19 Noviembre 2012
hey everyone!

 Hope you´re doing well.  

Mom sorry I forgot to wish you happy birthday last week.  I remembered on Thursday.... too late :(  Hope you had a good birthday! 

Nani happy birthday to you too! 

Tanner, thanks for the email. 

Email me please!  :)  I only got one email.

love, hna tew

Thanks mom.  I love you a lot!  I wrote you a letter more than a month ago and I still haven´s sent it, so I´m going to type it up.

Dear mom, 

I know that I´ve written various letters to you on my mission, and in this letter, I mostly want to say thanks.  I liked what Elder Perry shared in his talk about the letter he sent to his mom, and I wanted to do something similar.  Maybe for your birthday? I don´t know when you´ll get this (sorry I'm a chambona, mom)   

   Thanks for teaching me all things with patience. I´m kind of amazed at how much patience and love you have.  thanks for not getting mad whenever I did something dumb.  Thanks for waiting for me to learn some things on my own. 

  Thanks for your example of love.  You really love people and serve them.  Thanks for teaching me not to judge others or say bad things about them,. (Your name is safe in our house)  That has been a big influence for me.  Thanks for always including other people and never being offended by what others might have said or done.  thanks for always saying that those who seem to deserve it the least need it the most.  

thanks for always having love in your heart.  I ALWAYS felt that you loved me.  I NEVER doubted it.  And you probably don´t think that´s a big deal, but it is a big deal, because a lot of daughters don´t always feel love from their mom, but I always did. 

  Thanks for all the laundry, games, meals, everything .  I am grateful for everything you did and do for me.  And I hope I can be as good of a mom as you are.    Well it´s Nov 5th now.  I just want to say thanks.  I love you a lot, Mom. 

Love, your daughter

Okay, love you a lot mom.  Don´t get too trunky.  Practique su Español!  Hable con mi papá! 

Love you a lot mom, 

Hna tew  

Hey family, 

Kyle, have fun in Colombia.  Sounds like you´re having a great time.  

Kevin, Good luck with your dissertation!  It sounds like you are doing great!  Congratulations on everything! 

Cheryl, sounds like you´re enjoying life!  I hope everyone gets to feeling better.  and good luck with gall bladder surgery.  I didn´t know you were sick from that.  

Mom, hey hope you had a great birthday and that everything is going well with the Christmas plans for the activity and all.  Tell Irma that I eat pupusas Salvadoreñas here and that I always think of her. :) 

Dad, hope you are doing well and that work is good and that the stake is doing well.   

Dani, hope you´re doing good!  

Dougie, hope you´re doing good! 

Pablito, Seguí adelante!  Y que bueno que vos estás comiendo bién.  Te me cuidás.  That´s my practice for speaking in vos for the week.  Hope that´s right.... Love you! 

There are way too many things to tell you all.  Carlos is doing great.  He´s reading the BoM and he really liked Alma 7.  He was just a little confused about the word Zarahemla. :)  We´re going to have an FHE with him and his wife in the Arroliga´s house tonight.  So that should be great!  The ward was so nice to them.  Yesterday the classes were so good and spiritual and it was a good Sunday. It ended kind of low but that´s why you have a companion  to help you feel better when the families are getting torn apart by Satan and they don´t even realize it.  

   Jefferson, our RC started to drink.  He comes home on Saturday and goes off to the Billiards parlor.  We talked to him on Sunday (he spent the night on the floor in his brother´s house.)  He´s kind of adopted by a part member family we´re working with, and the mom told him to leave if he was going to start drinking again.  And Jefferson is the adopted brother of Henry, who is the Catholic 15 year old that hopefully is getting baptized this Saturday... with FAITH!   So we told Jefferson that we would be at his house on Sat at 5:00 and that we´re going to watch a church movie or something with him at the church.  We visited with Henry and Henry started crying because Jefferson was getting kicked out of the house.  And Henry loves Jefferson a lot but he´s never told Jefferson how much he loves him... It was so sad because their family really struggles.  Henry finally has the desire to get baptized but he´s afraid to get baptized because of what his family might do to him because they want him to be a Catholic Priest.  Anyway, we cried a little with Henry and told him to tell Jefferson que le quiere, and oh está, todo bién.  Jefferson didn´t end up getting kicked out.  Also, Brother Molina went to visit Jefferson with us and told him that he would pass for him on Sunday to go to church.  AND JEFFERSON, who is shy and doesn´t feel love from anyone and has a lot of difficulties, told Brother Molina to come on Saturday at 5:00 too.  

   One effect of being a missionary is that when someone talks about their problems, Jesus always come to mind.  There is always a good answer to every question if he center our thoughts on Christ.  Brother Molina shared with Henry the story of when Jesus was leaving his apostles and how he left the comforter.  Now when I think about my problems and the problems of all the people here I think a lot more about Jesus.  

   Last night after all this had happened we went to visit the Bishop.  Bishop Espinoza.  He´s such a good bishop! :)  We shared a message about charity and telling people that you love them and we told them that we love them (the whole family was there). It was a good experience.  We always learn a lot. ´

   Um...Everything is good here.  Every companionship is getting 250 cordobas this Wednesday to spend on something special for THANKSGIVING, I mean, Dia de la accion de gracias.  250 is live 10 dollars and you can buy quite a bit with 250.  I was just talking to Hna Real about what we are going to do, but we just ate 3 pupusas and fresco de cacoa and jamaica so we decided that we can´t think about food right now.  haha 

By the way, I never told you all about changes.  Hna Vasquez got transferred to Masatepe, but to a different area than the one I was in.  So now it´s just Hna Real and me.  And this is the last transfer for Hna Real.  Transfers are 26 of December, but the missionaries are going home a week early.  There are three hermanas that go home in December, and one is in the neighboring area, so I´m guessing that I´m going to be with her companion for the week before transfers.  It´s a lot better to just have one companion.  We speak English in the house all the time.  Hna Real worked in a Call center before her mission.   So... it´s almost for certain that I´m going to stay here in Miraflores!!!  yay!!! I really love this area.  it´s a great place to be.   

Inspired analogy of the week to Henry who is using crutches.  A broken foot is the apostasy.  Crutches... the reformation. It´s great, but it´s not the same.   Healing... the restoration.   

Mira...flores  Mira...cles. 

Love you all!