7 May 2012
Hey everyone,
I haven´t read your emails yet.  Dad I don´t get the missionary moments from church history, but I would like to.  What time should I call this Sunday?  I´m really excited to talk to you!
love, mb

Hello Family,
   Well, I`m going to call in 6 days.  I haven`t figured out a place where I can call... but I guess I`ll be calling the home phone.
Kevin:  I approve of your reading selection.  Sigue adelante, hijo.  How did your written qualifiers turn out?
Cheryl: good luck with work and church and home.  Have you heard anything about you adoption papers?  How´s that going?
Kyle: hi! I hope you`re doing well.
Doug and Dani: Where are you guys going to move?  How is school going?
Pablito: I hope you´re feeling well and that work is happy.  Say hi to the munchkins for me.
Mom: Thanks for the email.  I want to go to New York! It sounds like you´re having a great time.  How was Dale?
Grandma Campbell:  Thanks for your letters, I love to hear from you and you´re a very faithful writer!
Grandma and Grandpa Tew: I hope you like your new place!  Do you ever play games?
Dad: Hey there. I was planning on calling at 7:00... I don´t know what is going to work for you.  I think it would be better to call at night so I´m not completely distracted the rest of the day haha.
This is what Pres. Monestel said about the call: Disfruten y aprovechen esta oportunidad para animar, elevar y agradecer a su familia, especialmente a su madre.  He´s so cool.

Well, Rafael is going to get married and baptized this Saturday. It´s been really cool to teach him.  Friday he showed up at our house to tell us that he couldn´t get married or baptized because he had problems with his kids.  Someone told them that he was going to get married and they said you lived with our mo for  38 years and never got married.  Why are you gogn to get married in the Mormon church to someone that you´ve been with for four months.  So, he just told us no. Thanks for everything, you´re always welcome at my house, but it´s not going to work out.  about 30 minutes later hnos Narvaes stopped by to tell us that Rafael isn´t married (he got married when he was about 20).  There is no record of his marriage.  Nicaragua writes down legal stuff in books, and when there isn´t any more room for any more books, they burn the old records.  It´s a blessing for us! :)  So, Saturday we went to talk to him.  We taught the plan of salvation and we were talkign about baptism and he started again, no I cant´ get baptized because of my kids.  He said, we can´t keep living in sin, so we´re going to separate.  Maria Magdalena started to cry, just quietly, but she was really sad.  I just wanted to kick them because there was nothing to impede them!  His kids just want to inherit his land, so they don´t want him to get married. Hno, la quiere?  Hna, lo quiere?  se quieren, pues. CASENSE!!!  Hna Silva went in the house to give magdalena a hug and I said, Hno Rafael, I´m going to scold you because you know exactly what you should do. Anyway... he said, I`m going to talk with you two privately.  He was talking and talking with us about his kids and how he felt sad to see Magdalena sad, he was talking and talking and finally Hna Silva said, wait, are you saying that you want to get married?  yes. Pase lo que pase, me voy a casar.  We´ll put the date tomorrow. So, we went yesterday and talked with them.  And with a little coaxing from Hna Silva, Rafael, got down on his knees and asked Magdalena to marry him.   And she said yes.  So, this Saturday, we´re going to have a wedding!  woo hoo!  He prayed for his crops, that he could have a harvest so he could pay tithing in thy church.  Wow!  He really wants to change. He was just afraid of his kids.
   Something funny.  In the buses, when you need to get off and you want to bus to give you a little more time to get off you say suave.  And almost always, you say suave chele to the bus driver.  Chele means whitey.  It doesn´t matter what color the bus driver is, you always say chele. The drunks here call me chelita. So, anyway, you yell suave, suave, suave chele. And if you want to make sure they hear you hit the side or the top of the bus as you yell.  It basically means, slow down, give me some time.  Anyway, one day we were walking and I was saying to Hna Silva that if I walk too fast she can tell me because I have long legs and I walk fast.  She was chuckling and said, suave.  She didn't sya chela because she knows I don´t like being called chela, but afterwards she couldn't help herself and she started saying suave chela.  It´s pretty funny.
   We started teaching another hno, Marlon, whose wife is a member. He´s really positive. I´m feeling happy as a missionary because I feel like I actually am helping people come to Christ and be happy.  It´s really great to be a missionary and witness so many evidences of God´s love.  Also, Hna Silva is awesome.  she´s really happy and positive.

Well, I´m going to call this Sunday at 7 or 7 30 and if you aren't there I guess I´ll call another day.

I love you all, be good, be happy!
Love, Hna Tew