15 October 2012
Hey family,
How is Paul doing?
How are Kevin and Cheryl doing?  How did the interview go and the presentation?
How is Kyle doing? Have you revised your plans to come to Nicaragua instead of Panama? :) 
How is Dani doing?
How are Grandma and Grandpa Tew doing?

  here´s my letter to President Monestel below.  I am in Las Colinas.  It´s the same zone that I was just in when I was in La Borgoña.  I´m just visiting for a while because one of the sisters that just got here, Hna Anderson, is sick and so I´ve been with her and Hna Barrera.  I came here last Tuesday, and they said it would just be three or four days, but we went to the hospital for her checkup and she has to rest completely!  So, she sticks around with a member in the house and Hna Barrera and I go work.  I feel bad for Hna Anderson because she only has two weeks in Nicaragua, but she has a good attitude.  I´m going to be here probably for another week or something...  vamos a ver...  I´m tell you a little about Las Colinas and everything in the other letter I send.  But we´re all doing fine...
love love love
hna tew

Hey family, 
   So, I´m back in Zona Las Colinas, just for a week and a bit.  This is a really different area because this is where all the rich people live.  There are a ton of embassies here.  We ate dinner in the house of someone from the American Embassy last night.  The house is sooooo big and sooooo beautiful and I felt pretty weird there.  interesting points... we eat way better here. They serve fruit and vegetables.  I ate a grape yesterday for the first, maybe second time in a year.  Lots of people work here in houses as maids and guards, but they don´t actually live here.  The house where we live doesn´t have water after 6:30 in the morning.  We have to wash our clothes.  
   In Miraflores Jefferson and Ramon got baptized on Saturday!  Jefferson is the guy that was reading his Book of Mormon at his work.  His birthday was Saturday and he turned 20 years old.  He is a really nice person.  Ramon is kind of almost his step dad and his wife is a member.  In Miraflores there are a ton of less actives, so we are trying to complete a lot of families.  I really like Miraflores and I miss the area.  I actually know this area, Las Colinas, better than I know my own area in Miraflores.  I also miss my companions, Hna Real and Hna Vasquez.  
   I thought I would tell you a few cool things.  From two weeks ago, one week ago, and this week. 
This week we went to visit a new investigator with Hna Barrera and Hna Anderson.  He had read the pamphlet about the gospel of Jesus Christ, but we were going to teach the restoration.  And Hna Anderson had to start the lesson.  She´s a little timid, but really great!  She started talking and asking questions about what he liked about the pamphlet, and what he thought.  She did so great.  We could really feel the spirit and the investigator, Antonio, was so open to everything we taught.  He is definitely prepared to hear the gospel.  He kept on talking about how much he liked the part about baptism and he understood really well.  It´s awesome to hear a new North American teach and bear testimony.  We taught the restoration. and then hna Barrera whispered, put a baptismal date.  And Hna. Anderson put the date!  It was awesome. 
   Also, we taught about the gift of the holy ghost to an evangelical that feels like she´s failing God right now and for that she can´t feel the peace that she´s felt on a few occasions before.  It was a really spiritual lesson and it made me realize how much we need the GIFT of the Holy Ghost.
   Well, there´s not enough time for the other experiences... oh well.  I wanted to say hi to everyone. 
I hope you´re all doing well.  I LOVED the pictures of the trip mom.  Everyone looks so great!  Mom, you look skinny.  I hope you are enjoying the trip, Grandma and Grandpa and Jeanine.  I am glad you all are getting to spend a lot of time together and are getting to see a lot of neat places. 
   Doug, we haven´t done exchanges yet in Miraflores.  I guess I´m kind of in my third trio:  the MTC, Miraflores, and now in Las Colinas for a week or two.  That´s really cute about Scotty in the primary program.   haha 
  Mom, thanks a lot for the letter.  I haven´t received the package you sent yet but the office elders that helped us today (I had to go to Miraflores to get more clothes) told me that I have a ton of letters and packages waiting for me. :) You are the best mom in the world.  My testimony of that has been strengthened as well. :) 
Ah.. I just got the email, Dani and Dad.  Thanks!
Love you all,
hna tew

hey ya´ll.  write me a note real fast.  I´m going to be here for about 50 more minutes.  I hope everyone´s doing good.  Kevin, let me know how your family is doing!!!  Thanks for the letters Doug and Mom!
Love, hna tew