Week 47

Hey what's up homies.

We went to ride bikes along the beach last Monday. There was a guy stuck in the sand. And somebody brought a truck rigged as a monster. It was pretty lit.

Tuesday we went up to Taoyuan for zone conference. It was good. We heard like 6 or 7 people shared their Departing testimonies. It was awesome. The conference was great. It was about faith, and becoming a consecrated to the Lord. We got home that night then went near a night market finding. We got given some water Mellon drinks from these two guys. They said wait here and they went and bought it. Super lit.

Wednesday we did a lot of finding and had our English group. We had some new people come which was lit. All very cool!

Thursday we exchanged. I went down to Miaoli which is under my area. It is really empty compared to all other areas I've been too. It's pretty cool though. I had a fun time.

Friday we ended our exchange on some fire breakfast food. After we did some studies and just a ton of finding.

Saturday we had a lesson and a ton of finding then ate dinner with a member it was pretty yummy.

Sunday we went to church in the morning and we had two homies over 80 years old pull up. It was so funny and a great miracle. We went over to study at a Starbucks and a random guy who just started talking to me. And I shared and gave him a book of Mormon. And he said he will come to church. Afterwards we did a but ton of finding then ate dinner super late. It was a good day.

Today we went to the amusement park with a bunch of lit rides. It was so lit. It's kind of like Disney land but maybe not as good. It was fun though I had a good time. It was kind of hard to get to though. There was a bunch of monkeys too that we could see. Lit time.

My week was pretty good. I hope everyone is doing well. I love you all!

Elder Clegg 

Week 46

hello everyone. this week was really good. 

last Monday we tried to go to the golf course and it was too much. so we went to the Amusement park right by are home. it is inside of a building. and it has a bunch of things you can do.

Tuesday we went up for zone council in zhubei. it's like a 30 minute train ride. probably like an hour of travel. the chapel there is really beautiful. after we had lunch. it was good. we ate fried chicken haha. after Tuesday we started our exchange. i went to Xinzhu which is a pretty big city. it was really fun. i exchanged with elder Lyman. he is so awesome and funny. good to be around. we had a good time.

Wednesday we finished our exchange and ate McDonalds. That morning me and elder lyman Went to the skatepark. he has a skate board. it was so lit. although I'm not really good at skating. i think when i get home i gotta get on that.

we had English group at Night.

Thursday we went Taipei for a meeting. because this is my companions second transfer so we went there for 6 week follow up. it went well. our new mission president and his family is really sick. really excited for them. that took up most of the day. we came home ate dinner then went Out finding.

Friday was pretty average. but at Night we a member ordered pizza that we went and bought. we put dinner at the End of the day so that was lit. we ate pizza and chilled.

Saturday we woke up and headed over to the zhunan chapel for A baptism. we have two little girls who got baptized. their mom isn't baptized yet. but she has been really faithful. anyways the elder that taught them came down from Taipei to baptize them. it was a really cool experience. his name is elder huang. he is super cool.

that night we also had a member visit. It was cool. their home is out of the city so the bike ride was nice. we had tacos for dinner and brownies and ice cream. it was so fire and pretty fun.

Sunday we had A lady who came to church. she keeps saying she doesn't believe in God and believes in science. we had some really awesome members help her out. I think her mind has changed a little. one thing about other churches and stuff IS they don't really believe science and stuff like that. 

at least in Taiwan. but our church does and we have a lot of answers that no body else has. it's a Testimony builder for me. 

anyways that night we had dinner with a member couple. it was pretty lit.

today we are going to GO biking by the beach and look around. should be pretty lit. i didn't take many pictures this week buy i had fun.

i love it here in Taiwan. it's been An amazing experience. although a lot of  the Time it kind of sucks. but, I've grown so much. and it's been awesome.

愛你們，

clegg長老

1 year baby 🫡

 I cannot believe I hit a year. The days truly are long but the months go by Pretty fast. And I get many blessings from heavenly father for serving his children. I also learn and grow so much. I'm grateful for the opportunity to come to Taiwan. Same place as the old fart dad. 

This week has been insanely long. But very very good. 

Last Monday was transfer days. I got my new companion Elder Wong. He is a homie. He comes from Australia. He is really tall and has red hair. He is pretty sweet. He is hard working and we should have a fun time together! 

Since the area close by us we are also covering that area as well so we have a lot of work to do. And it's hard to help our friends. But we chillin

Tuesday I had my first district council as a district leader.  I was stressed at first but it ended up going good. Even though I didn't know what I'm doing haha. O well. We had lessons and some finding. It went well. 

Wednesday we did lots of finding fixed a bike had some lessons. We also looked at some fish and turtles and stuff. A lot of cool little things like that around Taiwan. Like random decorations and crap on people's houses. Pots with water plants and fish. We then taught English group. Thankfully Elder Wong and the way he did it made it fun! Everyone seemed cool. We have a friend we called who is golden. The are so willing to keep commitments. They are lit.

Thursday was also crazy we did lots of finding and some teaching. It went well. We had a good time finding. Thursday night we went to the basketball courts to ball up. Too bad I don't know what I'm doing in basketball. And all the homies are pretty good. It was fun. We went because a couple of the people we know went. It was sick.

Friday was also good! We did a lot of studies and stuff. Then we were going to have a board game activity but no one pulled up so we went finding instead. BTW this is all in the new area we now cover. We have to ride our bikes like 30 minutes to get their to the chapel. 

Saturday was also very busy. We met the ward mission leader of zhunan and he gave us a fat stack of fliers which we gave out on Sunday. But this day we messaged and called a billion people. We didn't get to do any studies. It was good tho. We also got in some finding. 

Sunday was also busy. We Taught like 5 lessons and passed out a ton of fliers in zhunan near the chapel. Later that night we went to a ladies house with a member and shared about Christ's divine mission Faith and repentance. It went well and the lady was very nice! Oh yeah we didn't eat dinner till after we got home. Because we would have to ride back home then back to zhunan. It was lit tho. I cooked a lot of eggs and some toast with Sriracha. It was fire!

I didn't take a lot of pictures I feel like but I'll send the ones I have.

~

For my year mark I will share my testimony

I know that Heavenly Father loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things.

I know that Jesus is the Christ. He took upon the pains and afflictions of all people. Because of this he knows how to succor his people.

He perfectly understands us our problems our worries and all.

I know because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ all will be ok. I love Him so much. 

I know that the plan of salvation is real and the Atonement of Jesus Christ is the center of everything.

This is my testimony of the only thing that truly matters

In the name of Jesus Christ amen.

~Love Elder Clegg

Sick dog - Week 43

 

This week should be short. Basically I got sick from Wednesday till now. We didn't do much work from Wednesday to Saturday sadly. It kinda sucked. Today I'm still not feeling good but we roll.

Last Monday we went to the petting zoo which was really awesome. So happy to see capybaras.

Tuesday we had district council and did some finding. That night we had a member visit with the bishop and his family. One of his daughters is on her mission in taizhong. It went pretty lit. And it was good food. 

Like I said Wednesday I was sick. My throat hurt and I was congested. 

On Friday we got news that my companion is moving and I am staying.

I'm getting a missionary who has been here for 6 weeks. So it should be a learning experience. Also I'm becoming the district leader and an area is closing by me so I'm IN charge of that. So it's going to be really hard. 

Sunday we went to church had 3 people come. Talked to the member's and said goodbye. We did studies and finding that's about this week. I'm still not feeling great. But that's life.

Today we played some board games and ate hotpot. That's about it

Hopefully I start feeling it and can be excited to work and try my hardest. 

I only have one picture haha.

Love you all,

Elder Clegg

WEEK 42

This week has been pretty fire.

Last Monday we went to the dragon boat festival thing to watch the boats race

Tuesday we had district council and right after started an exchange. To start the exchange we ate soup dumplings. They are fire. Anyways I went with Elder Whittier on exchange. I stayed in my area. We just had a lot of finding that we did. We went to a night market that is only open on Tuesdays. It was popping. It is really cool too. We had a good exchange I saw some miracles.

Wednesday we ended our exchange.

We had are English group and we had a girl come. Afterwards she asked us some questions about church. This was her first time coming and she has a lot of questions. It was pretty cool

Thursday we did finding and stuff.

Friday was so awesome! Because we went all the way up to the temple.

We had some morning finding then got food and took a bus up to Taipei. That was pretty lit. Anyways we went to the temple to do endowments. I did the parts in Chinese it was pretty cool. It is really relaxing to go to the temple. It took a lot longer than we thought so we hurried to catch a bus but 結果 (in the end) we had to take a later one. So we got McDonalds for dinner than took our bus. It also came a little late so we didn't get home till 9. So that took up most of the day. It was worth it and very good.

Saturday we we to an activity where they made cakes(brownies basically). So that was fun. We went because we had a friend go and also had to teach a member new member lessons.

Sunday we had church. After church we ate food together. It was good to talk to the members. We did some studies and stuff. Then we went to a members home to eat dinner. It was pretty traditional. Some of it was good but it wasn't astonishing. But we are very grateful they let us come over. Super nice. 

Today we decided to go to a petting zoo. So we planned to bike a long way to it. We rented a bike to do it. Anyways at the petting zoo was the first time I've seen capybaras. They are so cute. They also had baby ones. So cute. They had some other cool stuff. Anyways we decided to bike into the city. Turn out the bikes we rented can't be parked in the city we went to so we had to take it all the way back on the train. That was very scuffed. But it was a good experience. Originally we were going to eat hot pot but because of the bike stuff it all got scuffed. I got pretty burnt too. It was so hot today.

That was about my week. I hope everyone is doing good! I'll be praying for you. 

Love yall,

ELDER CLEGG

Happy dragon boat festival? - Week 41

Hello! Apparently today is 端午節 dragon boat festival and they race dragon boats (real). So that's pretty lit. I'm not sure what the origins of this are but seems lit. 

Last Monday we went to a members house read scriptures and taught about the temple. We are trying to help the mom get her endowments. And for the dad I think he's not active so we will focus on helping the mom and kids Go to the temple.

Tuesday we had district council. we ate some 包子 baozi. Which is a stuffed steamed bun. We did some knocking.

Wednesday we fixed our bikes. My bikes tire was ripping and the inner tube was coming out so I needed new ones. We had English group and we had a lesson that day. We set a baptismal date but it's going to be hard. Hard to teach her.

Thursday we had our exchange with the ZLs. I stayed in my area and it went pretty well. Basically we did a ton of finding.

Friday we finished our exchange then we ate steak for lunch. It was fire. afterwards we had another exchange. I went to a different area with Elder Blodgett. We worked really hard and it was good. We saw some cool miracles.

I was exhausted though. Elder Blodgett is fun to work with.

Saturday we finished our exchange earlier in the morning. Then we went to the church for a primary activity. We had a friend come to the activity and she brought her daughter. It went well. Afterwards we had a lesson with a kid and his mom. They are both members we were just doing the new member lessons. After that we went with a member to help the friend find something in her garage. The member that came was really cool. She is super nice.

Sunday we went to the church early for a lesson. It didn't go the best. But it's ok. We then had church. Also that mom and her daughter came which was good. Afterwards the mom asked about Temples because that's what they learned about. We first were knocking doors then we decided to go the a big mall. There were so many dang people there it was pretty crazy. It was hard to talk to people. But I ended up finding this really cool dude. He was so chill and fun to talk to. He agreed to set up a time. That was about Sunday. 

Today we had a member meal. The food was pretty good but the ice cream was so fire. Definitely one of the bests I've had. One was like a strawberry mixed with fire vanilla ice cream. Then another one was cookies and cream. It was probably the best cookies and cream I've had. Fire.

We went to see the dragon boats and stuff. So that was cool

I hope everyone is doing good. 

Love you all,

Elder Clegg

The Homies Week 40

 

Hello Everyone! This week has been good. Recently I've been burnt out but I'm getting the hang of finding and knocking doors. It's pretty fun how much people get mad or are impolite. But there's also a lot of nice people don't get me wrong.

Here is the recap.

Last Monday we played board games a exchanged afterwards we did some finding.

Tuesday we had zone conference. We rode to get on the train and we biked through basically a flood it was crazy. We arrived at zone conference soaking wet. The zone conference was cool. It's sad though because we are getting a new mission president. President Yang was the best mission president fr.

Wednesday we did some finding had an in person lesson and we had English group. after we found a baby tiny gecko. So cute !

Thursday  we had exchanges. I went with Elder power. He is really funny and cool. Fun to do missionary work with. Actually he went to the same high-school as me and we were in Chinese class together for a little. 

Friday we ended of the exchange with McDonalds. Friday night we went to a members home and his son who is not a member was just playing on his computer in the middle of the room. So he was loud and it's harder to feel the spirit. But we talked with this member and helped him out. Hopefully we can get him to understand the importance of Temples. 

Saturday we did finding knocking and had a new member lesson. It was lit. Like I said I'm getting better at knocking and stuff. So that's good!

Sunday we went to zhubei 竹北 chapel aka stake center. We went there for stake conference. It went really well. And we sat near some crazy kids. They are so noisy. Anyways there I met the people from Utah who are doing a small study abroad. And I ran into Luke and Kyle. Two people from the same ward in Utah. It was very cool to see them. And a big miracle.

Today for pday we went to the beach. It was really fun. We caught crabs we made some stuff in the sand. Played Frisby and made a river. It was all fun. Sadly I didn't take any pictures. But I'll see if I can find some. There was just a bunch of windmills out in the ocean. It was weird but it's pretty windy out there so that's good. 

That was this week. Again I'm struggling but also growing. And it's been amazing to see the growth. 

I love you all.

I know God loves you too,

Elder Clegg