Hey everyone,                                                                                                                                   

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!  I hope you have a fantastic birthday.  Love you so much!

This week was pretty sweet.  We celebrated the 4th of July Sunday night.  We grilled our steaks and had watermelon with rice and mashed potatoes.  Then we topped it off with a pot oven cake.  Super good.  Today Elder V. and I made cookies with the same pot oven.  Really good.

This week was pretty good.  Wednesday it rained all day which was a little discouraging.  I personally LOVE proselyting in the rain but I am about the only missionary that likes that.  We were able to get out and do some good teaching.  We are focusing on teaching with members and are having some good experiences with that.   We had our 2 baptisms on Saturday.  It was a great baptism.  Really great service.  I really enjoyed it.  Brother B. is one of my most favorite investigators I have had the privilege to teach.  

Monday night last week we had a really powerful lesson with a new guy.  He is really cool.  We just went there and taught him the first lesson and it was super spiritual.  He was feeling it and I could tell so I asked him how he was feeling and he said "touched, moved, transformed."  Really cool guy.  He was busy the rest of the week so we haven't been able to meet him again but we are really hoping to get him this week.

I have really been trying to feel the Spirit more in my life.  That isn’t always easy but I have really been trying to change that.  We've been praying pretty hard for the Spirit and this week we had a lot of cool experiences.  On Thursday we had a member proselyte with us all day because he is preparing for mission and we were walking down the street and I see one guy’s head over a compound wall and our eyes met and I knew we needed to talk to him.  We went over and he was like I always see you guys are round and I really want to know what you are doing.  We had a great 1st lesson with him and he was saying all the right things.  Unfortunately he doesn't live in our area but we referred him to the other missionaries and hopefully they are following up on that one.  That one was really powerful.  

Friday I was asked to do and exchange with another district so I went and spent the night in Mataheko district.  I was with one of my MTC mates.  It was pretty cool.  Kind of spoiled our 4th plans but it opened new windows because they have this restaurant in their area called zoozoos that makes good burgers so we went there for lunch.

Tuesday was a national holiday so we hosted our missionary versus ward football match.  Unfortunately it rained that day so hardly any members showed up but we had some come and them a lot of people from the roadside came to play with us.  Mostly kids but we are planting seeds.  

Sunday night was pretty crazy.  I was on exchanges last week with Elder J.  We contacted one cool guy and he came to Church yesterday and went home and his girl friend had kicked him out of the house. I guess the missionaries went there with him and things were getting thrown thenI got there with a member and his wife. They sat down and there was lots of yelling and all of it was in Gaa (another language somehow similar to Twi) but we got her to give him his clothes back so now he is free.

Welp, time is up and time to get back to the missionary fun!  Love you all,

Elder Clark