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