Todavia hay milagros...Hoy leí en Nefi cuando el dijo que El Señor es un Señor de milagros todavia.

30 January 2012
 Hey Family, 
I have a note you can send to Hna Sobeyda if you can.  Thanks! 
Hna Sobeyda!  Gracias por su mensaje!  ¿Como está? Estoy bien.  Todavia estoy en Masatepe.  Que bueno que su mamá esté en Guatemala!  Felicitaciones!  Yo espero que la rama esté creciendo y que todas estén felices.   Saludes a todos ahi! - Hna Tew

I´m quedaring in Masatepe still.  I love this place.  My goal is to have a lot more faith and follow the Spirit more.  I have a lot of desire to be a good missionary, but it´s hard for me to see any fruits.  I already have six months on the mission and there are lots of things that I lack.  My new companion is Hna Zapeta.  She´s from Guatemala.  She´s really easy to get along with.  I could tell the first day that she was kind of afraid of me, which is funny.  She has 11 months on the mission.  She told me it´s always hard for her to adapt to changes, and I was like, I understand that.  I really like her.  Hna DeHoyos was so bold and crazy it´s quite a change.  Now, I´m kind of the bold one.  Weird.  But we learn something and teach something to every companion if we allow ourselves to.  It´s funny.  Companions are a definite blessing.  Definitely.  But, they also bring their complications. I´m grateful to have had my companions.
    We are trying to work more with families where the husband is member but the wife isn´t or vice versa.  Last week we contacted a reference.  An ex-missionary and his wife, who is not a member.  They aren't actually married.  They told us they were going to church this Sunday, but Sunday morning they told us no.  Anyway, you can read a little bit about that in the letter to President Monestel.  But I can say that I am honestly trying to find out what I need to do to be better and teach better and contact better.  This Sunday Hna DeHoyos visited the branch with her parents and I still needed to write in her baggy...sort of like a yearbook for the mission. I sat behind the piano and was just going to write during the meeting yeah I know that´s bad, but I felt like I needed to sit in the congregation and listen.  One of the talks was definitely meant for my ears.  Anielka talked about how we can repent and persevere and do things that are difficult.  She said conversion takes time, stop doing the things that don´t help us progress, Many times the fruits of our labors are invisible. , Everyone can change, we are´t alone, everything is possible because of Christ.  We can please the Lord - it isn´t easy - but we can do it. God has a purpose and we can fulfill it.  We work with Him to complete it.  
    This morning we went with the Elders and Hna Campos to the laguna in Pochote.  It´s in our area.  It´s a beautiful lake.  It´s a little hike, pretty steep, but beautiful.  Pictures 6,7,8,9, and 10 are from this morning.  In nine is Hna Zapeta.  She played soccer before the mission and was really good.   Picture one is from a birthday party.  This family Perez Aleman is menos activo.  Chepe, Ronaldo, Juana, Juana, Eddy, Rafael.  Picture two is the Hermana DeHoyos when she was sick, before she went to the hospital.  Yes.  She is crazy. Picture 3 is me at choir practice with Hna Perez from the North mission.  We knew each other in the CCM.  picture 4 Hna DeHoyos got puzzles for Christmas.  One P-day we went to Diriamba to eat pizza and we put the puzzle together while we were waiting.  Pict 5 kind of wraps up the relationship between Hna Dehoyos and me.  hahaha.  She was great.  But crazy.   

I have a friendly suggestion.  Maybe you all could write me after you get my emails.  That way you can respond to what I write. 

Dad the stake sounds great!  I like your thoughts on how real growth is measured.  Mom thanks for the letter and the updates on life, the house, Gillette, and all.  How are you doing?  Write me a letter in Spanish sometime.  
Okay, Bye I LOVE YOU ALL A LOT A LOT A LOT A LOT ALOT ALOT ALOT

Presidente Monestel, 
    Estoy agradecida de estar en Masatepe un cambio mas. Me siento que estoy fallando.  Realmente, no tenemos investigadores que están progresando ni con fecha.  Estoy tratando de ser mas osada, y estamos contactando muchas families.  Estamos trabajando mas con families en que no todos son miembros.  
   Hoy leí en Nefi cuando el dijo que El Señor es un Señor de milagros todavia, y El me puede enseñar a constuir un barco.  Mi meta es desarrollar la fe como lo hizo Nefi.   Tenemos la meta como compañerismo de escuchar y confiar en el Espíritu mas.  Esperamos poder tener mas exito esta semana.  Yo quiero cumplir con la meta de encontrar dos nueva familias cada dia and poner una fecha con una familia.  Todavia hay milagros. 
Gracias por sus oraciones y su fe. 
Hna Tew

At a birthday party.  This family Perez Aleman is menos activo.  

Chepe, Ronaldo, Juana, Juana, Eddy, Rafael.

Hermana DeHoyos, when she was sick

Hna Perez and me at choir practice in North mission......puzzling in pizza parlor

Hna DeHoyos and me....this illustrates our relationship

This morning we went with the Elders and Hna Campos to the laguna in Pochote.  It´s in our area.  It´s a beautiful lake.  It´s a little hike, pretty steep, but beautiful.

I think we´re seeing the last of the stressed Hermana Tew.

23 January 2012
Hey Family, 
  Dad:  I like the goals you have for the stake.  They sound really excellent.  I especially like the idea of sending the three missionary emails.  Also it sounds like you´re working a lot on keeping the house nice.  you AND mom.  cool. 
  Mom!!!  Tell me what`s going on in the primaries!  I`m dying to know.  I am seriously tempted to check out drudge report.  Tell Sarah Cotton good luck on her mission!  I´m excited for her.  She´ll be a great missionary.   Tell Gaudy hi too.  And Lola and the Carrolls and the Spanish missionaries that I guess I don´t even know now...   I´m glad you´re helping Gaudy out. 
  Dani: I`m glad everyone is still cute!  Is there a family bet on if you´re having a girl critter or boy critter?

Well, we were going to find out changes today, but Elder Woodruff just told us that we`re not going to know until tomorrow at five.  I`ve had a feeling like I´m going to get changed.  My companion is dying (today was her last p-day) and I think they might whitewash the area.  I don`t know.....  I just want to know the truth.   It`s been kind of a crazy month.  

I think we´re seeing the last of the stressed Hermana Tew.  I´ve just been really worried about what my companions think and what they´re going to do to me.  I finally realized Saturday that I should just trust myself and not worry about what they think.  Yesterday my companion was chewing me out for something retarded and I just didn´t even care.  It felt good not to care.  I mean all of that in the best way possible.  

Well, Elder Nelson was awesome .  I got to sing in the choir and also play the piano for the meeting.  What a privilege!  The choir sounded good.  Elder Nelson shook my hand twice!  I played prelude music while everyone else was shaking his hand.  Another missionary came up and played for me so I could get in line to shake his hand.  Then I went back to playing and he came over and shook my hand again.  haha.  I told him he had stayed at my house a few months ago.  All the messages were really awesome.  I loved what he said to us and also what his wife said.  Elder Falabella and his wife were there too.  They`re really neat people. Poderosos!   

He talked about family history and patriarchal blessings.  He asked us to stand up according to our tribe and had us stand up according to where we were from.  Later he talked about helping people know where they are from and who their grandparents and great-grandparents are from.   Then he said that really, all of us are from Egypt, pretty much.  haha.  true!  

His wife told us that if we could watch 10 minutes from our premortal DVD we wouldn´t have any worries about ourselves or our capabilities. Wow!  Something I really liked about what she said was that when we are obedient, we see who we really are.  We see our true selves and we know who we are.  

President Monestel talked about how when Joseph Smith was 14 the question he asked was with which church he should join himself.  He didn´t just want to know the truth, he wanted to know what to DO.  He related that to faith - that we should ask for faith and plan to do things with the faith that we have and will have.  It made a lot more sense when he talked.  He only took like 4 minutes.  He´s a humble guy.  

We´re teaching a cool family Manuel and Ena.  They have both read from the Book of Mormon and he has some questions for us.  We haven´t met with him again.  But we have an appointment for this Wednesday.  I hope everything goes well!  I hope I am here to see them go to church...and be baptized!  

We are teaching 6 families right now.  Three are part-member.  Four of them have Books of Mormon.  I kind of want to start my mission over again this change.  I learned a lot from my companion and I know that I´m going to miss her.   Anyway, I know I´m going to the change meeting because my companion is dyinnnnnngggggg.
Alright.  I love you all!  I hope you are all doing well, being kind, and helping people feel God´s love!
okay.... Bye! 
Love, Hna Tew

Everything in Preach My Gospel is true. No one should doubt anything written in that book [PMG].

16 January 2012
Dear Family,
    Hey!  I don´t even know what to write.  It´s been another week in Masatepe.  We saw some success yesterday.  Two of our recent converts received the Aaronic priesthood.  They were both really excited about it.  I felt really happy for them.  They are legit and they are progressing.  Their wives were baptized at the same time as they were.  We`ve been teaching the son of one of them. His name, and his dad´s name, is David.  So, David is going to baptize his son.  When he told me that I let out a whoop!    That`s cool.  We´ve been trying to focus ourselves more in families this past week and finding new families to teach.  I hope that we´ll see some progress soon.  We taught a really cool lesson last week to a family. We contacted them Sunday morning and they told us that they had had contact with the church before.  They told us they had gone to the church for a year, a long time ago.  When we got to their house we found out that they had actually just received the missionaries at their house for a while 18 years ago.  The husband was eager to give us their names and address, but the wife was not quite as excited. They go to a church now.  The lesson was cool.  I bore my testimony about the Book of Mormon and we gave them a copy to read.  We´re going to go teach them this Wednesday. Their names are Manuel and Ena.  The mission is all focused on families, but I haven´t done very well at focusing on families.  I am trying to change that.  Everything in Preach My Gospel is true.  No one should doubt anything written in that book.  It says to focus on teaching families because they can strengthen each other and the church.  It also says to focus on the Book of Mormon.  This has been a huge push by President Monestel.  People get testimonies by reading the Book of Mormon.  Families make the church grow.  This past week our Gospel Principles class had about 19 converts in it.  There were 5 families in there.  Wow.  Our strong converts are families. 
    Jamilet is still a shining star.  The church has made a difference in her life.  I keep on hoping and praying that her husband, Wilmer, can join the church too.   He`s a cool guy and he has read from the Book of Mormon.  They have prayed as a family.  I hope I can see something good happen with him.  :) 
     Hna DeHoyos is still crazy.  I´m still a little scared of her but not as much.  Her parents are coming to pick her up so they will be at David´s baptism.   She´s really fun. 
     We went to Managua again this morning for choir practice.  It was good. It eats up the day.  It´s fun to practice.  There is a choir director and a pianist and a violinist.  The choir is small.  There are four of each part.  I´m alto.  Of course.  I also sing a little 2nd soprano.  It sounds really good. The violinist is very talented.  Actually, everyone is. haha.  We ate pizza!  Real pizza! We´ve had it every Monday for the past three Mondays.  I´m excited to hear from Elder Nelson in TWO DAYS. 
    It really is cool to be a missionary.  It´s not all glory.  There really isn´t any at all.  I just hope that I can learn how to trust God and be happy to do whatever he asks.  I hope I can make the best out of any situation and leave every person and place better than I found it.  I hope I can help families be baptized and stay in the church forever.   It´s still really hard to have faith. 
      Sounds like the household projects are going well.   I loved my Christmas packages!  Thanks a lot.  The CTR rings are fun. I looooooved the recordings of everyone.  My favorite was probably hearing Nani sing, "My life is a Gift".  I loved to hear from all of you. It was fun to hear Scotty say, "Nicaragua."  It was fun to hear Kevin talk in his low morning voice and get prompted by mom on what she wanted him to say.  Dad, I couldn´t listen to the Mary and Laura story yet.  I started feeling too trunky.  I will listen to it soon though.  I loved what you talked about.  Thanks mom for being awesome.    I loved the music and the conference stuff you put on and the hot chocolate (my district liked it) and the peanut butter.
     I love you all a lot!  Maybe you could write me tonight or tomorrow.  That would be great! ;)
Okay.  Please pray for me.  I know your prayers make differences.  I love you all.  Every single one.  I´m betting on a hmmm..... girl for Doug and Dani.  Let me know!  The due date is  Feb 16? 19?
Love, love, love,
Hna Tew

Hey Family!
  I hope everyone is happy!  Well, in two days I'm going to see Elder Nelson.  I'm excited to hear him and, hopefully, President and Hermana Monestel.  It's been fun to be in the choir, and it sounds pretty good.  Hna. DeHoyos only has nine days left.  So, I'm definitely going to the change meeting next Wednesday - the 25th.  And I'm probably going to receive a companion, but it's possible that I'll get taken out of Masatepe.  Who knows!?  Hna DeHoyos has taught me a lot about being organized, using the area book, retention book, our agenda (planner) and just planning every week.  But there's still a lot more to learn.  Our stake is trying to open a little branch in Nandasmo, a town about 10 minutes away.  There aren't any missionaries there.  But the Elders are working over there now.  Once they get 30 people going to church in Masatepe they can get a branch started up in Nandasmo!
     So, on Thursday night at our meetings they talked about it and President Mercado (he's such a good guy. legit.) said that everyone was going to meet at the church at 12:00, go contacting in Nandasmo from 2:00-6:00.  He was going to provide lunch.  So, the plan was to have all the missionaries and ward leaders (B. President, RS President, YW Pres, EQP...) go contacting.  There were 6 missionaries, the RS president, and about 8 others.  Nandasmo was having a party where everyone gets drunk, so we went to PioXII, another nearby community.  we went contacting.  It was fun.  We only went for about 2.5 hours.  It was awesome to see the Branch President and others who never went on missions go up and talk to people about the church.  So cool!
     Later, at 6:30, President Mercado came with his wife to chirinos to visit with us.  It's dark and they came on their motorcycle.  we visited Jamilet, two new families we were teaching, and some more recent converts.  It was good to see President Mercado just chilling with the recent converts.  Hna Xiomara came over and talked to a family with us. The dad is menos activo and the mom isn't a member.  She just talked to him, told him what he should do, and he was really receptive.  I have a feeling something good will happen there.  
   Hey, so it's February, and I still haven't sent this letter.  Hey! the branch in Nandasmo is doing really well.  It hasn't started yet, but there are families fro there investigating the church. but I still love you all , and I'm still fine, happy, healthy.      [picture of me, hna zapeta, and a Dog]
Love, Hermana Tew

There`s always a way to do what the Lord wants us to do.

9 January 2012
Hey,
   I got my Christmas packages.  Thanks! They were really fun.
It`s been a fun day.  I woke up at 5:20 and we left the house at 6:00.  We were in Managua at 7:00.  We had a doctor`s appointment at 7:30, choir practice at 10:00, and another appointment at 3:00.  We had a bit of trouble getting a bus back to Masatepe, so we just got here at 5:20, which means I only have 40 minutes to read and write my emails, including to Pres. Monestel.   We found out that Hna DeHoyos had Pneumonia last week.  She had been sick for a while and we were going to go to the hospital Monday morning, but Hna DeHoyos didn`t want to go and talked Hna Monestel out of it.  But Monday night at 11:00 the office elders came and picked us up and took us to the emergency room. So, we spent the night in the emergency room.  I slept in a plastic chair.  Hna DeHoyos remembered that the next day I was supposed to go to Managua to get my cedula (a visa-ish thing) and so they were going to take my picture.  Haha.  Even funnier... we didn`t shower Monday because there wasn`t much water.  So, I got my cedula picture Tuesday morning, not having showered since Sunday morning, and having slept about 4 hours in a hospital chair the night before.  Hna DeHoyos had to stay in the hospital until Thursday.  The office elders were really nice to me.  We went to the office after getting my cedula taken care of and they told me they had a mattress and that I could sleep in the President`s office.  I said no thanks and then about 3 minutes later I was like, where`s that mattress?  So, I got a little nap.  It was a really crazy week.  I stayed at the Hna`s house.  I worked with them a little, but mostly on divisions with members.  Even when Hna DeHoyos got back on Thursday she was on 2 day reposo.  She still hasn`t worked a full day.  We`ve been joking that at the last reunion de transfers they should have said, and Hna Tew in Masatepe tres va a recibir... the corpse.  I´ve been wondering why Hna DeHoyos had to be so sick for so long (she`s been sick for about a month and a half with a virus and then a cold and then pneumonia)  I realized that I`ve learned a lot this week.  I´ve been senior companion to a different companion each day.  I`ve had to be a lot more caring and charitable towards Hna DeHoyos.  I´ve had to do all the numbers, every day, and for the week.  I´ve had to do the weekly planning session by myself and then present it, by myself in the Executive committee meeting.   I´ve had to ask a lot of people to help me.  Hey Elder Ward, will you bring lunch over to our house.  Hey less active ward member, will you go on splits with me?  There`s always a way to do what the Lord wants us to do.  Last Friday was incredibly stressful.  I called 11 people in the morning to get someone to go on splits with me.  You know that I hate talking on the phone. Anyway, this Saturday I was saying a long prayer because Hna DeHoyos was still sick and I just didn`t know what to do.  I finished and before I even got up Hna Monestel called and talked to me and told me that she just needed to rest a little more.  I was really grateful that she called. 
   Today at the choir practice I saw two hnas from the CCM.  I actually could understand them.  My Spanish understanding has improved a lot in the past couple of months.  I feel a lot more comfortable.  I`m also a lot bolder.  It was a really good week to try to put into practice all the things that Hna DeHoyos has been trying to teach me.  I`m really grateful that she is my companion and that I have two more weeks with her.  Well,  this was a pretty self centered email...   We`re teaching Jamilet`s husband.  His name is Wilmer.  They are praying together and they`ve read the BoM two times together!    YEAH!!!!  They are embarrassed to admit that they like each other I think. It`s really funny. They are a nice family, they just need to spend more time together.  He always plays futbol.  But, he`s been sick with a tooth that got pulled out, so he has had to spend more time at home.  muahahaha.  We`re also teaching the mom of Javier and his step sister.  Also, Aracely!  She came to church this week for the first time.  I´m really excited to be a missionary for 13 more months.  It´s really not very much time and it´s going by really really quickly.  It´s a little scary.  I hope I can do and become everything I´m supposed to.  Keep on praying for me!  I´m praying for you all. 
Dani How is little critter doing?  and how are you doing?  Close your eyes Doug.  Where are you going to live and what job is Doug going to have? 
Doug  It sounds like you are enjoying school.  I´m realizing more and more how much we are alike and how profoundly changes affect me and how stressed I can become.  I don´t really know what to do about it.  Did you get stressed out on your mission a ton or not much. 
Mom thanks for the email. Thanks for doing a blog.  Good luck in the New Beginnings Message!
Love to everyone! Bye!
Hermana Tew

Learned from Hna DeHoyos: Sometimes you fulfill your purpose of inviting others to come unto Christ by scolding, sometimes by chatting, sometimes by giving a hug.

2 January 2012
Hola Presidente!
   Jamilet fue bautizada este sabado.  Los lideres de zona la ayudaron.  Tenemos muchos conversos y estamos trantando de trabajar con los misioneros de la rama para visitar a ellos.  Tambien, sugerimos al Presidente Mercado que algunos conversos se llamen como misioneros de la rama.  Ellos necesitan hacer visitas tambien.
   Necesitamos enfocarnos mas en familias.  Estamos trabajando con algunas, pero tal vaz necesitamos mas seguimiento con ellas. Estamos trabajando con el esposo de Jamiliet, Wilmer.  El es positivo.  Estoy muy feliz.  Hna DeHoyos esta enferma, pero feliz.  Gracias por su servicio y sus oraciones.  Gracias por la oportunidad de estar aqui en Masatepe con estas personas.
Adios! Hna Tew

Hey hey hey.
Thanks for the letters and emails.  Mom, I`m okay if you send my emails to people.  If they want them.  Could you get them to Regan Baker and Amy Johnston maybe with the help of Mary Katherine
I got a ridiculous amount of mail last week.  RIDICULOUS!!!  it was great, though.  I got your talk mom and it was great.  It sounds like the house is looking nice and everyone has had a good New Years.
Guess who`s coming to Nicaragua? 
An Apostle.
Guess which one?
ELDER NELSON!!!
I`m singing in the choir that is going to sing at the special meeting.  He`s going to talk to the mission north and our mission too.  So I got to meet a few north people today.  He`s coming the 18th.  We went to Managua today and we`re going to go the next two Mondays as well.  We have to go tomorrow for immigration; it`s all normal stuff.  So we`re going to burn through a lot of money.  It costs about 75 cordobas to get to Managua and back.  It takes about three hours.
Well, there are lots of little things to tell you.  
Jamilet got baptized!!!! She knows.  She knows the church is true.  I don`t know if I told you about when she got a blessing.  Her brother, a recent convert gave her a blessing when she was sick.  The Elders came over too to help him (Milton) out.  They had to go a long way out of their way.  After the blessing Jamilet told us that she felt good. When she was receiving the blessing she said she felt something inexplicable.  She knows.  We`ve been talking so much about baptism that she got a little annoyed/mad.  Hna DeHoyos was a little strong with her.  We always joke with her that "no nos quiere."  At the baptism she thanked us for supporting her.  We`re definitely not her best friends. 
    Hna DeHoyos often refers to chapter 14 of PMG.  Where it just says.... Good Luck with that one!  We`ve had a few chapter 14 experiences.  Where you just have to say... umm... alright....WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!!   Thursday night we were in the church with Executive Committee meeting.  A joven, Josue Abraham was outside the door and he motioned to me.  So, we went out to talk to him. I think I wrote about him before, a long time ago.  He came out of his house and told us he wants to know the truth.  He wants to know what church is true.  Then after he told us he was evangelical.  Anyway.... We went out in the hall to talk to him and he told us I want to be baptized, and I want one of you two to baptize me. He had asked us about whether we could baptize or not two nights before.  We told him, again, that we don`t have the authority to baptize and we pointed out the elders and the other priesthood holders in the room and said that any of them could baptize him.  Then we asked him why he wanted to be baptized.  His response... because you all are "tuanis."  He also wants us to teach his cousin who we met in the dark in Chirinos, who didn`t say anything to us.  Anyway.  We had a convert that knew the church was true and wasn`t very demonstrative in her love for us (love which may or may not exist) and we also have an investigator who wants to be baptized because he thinks we`re cool.... He really liked the Elders before, too.  He used a phrase that means good people to refer to us and the Elders. 
    We contacted 9 families New Years Eve.
    We contacted a family a week or two ago and Hna DeHoyos kind of chewed out the husband because he was not listening.  He didn`t believe that our bible is normal until we read verses from it.  He kept on telling us what we believe and he blamed his wife for his drinking problem.  Hna. DeHoyos told him that she hopes she doesn`t have a husband like him.  Then they invited us to their daughter`s birthday party Christmas Eve!  They are reading the folletos but they don`t want to come to church. Hna DeHoyos is pretty blunt. When we were teaching the wife, Jessica, Hna DeHoyos closed her BOM and found a tarantula on her skirt.  AAAHHHH. 
    Hna DeHoyos`parents are Mexican but she was born in Texas.  So people always try to guess where she`s from, like Guatemala or something.  Today in a taxi the driver asked me a question and I didn`t know the answer, so the taxi driver said she doesn`t understand me, but you (hna DeHoyos) will.  Then Hna DeHoyos said, "She understands you.  She has 5 months of speaking Spanish.  No sea racista."  It was pretty funny. Then the driver was like, tranquila, I was just asking a question.
    Javier is drinking.  He`s our recent convert.  We`re teaching his mom now.  She came to church for the first time this Sunday!!!!  I taught her once a month or two ago and she has changed a lot.  She has opened up a lot to us.  I hope some really good things can happen in her life. 
     Hna DeHoyos has been sick. She had a temperature of 102 yesterday.  We were going to go to the hospital this morning, but she called up Hna Monestel and talked her out of it.  I told her that she should go to the hospital anyways, but she thought it would be a waste because she went before and they just told her that she has an unidentifiable virus.  But today she was still feeling pretty bad so we`re going to go tomorrow after immigration. 
     Tonight we have plans to go with Wilmer and Jamilet and then a family that we contacted last week.  We had a really cool lesson last week.  We found a recent convert, a nine year old.  He lives with his great grandma and she told us we could come back one more time.  So, we came back and found his mom who is a member and his older sister who is not a member.  We taught a lesson.  The main purpose of the lesson was to ensure that we could come back, so we talked about English lessons and piano lessons and guitar.  Another son brought out his guitar that he had just bought and I played it.  It was so cool!  It was really out of tune so I tuned it up and then played Hark All Ye Nations, which we had just sung!  Then Hna DeHoyos taught a little bit of English to the sister.  She also sat on the mom`s lap.  She`s a little crazy but she`s really fun.  She`s a good missionary and really focused on her purpose.  Sometimes you fulfill your purpose of inviting others to come unto Christ by scolding, sometimes by chatting, sometimes by giving a hug.
Well,  I love you all.  Thanks for your letters and emails.  I love to hear from all of you.  I`m glad Cheryl and Kevin had a good Christmas in Gillette with Mom and Dad.  It sounds like it was a fun time.  I love you!
Love, Hna Tew