Hola ,

What's up?  All is well on the home front. They finally hooked us up to the water so we could have running water. Still don't have any though.  I'm not sure what the problem is this time but not a big deal.

This week was our mission tour. We went to Asamankese(about an hour drive from Oda) to go and hear one of the area authorities in Accra and his wife. They are both from Australia which I didn't know until they started talking,  I love the accents. They taught us some really good stuff about teaching and they really stressed obedience.  It was a great talk, I really learned a lot.

We also had zone training again on Tuesday so this week we had to travel a lot. We have 2 new zone leaders and they are great guys. I enjoyed the zone training and it was my companion’s first one so that was fun. It was weird running into all the missionaries in the zone and having them all go "you're training?" Yep, I get that a lot.

Elder R. is great. I love him to death.  We make sure we have a lot of fun. He's a pretty quiet guy but he's great. 

This week Sister Hill gave us a bunch of recipes for our microwaves. She gave us ones for Brownies and Banana Bread. I'm going to try the banana bread this week for my bump day (Sunday) I hope it works out because I'm pretty excited for it. I can't believe it's already been 6 months! It goes by too fast... I guess that's probably one of the most used phrases by missionaries.

That's pretty much all I have for you guys this week. Not a whole lot happening right now. I'll have to make next week more exciting. It's been a little slow for us.

I love you all!

Love,

Elder Clark

Hey everyone,                                                                               

Well this week was another great week. We had some progress on the running water situation. On Saturday the church and some members in the military came and filled the poly tanks that hold the water so we can have some water until they get around to hooking us up to the city water. But we can't use them because one of the sinks is on in the other apartment and whenever we turn on the pump water goes everywhere in the other apartment so we can't use is until the landlord comes and turns off that water. So we continue to draw water every morning.  I really quite enjoy it for some reason.

I hope that you all got to see the pictures of us when Brother Hofman came up. I randomly got a text this week and it said they were coming to see the big tree the next day and he wanted to take us out to dinner or lunch.  I was pretty excited to see him and spend a little time with him talking about life. I was asking him some questions about back home and he said since he was released he had no idea. Sounds like me.  We went and enjoyed some nice fufu.

Well we had some great adventures and experiences this week. The chapel flooded one day so I got all wet trying to find a valve to shut off the water.  We were the only ones there and opened the doors to find a couple inches of water on the ground. Good thing everything is tiled.

We taught some really sweet guys this week. One night I was asleep and I got a call from a new guy.  He contacted us last week and asked if he could ask me a question through a text.  I got a text then asking me why America ruled the world.  I said I don't know then he asked me why we should worship God and some other things.  We talked for a bit and I bore my testimony to him through a text then he called back and said he wants to join the church.  He came to church this week which was sweet.  We taught another lesson, was super good and the spirit was really strong, Not something that happens very often, and after he said that he was praying to find the true church. It was the typical missionary story but it was so cool and felt so great. We saw him on the road this morning and talked for a bit. We taught another man that is a diamond and gold buyer, we taught him about why we believe Jesus Christ is the son of God. It was the first time I've done that.  It was pretty cool.
 
So the work is going forward. We were out finding yesterday after church and we found a totally new area that I didn't even know existed.  We talked to a lot of people. It was pretty fun. Elder R. is great. He works hard and never complains. We have fun and we quote lines from the movie Sahara all the time.  I don't know why. We also started a bucket list. Naming a new thing for the list is part of our planning session every night.
That's about it for the week.
I love you all,

Elder Clark

Hey Everyone?
 
Is it September already?  Where did the summer go?  I guess now everyone is back in school and back to the grind.  Sounds like fun for everyone.  This week was pretty exciting for us in the new area.  Lots of things happening yet at the same time a little slower than I like but some things you just can't force.
 
This was a big week for us.  It was our first really week in the new area.  We did a lot of contacting and following up on other contacts from last week.  The lessons unfortunately just weren't really getting us to the goals and points we were setting for the people we were teaching.  Finally on Saturday after a lot of praying and thinking
about what to do we were able to get the success we were looking for.
 
Saturday was the best day of the week.  We were able to teach some really good lessons and really have the spirit there.  We taught one boy and the sprit was super strong and after the lesson I just asked him what he was feeling and he said he was really happy and felt like he'd been born again(that’s what they call baptism).  We told him that
he could always feel that way if he was baptized.  I loved it.  The boy is part of a family where each parent goes to a different church and he goes to a different church from both of them.
 
Another man we are teaching is a retired policeman.  At first I was pretty nervous about teaching him because he’s a big guy and I didn't want to upset him, but he loves to learn about the church and is reading the Book of Mormon so that’s pretty sweet.
 
Another lesson we taught was to the children of one old man we contacted and taught.  I knew that he had traveled but I felt like we should go to his house anyway so we went there and 2 of his kids (20+ years) answered and were excited to see us.  They said their father was talking about 2 white missionaries that came over and were
teaching him about the Book of Mormon and they wanted to learn more about it.  They bother ended up committing to baptism which was sweet.
 
Then we taught the young boy on Sunday.  He's only 11 and last time week taught him about Joseph Smith and so when we came back we asked him what we talked about and he knew everything.  He recited to us exactly what happened in the first vision even that God and Jesus Christ had bodies that Joseph could touch.  He's so smart!
 
So the week started hard but ended fantastically.  The water is still not running yet but I don't mind it anymore.  Every morning I go out and draw water for the apartment for everyone to shower, wash dishes and to flush the toilet.  It's my morning exercise.  I really don't mind not having running water; the only bad part is the bathroom gets stinky.  I decided the best thing of this new apartment is actually having a toilet seat.  You never know how much you miss one of those until you don't have one for 5 months haha.  I love toilet seats.
 
Training is going great.  Elder R. is a great missionary.  I love him.  I love to work with him.  We have a great time.  We started a bucket list.  Every day at the end of our planning we add something to the bucket list.

I love you all; have a T-eriffic week.

Love,
Elder Clark