Happy Father's day!  Sorry I didn't know it was Father's day until yesterday when people started wishing me happy father’s day.  Sounds like it was a good one!  Don't worry, I was with primary yesterday so I was up singing the song with them, they do it during the 3rd hour so I got to go and sing to all the fathers the father’s day song.  It's been a long time since I've done that. Great day!

Well, just like that June is half over.  Time is really starting to pick up.  This week was pretty crazy.  The world cup is full swing.  The big game is tonight.  We have a little bit of a hard time teaching in the afternoon when the games are on but we do the best we can.  We have 4 Americans in the district and we got US jerseys that we've been wearing all day today.   We were getting some looks but I've had people chasing me with machetes before so it should be alright.  We're gonna win tonight.  I can't wait either.  

We went to a park to play some basketball and ended up playing and soccer game US vs Africa and we WON.  I haven't had adrenaline like that in so long it felt so good.  None of us have really played before and all these guys have played since before they could walk and we didn't just win but we smashed them 5-1.  Good times, I'll remember this day forever.

Last week was pretty good.  We didn't have a whole lot of people come to Church today because the games for the world cup play at 1am and times like that so people are like yeah, we watched the game and slept through church.   Our man is looking set to be baptized next week on the 28th.  That's pretty exciting.  

We got 2 new missionaries this week.  One from Nigeria and one from South Africa.  Its good to have the district equalized.  

We met this really cool Nigerian this week.  We were contacting this one street and guess what, the last house on the left that we contacted.  Actually it was a compound and we went in a knocked on one door and got rejected then he walked out of another door and invited us over to sit down.  Had a nice lesson.  Went back 2 days later and invited him to be baptized and then he came to Church on Sunday.  God has the best timing.  

That's about it though.  

Love you all, Have the great week!

Elder Clark   

June 9 2014

June is basically half over.  This week is going to be super busy preparing some awesome investigators for baptism next 2 weeks.  Hopefully we’ll get there.  They are 2 sweet guys.  One is a referral from a recent convert, his son.  He is so cool.  We had some really powerful lessons.  The other is a guy who had been coming to church for a month before I came and the missionaries had done nothing about it.  Crazy but we met him and he should be baptized.  He's super cool.  We will be pretty busy with that but I love being busy.  Last week was one of the hardest working weeks I have had yet.  We are really trying to build this area and it’s a little tough but we're gettin there.  

Highlight of the week was Thursday.  It rained all day.  Literally all day.  It didn't stop at all.  It a little rough but me I'm always wet with sweat anyway so it made no difference to me but people just didn't want anything.  The only upside is that we were able to catch some people who couldn't go anywhere and had them into a lessons.  Best part was in the evening.  It was raining pretty good so I was letting us hide under a little tin roof.  It what right on this rough, rough dirt road and this little taxi starts going up in and gets stuck.  The little guy didn't stand a chance.  I'm not one to stand around so I ran over and pushed in out and for some reason the guy thought he could make it and kept trying and I kept pushing him out.  Finally I told him to stop and he left.  But another came so back out into the knee deep water to push him out.  Happened several times.  The second was the best.  That driver was so sincerely grateful.  He said anywhere I wanted to go he would take me there.  I just told him to come to church on Sunday.  I really hoped that he would but he didn't.  But it was a lot of fun

Heard the package came.  I hope everyone loved their pictures.  They've got some cool stuff.  I was worried about that package.  I forgot to put in the letter but the bag and kente strips are for Maddy  as a graduation present, the scripture bag is obviously for Hannah(I ordered others but they never came...) The fabric is enough for each girl to make a skirt,  they should make some nice skirts.  Enjoy:)

We contacted one cool guy this week.  He was born in Ghana but when he was a kid he was adopted by some dutch people so he grew up in the Netherlands.  Then he spent 7 years in Spain and a few in the US and now he is back for a few years.  Super smart guy.  He met the missionaries before.  I guess we will see what happens.

Love you all!

Elder Clark