2 January 2012
Hola Presidente!
Jamilet fue bautizada este sabado. Los lideres
de zona la ayudaron. Tenemos muchos conversos y estamos trantando de
trabajar con los misioneros de la rama para visitar a ellos. Tambien,
sugerimos al Presidente Mercado que algunos conversos se llamen como
misioneros de la rama. Ellos necesitan hacer visitas tambien.
Necesitamos enfocarnos mas en familias. Estamos trabajando con
algunas, pero tal vaz necesitamos mas seguimiento con ellas. Estamos
trabajando con el esposo de Jamiliet, Wilmer. El es positivo. Estoy
muy feliz. Hna DeHoyos esta enferma, pero feliz. Gracias por su
servicio y sus oraciones. Gracias por la oportunidad de estar aqui en
Masatepe con estas personas.
Adios! Hna Tew
Hey hey hey.
Thanks for the letters and
emails. Mom, I`m okay if you send my emails to people. If they want
them. Could you get them to Regan Baker and Amy Johnston maybe with the
help of Mary Katherine
I got a ridiculous amount of mail last week. RIDICULOUS!!! it was
great, though. I got your talk mom and it was great. It sounds like the
house is looking nice and everyone has had a good New Years.
Guess who`s coming to Nicaragua?
An Apostle.
Guess which one?
ELDER NELSON!!!
I`m singing in
the choir that is going to sing at the special meeting. He`s going to
talk to the mission north and our mission too. So I got to meet a few
north people today. He`s coming the 18th. We went to Managua today and
we`re going to go the next two Mondays as well. We have to go tomorrow
for immigration; it`s all normal stuff. So we`re going to burn through a
lot of money. It costs about 75 cordobas to get to Managua and back.
It takes about three hours.
Well, there are lots of little things to tell you.
Jamilet got
baptized!!!! She knows. She knows the church is true. I don`t know if I
told you about when she got a blessing. Her brother, a recent convert
gave her a blessing when she was sick. The Elders came over too to help
him (Milton) out. They had to go a long way out of their way. After
the blessing Jamilet told us that she felt good. When she was receiving
the blessing she said she felt something inexplicable. She knows.
We`ve been talking so much about baptism that she got a little
annoyed/mad. Hna DeHoyos was a little strong with her. We always joke
with her that "no nos quiere." At the baptism she thanked us for
supporting her. We`re definitely not her best friends.
Hna DeHoyos often refers to chapter 14 of PMG. Where it just
says.... Good Luck with that one! We`ve had a few chapter 14
experiences. Where you just have to say... umm... alright....WHAT IS
HAPPENING!!!! Thursday night we were in the church with Executive
Committee meeting. A joven, Josue Abraham was outside the door and he
motioned to me. So, we went out to talk to him. I think I wrote about
him before, a long time ago. He came out of his house and told us he
wants to know the truth. He wants to know what church is true. Then
after he told us he was evangelical. Anyway.... We went out in the hall
to talk to him and he told us I want to be baptized, and I want one of
you two to baptize me. He had asked us about whether we could baptize or
not two nights before. We told him, again, that we don`t have the
authority to baptize and we pointed out the elders and the other
priesthood holders in the room and said that any of them could baptize
him. Then we asked him why he wanted to be baptized. His response...
because you all are "tuanis." He also wants us to teach his cousin who we
met in the dark in Chirinos, who didn`t say anything to us. Anyway.
We had a convert that knew the church was true and wasn`t very
demonstrative in her love for us (love which may or may not exist) and
we also have an investigator who wants to be baptized because he thinks
we`re cool.... He really liked the Elders before, too. He used a phrase
that means good people to refer to us and the Elders.
We contacted 9 families New Years Eve.
We contacted a family a
week or two ago and Hna DeHoyos kind of chewed out the husband because
he was not listening. He didn`t believe that our bible is normal until
we read verses from it. He kept on telling us what we believe and he
blamed his wife for his drinking problem. Hna. DeHoyos told him that
she hopes she doesn`t have a husband like him. Then they invited us to
their daughter`s birthday party Christmas Eve! They are reading the
folletos but they don`t want to come to church. Hna DeHoyos is pretty
blunt. When we were teaching the wife, Jessica, Hna DeHoyos closed her
BOM and found a tarantula on her skirt. AAAHHHH.
Hna DeHoyos`parents are Mexican but she was born in Texas. So
people always try to guess where she`s from, like Guatemala or
something. Today in a taxi the driver asked me a question and I didn`t
know the answer, so the taxi driver said she doesn`t understand me, but
you (hna DeHoyos) will. Then Hna DeHoyos said, "She understands you. She
has 5 months of speaking Spanish. No sea racista." It was pretty
funny. Then the driver was like, tranquila, I was just asking a
question.
Javier is drinking. He`s our recent convert. We`re teaching his
mom now. She came to church for the first time this Sunday!!!! I
taught her once a month or two ago and she has changed a lot. She has
opened up a lot to us. I hope some really good things can happen in her
life.
Hna DeHoyos has been sick. She had a temperature of 102 yesterday.
We were going to go to the hospital this morning, but she called up Hna
Monestel and talked her out of it. I told her that she should go to
the hospital anyways, but she thought it would be a waste because she
went before and they just told her that she has an unidentifiable
virus. But today she was still feeling pretty bad so we`re going to go
tomorrow after immigration.
Tonight we have plans to go with Wilmer and Jamilet and then a
family that we contacted last week. We had a really cool lesson last
week. We found a recent convert, a nine year old. He lives with his
great grandma and she told us we could come back one more time. So, we
came back and found his mom who is a member and his older sister who is
not a member. We taught a lesson. The main purpose of the lesson was
to ensure that we could come back, so we talked about English lessons
and piano lessons and guitar. Another son brought out his guitar that
he had just bought and I played it. It was so cool! It was really out
of tune so I tuned it up and then played Hark All Ye Nations, which we
had just sung! Then Hna DeHoyos taught a little bit of English to the
sister. She also sat on the mom`s lap. She`s a little crazy but she`s
really fun. She`s a good missionary and really focused on her purpose.
Sometimes you fulfill your purpose of inviting others to come unto
Christ by scolding, sometimes by chatting, sometimes by giving a hug.
Well, I love you all. Thanks for your letters and emails. I love to
hear from all of you. I`m glad Cheryl and Kevin had a good Christmas in
Gillette with Mom and Dad. It sounds like it was a fun time. I love
you!
Love, Hna Tew
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