Doing Fine. I don't have any problems, so it is all good.

Hey mom.

Sorry that I didnt write to you yesterday! They changed our p day for the day. A member of the quorum of the seventy came yesterday.  His name is Elder Gaverett. he was on a mission tour here in GIhana and he wanted to meet with us. It was cool. When we got to the meeting Prez. Shulz called me over and said that Elder Gaverett wanted to meet with some of the elders. So I went and had an interview with him. It was a neat experience. But today is our p day, and thats my excuse for not writing.

I haven't gotten the package yet. Elder Larsen said that they were in though. They just have to bring them up from Cape Coast. I got Jennie's stuff. Thank her loads for me. Shes awesome! and I think of her as more of an older sister too shes not really my aunt. But i do owe her big. She's helped me a lot.

Ok so the blue set of scriptures. My red ones some of the pages are falling out of them and I was really stupid in the way I marked some of the scriptures. We have our investigators read out of them a lot and some of them I marked to where its hard to read. So it would really help to have another set. But if you don't want to send them I can order a pair from the distribution center. I think that a set like I have now are 63 cedis. So I can order a pair here. but I need something else, regardless. So send my scriptures if thats better or tell me to order some in my next e mail.

I've been thinking about the washing machine and I dont think im going to get it. its a nice thing to have but I don't think its something I need. I will just wash my clothes the old fashioned way.

So nothing to exciting happening here right now. We still haven't found Grace but oh well. There are a few other people that are working towards baptism but I'im not saying anything right now, I'm not going to jinx it again.

So I'm doing fine. I don't have any problems so it all good. I love you!

love,
Trevin

Hey Mom.

Dad is right. He's right most of the time but not always;). I'm starting to really like it here. I like the people a lot more and the food. I love fu fu now. It is my favorite thing to eat. We've done a few service projects. There is a guy in our branch that is building a house and we helped him move the dirt for his floors into his house, and we have fetched water for this other lady in our ward that cant get it her self.

I don't know how I feel about being a trainer. I still feel like I'm following Elder Mortensen a lot. When I was in the MTC I was the leader of our companionship so I think that when I'm put into that position I will do good. I just don't feel like I've been out long enough. But i'ts not a set thing yet I could still just get another companion. So we'll see.

I hope that Jaren does better with the computer school. I'm glad to here about Kadyn and Carsen. I think they will do better then me and Jaren combined will ever do. Kadyn really loves those books. I'm glad, they are really good books.

Haha I got the guitar tabs, but they are hard to figure out. At home I could listen to a song to figure it out but not here. But they will be fun. I still haven't received that package so I hope that it will get here soon.

Haha my shoes are doing good. They will last me for a long time.  I dont think that I will have any problems with them. But I do need some things. So first that whole tie bleeding thing doesn't happen so if you could send some of my old ties that would be nice. I feel like I wear the same thing everyday because I only have 5 ties. You're really going to hate me but my scriptures the blue ones with my name on them. I need them. I didn't have enough room in my bags for them but I need them. Sorry! I need an answer on the washing machine thing. Mortensen needs the money soon or he's going to sell it to someone else. I think that I can get him down to 120 cedis. It would be awesome if you could send some food spices here. They don't have much. But like oregano, cinnamon, I make a lot of french toast, pepper just stuff like that. And candy! But that's it. And by the way I want you to make a list of all the stuff you send me or how much the packages cost. i feel bad that your paying for most of my mission and all this extra stuff. I want to pay you back.

Prez. and Sis. Shulz are awesome.  They do a lot for us and really do treat us like their kids. I love them. lder Mortensen goes home on the 15th of November. I'm his last companion. P days are good. We either play soccer or american football. Mortensen plays with us. He didn't play in school he did track but he's good. So its good. Our p days most of the time are more tiring then normal days. We go to football then we go to town to get the stuff we need. We walk a lot and carry a lot of stuff. There is one other companionship in our apartment. Elder Gibson and Elder Sesay. Elder Gibson's really cool he's from Enoch Utah and we're good friends now. Elder Sesay is from Sierra Leon. He's ok he likes to break rules though.

We haven't been able to see Grace in two weeks. We don't know where she went. We are hoping she comes back. But we are teaching a couple other people that are moving towards  baptism. But I'm not going to jinx it by saying they will.

I can't wait until christmas. I don't know much on how it works. Just that we are given a call card and that we call that night. Mortensen said that we can talk for an hour or two they don't really have a set rule. But when I find out more I will tell you.

So I guess I will talk to you next week. I miss you and I love you!

love,
Trevin

I'm Starting to LOVE the people and really care about them.

Hey Mom and Dad,

Hey everything is going better. ummm... I dont have much going on right now. We are only teaching about 2 lessons a day right now and we were teaching 5 or 6. We had to drop a lot of of our investigators just because they weren't keeping their promises. So right now we're just trying to find people to teach. We had to push all of our baptisms back to Nov. 6th. Grace got a job for the rest of the month helping some lady with her pregnancy and the others need more time, but we are trying. Kennedy came to church yesterday but we haven't met with him in over a week. We told him to call us when he is ready to hear from us, but he hasent called yet.

So Jaren's not in school anymore. Wow...hows that going? I hope he's doing better. And its good that he can still do his sports and seminary.

Haha you are hoping that it doesn't snow and im wishing that it would. Its sooooo hot here and its only getting hotter. But we have been getting rain the last couple of days and if you think that the lightning and thunder is cool in the canyon you should see Africa. It is so bright and so loud here. It's ridiculous.

I'm starting to like it a lot more here. At first I didnt like it very much. You know me. I don't like change very much and this was a big change. Thank you for the advice. I am starting to love the people more and  found that it is a lot easier to teach them when you really care about them. I was having a bad time. Haha funny how you can still pick that out. But I'm doing exactly what you said. I'm burying myself in the work. I'm going real deep.

I love you too dad. You are probably the best thing that ever happened in my life. I just didn't notice it.Iif it wasn't for you I know that I would probably be in jail right now and not on my mission. I'm am where I am supposed to be right now and I know it and I feel it. You set the example for me and I wanted to follow. And because I did I feel like I'm doing the best thing that I could possibly do right now.

So nothing too new. Except that I think I might be training after Elder Mortensen goes home. The Mission President talked to me about it and there are 30 new missionaries in the next group so its a very good possibility.  But nothing else.

So I will talk to you next week. I love you!

love,
Trevin

We have a Baptism scheduled and I am working harder than ever and it feels good

Hey Mom,

Hey sorry if this gets to you late. We went to Kamasi today to buy some things and while we were gone the power went out. But it just came back so we ran to the cafe real fast so that we could get out our e-mails.

Yeah the week has been better. ummm We still dont know what to do with Kennedy right now we kinda backed off to see how bad he want to be part of the chuch. We are just waiting for him to call us or to come to chuch again. But! We have another baptism! That girl named Grace that I talked about she's about 23 and we were teaching Atta and she joined the lesson, so we started to teach her. She is one of those people that does not know that they are members. After our first lesson she went to the institute class, shes came to church three times and sang with the relief socity in Sacrament. All within 3 or 4 lessons. So we have a for sure baptism for the 16th of October. That's the best thing thats happened yet. We are getting ready to drop Richard he just wants to learn from us and doesnt want to leave his church at all. But at least we planted a seed hopefully it will grow.

That's awesome about the temples that were announced to be built in Africa. We didn't get to watch Confrence. They don't broadcast it here. But I guess that we get a dvd in about a month with the sessions on it and we will watch it later. We also get the liahona every month so we don't need the ensign. We will get it later.

I LOVED the package! Holy cow the flag was amazing and the jelly beans. Ohhh the jelly beans! Those were perfect. The whole thing was perfect. Thank you! I got grandmas stuff also, so tell Grandma Kathy thank you for the candy also. She is awesome. I'm sending her a letter but tell her thank you.

I got two letters from Grandma Sandy. She sounded unsure of what I am doing but  I'm writing a letter to her. I just got a lot of letters so I'm sending most of them next Monday. I'll make sure to tell her exactly what I'm doing and bear my testimony to her. I want her to understand what Im doing and why I'm doing it.

Haha I wish we cold watch some of those chuch movies. They would make me smile a lot more. And laugh about the stupid things we also do here and how we must look to eveyone else. I am doing my best to be that missionary. I am working harder then ever in my life and it feels good to do it.

Ok well I guess I gotta go. I love you!

Love,
Trevin