Hello everyone!
I hope you are all doing well! Its crazy how
fast time flies; it seems like just yesterday that I got here and it's already
nearly 6 weeks later and I'm about to leave for the mission field. I can't wait to
be out in the field and doing missionary work!
The MTC is as good as it can be
for right now. FYI, there is no Halloween in Africa, Mom:) I leave next week sometime
and I do not know my address yet but I will try and find out. We still have
chicken and rice everyday but by now we are all used to it and we don't really
mind it! The French is coming very well. I've picked up my studying this past
week and I am starting to understand more and speak more. It is still very
difficult, but I know the Lord will bless me as I do His work.
I must say that
the Elders here are very good at soccer; however, they are not good at basketball
at all:) We joke that Africa is the only place in the world that a white man
can beat a black man at basketball:D Anything that has to do with their hands is
very hard for them. Also, all of our hair was getting long so we held a haircut
night last night and we all cut our hair short, even me! I guess I have accepted
the fact that I'm gonna have short hair for 2 years.
I do have a very
interesting story for you all. President Robison told us a story during Sunday
School. He always says that the church here in Africa is like it was during the Nauvoo
period of time in America. So the people that we teach and baptize will one day
become the Bishops and Young Women's leaders of their areas. If any of you know
about the Rwanda genocide, you have an advantage on most people. It was a
war in Africa in 1994 between 2 tribes that killed approximately 1 million people, an estimated 20% of the
country's population. After one shooting, a soldier was walking through the bodies and he
noticed a young baby about 3 months old. He picked it up and took it to an orphanage.
15 years later, a security guard for the US embassy went to that orphanage to
play games with the children. There he taught the older boys and girls about
his church. One young boy wanted to know more and was baptized by the
missionaries. After his baptism, the missionaries found out that this young boy was the
first member of the LDS church in his entire country. And this young man has grown up
and is here at the Ghana MTC!! His name is Elder Hakizimana Dady Paul.
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| Elder Theodore Nsengiyumva (left) and Elder Hakizimana Dady Paul (right) |
Here at the MTC in Ghana we are
so blessed to have people like this come through our doors. I am so blessed to
have the opportunity to be here at the MTC. Even though it is very hard, I do
love it. Every day brings its own challenges. I feel just like you, Mom;
sometimes I wish I could go home, or I want to just take a nap:) I want to see my
younger brother play football and my little sister play volleyball. I feel
frustrated and upset and discouraged. But when I feel like this, I get down on my
knees and pray. The Lord will strengthen me and He will strengthen all of us.
I'm so glad to be doing His work. I must go though; someone go have some Cafe
Rio for me:)
Much love,
Elder Legerski.
ps. We got a new American missionary and he is from
Star Valley, Wyoming!
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