5 March 2012
Dear Family,
  First of all, I loved the package you sent me.  I like the pens and pencil sharpeners.  This morning Ilistened to the Mary and Laura story and a few other recordings.  I re-read emails too.  I'm a little homesick I guess.
   It's fun to get emails from you and hear whay you've been up to.  I like hearing how the stake is doing, what missionaries are going where, how the Spanish group is getting along, and how the English classes are growing.  I think it's great that you're teaching English, Mom.  It sounds like a great way to reach out to the Spanish population and get them to feel comfortable in the church.  Have you given them a tour of the church?  that would be a fun vocabulary practice and you could show them the baptimal font and how there are classes for kids and adults, women and men. 
   so it's been neat to get to know our investigators better.  When they open up and talk about feeling sad or guilty we can point them to Jesus Christ and help them know wat they need to do.  People's lives can be so sad without the gospel.  Their families are completely messed up and it is really hard for them,.  They want peace and happiness, but it almost seems out of reach.  Bueno, realmente queria decirles gracias.  I'm really, really, grateful for you two, my parents.  I'm glad that I came to our family.  thanks for being fgood and thanks for living and teaching me the gospel of Jesus Christ.  One of the first things we teach is that the gospel blesses families.  It's not very hard to teach because it's obvious to me.  You taught me to have faith, repent, be baptized, receive the Holy Ghost, and keep on repenting and having faith for my whole life long.  you taught us to love each other, help each other, and support each other.  you taught me to be good and to think more about other people.
   Thanks for always loving me.  It's so wonderful to think that there are people who want me to be happy and faithful.  Thanks for being proud of me and telling me!  Thanks for all the time you spent with me.  thanks for all the stories you read to me, all the games you played, all the fhes you put together.  I'm really glad that I have you two, and Kevin, Kyle, Doug, and Paul.  So...yeah. Thanks :)
   today we find out about transfers.  I don't know what's going to happen.  I really do love the people here in Masatepe.  I love the members, our investigators, our converts, the less actives.  Ireally love them.  I don't feel like I've done everything I could have done here, but I feel like I've learned a ton.  And there are people here that I love and people that love me.  Who knows how long I'm going tobe here! But the time is passing too quickly.  I hope that I can do everything thatI'm supposed to do here and I become the person I'm supposed to be.  In the MTC they told us that a mission is really for ourselvesIt' our opportunity to be molded by the Lord and become who he wants us to be.  But, I still want to have some success with my calling.  Iwant to find, teach baptize and retain people and FAMILIES! And it's kind of discouraging not to be able to do it.  We haven't baptized at all this transfer, and we're in Nicaragua.  But we hae re-activatied some members, and we have done some good here.
   A lady that live in Pochote that we visited thus week came to church this sunday.  she bore her testimony and thanked us for going all the way out there to visit her.  We are trying to be good missionaries.  I think the hardest thing to do, and the most important thing to do, is ubmit your will and really just be willing to do whatever God wants.  I don't know why that' so hard, but it is.  Anyway.  Elder Nelson told us that right now we are preparing ourselve for the real mission: our lives.  So, Nicarauga is basically another MTC. 
   But it really is exciting to see people change.  their happiness and hope level goep up.  they get happier.  they get brighter.  they get smartedr too.  i wish I could just make everyone understand how happy they could be.  How much peace they could have.  It they just got it.  that's probably a Satan-ish wish. 
   Well, I'm about to email you all.  Thanks again for the packages, su amor y su carino. :)
Love, Hermana Tew