Well, I have some crazy news this week. So I don't know if this is how every mission goes but we have 2 office elders who are in charge of making sure all the missionaries have all the supplies they need and all sorts of other stuff. Last Friday I got a call from Sister W, the office senior couple, asking if I know how to drive stick, the office elders have a van they drive around. Then Saturday night we got a call from President Hill and he was just talking to me about pre-mission life. Said he saw I was from Star, Idaho, asked if I lived on a farm. No, but I kind of worked on one, Asked if I drove a pickup, yes he asked about that.  In short I'm the new office elder so I'll be driving again! I got released as a district leader and now I'll be with the missionary that was my 1st son (a missionary he trained) after I got transferred here to Buduburam. So I go on Wednesday. That was the major excitement for the week but definitely not all of it.

Another exciting part was that President Hill came for a visit again. We went to that University, KAAF, again. Set up some dates for the workshop we are trying to work on and got a room and dates for the fellowship group we are starting. I'm super excited for all that but I won't be able to see how it turns out. Oh, the joys of transfers.

We also went up to help the Hofmans on Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday was just the district and my companion and I spent the whole day "scraping." That is when you use a putty knife to go over the cement walls and get off any burrs or splatters or anything. The other guys were painting. Dad, you have no idea how many comments I've gotten on that orange shirt. Everyone tells me they love it.  Saturday we went up again with the Ward. We probably had 45 people there to help with the painting and everything. I spent the morning doing my good old fashion job of diggin' holes. I loved every minute of it. Even when my blisters had torn off and blood was starting to drip down the handle of the pick ax haha. A year of inactivity has made my hands a lot softer than I expected. My hands suffered. Made washing this morning rough; and shaking hands. Here they do this thing where after you shake as you pull away you snap the middle finger and my middle finger on my right hand has 3 blisters so when everyone was snapping my finger especially at Church, oh, oh that was painful. I wouldn't change it for the world though. I love diggin' holes. We got a lot done though. Really helped a lot with the project. Almost got the whole thing painted. Still a long way to go but hopefully they can get it done.  I think I would have done Byron proud. Still reaping the benefits of the Barker Correctional Facility for Troubled Youths. (For those not from Star, the Hofmans are some incredible friends that are building an orphanage in Ghana near where Tims was serving.  They have been so good to him taking him out for dinner and taking gifts from home to him. He has enjoyed getting to help a little on the orphanage.  To learn more check out their website at ghanamakeadifference.org)

The teaching is going well. We have some cool people we are teaching. One guy, we have been teaching for a while hasn't been coming to Church but he is so good. Every lesson we go to he has read his assignment, taken notes on it and prepared questions. Makes teaching so easy. But he walked in to Church about 30 minutes late and it made me so happy. He's a really great guy.

Well, I got the packages this week. So excited for the cheesecake!!! I was really surprised with the chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies. Betty Crocker is somewhat of a legend in the apartment, haha. We found a shop that has some of her snicker doodles and my companion bought all of them and also ate all of them. He gave me 1 or 2 and they were really good. So when I pulled my package and yelled "Betty Crocker?!?!" It cause a little bit of a commotion haha. Oh, and I LOVE the pink tie. I wear it with pride. It's my favorite tie by far. I'll wear it when we meet Elder Dube next week haha. Thanks so much!

Welp, that’s all for this week. I love you all! Have a Fantastic week!

Love
Elder Clark