10-10-2011 Feeling Better

Sent: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 10:53 am
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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