So good to talk to everyone at home

hey mom,
yeah i really like talking over the phone. i feel like i know whats
really going on. if only we were able to talk more often.
i'll take more pictures. im doing better i'll send home another card
in a few months.
well this week was a blur. i dont remember very much. we did a lot of
service projects last week. we helped one of our members weed her
yard. and we helped another member pound palm nuts to make palm oil.
its raind pretty hard the last few days. we got back from cape coast
and we had just gotten back from the apartment and it just unloaded.
it rained all night. it was nice but something really cool happened
this week. we were looking through our area book. its a book of
records with our investigators and former investigators and everyone
that has been baptized. but we decided to take a look through it and
found a former investigator by the name of kweku . it said that he had
traveled and no one had seen him. but we decided to go to his house
and see if he had come back. so we went and guess what he was there.
he had actually gotten home from his trip to the volta region a few
hours before we got there. it was pretty sweet. hes an older man about
72 but weve started to teach him again and its going well. it was a
cool experience.
sounds like everyone is doing good. jaren get it into gear man! do
something please i want to see you graduate. wow graduation is this
week thats crazy. i'll be a year out of high school soon. CRAZY!!!
hahaha!!! ruthie! no i havent received her package yet. it will get
her it will just take forever to get here. i will have to wait untill
transfers. thats when the aps will pick everything up.
yeah jennie sounded really surprised when i called. i was glad that i
got to talk to her too.
haha the fitness/dieting thing is doing great. maybe i'll take a
picture and send it to you;) my little stomach thing is going away and
my six pack is coming in nicely. if i do this till the end of my
mission then i will come home ripped.
well i got nothing else. i glad that eveything at home is doing ok and
i will talk to you later. LOVE YOU!!!
love,
Trevin

Trying to play catch up

 hey mom,
hey so sorry for not sending anything earlier we have had some problems getting into a cafe. the one that we usually go to is closed so we've been trying to find another. but i cant wait until this sunday. im so excited. 8 should be a good time to call we wont have anything by that time so it should be fine. i bet home looks great right now. i miss green. their is some green but we dont see enough of it. its always so dusty and the seasons dont look any different. but its only for a short time.
so life with a new companion is sweet! his name is elder oseghe. we've been doing really good we are working hard and are having fun. we get along great together. were just looking for  new investigators and are trying to play catch up with the others. but everything is great.
schools almost over! haha i still get excited. its really good to think of mission in school years. jaren will go back to school. thats cool. do you think that doing the home school helped him at all. dont force him to hard to find out what he wants. i didnt know what i was doing my sophmore year either even with all those career prep classes. im still trying to figure it out. but a mission does help. it helps you figure out what you really want in life the little things that will make you happy. the things that we learn will influence every decision that we make. it will be fun to figure out what im doing when i get home.
wow there making a lot of changes arnt they. changing high school schedule. closing a school. 4 day weeks. that would be nice though you can do a lot more things as a family.
i got your package with the spices in it thank you! tell carsen thank you for the letter also. it was great.
well i have nothing else really. i gotta save some stuff for the call home. so i'll go now and talk to you in a few days. i love you!!!
love,
Trevin

No Transfer, but I did get a new Companion

hey mom,
so guess what?.......in staying with kebbie......just kiding no im
not. i am staying in mankessim and im getting a new comp. his name is
elder osegey im not sure on the spelling but something like that. yes
another african but i have heard a lot of good things about him hes
from nigeria but hes a really hard worker and a very obedient
missionary. im soooo excited i want to do some real work sooooooooooo
bad. it sounds like we will get along real well together. and i will
be in the apartment while elder martin is training so we will have a
lot of fun.
hey! go kadyn and carsen! congrats they did really good then huh? we
dont need to win everything but it is nice to win something and a god
medal is a good something. hey i wish i was there for dads solo i want
to watch him sing something instead of me. wow! 3 weeks left that
scrazy this school year has gone by fast. if only i was in school and
it went by so fast. how is he doing grade wise?
we arnt able to go to the mission home for FHE. its an hour drive and
it costs to much they wont pay for us to go but its ok we dont have
many people to go anyway.
wow thats way cool to hear about jennie. the stake prez wants to teach
them personally thats so awesome. i hope that everything goes well.
tell her that im proud of her. shes doing well.
haha yeah im not planning on putting anymore into the computers here.
but the card that i sent should read and have pictures on it. we
checked elder randalls. his did the same thing but you can see the
pics. thank you for the packages. i should be getting one tomorrow.
elder rogers said that he saw one sitting in the mission home so i
should get it tomorrow. haha 9 months have flown by. me and elder
martin are amazed. our 9 months is on the 5 so we want to do something
special.
2 weeks till the call home! 7 should be fine. i'm sure we wont plan
much for that evening.
ok well i guess i will go now. i love you!!!
love,

Can't wait till Transfers

hey mom,
haha yeah i know what you mean about the disappering email thing i do
that a lot. sorry about the show. was it just not exciting like all of
his other shows? im glad that jaren and the others were ok. haha did
they get along ok?
hey i wish i could help carsen with his pinewood car. he would
definetly win. tell him good luck!
sooooo im doing good. i can not wait until transfers. we get the news
this sat. so i will know if i am staying with kebbie or i get a new
companion and i will find out which mission i will be staying in.
ummm right now the teaching is really slow. me and kebbie cant work
together. we go to our lessons and dont do much else. he will go to
the lessons that we have planned and will do nothing else. i cant
contact people because we cant teach people. the people that we do
have right now arnt moving anywhere. we had a goal of 1 baptism for
the last 6 weeks and we have no one ready. i dont know what to do
anymore. i am praying for a relief. kebbie has been out for 14 months
and hes been in mankessim for  6 months. every companion that he has
had has lost it on him. im not going to freak but im soooo close.
i havent received her package yet. ive been hoping to get it for the
past few weeks but...nothing. i might have gotten lost.
how do jennies kids like church? do they have fun or are they not
excited? like most teenagers. that would be awesome if they would come
into the church. i love her family.
ummmm...nothing new really. ohhh i sent my pictuers home today but i
think we might have a problem. iwe went to a members house on sunday
and hes really good with computers so he took the virus of my chip.
but then i went home and tried to check out the card in my camera and
it said no picturs were on it. so i might of sent home an empty chip.
but if it looks empty click on view and go to show hidden files and
they might show up but i dont know. we'll just have to wait and see.
that chip has all of my pictures on it. i have a back up but it doesnt
have the pics from the castle or the beach.
well i have nothing else so i guess i'll go. i love you! pray for me i need it.
love,
Trevin

Easter

hey mom,
easter wasnt as exciting as it is at home but it was cool. at church
we had tons! of people. the chapel is an old school building and we
have sacrament up stairs in the biggest room of the school. the room
was filled to exploding point. we had to push the sacrament table back
and put folding chairs in its place. we emptied the upper floors class
rooms of chairs and put them on the balcony outside of the chapel. it
as crazy. i had to stand for sacrament. haha but its only like that if
its a big holiday. most sundays it gets full but not like that.
yeah we had a really low key easter too. i had finished my peeps a few
days before and all we had was a bottle of sparkling cider that elder
randell got for his birthday. but it was a nice easter we had a
morning devotional in our apartment before church so it was good.
wow thats amazing to here about rance. i didnt know if they were going
to let him out or not. i hope hes done some real thinking. how is he
now? does dad think that hes changed?
haha landons lucky. elder randell wants to know where david is going
really bad. i'll make sure to tell him that bit of info. when does
landon get out of the mtc? and can you find out what mission hes going
into?
maybe mitchell is suck for a reason. maybe the lord wants him to do
something while hes their.
ive talked to ryan a couple of times and hes going to provo and then
going to mozambique. they dont have a language program in south africa
so he get to stay in the states for 3 months. tell him that i said
good luck and keep smiling.
holy cow i cant believe that the school year is almost over. it seems
like i just left and school just started. i just turned 8 months. it
seems like a week ago we were talking about 7 months. 4 more months
and im a year. and its all down hill from their. mission is exciting.
i want it to go by fast but i dont at the same time. i hope that it
will slow down when i go home. i dont want life to pass like this.
well i am doing great! mission is going good. its hard with a
companion that is slowing down though. im having a hard time getting
him out the door in the morning but once hes out its ok from their. i
am praying that something will change next transfer. i want a
companion that wants to go out im tired of pushing someone. next
transfer will be another big one though its the last one before
mission splits. im excited for that.
for spices anything that is good smelling and tasting. i dont know to
many spices. but im good on the cinnamon, garlic salt and pepper.
garlic salt was genius though. im good on maple flavoring. i slowed
down on my french toast craving so i dont use as much syrup. and the
bottle that grandma sent will last a long time. ummm...if you could
send a couple of hand towels like the nicolls gave me it would be
great. im good on body wash and deodorant. i only use the body wash on
my hair and if the the powers out and i need to take a bucket shower.
its easier to wash with then a bar. i cant think of anything else now.
haha i got the mud out of my shirt. ive gotten very good at hand
washing so no stains. my pants are doing ok. ive got 4 out of 5 left.
one pair got torn. haha and my shoes are doing great. i think they can
last me 18 months i'll push them. their only worn out on my back heal
where i drag them a little. ive been walking better trying to keep
them good.
i havent gotten ruthies package yet but im hoping to get it tomorrow
at distric meeting.
i'll make sure to read the story again. and if you like mary magdalen
then if you can get a hold of a jesus the christ book go to the
chapter about her. its either under her name or christs resurrection.
i cant remember. its really cool. it will tell you why he went to mary
even before he went to his father.
well i guess ill go. i love you!!! talk to you next week bye-bye!
love,
Trevin