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