Hello everyone, June 3-Is it June already???
How's life? I am trying to take more pictures so I can always remember the great times I'm having here in Ghana.
Welcome to June, the rainy season. It hit this week on Tuesday or Wednesday. It has rained every day, real rain, not this Idaho rain. If you've seen the Top Gear where they go to Vietnam and they are
riding up that mountain in the rain, it's a lot like that. It rains so hard that you can't go outside. It rains like crazy. We got stuck at investigators shops and houses because of the rain and sometimes we can't really leave the apartment. We were out on Wednesday and we wanted to go see somebody before lunch and on our way it started raining. We were soaked. I had my umbrella out but there not much you can do about it. I felt like Forrest Gump, "The rain came from above, the side, there was ever rain coming from the ground." I hope you get the reference. We have fun and take rain baths though. They usually end up in water fights. We have a lot of fun in our apartment. With the rain, comes the coolest lightning storm. They are HUGE! You've never seen lightning like the lightning we get over here. It's incredible. We had one storm that was right overhead and it was so loud. You see the flash then it sounded like artillery was landing outside the apartment. Everything was rattling like there was an earthquake. It was incredible. Because it is the rainy season it is also much "cooler." It’s probably still 80 plus degrees but it feels so much cooler. It actually gets cold here. I thought I wouldn't get cold for 2 years but I have. The other night I even got out a second sheet because I thought I might need it. I didn't but still. It's pretty much fantastic.
This last week was crazy, we had Zone Conference with Koforidua Zone. We had to wake up at 3 and ride a tro tro for 4 hours to get there. We didn't get back until 8 that night. It was great to go there.
Only one of the guys from my MTC is in that zone but it was good to see him again. The APs taught then President after lunch. I love listening to the President teach. He talked about the new mission a lot. We'll see which mission I'll be in a couple of weeks. I got the package this week with the mashed potatoes and cheese mix. I LOVE it. I really love the conference talks though.
They are my favorite part of the package. I've only had the time to read the first 3 talks of the Saturday morning session but they are so good. Elder Packers talk is so good. It kind of sounded like a good
bye talk to me though with that poem. Like how President Hinckley’s last talk was.
We had some great lessons this week. We are teaching these 2 brother. They are awesome. They've come to church every week since we started teaching them. They love the gospel, I can't wait until they are baptized, they will be strong members. We also started teaching another man. He's awesome. We've only taught him once but he loves to learn. He’s the type of investigator that loves to ask questions about what we're teaching which is the best. It makes the lessons so much better! I also had the worst lesson of my mission so far. We were teaching some women about prophets and they were getting angry that we were saying there are prophets on the earth again so we were trying to end the lesson and I bore my testimony about prophets and the church and one of the looked at me straight in the eyes and told me to never say that again. It made me want to cry.
My companion and I have fun together. He came from the city he likes to ride bikes (I don't because Oda is like Hillsdale) we race a lot. He usually wins but I give it my best shot. One time I went to pass a
car that was going through the pot holes and as I went around the side I saw these 2 huge pot hole right next to each other with only a narrow strip of road going perpendicular to me. I slammed on the brakes and I went sideways and pretty much drifted in between the pot holes. It was pretty crazy. You had to be there. He showed me these biscuits that he likes to buy. We put them in a bowl and pour some
powdered milk and sugar on it to eat. Boom, grammies-n-milk in Ghana. Who knew? He knows how to make a lot of the traditional food so he is going to teach me. I'm excited to learn how to make Red Red!
A lot is happening. We got our new branch president, he was the Elders Quorum president before and I really like him. He'll do a great job. The branch is going to be split in a couple of weeks and we are going to get 2 more missionaries in our apartment soon. Life is amazing over here. I love you all, have a great week!
Love,
Elder Clark
How's life? I am trying to take more pictures so I can always remember the great times I'm having here in Ghana.
Welcome to June, the rainy season. It hit this week on Tuesday or Wednesday. It has rained every day, real rain, not this Idaho rain. If you've seen the Top Gear where they go to Vietnam and they are
riding up that mountain in the rain, it's a lot like that. It rains so hard that you can't go outside. It rains like crazy. We got stuck at investigators shops and houses because of the rain and sometimes we can't really leave the apartment. We were out on Wednesday and we wanted to go see somebody before lunch and on our way it started raining. We were soaked. I had my umbrella out but there not much you can do about it. I felt like Forrest Gump, "The rain came from above, the side, there was ever rain coming from the ground." I hope you get the reference. We have fun and take rain baths though. They usually end up in water fights. We have a lot of fun in our apartment. With the rain, comes the coolest lightning storm. They are HUGE! You've never seen lightning like the lightning we get over here. It's incredible. We had one storm that was right overhead and it was so loud. You see the flash then it sounded like artillery was landing outside the apartment. Everything was rattling like there was an earthquake. It was incredible. Because it is the rainy season it is also much "cooler." It’s probably still 80 plus degrees but it feels so much cooler. It actually gets cold here. I thought I wouldn't get cold for 2 years but I have. The other night I even got out a second sheet because I thought I might need it. I didn't but still. It's pretty much fantastic.
This last week was crazy, we had Zone Conference with Koforidua Zone. We had to wake up at 3 and ride a tro tro for 4 hours to get there. We didn't get back until 8 that night. It was great to go there.
Only one of the guys from my MTC is in that zone but it was good to see him again. The APs taught then President after lunch. I love listening to the President teach. He talked about the new mission a lot. We'll see which mission I'll be in a couple of weeks. I got the package this week with the mashed potatoes and cheese mix. I LOVE it. I really love the conference talks though.
They are my favorite part of the package. I've only had the time to read the first 3 talks of the Saturday morning session but they are so good. Elder Packers talk is so good. It kind of sounded like a good
bye talk to me though with that poem. Like how President Hinckley’s last talk was.
We had some great lessons this week. We are teaching these 2 brother. They are awesome. They've come to church every week since we started teaching them. They love the gospel, I can't wait until they are baptized, they will be strong members. We also started teaching another man. He's awesome. We've only taught him once but he loves to learn. He’s the type of investigator that loves to ask questions about what we're teaching which is the best. It makes the lessons so much better! I also had the worst lesson of my mission so far. We were teaching some women about prophets and they were getting angry that we were saying there are prophets on the earth again so we were trying to end the lesson and I bore my testimony about prophets and the church and one of the looked at me straight in the eyes and told me to never say that again. It made me want to cry.
My companion and I have fun together. He came from the city he likes to ride bikes (I don't because Oda is like Hillsdale) we race a lot. He usually wins but I give it my best shot. One time I went to pass a
car that was going through the pot holes and as I went around the side I saw these 2 huge pot hole right next to each other with only a narrow strip of road going perpendicular to me. I slammed on the brakes and I went sideways and pretty much drifted in between the pot holes. It was pretty crazy. You had to be there. He showed me these biscuits that he likes to buy. We put them in a bowl and pour some
powdered milk and sugar on it to eat. Boom, grammies-n-milk in Ghana. Who knew? He knows how to make a lot of the traditional food so he is going to teach me. I'm excited to learn how to make Red Red!
A lot is happening. We got our new branch president, he was the Elders Quorum president before and I really like him. He'll do a great job. The branch is going to be split in a couple of weeks and we are going to get 2 more missionaries in our apartment soon. Life is amazing over here. I love you all, have a great week!
Love,
Elder Clark
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