27 February 2012
Hey family!
Write me a letter!  Send me a picture of a cute baby!
Love, Mb

Family!!!!
   First of all, I am definitely gaining a stronger testimony of prayer. I´ve said this a few times, but, at the beginning of my mission, I starrted praying for a few things for each member of my family.  I actually felt prompted to pray for some specific things for each of you.  And I´m seeing the beginning of all these prayers being answered when I receive your letters.  Some things that I didn´t really think could happen have happened, and I just feel really happy that everyone is moving onward.
Dad
   It sounds like the kitchen is looking good!  It´s kind of amazing how many things there are that we don´t really need.  I like   hearing about your missionary breakfasts!  good luck with studying Mark and stuff!  Keep working on your book!
Tanner
   That was a great letter! I like you too!  I wish I had a green cupcake, but I´m glad you got to eat one.  Love, Auntie M
Cheryl
  Thanks for the letter.  I always love hearing from you.  It sounds like you are doing great things!  You are dropping weight like crazy!  Good luck with your new calling.  You´ll do great.  :)  Thanks for giving the scoop on the family! 
Kevin! 
   Yay for dissertations!  Good luck.  German Robotics sounds legit.  I liked what you said about Tanner, how he gets discouraged about the long words that he can´t read.  That´s pretty funny, but I can relate to that feeling.
Kyle
   Thanks for the picture of the cute baby.
Paul
   How is work and your new apartment?

I´ve been a little sick.  Not too bad, just diarrea and gas and stomach ache.  The weird thing is that I have to burp all the time.  Is that weird or is that weird?

Our baptism fell through last week.  Dimas gave us the reference for his compañera, and he wanted to change his life around.  He started avoiding us and now he doesn´t want to get married to Ivania.  It´s a pretty rough situation. 

We put baptismal dates with 3 families in three days.  They were definitely miracles.
Claudia and Enrique are contacts that Hna Zapeta made yesterday.  Claudia has been to church many times and knows a lot about the church.  They have 3 kids.  Claudia is pregnant.  The oldest one is 16 and wants to learn to play piano.  Hna Zapeta put a fecha with them. 
Ivania and Luis are contacts from a couple weeks ago.  Ivania´s daughter, Gabriella was baptized a few years ago.  She´s 15.  Last night we had a lesson with one of their neighbors and Ivania said if we had time after the lesson could we come over and visit them?  So we had our first lesson with them last night and put a baptismal date.  It´s always good that they know why we are there.
I´ve started teaching piano.  It´s fun.  The class starts 30 minutes before seminary.  The first week no one came, but a few saw that I was there and they came over and started learning a little.  Last week our recent convert Milton came and really liked it.  Another joven, Esau forgot to come early but showed up for seminary and learned a little too.  Hna Zapeta is learning too and she really likes it.  She´s learning quickly.  I really like Hna Zapeta a lot.  We get along well and we help each other.  We both want to be better.  We speak in English at night when we´re walking back to our dinner appointment and house.   I´m really hoping that we don´t have changes.  Presidente Monestel said that he´s going to keep missionaries in their areas for a longer time. 
Something funny.  There are usually a few drunks on this one corner and yesterday they called out my name.  Teeeewwwwww.   Teeeeewwwww.  I´m getting to be pretty famous down here.  haha

Pedro and Teresa are reading the book of Mormon and praying about it. 
Abel and Marcela watched the Restauration with us and we gave them a book of Mormon.  They have a baptismal date too!  They are a super cool couple.  They have a really cute 2 year old.

Last week after writing you all we ran into a member in the street.  He was on his bicycle and stopped to thank us for visiting his family.  he said thanks for encouraging his wife to go to church (she went last week).   It was really nice to hear someone say thanks. 

This morning we had an activity in Managua for all the hermanas in the mission.  It was really fun just to hang our with hermanas.  I think we are 28.  Only 9 Nortes. I talked with Hna Rios.  She´s really cool.  Hna Cottam and Hna Hartvigsen are other nortes and they are great.

We had two really sweet lessons with two recent converts.  One of them talked about how much he has changed.  He was telling us how he was before, and his 3 year old daughter chimed in that he used to smoke.  He talked about how the only thing he wishes he could do is erase his tattoos.  Hna Zapeta told him about the resurrection and how we´ll have perfect bodies. He also talked about learning about the plan of salvation in church and thinking about his son that died. 

We had another lesson with Rodolfo and Nancy, recent converts.  Rodolfo talked about how he felt really guilty for not having gone to church.  They have problems with money and he has turned down opportunities to work on Sundays.  Last week he went to visit his sick aunt, so he didn´t go to church.

President Monestel and his wife are so good.

Okay, I love you all.  I pray for you! 
Pray for me too!
Love, Hna Tew