Monday, October 24, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
9-19-2011 Leaving MTC
Sep 19, 2011
DAD!!!!!
Okay, so its the first real time I get to email on P day! Which is
monday. So I am in the field, and with a new companion Elder Succo who
is from Utah and who is the best missionary under president Judd. My
companion has only been out twelve weeks with lots of good success. He
has had over 20 baptisms and the mission presidents told me before I
met him "I'm getting the best!" and now I am in Mamponse Accra Ghana
Africa Mission. I'm very close to the beach and can feel the breeze of
the ocean. I can't see the ocean, but I know it’s there, we are also
west from a large canal full of trash I'll send you photos. From the
canal going west its about 15 to 20 min walk. Also we are north west
from an area called Shiabu, which is about 5 min walk. It’s very nice
weather and its very populated with shacks for home and a few
apartments, dirt roads off course, trash everywhere, unique and gross
smells everywhere, but our apartment is nice and clean. The people are
amazing and very kind, and of course as you said very very VERY
HUMBLE, I am so sorry for the time I have had to respond, as of now I
can respond and email every monday for a good amount of time. Which is
great! I am in an apartment with three other missionaries, Elder Succo
my companion from Utah, Elder Maughan my District Leader from Utah,
Elder Maloni from Zimbabue. The other companionships is very relaxed
and they have a baptism this Saturday. As for me and my companion we
are building are pool and have contacted thus far over 100 people who
seem very interested in the gospel, we have worked hard but we have
agreed to work harder simply because we are capable of doing more
especially because I'm getting the swing of things. So things are
looking very up. As for my health I am very healthy and have been fed
very well. I love the food here! I promised my mission president's
that I will never get sick so I'm being as smart and careful as
possible. I sleep under a mosquito net and the garlic pills are
working very well and the deet is helpful and there are alot of dragon
flies around our apartment eating any mosquito that comes our way. Also
there are not that many mosquitos in this area for some reason. As far
as safety goes the rummor is everyone in this area actually looks out
for the missionaries, so people not of our faith have even got our
backs because they don't want a bad rep here in Mamponse.
I am now capable of getting on other websites since I'm in the field,
so I do look forward to sending you stuff. Lots of photos!
I'm sorry about getting back so late with so little information, I'm
really doing my best.
Okay so what been going on in the mission! So me and my companion have
contacted over 100 people and are teaching 4 to five lessons a day,
which is great! We hope we can do more in a day also me and my
companion get along very well. His name again is Elder Succo, he is
from Utah and actually attended BYU and took some dancing classes
there, and is a two time state champion highschool Trombone player, he
is amazing and very spiritual. I'm so very happy I get to start out
with him in the field, he is my trainer but he does a very good job
of making it feal like he isn't my trainner. His family lives south of
the American Fork Junior High.
So far I learn more everyday alot everyday and its moving so fast! 25
days already away from home! It feels like I left yesterday!
Seriously! But I've only been in the field for six days and yet 100
contacts and we have already taught and are going to teach so much
more!!! WO!!!!! YEAH BABY YEAH BABY!!!!! I will be sending you photos
in another email etc. Along with trying to send the voice recordings
Love you So Very Much DAD!!!!
P.S. Have you gotten my letter!!!! or has the family gotten my letter...
Any way LOVE YOU ELDER TREU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10-10-2011 Feeling Better
Sent: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 10:53 am
Subject: Re: Hello Son
Subject: Re: Hello Son
Casey Treu
> HEY MOM! Everything is Great!
>
> Okay so everything is improving on my end! My week was really good!
> Our first week without Satan and his adversity! YES!!! LOL anyway. I
> also am feeling great I was able to work out every morning using my
> back pack!. I fill it up with all of my notebooks and Journals and
> scriptures and study tools to create weight. So I have been doing that
> every morning around six ish. It’s been great I can already begin to
> feel a difference. For me, I am going to have a before picture of my
> body at the beginning of my mission and an after picture at the end of
> my mission. Ah Just everywhere I go I hear dance music! Like alot
> more than in Utah or anywhere in the states! My companion is feeling
> better although now he has a slight cold. So yeah... oh well, He is
> awesome!!!! The work was a little rough this week. We will have one
> baptism this week.
> Wow!!! Also this week I gave a talk on Sunday, the entire time I
> spoke, I spoke with a Ghanaian accent. I also recorded it so I could
> listen to it later! IT WAS The gift of tongues in a way given to me for
> when I spoke! I shared with them missionary work and how the ward can
> participate and help us move the work move forward! After the talk I
> had several people give me referrals! And many more people in the ward
> I am getting to know. The ward is actually a branch that is so close
> to becoming a ward! So far since I have been here we have contacted
> over 154 people! But, thats with all the bad stuff thats happened to
> me and my companion right when we first started. So that average for
> a missionary or just a little more. But we will improve!
>
> Okay so cooking! I am dead serious about becoming a cook! Because
> everyone out here must cook if they are to eat really healthy. So far
> I have learned how to make cabbage stew, Onion Stew, Indomi stew, Egg
> stew, Dryed beans stew, KIlly Willy and Fried plantien. I can make
> other things but those other things are simple. So we go out and buy
> at the market and we bargain and budget how much we make to last the
> week etc. But I want to learn to cook all my food all the time and to
> save money as a skill for my future. Each stew is simple but includes
> vegetables, spices, rice and beans, fried or boiled, also I am going
> to learn how to make dough from flower and water. Whatever food you
> make out here you really start from scratch with the specific
> Ingredients which is AWESOME!!!! The food I am learning about out here
> and the cooking skills I am learning will help me so much for when I
> return home to save money! Ah I am so excited! I have a notebook I
> take everywhere to get prices and things and ingredients for different
> dishes etc. Also my new district leader actually knows how to cook! So
> I am learning from him! But I will find a way! AS I said before I want
> to be the best missionary possible, the best cook possible, the best
> body builder possible, the best budgeter possible, the best with being
> organized etc and just at building character and with becoming who I
> want to become for the rest of my life! So its good. :)
>
> The scriptures, verses (Moroni 7: 46-47) thats the one! :) It is the
> first scripture that has really hit me hard on my mission. Extremely
> hard... But its a fantastic scripture.
>
> Yes I did buzz my hair, all missionaries do it out here, plus I
> haven't found a place that knows how to cut hair my style, most places
> cut for natives so... yeah. I asked the man who cut my hair to try,
> but he destroyed it lol! ha ha Ha! oh well so then I buzzed it just
> like the other missionaries, if I had a razor with a number one or two
> or three thingy, then I could learn to cut my hair like other
> missionaries, but I didn't bring one with me to my mission so yeah. If
> you want to, could you send one. I am sure learning to cut my hair
> myself will be a useful skill that will save money for the rest of my
> life, John, Krista's hubby does it and I am sure it saves him money.???
>
> Those kids ARE Awesome! Just friends of an investigator of ours, The
> one lady we teach who is quite old, calls me and my companion her
> sons! And so we are now a part of her family along with the little kids
> that are related to her. So yeah my little friends! I do feel pretty
> great, the spirit has been in my life so much more. I also am learning
> alot, I hope I can just build who I am for the better forever.
>
> Okay Love you Too!!!! Sorry for the long email!!!! I hope I can see
> the blog sometime! Also I will have more stories to share with you in
> the future as I become a better missionary. I will grow and learn to
> become more like Christ in everything I do, these people need what we
> know. And its so great to see them when their eyes open to the truth,
> ah can't describe it!
>
> LOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE YYYYYOOOOOUUUUUU!!!! LOVE YOU!!! MOM
>
> Elder Treu!
>
>
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