reply to that....)  Yeah umm mom I've lived without power and water for 2 years it's not that hard anymore! Imma have a bunch of fun with whatever I have back home! :P But yeah Imma work hard and have fun. But really all I want right now is a little time to waste. It doesn't have to be weeks or months but like a day some hours here and there just chill out and do nothing sounds so wonderful. I just am tired of having this burden that brings guilt every time I sit in one place for more than a few minutes! I need my brain to slow down so I can just function normally!!!!  Yeah Imma watcha  bunch of movies... mainly while I eat. hehe  We were talking today and Imma make a big list of foods I want to eat and stuffs I want to do! Woop woop and we gotta set up cool stuffs for when I get home. Where am I sleeping? On the floor in Tyson's room? Or I can take the room downstairs! Who is in the scout room right now? We have enough rooms that I don't have to share with anyone!

Woo school! I'm suuper pumped to get back and onto the next part of my life, but for now I'm am here doing what I'm doing woop woop!
Flip so many babies what the what? (Reese & Caiden)
It's super fun over here just doin all sorts of sick stuff and what not!.... yeah we will look into that soon enough I hope.

Tyson: Dude you got into school and you had a sick prom date! Some of the guys were wondering why you were only in a group of 3 then I showed them some of the other groups and they then understood :P But who were the other girls?!  Congrats bro way to be so bomb!!!

Tay: Dude you need to go to school or else you end up way behind and that's not cool!!!! (He was out for choir, field trip, and tennis everyday) So you played varsity tennis for Skyview? (They were short players) That's pretty sick! I always loved choir and how much it gets you out of school!!!

Gracie: Dude that's sick that you are enjoying so much of drama because you are definitely one drama girl! Keep up the good work and have fun with your drama carrot!

Tali: Wow I'm sure you just had a swell weekend with so many babies all over the place! I think you would love this place then because there are a bunch of little babies all over here!

Ok so this week was bomb with some fun mishaps and some sick work going down.

So we have this family that we are teaching and all of them are in way different spots of progression. One is a recent convert, one is soon to be baptized, one is just coming to the church for the first time, one is come for a long time but not anywhere near baptism, and one is a little kid who we have basically overlooked. In my opinion I think almost all of them will be baptized before I leave this area. Hehe it's pretty fun and optimistic of me because the they have all been taught for like 3 months which is a really long time here but I'm a positive guy.... well with things like this! So they are all going to be baptized.

We had a baptism of 2 people last week which was cool because we haven't seen them for 2 weeks and then we met up with them saturday night handed them all the paperwork and made them fill it out and told them to come 45 minutes early for church so that they can be interviewed. Normally all that should be done a week before the baptism, but as the gatekeeper for baptism in this area I made an executive decision and pushed it forward and they were so glad I did. They have been wanting to get baptized for months, but because of some marriage discrepancies they have been unable to. Depending on which law you look at, they can be counted as legally marriedm or legally not married, but they are married and they are doing even more marriage stuff. But they are awesome and now baptized and suuuuper happy! Next baptism is in 2 weeks.

Ours have to go 3 times, but really its at the discretion of the missionaries. If I wanted to pick a random person off the street and baptize them right then then I could, but I wouldn't. I have done it a couple of times when they had only come 2 times, but that was for special reasons and when we were pretty sure they'd stay active. But most of my people that I'm baptizing right now have been coming like 7-10 times. (I had emailed him about his cousin's mission in Brazil) We have a missionary here whose first time to visit the church was when he came to his confirmation! Now he's bringing souls unto Christ!

Man this area just feels so much more fruitful than my last area. 3 months in Newtown and 1 baptism but now 3 weeks in Ashtown and 3 baptisms. It's cool because we have a bunch of people that when I came weren't really ready and needed help, but I came and made a difference and now people are getting baptized left and right!!!!

The other day my companion desecrated some lady's house, and it was awesome. We were waiting for an investigator to finish washing, so we went hunting for lizards, and after some time of chasing them all over we gave up and set our minds on breaking a coconut with our bare hands! It took a really long time, but eventually with brute force we split the coconut into 2 pieces. Then we wanted to throw the 2 pieces like a discus. Where my companion first wanted to do it was into the bush, but there were houses on either side, and one out a little ways that he might hit so I told him he should go the other direction into a field where there would only be a house behind him. He got a nice wind up and threw the half coconut like  true discus.... problem is he was a little late on his release and nailed the house behind him completely slamming  the door. It was so bad, so of course, we did what any respectable man would do when he is in the wrong......... we went and apologized.... about an hour later... first we ran away really fast!!!!! The lady was ticked until she saw we were white and apologetic and she just told us it was fine and not to worry about it! Hehe oh goodness it was sweet!

My companion it Elder Miller from Leicester (lester) England. He is 19 year old. His mom is Jamaican and his dad is half British and half Barbadian. So he is moderately black, but everyone here just calls him white. He played rugby and a little soccer. Really cool guy. Family of 5 boys, he's the oldest. He has a British accent. He lived in Barbados for a little when he was younger, but his accent is pretty British. The photos were from my companion's camera, that's why there's less of me. The one he was trying to capture the sunset, I think.

Yep but that's a bit of my rockin week! We have some plans for a fun activity in motion so I will tell you about that when it goes through!

Love Elder Legg

A Pile of Mold the Size of a Basketball! It was Pretty Wretched!

Flip you guys seemed to have a really eventful week that's suuuper sick! Yeah sorry in advance but my week isn't going to be as eventful, and our numbers were pretty terrible but oh well I don't really care because it's quality sometimes instead of quantity. Not often, but when you get some sick new people to church it feels worth it!

Ok yeah I am way pumped for school, which is fun because in the past I wasn't really much of a school guy but I really hope that this will work well and that I can do good!  So what classes am I in?! Wanna send me some idea of my schedule?! Ok well Ty is good at English right? So he should be fine! Flip I would score near brain dead for sure in English at this point!!@! (Tyson had to take some college placement tests in order to get registered in Trav's classes.  He passed everything well and they are registered for all of the same classes starting in the fall)  Wooooooooo I am puuumped right now!~ that sounds like a really weird schedule, but it's fine I don't really care what I take as long as I get to pass and not end up looking like a total moron!

Wow it's so crazy that Kayla is home now because it doesn't even feel like she left! I am still here and I'm still doing the same thing that I was doing 18 months ago! But good news is that I get to have a ton of fun over here in Africa all by my lonesome while you guys have to do normal life stuff hehe I'm enjoying!

Man I have been dropping money like I got nothing better to do today. Went and bought a bunch of food in bulk this week because my diet for the past week has been horrible! Sunday food was strait chocolate spread and water for breakfast, lunch was rice with Shit-o (which is basically nasty hot chunky sauce), and chocolate milk (water) ugh then I woke in the night puking it all up. I have just been eating bread and chocolate for like the whole week and no actual substantial food for myself. If someone gave me food then I got a little variety, but other than that stale bread with choco spread. yeah I don't feel good now :)

 My companion has been pretty messed up sick for like 3 days so I have spent 3 days inside doing paper work, cleaning, ad sleeping. I had no idea how exhausted I had been until I started sleeping and I just kept going never wanting to wake! My companion is suuuper sick though, and we are having a ton of fun together! He knows a lot of the stuff that I know from back home like music, movies, Costco! All the good stuff! Yeah dude he is really cool and we are having a sick time together.  I hope that as we work with some of the cool people that we have, that we might get them to figure out their lives, because some of them are really struggling, but it's sick when they help us when we struggle too!

Our house has been pretty nasty basically since it became a missionary apartment like nearly 2 years ago. But we are really working to get it put together. Cleaned out the under the sink area which was nasty and had a pile of mold the size of a basketball!  It was pretty wretched!  Also we cleaned out the spare bathroom, that for some reason can only be accessed from the porch!  But I don't think that one has ever actually been used as a bathroom, and now it is cleaned out and just needs to have a plumber come and fix some leaks and stuff!

Tay:  You should talk to the coaches and just see if you can do both! (tennis and track)  It's sick that you're doing so well in tennis!  Keep u the good work!

Ty: Flip you might as well say that you whole life is Bekah! That's sick! Has she replied to you yet? (prom)  Thank goodness that was a good movie! (Cinderella---Tyson did a "who does the glass slipper fit" to ask her to prom--whoever the shoe fit was who the prince--Tyson--would take to prom) All the movies I have been looking forward to I haven't heard anything about!!! Glad you keep on doing sick with your soccer team! Soccer golf would be sick!  (a new thing in here)

 

Tali: Sheesh you had a really full week! You gotta keep yourself busy so that you can always have fun stuffs to do! I to am always trying to keep busy!

Gracie: Sorry you kinda get gypped because the lady of the cafe now wants to kick us out, so sorry but I guess we were  disturbing the other customers... oh wait we are the only ones here!!!!

Have a wonderful week

Love Elder Legg