Bragging Rights

Well, Hello from Ghana again. I hope that the last week went well.  I guess the summer is wrapping up and everyone is getting ready to go back to school now. I am on splits with the Zone Leader right now in Asamankese because my companion has gone to the Doctor in Accra with the other ZL.  So I will be spending the night here.

This last week was good I guess. I finally got my bragging rights, I got Malaria. It was just a terrible as I thought it would be.  It was only for 2 days; I went to the hospital here to see a doctor and got some medicine that works really fast.  I'm up and running now though.  Just to give some detail on Malaria without too much detail, the night that I had it, between 8pm and 3 am I used a whole roll of toilet paper and had to make the run to the bathroom over 20 times. Yep, that was terrible.  But now I can say I've had malaria, who can say that?

Don't worry Mom, I'm all healthy now and have no other sicknesses.  Do to the fact that and my companion has an infection in his eyes (that's why he's in Accra) we weren't able to go out much last week. Wednesday we stayed in for him and Thursday afternoon I got my malaria. We were out and about then I had to "go" so we ran to the branch president’s house and I ended up laying down to sleep there for an hour and a half and he called one of his friends to drive us home.  I stayed in Friday as well by Saturday but we didn't push ourselves at all because both of us were still a little sick. So last week was pretty rough but it was still good. I caught up on some sleep and got some good studying in. This week I'll be pushing us if my companion is feeling better.

So I got a request to describe a typical day for me so here it does. We wake up at 6:30. I Try to iron all my shirts on Monday or the night before so I don't have to but if I do then I do my ironing. Then I'll make my bed do some exercises and stretching.  Then I will make my breakfast which is usually Oatmeal, but I want to start to try and change that up. I shower and get dressed while the oats cool then I eat and get to my personal studies around 8:00. We finish companionship studies at 10 and usually leave the apartment around 10:30. For me and my companion we always travel to the towns around Oda in our area so we don't come back for lunch and dinner because we can't afford the transportation.  We'll usually buy some crackers or something from a shop while we are out. So we go out at 10:30 and do our proselyting until the end of the day, usually we get back to the apartment between 9 and 9:30 at which time we plan and then make our dinner and then sleep. Sometimes we come back earlier than that but usually that's how a day in the life of Elder Clark goes haha. Yep, pretty exciting.

As far as food goes we have a lot of options. There is rice or noodles. They have Endo mi, we call it top ramen back home. I don't eat that very often. On Mondays I'll make a tomato stew out of tomato paste, onions, tomatoes, green peppers, some seasoning and then I will add either chicken or hot dogs to it. Then I add my stew to spaghetti or rice. And that's what we eat, everyday. I'm really trying to brainstorm some new things to eat and stay within the mission sub. Today I was spoiled though; the couples in Asamankese had my companion and me over while we are here and fed us some nice chicken and salad with CHEESE and chocolate cake. It was really good but really not as amazing as i was expecting. I guess my taste buds are changing. So that’s a typical day for me. Some of the foods we get fed here is Fufu, Banku, Kenkay, and some other things.

Well, I hope you all have a great week. I love you all.

Love,

Elder Clark