9 April 2012
Hey Family,

Thanks for the letter Dad and Dani. 

The rest of you, write me please! 
Mom, can you send my letters to Mary Katherine?  MK can you send my letters to Regan?

Love, Hna Tew

Hey there folks!

Dad, congrats on the success you`ve been having with the temple goal! Good job working on the house too,
Mom, speak Spanish everyday with Dad.  Just do it!  Good luck with the English classes and say hi to the Popes and the Carrolls and Lucia and Bartolo and Laritza and everyone in Gillette! 
Dani, thanks for the emails.  Sounds like you all are getting ready to leave the east coast!  I hope you find a great job for Doug.
Doug, good job on your tests.  I heard they went well.

I can see the Big Dipper and the Southern Cross every night. Also, I`m pretty sure that I see the Lion and maybe the centaur???  I`m pretty sure about the lion.
I survived the Semana Santa. 
We`re going to have branch conference next week and I`m playing the piano for the choir.
We`re eating mangos!
I`m 99% sure that I have changes next week.  ¡Ya me voy!
I love Masatepe.
Eddy`s dad gave me a bag of three types of leaves to make a tea for my cough.  It was pretty nasty, but it felt good.
Hna Zapeta has a profesy that when I finally fall, it`s because I have transfers.  She has fallen about 3 times and I still haven`t fallen once.  I just slide all over the place but I don`t fall. 

   Well, everyone got interviewed last Friday for their baptism.  Junior, Rodrigo, and Saeed passed.  So did Claudia and Enrique.  I don`t know if Elder Blandin interviewed Enrique or just checked up on a few questions.  As we were walking out of Colonia Taiwan Elder Blandin told us that in Saeed`s prayer he asked God to bless Elder Blandín, Hna Tew, and Hna Zapeta.  And he thanked God that his family was going to get a true baptism in the true church.  whoa!   He`s a crazy kid and the spittin image of Enrique.  Saeed is 8!  He`ll be 9 the 25th of April. Rodrigo has questions about the things we teach and he always wants good answers.  Junior just believes.  He believes everything we teach.  And it`s easy.   Enrique has lots of good questions and he likes to see his answers in the scriptures.  He`s a good guy. Please please pray for them!  Pray that they can get baptized this Saturday and that they can feel the Spirit!  Pray that nothing will impede them, nothing bad will happen to them.  Claudia already knows everything becuase she was baptized about 17 years ago but there is no record.  We went to their house last night with William, Esau, and Jacob Lopez.  William always helps us a ton.  He must have been a really good missionary.  Esau is my brilliant piano student and Jacob is his twin.  They are 15 and they bore their testimonies about being obedient to their parents.  Rodrigo and Saeed really paid attention when they were talking.  It was cool.  The Lopez family is pilas! 
    Kevin, a nine year old got baptized last Saturday ( two days ago).  We taught him in a week.  His mom is a member, she was a little less active but started coming about a month or two ago.  I don`t know if I told you but we went to theri house to check on a reference (who we found yesterday SUPER drunk) and she told us that her son wanted to be baptized and she didn`t know what to do.  Bueno, nosotros podemos ayudarle, hermana. :) It was fun to teach him.  He`s super shy, but he just believed everything we taught.  And he kept all his commitments.  He prayed and he felt good.  He read the book of Mormon and he believed it.  We told him that it`s a commandment not to drink coffee and he didn`t ever want to drink coffee again.  Children have more faith, or something.  Junior has a ton of faith, and he`s really helping his family. 
    Well, I hope everyone is doing okay at home.  I hope you`re feeling good Paul.  I hope your job is going well
Pictures:  me and a tootsie roll.  That one´s for you, Dad
Us and the Lopez family
Masatepe missionaries and Pres. Mercado
Kevin`s baptism

Well, pray for Enrique and Claudia and their family.  Last night we were telling jokes with them and it reminded me of home!  I feel like I have family here too.  Xiomara is basically my mother. 
Love, Hna Tew