Wow, October already??

Well, I think we are on top of the world this week. We had a really fun week. When President Hill came into our mission he started having each branch/ward have an Open House in their building. We finally had ours this week on Saturday. We were also able to go the Kade Branch's on Wednesday last week too. They were a ton of fun.  President Hill and the AP's always go to all the open houses and 4 of us from Oda went to Kade and 4 from Asamankese went there too and the office elders so we had a LOT of missionaries there.  The main idea was to have the members stand at different stations in the church and explain things and then just have groups of people rotate around the building.  While the members were inside all the missionaries were outside contacting people and inviting them to the open house and then actually walking them to the building. The mission has an 18 seat van that we were using to transport people. I was in the car with the office elder.  We would just drive up to a group of people that the missionaries were trying to get to come and I would slide open the door jump out and then every person I shook hands with I would just take them into the van with me.  You get 18 plus missionaries doing contacting in one small area and it goes like fire!  Everyone we talked to said they loved the Church so it was good.  We had more than 150 people go through the church in about 2 hours.  It’s a ton because the branch there only has about 40 people.

That was pretty much the highlight of the week. We spent a lot of time preparing for the Open Houses and we weren't able to do a lot of teaching but it was worth it. Maybe you guys could do an open house every once in a while?  It's great to help people with their curiosity. There are a lot of rumors about the Church over here like we have a pool (baptismal font), or we have a secret room that we cut up dead people or we drink blood or... There are a lot of misconceptions so the Open House helped to fix that.

Oh another adventure was we were in a car waiting for it to fill to go to a village called Essam and I was signing to my companion, he taught me the ASL alphabet and I like to practice.  I also had a member teach me the Twi alphabet and I got my hands on a Twi Book of Mormon so I'm trying to learn how to read it so maybe I can speak Twi a little bit better.  My inspiration was from the movie, The Other Side of Heaven.  It's a lot harder than I thought it would be.

That's about it from my end of the world.  Just to let you know that I really do know that this Church is true and everything we stand for is truly from God.  I love this gospel and everything it teaches us.  I Love seeing the difference it makes in people lives as we teach it to them and as they accept it and live the principles of the gospel. True happiness can only be found though the Church and everlasting happiness can only be found in following and abiding by its teachings. I love the Book of Mormon and things it teaches us. I love being a missionary.

Love,

Elder Clark