Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Well, Easter was pretty normal.  There weren’t any celebrations or anything really.  We had a really great time on Good Friday with our caroling idea.  The ward was really successful.  We ended up going with about 15 sisters from the ward and visiting some less actives, recent converts, and then random people on the road.  We contacted some cool people through that.  Yesterday we drove to the house of an investigator and he wasn't there so I saw this man and needed to contact him so we sat down with him on his bench.  We talked and I felt like we should offer to sing him a song and I was like "oh no, this is about to happen."  Then I offered and he said not now but invited us to his office on Friday to meet him.  He's some government chairmen so he must be pretty important.  Randomly on that note I did have one guy who offered to take us to the Flag Staff house which is like the white house.  Couldn't make it though.  
Didn't get to die the Easter eggs, I couldn't find any white eggs.  We'll keep looking though.  I've seen them before.  There aren't any local traditions.  Just the usual, eat drink and be merry type thing.  
We did get to the Camp on Friday again to deliver supplies.  We didn't get out of the office until about 4 so it was a late night.  Found out a lot of my investigators are doing really well and are being baptized.  That's a great feeling.  Made it up to Oda of Wednesday.   I miss the people I had an opportunity to teach, that was a good time.  Buduburam was definitely my favorite area.  This area is really sweet too.  The ward is ready to work!  I love it.
Some follow up on the baptism; our good Liberian friends are telling us that they were baptized with the wrong name which is a little bit confusing.  Turns out they lied on their passports or something like that so we have no idea what their information really is so we called President Hill about what to do and he was like “I don't know."  So that's interesting.  
We had a really sweet lesson yesterday.  It was a man I contact a week ago on Saturday night and invited him to church and he amazingly came.  I didn't think the guy was serious at all but it turns out that he is pretty cool.  We had a great lesson with him.  We were trying to see him throughout the week but things kept coming up and we couldn't meet him until Sunday but he explained to us how he wasn't baptized as a baby  and he wants to be baptized but he is only going to do it once and he has to decide and he really wants to know if this is the true Church.  I love it because when we taught him about Jesus Christ establishing a church he was actually skeptical of it.  That pretty much never happens so we actually had to teach him like missionaries probably teach in America or Italy.  I had to be on top of my game.  We hit a home run though, or I should say the Spirit did and he accepted to be baptized :D
But we finally made it to the zoo today!  We weren't planning on it and I was talking with Elder T. about what to do today so we called up President Hill to get permission, it's outside the mission.  He was like "Can I come too?"  So the four of us missionaries and President and Sister Hill went to the Accra Endangered Primate Preserve.  There were a lot of monkeys and some other animals.  There was a camel, emu, ostrich, raccoon, warthog, birds, antelope, some other 4 legged animals, a crock, and some other things.  It was cool.  We got to the little crocodile place and we couldn't see it so we thought it might be in a little pool of water. Elder T. just grabbed a big stick and said he would just check the water so our tour guide grabbed it and jumped over the wall into the enclosure and started poking around.  He found it, it started thrashing around and splashing.  It was 6 feet long or so.  Pretty cool stuff.  We also found a little monkey that liked us and liked to reach through the cage and grab our cameras so we gave it a pass along card, he was so excited about it.
Love you all!

Elder Clark

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