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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