9 July 2012
Hello Family,

  It sounds like everyone is busy doing stuff. 

Paul, I hope you get to feeling a lot better.  I am praying for you! 

Dani, thanks for mailing the pictures.  I´ll probably get them in about 1 or 2 weeks. 

Doug, it sounds like you are headed for the big city! I hope everything works out really well. 

Kyle, It sounds like you are taking care of Paul.  Good luck with everything you are doing.  Write me a pen and paper letter someday. 

Kevin, How´s school going?  I hope your paper is going well and that you keep going strong.  Congrats on all the papers and projects that you´ve completed.  

Cheryl, How are you doing? . I hope the kids and work and RS are all going well for you. 

Mother dear.  I love you so. Phillmont sounds fabulous!  I liked hearing about the choir.  Thanks for being a great mom. 

Dad, I love you too.  Thanks for the letter and the philmont wisdom.  That sounds like boy scout stuff. I hope your temple firesides go well.  

  Today we had a pday with the zone.  We hung out in the chapel in San Juan.. Managua.  We played futbol.  Futbol gets a little intense on the mission.  That´s why we can only play twice every transfer.  It was fun.  There were 6 hermanas and six elders. There are people that play really well.  We ate pizza!  That´s a BIG deal.  Only the rich eat pizza.  And it was delicious.  Then we had a water balloon fight.  It was really fun.  I like our zone.  I have really good leaders right now.  They are all really good people. 

   Noticias... I´m going to train!  I don´t remember if that´s how you spell that word.  Elder Caggiano called me last Tuesday to tell me.  So, I went to a training on Wednesday and right now my hija is probably on the plane.  I´m trying not to be scared.  I don´t want to be scared.  So that means that I´ll probably be in La Borgoña for three more months. The training program takes 12 weeks (two transfers) and we study until 12:00 almost everyday.  So that will be great.  I hope I can be a good entrenadora. 

    I´ve felt stressed out about fulfilling everything that´s expected of me.  But I´m going to try to just do what Preach my Gospel says and do my best.  Because God knows what my best is and he will never ask more than that of me.  That´s pretty easy to say.  Enrique told us yesterday that some day this week he will tell us when he´s going to get baptized. He´s saying sometime this month.  If he doesn´t give us a date this week we´re going to ask the zone leaders to come and talk to him because I feel necia.  We talk about Christ´s doctrine so much that I just feel annoying.  He understands everything.  He knows that if Christ comes right now that he won´t be saved. But he wants more time. So, that´s okay.  He´s going to church, reading the scriptures, and praying with his family.  Yesterday he talked on the phone with one of the elders that taught him before and that encouraged him a lot.  He was really happy and talked about how much he has changed. 

    There are new people in church and this Sunday all the meetings were great!  Relief Society was good!  And in Gospel Principles we feel like a family.  It´s a great feeling.  The people really enjoy the class and they ask questions and answer the questions for each other.  We talk to the elders´ investigators and conversos and they talk to ours and everyone feels a little more fellowshipped, I think. 

   Roberta and Martin got baptized!  It was a nice service.  Martin has a big smile now and I am happy for that. This Saturday in the morning the elders quorum went to Rafael´s house to tie up his tomato plants and he was really happy too.  He said my own family doesn´t help me but my brothers from the church do. They are my real brothers.  He came to church this Sunday (he had missed three Sundays!) and he was happy.  

   Our addiction recovery class... We´ve only had it twice.  But it was excellent both times.  the teacher is great!!!!! he really reads the topic and talks kindly but directly.  and he used to have lots of problems.  His wife comes with him and she is great too.  WE are really blessed to have them.  If one person is happier because of the class, it´s worth it.  But it´s never just one person.  

Well, I love you all.  Pray for me por favor.  

Love, hna Tew