24 September 2012
Hey family,
   How are you all doing?
Mom, how is the garden doing?  Tutoring?  Spanish class?
Dad, how is work with the other three mines down south?
Kevin, write me!  I hope school and family is going great!
Cheryl, how are you doing with everything?  Is it weird just to have Nani at home sometimes?
Kyle, your bike ride sounds cool.  What did you do once you got there?  How is BYU going?
Doug, are you getting used to work now?
Dani, are you getting used to Doug going to work?  How do you feel to be back in Gillette?
Paul, How are you feeling?  How is work or school or both going?

Mom, the creche display thing sounds fabulous!  I wish I could be there to see and hear and sing it all.  That just sounds awesome.  This week I completed one year in Nicaragua.  One year ago I was in Nagarote, getting confused. haha Well, I´m thinking that this is my last week in La Borgoña.  I´ve gotten the letters that you´ve sent me from Hannah, my friend from BYU that´s in Russia, and I just can´t imagine being in the same area for 8 (or was is 9) transfers.  The Borgoña is small and I´m kind of ready to leave.  Hopefully I´m not jinxing myself, because I could stay here for another transfer.  But I´m ready to leave. It´s a special place and I love the people here but I want to start over.  New place, new adventures.  I guess we´ll see next week.  Hna Martinez is really fun to be with.  We made pupusas today.  The first one didn´t work out very well, it just broke into little pieces.  I was interviewing her and making a video and she told the camera that la pupusa se hizo pupusitas.  It was really funny. They turned out pretty delicious. 
   Highlights... Friday we visiting a less active father and his family which is active.  We decided to teach faith in Jesus Christ.  In the pamphlet there is a picture that I always love to teach with because it is Jairus´ daughter.  And I talk about how Jesus can heal us.  This time when I was sharing the story it came to me that the whole family was part of the story, not just Jairus.  In the picture you can see the dad and the mom and we talked about how they probably felt, judging by the picture.  The dad got kind of interested and started talking about how the dad looked happy but almost a little surprised. And he kept on looking at the picture and kept on talking about how we need to show our faith.  It was a cool experience because I had never thought of sharing the story about a family but it seemed to hit home with him.  Something I´ve learned here is that we should always strive to teach with the spirit, but even when we teach with the spirit, some people are going to choose to sin.  
  Yesterday we started teaching one of our investigators to read.  He loved it and I loved it too.  I was thinking about the special ed classes and how they really have helped me to teach.  It´s not that the people aren´t smart, it´s that they are so poor that they couldn´t go to school when they were younger because they had to work. It´s sad that there are so many people that can´t read.  Giovani, the investigator that we were teaching, was writing a and e.  After we had him read a line of a´s and e´s.  a a e e e a a e  something like that.  And he was LOVING IT!!!  Then we talked about how he has two types of homework, he has to write and he has to pray.  It was cool. 
  Well, it´s been a good week.  I hope you all are doing good.  Don´t get too crazy up there. 
Love, hna Tew