13 August 2012 
Hey family,
    how´s it going?
   How is Paul doing?
   Is there anything new in Gillette?
   love, mb
Hey family,
   There are still miracles in Nicaragua.  I really enjoyed everyone´s letters.  It´s very easy to hear everyone´s personality in the letters.  Dad´s sense of humor is still very dry.  I like it. 
  Sounds like everyone had a good time up in Gillette.  I guess there are a few more rocks in the river now thanks to Adam.  haha.

Well, the church attendance is up to 83.  Yay!  A few nifty experiences...
    Saturday night we had nowhere to go and I´m pretty sure that it had been raining so it was really dark and there was no one in the streets.  So we ended up going to visit a member.  We knocked on her door like 4 times and she finally answered.  We shared a message about love :)  and asked for references.  We had asked her for references like 15 times before so my faith was pretty low/nonexistent, but she gave us 11 references!  Yay!  I wanted to give up knocking about the second time but my companion kept on knocking until she answered. 
    Josué and Daisy came to church.  I met them when we first came to la borgoña and I always wanted to teach them, but they lived in the elders area.  They were going to move to our area, but for the moment only Josué is living in our area.  Daisy is being taught by the elders and we´re teaching Josue. But they came to church together yesterday!  cool!  Wednesday we went to teach Josué at his house and we had planned to teach about the atonement and forgiveness.  We had left a passage from Mosiah about how God has given us everything and we have to give to others.  We only left 3 verses for him to read and told him to think about how the passage applies to forgiveness.  He understood really well.  Tuesday before teaching our lesson we asked him about his reading and then we asked if he had a question about something, or if there was something that we hadn´t explained very well.  And he said, I would like to learn about the atonement, I don´t really understand it.  And I was like... WOW!  that´s exactly what we had planned to teach: What is the atonement.   
     Training... is fun but it´s pretty hard.  I feel like I have to do everything.  And I need to rely more on the Lord.  I feel the Spirit a lot more now.  I feel a lot more guided by the spirit.  I really do feel where we should go and what we should do.  It´s cool.  There´s always a lot more to do, but it´s nice/good to recognize that we´ve come along. 
   We also taught someone that was really interested in our message.  He asked a ton of questions.  when we talked about the bom he said, you know what, I would have liked to have had a copy of that book.  And we talked about the church, I would like to be able to go.  And when we were going to end.  I would have liked for you to come back and talk a little bit more.   well, hermano, it´s a sacrifice, but we´re going to let to read the bom, go to church, and we can even come back and teach.  He was studying to be a pastor. 
   Um... I miss you all.  I am going to receive my trunky papers in a few weeks.   
Love, hna tew