18 June 2012
Dear Dad,
   How are you?  I hope you are enjoying life. :)  Thanks for being a great dad.  thanks for always writing me.  I find a lot of peace in your letters.  I miss you and mom a lot.  sometimes i just want to give you a hug.  That'll be nice when I can see you again.  Are you still planning on retiring.  I think you should do it.
  Yesterday we visited some people who confessed really serious sins to us.  They are both in the process of repentence and they both have seen changes in their lives thanks to the gospel.  there are so many people with problems - and they are big problem.  Elder Tencio, our district leader, visited with us last night and gave our investigator a reading assignment - mosiah 24.  I felt like reading it this morning and it was really appropriate for how I felt.  It's when Alma and his people pray to be able to bear their burdens.  It says that they bore their burdens with faith and patience so much that the Lord could free them.  I know that I don't have a lot of faith, or patience.  but I would like to have the faith and patience sufficient to feel my burdens lightened. 
   Being a missionary is pretty great.  I really feel love for all the people in  La Borgona.  I honestly want them to hear and accept the gospel.  Before it didn't matter as much to me, but now I feel really sad when someone rejects the gospel or falls.  Last Saturday one of our investigators greeted us in the street.  he was drugged up - he believes the BoM and he's gone to church two times before.  He has a little girl.  It just made me sad.  but there are ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS good things that happen.  there are always miracles.  By the faith of Ammon, Lehi and nefi, the Lamanites were converted and baptized.  I want to have that kind of faith.  and Mom's right: thinking positively isn't the same as having fiath, but it can help us or lead us to having faith. 
   Well, I miss you and Mom a lot.  Today I read about your trip to the Tetons.  Sounds like a lot of fun!  you also wrote that you were going to have the third somewhat annual Capron-Tew waterfight.  I think you're a little outnumbered, Dad. 
2 July 2012
   I hope you had a fun time and you were able to honor the Tew name in the battle :)  Um, a lot of the time I would just like to talk with you all.  today i went to a grocery store - like a legit store - and I felt so weird.  I almost started crying.  Not because I miss going to the grocery store.  I just felt really weird there.  There was so much food there and it was air conditioned.  there was cereal - like good cereal - and peanut butter and grape juice.  it was so strange.  Hna Silva and I were thinking about how fast these transfers have gone by.  And how fast the mission has gone by.  It makes me feel strange.  I want to enjoy all the moments more now.  I want to enjoy every opportunity and take advantage of what I have left.  Do you have any advice for me?  something I should do?  I'm open to suggestions. 
  I love you all a lot.  I know that I will be really blessed for serving right now and that others will be really blessed as well. 
  Love, love, love
Hna  Tew
  Everytime I see Enrique and Tami I think of you.  Enrique really loves his kids. And Tami always likes to be right next to him.  he always speaks softly to her and says things like "amor, vas a hacer la oracion?"  It makes me think of you.  I love you Dad! :)