January has come and gone.  Can't believe that this month is over and now it's February.  This week was pretty good.  This is a strange area where we get out and work and it seems like nothing is really working and then Sunday came and we had 3 people come to church.  I was so excited.  One is E. that is from a part member family.  He's doing great and is really excited to get baptized next week except they are getting kicked out of their house this week.  So we are trying to help them find a place to stay.  The other is a womanthat works for the UN.  Turns out her fiancé is a member and took her to church once before.  She's cool.  And the other guy is a friend to a less active we reactivated.  As a mission we have been really focusing on less active and recent converts.  We are doing something we call "2 fers" Where each companionship tries to baptize 2, get 2 recent converts to the temple, and get 2 less active to church twice all in a month.  It's great.  It's another one of those ideas President just wakes up with.  He is a great idea man.  It’s pretty cool.

Today we went mini golfing and spent a lot of time tumbling in the grass.  I've got another type of back flip I can do now.  It was really fun.  We've been doing a bunch of flips and cool stuff.  The guy I am will is my friend from Middleton.  

Saturday was President and Sister Hill's anniversary.  So we made them a cake and doorbell ditched it on their door step.  That was really fun.  President totally knew it was us I think.  

Sunday we had a baptism in the ward for some other elders but because of lights off we had to fill the font with buckets.  I was out at the poly water tank with a small bucket fetching water and pouring it out into bigger buckets that others would carry to the font.  We got it full enough that she was able to lie down on the bottom of the font and the water covered her.  She really wanted to be baptized and was traveling to school and didn’t want to wait.  It was good.   To celebrate after I made that lemon pie Mom sent me.  That was really good!  

 Gotta go.  Love you all!

Love,

Elder Clark     

                                  I would know that orange shirt anywhere

Hey everyone,                                                                     Jan. 19, 2015

Well tonight is going to have to be pretty short it's already 6 pm!  It’s crazy how fast the day can go by.  We just decided today that we're having a transfer on Wednesday and we're getting 2 new missionaries tomorrow so this week is shaping up to be pretty busy already.  And we are having a transfer next week too and then in 3 weeks.  Transfers, transfers, transfers.  Seems like that's all we do these days.  I wish all missionaries would be like Alma and Amulek.  

We were able to get some good people to church on Sunday.  We have been working with the husband of a recent convert and he finally was able to get to church on Sunday and is so excited to be baptized.  We've got another man we have been working with too that was able to come.  He was born a Christian and is trying to figure out what is right in this life.  We had a great lesson with him after church.  His Uncle decided to join the lesson too.  Turns out that man is a pastor in an other church who objected mightily to anything else other than the Bible.  The lesson was on the Book of Mormon.  He just couldn't fathom that there is more than the Bible.   It was literally like an angel and a devil fighting over him.  After the lesson he walked us out and asked some more questions and was pretty excited for us to give him a Book of Mormon.  

We had a crazy call on Tuesday.  We were getting ready to take some missionaries to the airport, and a missionary that is in my ward, Elder L., called me.  Sidenote, Elder L. is from Middleton and went to Middleton high school.  We know a couple of the same people.  If you remember that blind date I went on with Jared Luke's niece, he knows her. Small world.  Anyway, he called and said that he has 3 people who just showed up at the chapel asking to be baptized.  What?  After the airport we ran out to meet the people, it’s a mother and her 2 sons.  We had a member take us to their house  and met the husband and taught him too.  Great lesson.  Really really good.  We went back the next day and the kids recognized the picture of Joseph Smith and everything.  Good people.

That's all the time I have now.  Love you all!!!

Love,

Elder Clark

Hey everyone,

This week was a real wringer.  I'm exhausted haha.  We had transfers on Wednesday and MLC with all the district leaders on Thursday.  My companion and I gave about half of the instruction and President Hill was really picky on our preparation.  I was pretty stressed.  I was so glad after MLC was over, slept a little bit better after that.  

The Hamattan is going great this year.  Every year around this time we get the Hamattan which is the sands blowing down from the Sahara desert I think.  Anyway, it’s really cool (relatively) and very, very, very, very dusty.  I have never been in dust like this.  It’s crazy.  It’s like its really foggy, and you can't see very far, very far being anywhere from 100 yards to half a mile.  It’s just like a cloud is always there.  It makes it a lot cooler and the humidity is way down.  My lips have been cracking and bleeding and I've been using chapstick like crazy.  Just checked though, we're still having 40% humidity. I don't know how that relates to back home but out at the Farm today it was feeling a lot of just dry heat and it felt great.  I wasn't sweating from every pore and it was just dry.  Very nice.

Which brings us to the farm.  Today we got to go with President to be with his chickens.  If any of you remember back when I was an office elder President had this big thing he was starting to get 50 chickens for 10 families sponsored by the University of Ghana.  That finally happening.  We took the families to the University for a Week Long Training Seminar and got to go around for a while.  We just got back.  I saw a LOT of unexpected faces today.  One of them was my old Branch President from Oda, President Mensah.  He's the one who took such good care of me back when I got malaria.  He's a great guy.  I was so happy to see him.  Another unexpected face came walking around a tro tro calling me Tim Clark.  Who knew Cory Hofman was here????   So that was a shocker.  I think he may have been just as shocked if not more shocked to see me as I was to see him.  It was really funny.  I guess he came on a last minute thing on Saturday and the rest of the crew are coming in 2 weeks or so.  Crazy stuff.  Small world.  

That's about it for this week!  Love you all!             Elder Clark

Hey everyone,                                                                               Jan. 4, 2015

This week was pretty exciting.  We had a New Years stake party.  We had to go.  I wasn't really interested but we had to go and keep an eye on missionaries, we did get free food though.  Always a plus.  It was an interesting party, they had a police band and a police man came and wanted to take a picture with a bunch of us Americans which was cool.  I'm making friends with a lot of police men lately.  They always have checkpoints in my proselyting area at night and we get stopped once or twice a night.  I just roll down the window and talk some Twi to them and they laugh and let us go. 

 We do have some guy who works for the Air Force here and works with the president of Ghana.  We invited the President to Church with him.  That'd be pretty sweet if we could teach the president of Ghana.  

After the party we went to bed.  It was a little hard to sleep.  Ghanaians LOVE fireworks more than me.  It was crazy.  It sounded like an artillery barrage.  We went outside at midnight to look at the fireworks.  We couldn't really see the colored explosions like firework shows but everywhere you looked was white flashes in every direction.  It was really cool. 

We did meet a really cool guy this week.  His mom owns a store in a brand new mall that they just opened.  It’s the biggest mall in Ghana.  He was really excited about the gospel.     

That's about all for day.  Love you all!

Elder Clark