17 Diciembre 2012
hey!
write me a letter. 
who else has gotten mission calls.  I heard about Tiffany and Jessica.  Any more news??  pictures from the CCC?  Thanks for the letter, mom and the pictures, Dani.  We had a baptism this weekend and it was the crazy.  But miraculous. 
love, hna tew

Hey!
   Mom, sounds like the Christmas celebration went super well.  Congratulations!  I hope you took lots of pictures.  I love what you wrote about the room with pictures of Jesus.  Sounds like a really special experience. 
   Dad, hope you´re doing well.   I got a letter from Jed Jensen this week that said that it´s a real pleasure to be able to work with you.  Two or three people have sent me letters thinking that I´m in Guatemala, and they get here, just a little late.  But if you can tell him thanks.  I really appreciated the letter and I´m grateful for all that he did to help me what he was my bishop. :) 
   Kevin, hope you are doing well. Tell me what you´re up to.
   Cheryl, hope you are feeling good from your surgery.  Give the munchkins a hug for me.
   Kyle, what are you up to?  I´m looking forward to talking to you at Christmas.  Thanks for your note last week :)   Also I had a dream that I was hugging everyone and I was giving you a hug when I woke up.
   Douglas, how is work going?  Your children are really cute. 
   Dani, I hope you are great!  Merry Christmas!  Send me some pictures of your gingerbread house por favor.
Pablito Lindo, hey how are you doing.  Write me a letter in Spanish!  or in English!  Hope you are happy and are enjoying life.  Love you a lot.
    
This week was so crazy there is no way I can write everything that happened.  But it was INSANE.  Some spiritual experiences...
  We planned to teach repentance to Ricardo and Patricia using Alma 36.  So we practiced in the morning and it went really well and then we taught them in the evening and it was a really spiritual lesson.  We asked a lot of questions and They understood really well and we committed them to repent. Ricardo had been having nightmares and I think he felt a lot of guilt.  When Elder Blandin went to interview him he asked how his prayers were going.  Elder Blandin told us that Ricardo said, me fui y me escondí, y me puse a orar.  y como se sintió.  Sentí un gran alivio, que todos mis pecados se habían ido.  WOW  That was so cool.  
  This weekend we had about 10 billions pruebas of our faith.  and also of patience.  There was no water to fill the font.  Then the bishop left, locked the font as it was being filled and we couldn´t turn it off.  The lawyer that was going to marry Ricardo and Patricia came and hour and 45 minutes late!   Ricardo and Patricia left and we could not find them.  We were walking around the streets with out 10 little kids following us wherever we went and they were kind of driving us nuts, but afterwards Hna Real said that she realized that they were trying to support us and help us find them.  Anyway, we ended up telling the ward to go home, and that we would have the baptism at 7:00 on Sunday morning.  So the ward went home and we went to Ricardo´s house and sat in front until they came home, at about 8:45.  And then we had a really spiritual lesson, and they said everything is good for tomorrow at 7:00.  So, they got married and baptized and Ricardo had such a huge smile on his face. 
   There really are angels.  And there really are miracles.  
Love, love, love, hna tew