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"Possibly the cutest little girl that I have ever seen here in Africa… She is the one that I am going to marry! She is the cousin of one of our amis named Linda. She came to church on Sunday and loved primary! Her name is Daniela." 

Dearest Family of mine,

Hello, and good day. Things are well in Togo, West Africa. And by reading your letter, I have concluded that things are going well for you, as well. That is nice, and good to hear. It sounds like everyone is doing well and healthy and happy and cool and great and all of that stuff. And the same is going on here! Great, happy, good, nice things... How is my baby girl going? (his Bronco) I hope you are taking care of her until I'll be holding her myself... If she starts getting cold, the cold is starting to come, you can maybe put a blanket on top of her... Maybe sit in her a couple times a day, if she will let you. As we already saw that she broke moms finger nail when she tried to look under her hood! Just keep that in mind.

Give a little shout out to Jackson for having an awesome game. Tell him that if his coach ever tells him something like that again, to look at him and say, "are you kidding me coach? (His coach asked him to let some of the other kids have a chance to tackle.) Once they have as much talent as me, they can start getting some tackles..." That is what I would say! Haha. Sucks to suck for Bountiful... That is rough. And for homecoming... I think they need Coach Layton up there on the sidelines coachin' up the D-Ends. ;) Gettin' em back into that 2011 winning spirit if you know what I mean! In the end, all those kids are still from Woods Cross... C'est dommage. 

My week flew by... Just like all of the other ones have... Not much really going on still in every case. We were able to find a solution for Fofo. Well really he forced a solution onto our shoulders. He hasn't been being paid for his work for the past 2 months, and he can't feed his children anymore. So the 6 that live with him and his wife right now, are going to be sent back to their village to live there for a year, with their mom as well. So Fofo is going to stay here and try to settle himself down for the year. And then once he has found another job, he is going to have all of his kids and wife come back and live with him. But he is going to go get the marriage paper signed while he is dropping his kids off, and when he gets back we are going to baptize just him, and the others will have to wait till they can come back and live with him... It was pretty sad, but in the end I think it is the best thing to do. The kids were really excited to go back to the village and go to school there and see their other brothers and sisters. I guess school is free out there. But yeah that is what is going to happen for now... And then the missionaries that will be here in a year will baptize his wife and children. But he will be able to get baptized and progress and get the priesthood and be able to baptize his family himself! He smiled at that idea haha. He is a good guy for sure. 

Loyd - "I got worms!" 

Mary - "I beg your pardon?" 

Loyd - "That's what we're gonna call it. I Got Worms. We're gonna specialize in selling worm farms!" 

The very first words that came into my head when I looked in the toilet and found out that "I got worms...." Hahaha those little guys caused me some problems this past week!!! I lost weight, didn't poop, and had a stomach ache for 4 days in a row, and ate like twice... BUT! I took some pills, and I am now okay. So don't fret. I think that I ate some sketchy chicken... Or drank some sketchy water... Or numerous other things that could have happened here. I called sister Weed and she told me to go to the pharmacy and get some meds. 

I took them, and within a couple days, I was totally fine! Oh thank heavens for Albendazole TM 400MG. So I can now check having malaria and worms off of my list of sicknesses... And eating cat and goat. Which surprisingly didn't give me some other sickness. 

My companion leaves here the 12th of October. So like roughly two weeks... He is starting to kind of just chill in lessons and kind of lets me just do my thing. I mean he is still trying hard, but like, not really. I don't really know. But things are still good between the both of us. We are working hard still have had 11 amis come to church on Sunday! And we have lots of baptism dates which is nice. I mean, the missionary aspect of things here are pretty much the same... My companion was the one that gave the lesson at our zone meeting. It wasn't a zone conference though, zone meeting! If it was a zone conference, I would be testifying for the last time... All the leaving missionaries bare their testimonies at their last zone conference. I think the last one for me is sometime in November... I know the date it just isn't coming to my mind! Soon enough though. 

 Beatrice told me to tell you hi. I know that she is going to ask me if I did or not, so now I can tell her that I did. She has us over for lunch today. She made us some bomb rice and chicken. The chicken was kind of like Chinese chicken... That is still probably the first thing that I want to eat when I get back... Joy Luck. Tangerine chicken with fried wontons and egg drop soup... Oh my HECK!!! But I will be home on a Sunday... So some piping hot chicken pillows will do.. ;) Just not rice... Or pasta... or fufu... Haha sound good? Thanks :)

Well I take end here... Not really anything else to say. I have already tried to take every piece of information out of my head and type it. So have a good week, love you all, God speed, don't forget to read the Book of Mormon every day, and to pray, and repent, and go to church, and take your pills if you are sick, or go to school if you are still in school, and go good at work if you are working, and just be good!

                     Love,

                              Elder Landon Dean Layton