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
Monday, December 17, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
10 Diciembre 2012
hey family,
Mom, thanks for the recipes and everything. Um, I still havenñt gotten the debit card, unless it´s in one of the packages you sent for Christmas that I still haven´t opened.
Love you a lot!
Dad, I think that you need to be here Wednesday morming in the chapel at like 8:00 so maybe you should fly in Tuesday night. That would be the 5th I think.
I´m thinking that we can leave Managua on the 11th or 12th. I just want to see KEvin and Cheryl and Kyle and Paul and Grandma and Grandpa and Grandma Campbell in SLC and then go home. So, I think you all come the 5th and we fly out the 11th in the morning.
Love you
thanks mom, you are the best. en serio. Como le va en el Español. Si habla cada día con mi papa y siempre escucha bién va a poder entender lo que dice la gente aqui, cuando venga. Espero que este bien y que la actividad CCC sea exitosa la quiero mucho,
hna tew
Hey folky folks,
Grandma, thanks for all the letters. I really do appreciate every single one that you send and I am grateful! I just don´t always write it. But thanks a lot you are a wonderful grandma! Hope you are enjoying Christmas!! Love you a lot!
Grandma and Grandpa Tew!!! I hope you are doing well and are enjoying Christmas too!
This week was the Purisima. Let me share the recipe. Take one Halloween. Throw away all the costumes. Put a statue of the virgin Mary in your house with a ton of decorations and Christmas lights. Then the people pass by singing to the virgin and the people in the house hand out food or candy or toys. We live in a really catholic part of town. It was crazy.
Mom, thanks for everything. You really are the best. I love you a lot. Thanks for everything you do and everything you teach me. The CCC sounds fabulous! Who all is involved from the community?
SKYPE Kevin and Cheryl, I´m sad you are not going to be there. Maybe Skype has new technology... three way? If not you call at least and I can talk to you all a bit. Kevin Congrats again for your dissertation I am so proud of you.
Kyle thanks for the note. I will try to enjoy todo! Hope you`re doing good.
Paul, hope you are doing well Love you!
Doug, I want to see your fale. Sounds awesome!
Dad, thanks for the letter. Sounds like the retreat was a big success.
We have had a busy week. It´s been great and kind of stressful. We are inviting everyone to get baptized. and we are contacting a lot. We´re planning some activities with the ward. We need to work with the members more because there are a ton of powerful people in the ward, but they aren´t visiting. And the ward has been without an Elders quorum president for NINE MONTHS!!!! So, yeah home teaching is not a strong point right now. And our converts are really struggling. Carlos and Francis are out of town or something. They haven´t answered their phone and they aren´t home. But we have faith.
We have a family that is progressing, Ricardo and Patricia. Ricardo is quitting to smoke (I don´t think that´s how you say it...) quitting smoking. I don´t know how to speak English...
Anyway. Life is great. This will be a great week. We had a ton of lessons and A TON of new investigators. So, hopefully they can progress, go to church, repent, get baptized, go the temple, teach their children the gospel, die, go to paradise and preach to the spirits imprisoned, be resurrected and enter the celestial kingdom. It´s easy. :)
Love you all! Help someone enter the celestial kingdom today!
Love, hna tew
hey family,
Mom, thanks for the recipes and everything. Um, I still havenñt gotten the debit card, unless it´s in one of the packages you sent for Christmas that I still haven´t opened.
Love you a lot!
Dad, I think that you need to be here Wednesday morming in the chapel at like 8:00 so maybe you should fly in Tuesday night. That would be the 5th I think.
I´m thinking that we can leave Managua on the 11th or 12th. I just want to see KEvin and Cheryl and Kyle and Paul and Grandma and Grandpa and Grandma Campbell in SLC and then go home. So, I think you all come the 5th and we fly out the 11th in the morning.
Love you
thanks mom, you are the best. en serio. Como le va en el Español. Si habla cada día con mi papa y siempre escucha bién va a poder entender lo que dice la gente aqui, cuando venga. Espero que este bien y que la actividad CCC sea exitosa la quiero mucho,
hna tew
Hey folky folks,
Grandma, thanks for all the letters. I really do appreciate every single one that you send and I am grateful! I just don´t always write it. But thanks a lot you are a wonderful grandma! Hope you are enjoying Christmas!! Love you a lot!
Grandma and Grandpa Tew!!! I hope you are doing well and are enjoying Christmas too!
This week was the Purisima. Let me share the recipe. Take one Halloween. Throw away all the costumes. Put a statue of the virgin Mary in your house with a ton of decorations and Christmas lights. Then the people pass by singing to the virgin and the people in the house hand out food or candy or toys. We live in a really catholic part of town. It was crazy.
Mom, thanks for everything. You really are the best. I love you a lot. Thanks for everything you do and everything you teach me. The CCC sounds fabulous! Who all is involved from the community?
SKYPE Kevin and Cheryl, I´m sad you are not going to be there. Maybe Skype has new technology... three way? If not you call at least and I can talk to you all a bit. Kevin Congrats again for your dissertation I am so proud of you.
Kyle thanks for the note. I will try to enjoy todo! Hope you`re doing good.
Paul, hope you are doing well Love you!
Doug, I want to see your fale. Sounds awesome!
Dad, thanks for the letter. Sounds like the retreat was a big success.
We have had a busy week. It´s been great and kind of stressful. We are inviting everyone to get baptized. and we are contacting a lot. We´re planning some activities with the ward. We need to work with the members more because there are a ton of powerful people in the ward, but they aren´t visiting. And the ward has been without an Elders quorum president for NINE MONTHS!!!! So, yeah home teaching is not a strong point right now. And our converts are really struggling. Carlos and Francis are out of town or something. They haven´t answered their phone and they aren´t home. But we have faith.
We have a family that is progressing, Ricardo and Patricia. Ricardo is quitting to smoke (I don´t think that´s how you say it...) quitting smoking. I don´t know how to speak English...
Anyway. Life is great. This will be a great week. We had a ton of lessons and A TON of new investigators. So, hopefully they can progress, go to church, repent, get baptized, go the temple, teach their children the gospel, die, go to paradise and preach to the spirits imprisoned, be resurrected and enter the celestial kingdom. It´s easy. :)
Love you all! Help someone enter the celestial kingdom today!
Love, hna tew
Monday, December 3, 2012
3 Diciembre 2012
Hey,
Mom, also the peanut brittle is delicious! Thanks so much.
Hey,
Mom I think it was the second package that got broken into.
YOU made the tree! Thanks for making it. It really means a lot to me.
I hung up the paper chains and the popcorn and the nativity set is
out. Thanks a lot. You are the best! Can you send me a chocolate
chip cookie recipe and also the recipe for no bake cookies (the ones
with oatmeal)
Dad, thanks for the letter. I`ve been thinking about you a lot
too. All the missionaries say that you get used to being away from your
family, but I still miss you all a lot. I`ve been thinking a lot
about all of the family and how great it will be to talk to you all.
hey..!
WE CAN USE SKYPE THIS CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, that`s great that everyone or almost everyone is going to be home!
Kevin,
congratulations on passing your defense!!!!! that is so great!!!! I was
praying for you. You have worked so hard and I am really proud of you
Kyle, how`s it going? I`m glad you enjoyed your trip and I hope
you are doing well with school and finding your internship or job... I
forgot which it is. But it sounds like you`re doing great.
I`m going to send this now but I`m writing another letter. Kevin, I want to hear more about your defense and everything.
love, hna tew
Mom, also the peanut brittle is delicious! Thanks so much.
Doug and Dani, hope you are all doing well! The pictures of you and your kids are really cute!
Cheryl, hope you are feeling okay with your surgery and everything. I`m thinking about you and praying for you. :)
Pablo, Hola hermanito. How are you doing? I hear that you`ve been feeling a lot better lately. I hope you are doing well!
Update
on the investigators... Carlos went to church again this Sunday. yay!
When he gets baptized he is going to be a big strength for the church.
While we were waiting for the gospel principles class to start he
started talking about one of the testimonies that a long time member had
shared about how we need to work in order to make the church grow. He
said, yeah, I have a ton of Mormon friends and none of them ever invited
me to go to church and I`m only here because the missionaries visited
me . The members only visit me when the missionaries come to my house.
We have to go invite people we have to go to work in order to help the
church grow. And I was like.... um thank you Bishop Carlos.
He and Francis are the family that I always wanted to find and
teach. They are so special. This Sunday we went to their house to
bring them to church and no one responded. We called their phone and
nothing. The door was shut too and that usually means that no one is
home. but we kept on yelling and finally we heard someone say, "ya voy!"
Carlos came out dripping wet because he had been taking a shower. He
was shivering as he unlocked the door. haha. Yay! He is such a cool
guy.
I think the most heartbreaking moments on my mission have been
when I`ve seen my investigators get drunk. This week one of them got
drunk and when people are drunk a lot of times they start speaking in
English. He said, "help me, help me please." There are so many problems
with alcohol here in Nicaragua.
Joselyn is 15 and she went to church this Sunday too. Her uncle
is a member. We invited her to get baptized and she said that she
would pray about it. The next time we asked her about her prayers and
she said that she has felt good and that she feels that she needs to get
baptized. Yay!
Danilo is doing great. He is always at church and he has friends and is going strong!
The devotional was great last night. When Pres. Uchtdorf started
talking about when he starts to feel that Christmas is coming... when he
feels the cold air... Hna Real and I laughed because we felt the cold
air from the air conditioning in the stake center. Yep, sure is cold.
The devotional was great. I really liked the message about receiving
gifts and loving EVERYONE. and of course the music was great.
Well, Hna Real goes home on Dec 19. So she only has like two
weeks left. We`ve had a few moments of tribulation but she`s really
great and we have learned a lot from each other. Algo mas, algo mas...
This week we went with a recent convert and asked for water.
His daughter went to the fridge to get us water and Jaime said, no get
the other water because it`s colder. So he got us the coldest water and
poured it into our water bottles. My bottle didn`t get filled all the
way so he took out another bottle that was partway frozen and filled up
my bottle the rest of the way. The water dripped out slowly because it
was 3/4 frozen. But the people here are so good. They are so kind.
Sometimes I tell Hna Real, I don`t know if I`m going to like Americans
because they aren`t very nice. But I know I will like Americans. :) I
miss American culture. Like the way we live. Yesterday in the
devotional when they showed the video of the girl that was delivering
cookies I was thinking about how much those cookies cost and how much
rice and beans you could buy with that money. The people are so poor
here. Sometimes I forget how poor they are until I see videos of little
girls offering cookies to their neighbors.
But anyway. Hope you all are doing well and that everyone is
happy. Hermanos, Escribidme y seréis bendecidos. Hermanos, adios.
I´ve
been reading the LdM a lot lately. Central America is supposed to
finish the BoM by April. I´m trying to finish by Dec 31. I´m doing
okay. I´m like 3 or 4 days behind, but hopefully I´ll make a little
progress today.
Pray for Carlos and Francis. Carlos has a non profit org. that makes wheelchairs. It´s pretty cool.
Love you all! Get cold for me!
Love, hna tew
Monday, November 26, 2012
26 Noviembre 2012
Hey family.
Hey family.
I hope you are all doing well. Love you a lot! pray
for me please and write me a note if you have a minute. Good luck with
your dissertation thing tomorrow, Kevin. Thanks for the letter mom and
dad
Hi Mom and Dad,
Thanks for your letters. They always encourage me.
First
is a picture of Alex and Valeria, they got baptized two weeks ago.
Isn´t it a nice picture? It turned out a little dark, but they really
liked it and I like it too. Here 
Hna real is decorating the tree. We still haven´t put up the lights but it looks really beautiful.
hey family,
Mom, I just have a little bad news... I think the
packages got broken into. One of them only has one thing in it and the
list that you wrote outside has several things listed. But that´s
okay. I think the other packages are intact. Just one of them. Our bishop is great Um... I love you all a
lot.
Keep praying for me. I actually feel more homesick now than
before. I think that it`s the christmas season and everything.
Anyway. Love you all a lot! Kevin, I know you`ll do great!
Love, hna tew
Monday, November 19, 2012
19 Noviembre 2012
hey everyone!
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!
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!
Monday, November 12, 2012
12 November 2012
hey folks.
hey folks.
No one said anything about the elections, but I heard
that Obama won. Bummer. But.... Alex and Valeria got baptized this
Saturday with Danilo. this week was the trial of our faith. Seriously.
Alex told us he wasn´t getting baptized like 7 times during the week.
But when he was all dressed in white and hugging Valeria (all in white
too) my heart kind of melted. They are such a beautiful family. A lot
of members helped us to go visit them . The elders and a member from
Texas who served here went with us. Danilo was really happy too. After
the baptism a recent convert, Javier, walked Danilo home. It was so
sweet. The bishop went to pick him up for his baptism. Everything´s so
much better when the members love the investigators. Alex and Valeria
came with Alex´s mom. She went to church with us on Sunday. There were
so many miracles and so many angels this week that I can´t count them
all. But it´s because God loves his children and wants them to get
baptized. also, we had a lot of faith, even when Alex told us a billion
times that he wasn´t going to get baptized. We prayed so much for
them. Prayer is powerful.
Um... this Wednesday is transfers. We have no idea of what´s
going to happen. I think I´m staying here because I´ve only been here
three weeks, but who knows. Since we´re in a threesome, and we don´t
know how many hermanas are coming we don´t know if we´re going to stay
together or not. But I´ve enjoyed being in a threesome. It´s kind of
weird, but great. The Bishop here is fantastic. He is really smart,
and has a lot of faith. Hna Real always says that we´re the bishop´s
consejeras. haha. Basically. he trusts us a lot. maybe too much...
but he´s wonderful and VERY supportive. And VERY RELIABLE.
We are teaching a kid named Henry. Hopefully he gets baptized
this Saturday or the next. He´s really with it. He loves church, he
finally agreed to read the BoM. He loves the missionaries. But he says
that every time he asks God if the BoM is true he gets a bad feeling.
So we´ve talked about that a lot. We´re going to have an FHE with his
family tonight. Pray for him! Yesterday the RM that teaches Gospel
Doctrine was surprised to hear that Henry isn´t baptized. He was just
called to be the YM president. And he was like, I want to baptize him!
Let me baptize him! It was cool. Most of Henry´s family is members.
Um... it´s super hot here. I sleep in shorts and a t-shirt. No
covers. not even a sheet. And the fan hits me (I put it about 1 foot
away from my face) and one night this week I woke up because I was so
hot. So, enjoy the cold! (I guess I should enjoy the heat!) :)
Dad, thanks for the update. Sounds like the church is moving
on. Do you think that they are going to open new missions? When do they
call new mission presidents?
Mom, thanks for the
update. I hope everything is going good in Gillette. How was it to
have a missionary in the house all the time?
Kevin, hope you´re doing well and that you´re getting everything finished for school.
Cher, thanks for the note. I miss you and love you too!
Kyle, thanks for the note. Have fun in Panama. I forgot what the word for cool is there. But I hope it´s great!
Doug, hope you´re doing well. your house looks cool from the picture Dani sent.
Dani, thanks for the note and the pictures (Thanks for thinking of me, Scotty :))
Pablito, hope you´re doing well. How is your Spanish going? Do you practice with Kyle sometimes?
Love you all, Take care. I´m going to try to send pictures of the baptisms and everything next week
love love love, hna tew
Monday, November 5, 2012
5 November 2012
Hey family,
Hey family,
just wanted to ask a few questions.
I
got my trunky papers last week and I have to put down if you are coming
to pick me up or not. Also, the airport nearest to my house. But, I
think that we could just put Salt Lake. I don`t know what you all
think. I would like to go home, but I would also like to see Kevin and
Cheryl and Kyle and Paul and Grandparents... So I need an answer by
next week.
I´m writing a letter right now. We went to the beach today and got back super late. So... yeah... Pochomil.
love, hna tew
Hey Family,
How is everyone doing? I hope that everything is going well and that you are all enjoying some Christmas music! :)
Cheryl, thanks for the note. The kids look so cute. I miss you all a lot! We`ll be sure to hang out when I get back!!!!
Kevin, sounds like there are a lot of job options. Good Luck!
Dani,
the kids look so cute! And I loved the pictures of the munchkins.
They look so cute! And Adam looks big! I am excited to get to know
David.
Mom, thanks for the update. I miss you a lot. Don`t get too trunky. ;) I`ll be beating you in Boggle before you know it.
Tanner and Nani, thanks for the note. Love you both!
Dad, thanks for the note and thanks for always writing me! Sounds like the politics are pretty tight.
Um... it`s great to be back in my area. I am really enjoying being with my companions.
Some things I learned this week...
Every lesson can be spiritual if we meet the investigator`s needs and
testify of Jesus Christ. WE have an investigator that is going to be
baptized this Saturday, Danilo, and we had to teach him the word of
wisdom. He`s a very humble man that has a lot of problems. When we got
there he talked about all the problems that he has had and it was kind
of sad. We started the lesson talking about how Jesus Christ gives us
strength the overcome our problems. Sometimes we pray for him to take
our problems away, and that`s a possible solution, but sometimes we need
to develop more strength. So then we talked about how living the
gospel gives us the strength, and we started into the word of wisdom.
Usually, teaching the word of wisdom isn`t a great spiritual
experience. (the wife complains about how the husband drinks, they ask
about coffee...) but this time we had a very spiritual lesson. And it
was neat. I`ve been feeling the spirit a lot more in the lessons
lately, and I love that. It happens when we testify of Jesus Christ.
We put four baptismal dates this week with families! yay! Hna
Real puts fechas like crazy. One cool thing that happened is that we
were walking down the main street and passed by a less active`s house,
and the sisters had been teaching the husband before. We stopped to
say hi and the husband was reading the bible. He said, you know what,
I`ve been thinking about when I get baptized if I`m going to wear some
shorts or what I have to wear. He was going to get baptized before but
then he stopped letting the sisters come visit him. So we were like,
um... Can we share a message with you right now? And his wife was
actually pretty supportive. His name is Ramon, and his wife is Daysi.
That was kind of crazy miraculous. :)
Alex and Valeria had a baptism date for this weekend, but they
went on vacation for a few days and Alex`s family said a ton of things
about how they have to baptize their 3 month old baby or Satan will have
power over her. We are praying a lot for them.
Lately I`ve been trying to develop charity. And PMG says really
awesomely how we can do it. I am trying to work on diligence too. I
don`t take advantage of all the opportunities that there are sometimes.
Georgina and Martin are another family. Martin wants to change.
he wants to stop drinking. And Georgina (member) is really
supportive.
One night I was writing in my miracle book and
the phrase came to my mind...These are days never to be forgotten.
During the day I think about all the beautiful experiences and feeling
that have occurred, and I wish I could remember them all. At night I`m
tired, I have to write in the area book and wash a shirt or something,
and I just don`t have time to write in my journal. I hope God helps me
out a little and lets me hold on to all the things that are happening.
This is a wonderful area. There are a ton of houses.
Adios,
Love you all,
hna tew
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