Woo, today is so hot! Like I hope you realize that we can't even wear real clothes just to wash our laundry. You just strip down and get soaked from sweat. It's no fun at all!
Gosh you guys be grateful, because one day you'll be here and you are going to love your home!!! Oh & mom Elder Chatterly and I were talking about Costco food, and yes you will be buying a ton of bulk microwave food when I get home! Fast food here takes at a minimum 10 minutes. And then you are sad because you wish you had taken another 10 minutes so that you could actually feel like you've eaten! Agh! Tell me, can you possibly imagine what if feels like to be starving all of the time, and then you are still getting fatter! What's wrong with my body?????
Because of my chest hair, if I was in Nigeria, I would get even more girls!! :) I did tell the scary one to buzz off. But I got reported for "being with a girl"!!! GOODNESS!! A load of junk!! It's part of their culture to hold your and and just lead you places. So first, I had my hand held by a grandma.......no problem. Then a few minutes later, my recent convert Sister Esther (YES another Esther) then leads me somewhere.......problem. Then one of my girls (a family with like 6 little girls, but mostly like the oldest 3 which go from 8-14) Sister Theresa grabbed me and started walking me around......no problem. All within a half hour----3 hand holds, and because 1 was my age I got reported! Ugh!! Have I mentioned I get reported a lot!!
Man we have so many people coming for baptism that we don't have enough time to teach them all what they need to know. We had to request an emergency baptism also for this week, because we have got 2 people going to school on next Monday.
Here a lot of the schools are boarding schools. Because you don't get to choose where you go when you're older. It's weird, but you get like 5 choices, and then according to your test scores and learning styles, the government places you!
Sorry this is short, but we haven't had water or power all day. Our pump broke, and we are all out of food and money until next week.
Love,
Elder Legg
Monday, April 28, 2014
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Being So Attractive Can be a Curse Too!
The kid who stole from us is getting off. We got a note from him in Pigeon, so it was hard to understand, but he couldn't get us hardly any of our stuff back.
Yeah ok are you sure you want to know how we rocks that whole Easter vibe here in Ghana? Well first off you wake up and act like nothing special is happening. If you're a missionary you go out and proselyte. If your Ghanaian you take a nap or watch some tv. Then you just sort of do exactly everything the same, like it's a regular day. Then you finish the day by going to sleep.
Gracie: Sounds like you had a sweet Easter. I'll be telling your joke here this week.
Tali: I wish we could have a good Easter egg hunt here! We can hard boil some eggs, but I if we hid an egg anywhere the mice would be on it in like 2 seconds! And we really don't want more mice in here!
Tay: Dude stake dance it up! I'm telling you bro especially right now they are so much fun! You have got to dance with a bunch a babes, but don't forget to dance with at least one wall flower each time! If you aren't aware, then a wall flower is a girl who is quite possibly unattractive, most likely doesn't have a lot of friends, and it's cute guys like you, whose job it is to make them feel good! You don't need to flirt or do any of that nonsense, but you need to be nice and ask her to dance!
Ty: I did not realize that it was time for prom!!!!!! Goodness I'm so glad you chose to go! Prom is sweet! Tell me all about how it goes! Whose group are you in and what are you doing?! I like the way you asked!
Dad: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! goodness dad you are getting ancient! How does it feel? Keep it up daddy!
So this week! Ok, so first let's get conceited!
How long has it been since you guys heard how attractive I am? I completely am just captivating alright! Elder Azalwa and I were standing at a corner just trying to figure out what to do when a Taxi turns past us. The driver couldn't turn away, and before we knew it, he had driven off the edge of the road and his car wouldn't work anymore! We had to help him push his car off and a couple other guys had to help to. Oh gosh it was so funny and we were just dying!
But you know, being so attractive can be a curse too!
My recent convert's sister is not so appetizing for the eyes, if you know what I'm sayin. And she is completely crazy! She is all mood swingy, and freaks out a lot, and its scary, but she is also in love with me!
She fed me by hand the other night, then asked her sister and my companion to leave so we could participate in physical intimacies. uggghhhhhh I hate this girl! If we can just stay away from her house while she is home then things should be ok. She has asked me to marry her. And she keeps trying to kiss me. And it's kind of hard to get away when you're teaching her sister, and literally their whole house consists of one room the size our kitchen! agh!
The weather is all over the place. I almost baked to death yesterday. Then we had a huge rainstorm that kept cutting our power because the lightening was so close to our house! So yea, that's the weather we are working with right now.
Yep so that's the fun so far, we will see how things work this week!
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Full on Movie Style----Like 2 Feet Off the Ground
Ok, so for this week it was pretty interesting!
We said it was foreshadowing for the World Cup with USA vs Ghana coming up! Oh yeah we trash talked it up!
In the midst of playing, my shoes totally blew out, so I will see if I can fix them again, but I am going to need new shoes. After they blew I had to keep playing, so I went barefoot. And now it looks like I have leprosy! My toenails are all sorts of nasty and ripped up, there's cuts all over, and lots of blisters, and even more blood. It is sweet! Oh, plus all that extra layers of dirt up in there!
The bishop and mission president got involved since the kid is a ward missionary, and basically nothing was done, so the kid just got more confident! I mean flip he's thinking---- I'm robbing from some people that represent Jesus Christ, so no problem they can't do anything to me........ Muahhaaha (evil laughter).
Well after the 4th time, we were kind of just chill. You know, forgive and forget, let's give him a chance to repent and get this all fixed himself.... So Friday (a few days ago) we return home and this time everyone's luggage has been broken into. We are pretty well cleaned out of anything electronic! Cameras, memory cards, speakers, and money.
Levels of anger:
Legg- calm, laughing, hungry
Azalwa- worried, cool, calm, collected
Jones- chill frustrated
Tony- chill grumps
Chatterley- controlled rage
Berisa- flippin ticked, ready to break
Crotz- mob boss calm, ready to smack down
Damane- blood thirsty rage
So yes, it was intense and dangerous there! I sat down and started eating while ELder Azalwa tried to talk to the boy. Damane came out and tried to beat him, but Azalwa restrained him and got him into his room. He was down right spitting mad. And his mouth was spitting some fire the kid's way.
But the kid started to talk a tiny bit. So we knew some craziness was needed to get him to talk. Suddenly out of no where Chatterley grabs him by the collar and slams him into our door then picks him up by the shirt. Full on movie style----like 2 feet off the ground. I took him to his room to get a hold on him. While we were in the room we hear some crashing. We thought Damane had gotten out again, but this time it was Berisa.
Ok so Damane was easy to restrain. He's like 5'8"
Now Berisa, he's 6'2", 230ish lbs, and back home he owns a gym where he teaches people to fight. And his whole family are champion fighters..... Yeah that one was hard, since he was full on going for the throat!
Gosh this kid is stupid. So during these crazy outbursts he admits to having done it, and then later he denies it. SO Elders Azalwa, Jones, Tony, and I went out with the boy to go get the stuff.
He took us to the young men's president's house, and OOPS, the stuff wasn't there. Then he took us to some little kid's house, and tried to blame him, but he was at school during all the happenings. We went on a wild goose chase for many hours. At like 9pm, he said he would have the stuff to us by 8 the next morning, so we let him go.
Next day and nothing. He tried to deny everything, and we were just getting more ticked. The Assistants to the President came to try to help, and they got sick of the kid really fast too. They ended up having to take ELders Damane and Crotz away for the weekend for the safety of the kid.
We met with the boy and Bishop and his counselor on Sunday and everyone knows he did it!!! Gosh we have plenty evidence. The counselor wanted to take the kid outside and beat the truth out of him. But we finally decided that if he doesn't get us our stuff back, he should just go to jail. And that is the point we are at now.
So now some more frustrating details:
1. Kid doesn't work, and his family is way poor. Somehow he has a super nice phone and new clothes. Also he is taking driving lessons, which are way expensive here.
2. He has had access to the keys in the past, so he could get a copy easy, and we are missing some of them.
3. Also he has the knowledge to be able to get past our padlocks. So do I now! Apparently that is like common knowledge here!!!
4. In the Bishop's office he was asked, "The missionaries say you broke into their home and you have taken their stuff. Is this true?" He responded with, "I know they are not lying." And then, "Where is the stuff?" "It's not with me." Agh!! He just wants us to kill him!
Reason the young men's president is under suspicion:
1. took thief into his home
2. lied to us about the times when he saw the boy on Friday
3. he tried to threaten us for coming to his house and trashing his place (which we definitely didn't do at all!)
4. he and the kid talk in secret and then split when they see us
5 he sells all the gosh dang stuff that is being stolen! cameras, mem cards, all of those things!
Agh!! But the kid's ultimatum now is to either get us our stuff, or you are going to jail!
Yeah so we have been having a right nice time here!
Yeah I'm not sure what else but that's a nice story for you :)
Love Elder Legg
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Green Eggs, But No Ham, Trav I Am
I love Elder Azalwa! I can see specific things that I am gaining from my companions.
ELder Kanu gave me struggle, so that I could learn that Unity in a companionship is hard, but important! Elder Allen taught me the importance of numbers, and how to work timely instead of just harder.
Elder Azalwa is giving me some confidence and helping me realize that I am making a difference!
I didn't even know that it was time for General Conference! It's almost like nothing here! It's so frustrating!
(Hasn't gotten sick??? You would think he might make the connection to the green stuff in his pit???)
We had a nice rainstorm again, and that was a party! I was out with Elder Berisa and we had a bunch of fun just teaching a ton of people! We got 2 of our investigators ready for baptism. Which was a blessing, because if we hadn't taught them everything when we did, we would be still teaching them stuff. Then we wouldn't have been able to find out some of their concerns in time, and their baptisms could have been postponed. They would not have liked that!
Yes, we are having 2 more baptisms this week. I am so excited! 1 of the people has been really freaking frustrating to teach, because she is suuuuuuper moody to us and I hate it! But she has been wanting to be baptized for a while, so now that we stuck through it, now she is way nicer!
My eyes are ok but my head hurts, and oh my blue glasses broke. It's kind of ELder Crotz's fault, but not really. They were on my bed because I was washing my face. He sat on my bed, and his hand landed on it. Yeah not putting it on the bed sounds simple enough, but you have got to remember I don't actually have anything else that I can put it on... wow that's sad. But the screw that holds the lens in had rusted and it snapped in half. So I have just been wearing the Converse ones for a few days. I don't know how to send them to you. I may end up trying to just go without.
Hopefully we will get to go to the beach next Monday! It is a different beach, for a really pristine lake. Not like the nasty lake I have in my area with poop & stuff in it. We are going to steal (borrow) a cooler that they have stashed in the church, then we will get ourselves some drinks and some snacks and just go sit there and have a freak ton of fun!
Wow this sounds boring, but I guess there isn't a lot of stuff to say! We will just keep going because here it isn't going to stop! wwoooooooo
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The Good, The Bad, & the.....Well he was already Ugly 2 Weeks Ago!
Ok, so this week we got some good news and some bad news.
Ok.......... good news first, because that one is more important!
We helped 3 people get baptized this week! Woop Woop! Miss Ebbie was one of the people that I was sent here to work with. She had a baptism date all set and her husband is already a member. We showed up and she pulled out her little list of concerns. Meanwhile Elder Azalwa reaches for his scriptures and I just, well I didn't do anything. I just talked to her. I asked her a few questions about what was wrong and what I could do to help her, and when we left she said she was ready to be baptized. Elder Azalwa was CONMAZED (confused/amazed). I just thought that she was a golden investigator, but Elder Azalwa told me that she had a lot of concerns, and that she had been really resistant. He just felt like he was kicking against the bricks. He had shown her all the scriptures, done all the lessons, and she just was not feeling it. So Sweet! Baptized, and confirmed, and now she is super happy!!
The other 2 were just the guys who are freaking awesome. We love all of them. Our district freaking rocked this month! There are only 2 companionships and we helped a total of 13 people to enter into baptism this month. Our ward received 9 new members into it yesterday. I don't know what is going on, but missionary work is sweet!
Ok, so now for the bad news. Let's start with saying mom I'm sorry.....
Ok so then we got robbed this week. We don't know how. This apartment was broken into last month before my transfer. But the lock was changed, and we have been really careful. It honestly wasn't our fault. We believe that it was a ward missionary or the landlord/someone who works for him. We have a back door, but only the landlord has keys to that one. 3 out of 4 locks were undone when we realized what had happened. The robber took my camera and my money. I don't know how he got the perfect timing, because I always carry that stuff with me for this reason. But it rained the day before, so my stuff was wet and I had left it to dry. I only have my emergency money, which I hid in a pill jar, and some that I had in my name tag.
President says he will get us some money though, but I don't know what to say about my camera. We are praying and fasting. I'm not too worried about the money and stuff because I'll be fine, but mom I'm so sorry. Letting you know this happened is the hardest part. The person who stole the stuff knew us because he knew to get into my luggage and where I stashed the key. He went through my wallet too, but that was empty. He got my companion's camera and money also. I just don't know what to do, I'm sorry.
Buying things here is a lot like we heard it would be like in Jamaica when we went. That's kind of how it is here, if you don't know what you are doing. I like to entertain the really stupid ones, and let them know they suck at selling. :) Can you believe some bum tried to sell me an Iphone for 1000ghc.?? Psh, yeah right!!
This is my week,
Elder Legg
Ok.......... good news first, because that one is more important!
We helped 3 people get baptized this week! Woop Woop! Miss Ebbie was one of the people that I was sent here to work with. She had a baptism date all set and her husband is already a member. We showed up and she pulled out her little list of concerns. Meanwhile Elder Azalwa reaches for his scriptures and I just, well I didn't do anything. I just talked to her. I asked her a few questions about what was wrong and what I could do to help her, and when we left she said she was ready to be baptized. Elder Azalwa was CONMAZED (confused/amazed). I just thought that she was a golden investigator, but Elder Azalwa told me that she had a lot of concerns, and that she had been really resistant. He just felt like he was kicking against the bricks. He had shown her all the scriptures, done all the lessons, and she just was not feeling it. So Sweet! Baptized, and confirmed, and now she is super happy!!
The other 2 were just the guys who are freaking awesome. We love all of them. Our district freaking rocked this month! There are only 2 companionships and we helped a total of 13 people to enter into baptism this month. Our ward received 9 new members into it yesterday. I don't know what is going on, but missionary work is sweet!
Ok, so now for the bad news. Let's start with saying mom I'm sorry.....
Ok so then we got robbed this week. We don't know how. This apartment was broken into last month before my transfer. But the lock was changed, and we have been really careful. It honestly wasn't our fault. We believe that it was a ward missionary or the landlord/someone who works for him. We have a back door, but only the landlord has keys to that one. 3 out of 4 locks were undone when we realized what had happened. The robber took my camera and my money. I don't know how he got the perfect timing, because I always carry that stuff with me for this reason. But it rained the day before, so my stuff was wet and I had left it to dry. I only have my emergency money, which I hid in a pill jar, and some that I had in my name tag.
President says he will get us some money though, but I don't know what to say about my camera. We are praying and fasting. I'm not too worried about the money and stuff because I'll be fine, but mom I'm so sorry. Letting you know this happened is the hardest part. The person who stole the stuff knew us because he knew to get into my luggage and where I stashed the key. He went through my wallet too, but that was empty. He got my companion's camera and money also. I just don't know what to do, I'm sorry.
Buying things here is a lot like we heard it would be like in Jamaica when we went. That's kind of how it is here, if you don't know what you are doing. I like to entertain the really stupid ones, and let them know they suck at selling. :) Can you believe some bum tried to sell me an Iphone for 1000ghc.?? Psh, yeah right!!
This is my week,
Elder Legg
Thursday, March 27, 2014
New Apartment is Bigger.....But Way Trashier!
Ok, so yes everyone behold........I am healed! My eyes are pretty much completely better. They are just a little wrinkly and tired from being heavy and stretched out! Now there is just some very minor swelling in my forehead, and that is good. There is just a little hole up in there now. I am much better. The only think wrong now, is my wrist. The vein is kind of iffy. :) What do yo do when your vein is hard and hurts when you poke it? Hehe, oh well I guess I will just continue to not use my left hand for awhile!
I got famous in the mission and the ward before I even got out of the hospital! It was weird. Everyone I met asked me if I was ok and if I was feeling better.
And oh goodness, yes eye in "eyedea" was on purpose, but some things really are the crappy computer equipment I am using! And I spelled it "in tents" instead of "intense" because of a joke Elder Nelson told about when he went camping. He also told me about his job back home, where he crushed pop cans, and how it was "sodapressing"!!! HAHA!
Now our apartment is even bigger! It could pretty easily fit 10 missionaries, but right now there are only 6 of us. Elder Legg(6months, USA)-Elder Azalwa(1 year, Uganda), Elder Crotz(6months, South Africa)- Elder Damane(9months, South Africa) , Elder Chatterley(9 months, USA) - Elder Burisa(a few days, Ethiopia). It is way fun! We think there was a little mix up with Elder Burisa's MTC experience, because he only received 2 weeks to try to learn English! He's way fun though!
The apartment is bigger than my last one, and it is colder by a little bit, but it is way trashier. It is seriously just a cement house with some window slats. The shower is seriously a cement room with a shower hose sticking out of the side! I like it here though. The members seem pretty cool and our compound is right next to the chapel. I have about a 30 second walk to get to church now instead of a 30 minute walk in Odorkor!
Oh oh, just so everyone that is thinking I am losing weight knows............I broke my bed 3 times this week! Yeah yeah any body sayin fat elder woop woop! Now it looks like I have one of those sweet beds where you can move the head and the feet up and down. Now I make a cool looking v while I sleep!
I am now using a tall bike, which is a special set of bikes that the mission acquired. It has an extra tall frame for some of those bigger guys that are way tall. Yeah like Elder Allen. Oh well I'm like the third tallest in the apartment, so I guess it makes sense that I should get the tallest bike! Gosh missionaries am I right?!
So here it's 7:00 and I still haven't washed my clothes. We will see how that works.
Hopefully we will get time to still play football this week because I am feeling it!
Everything here rocks, so I hope everyone keeps up the awesomeness back home!
Love Elder Legg
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
A Face Only a Mother Could Love
| Infection Strikes........ |
| Then a medicine/allergic reaction..... |
Ok so here it comes...
This week we did next to no work......
This week I had an IV..........
This week I spent 3 days in the hospital.............
This week I went blind! duh duh duhhhhhh................
Hehe ok so hopefully everyone is freaked out now. My AP said, very harshly, not to let you guys know, or you all might ask me to come home!
So Sunday I started with a little sore on my forehead.
Monday I had a small to medium sized bump on my forehead with some puss.
Tuesday my eyes started to get some swelling in the way, and my nose got huge. We had one of the older couple missionaries take us to the hospital. We were seen by Doctor Kissi's wife. She gave us some sweet drugs and we were on our way cool. That night we had a little operation party in our room with Doctor Allen and Nurse Hoskins (probably a bad idea, and might have just made everything worse, but oh well it was way fun).
Wednesday I wake up and AGH I'm blind!!!!! My eyes were so swollen you couldn't even pry my eyelids open (now you may think you know, but you have no eyedea! You cant even comprehend, so I will attach pictures!) And so we just decided, eh no problem, take my drugs, and we won't go out today. I'll just lay in bed. Problem, we were supposed to go on exchanges with our zone leaders that day, but we told them would couldn't and they came anyways. They were in for a wild surprise, so they just kind of did some stuff with the other guys in our apartment. Then randomly the APs (assistants to the president, they are 2 missionaries assigned to help the president for a little while) show up. One just gets shocked and seemed as though he was going to cry, and the other one acted like he pooped himself and just took charge. We were ordered into the car so they could take us to the hospital. That was really difficult, because Elder Allen had to lead me around since I was blind! We get there, and I get placed in a wheel chair, soo sweet....... until I got motion sick. But everyone was freaking out except Doctor Kissi. He just told us they'd take care of it, and I'd have to stay for a while. We got moved into a room so the nurses could get me an IV.
I'm kind of freaking out because needles are scary always!! And now I cant see anything! Plus they were holding on to my arm for at least 10 minutes! So I started getting kinda dizzy... "umm Elder Allen come hold my head." Nurse asks if I'm in pain, and I say no. Other nurse just gets this scared tone and asks if I'm going to vomit . "No...well maybe... yeah... yes I'm going to vomit! I'm going to vomit NOW....... bleeeeehhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!" Luckily they handed me a bag a split second before I up heaved my bread and egg with pepe all over everyone. (pepe-powder version of hot sauce).
So they were all saved. So they said that whole episode happened because of the medicine. But yes, I am man enough to admit I had a panic attack. I almost passed out too. You know the feeling when you stand up too fast? Get that feeling, but now be blind!!! Haha, oh no, I couldn't take it.
| Ghanaian Style IV |
Then I was hooked to and IV and left to rot with some dude with malaria who I almost murdered! Freak man! I can't see anything, and you think you can just snore like some sort of wild banshee!???
Heck no!! That is not ok! When we first got into the room the bathroom was locked with no key, the front door wouldn't shut, the tv wouldn't even plug in, and the air conditioning wouldn't work! The doctor was appalled with his VIP Ward!
Ok, so you can get a little bit of perspective on how much pain I was in at the hospital I will tell you about the shots I got. Since I had them all the time, they had me hooked to an IV.
You know the things that you use to measure/ squirt medicine into our mouths?? (a little medicine syringe) Yeah, it was literally one of those full of liquid that they were just forcing into my veins. Ugh like every 3 hours they'd just mess my wrist up. And It used to look like my arm was broken, because my wrist was at a funky angle and I couldn't move it back because it hurt too bad :) Don't worry it's just pretty discolored and kind of swollen now.
| The VIP Patient |
Good news Is Doctor Kissi's son, Dickson, found us and got us food and our real room. So for three days I had to suffer in the VIP Ward with Elder Allen. Our own tv, our own bathroom, 3 free meals a day, and air conditioning, it was brutal :)
But don't worry, I got let out on Friday. Almost all the way cleared up and I am now doing much better!
On another note I am being transferred. I will be in the same zone, but about 45 minutes away in Kasoa with Elder Azalwa.
That's pretty much all I know, but I will know more next week so love you guys!
Love,
Elder Legg
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