27 August 2012
Hey sorry, I guess I forgot to actually send the letter last week... whoops.
Happy
Birthday Dad, I didn´t remember until Wednesday or Thursday that your
birthday was this week. Sounds like it was a good one
Write me!
love, mb
Hey Family
How is everyone? I hope everyone is happy! :)
Happy
Birthday Dad! I hope it was great! It sounds like you got spoiled a
little. I bet the missionaries enjoyed decorating. And that´s great
that Doug and Dani came over to cook. Cool! Oh man, I´m a little
jealous that you all get to be together a lot. And Kevin and Paul and
Kyle are together a lot too I imagine. Not that I´m trunky or
anything...
Well, we are still working. Good news... we have one family
progressing. Bad news... the family is in Costa Rica for the moment.
haha. Something I really like to see is how the spirit can guide us. In
3 Nephi it says that the thing that the nephites wanted more than
anything else was the spirit, and I understand why. The spirit is
everything. It´s happiness, direction, comfort, warning, testimony.
Training is kind of fun. I hope that I´m a good mom and that Hna
Martinez isn´t counting the days until we part ways. She´s really
funny. I really like her. She´s trying to learn English and is doing
really well. It´s fun. Yesterday she gave a talk in church and I
taught Principles of the Gospel. The last time I taught it was a
disaster but this time I didn´t prepare as much (Elder, who´s giving the
class today? ¿Yo? Déle pues...) and it went better. haha. I really
like the class because we feel like family. No one ever wants to go the
class. they all want to to the big kid class but once they are in
there they like it, I think. The converts and investigators are all
pretty with it so they have good questions and good comments. My
district leader is training a North American so that´s fun. The
district is all really new.
The Borgoña is great. I think we need to start exploring a little
bit more. We´re finding new investigators but we don´t have enough
families.
Noel accepted a baptism date. Enrique is ridiculously happy. Everybody is doing good.
We are always looking for new investigators.
Important information....my credit card got stolen...last week. Can you cancel my card or whatever?
Thanks for the letters and the emails.
Kyle, I hope you are enjoying your classes and being at BYU again.
Doug, I hope you´re getting used to work and that you like it. I hope the people you work with are nice folks.
Dani, I hope you´re feeling comfortable with life. Do you and Doug have callings yet?
Dad, thanks for always writing me. I love reading your letters.
Mom, thanks for always writing me too. I really enjoy everything you write. It´s very newsy.
Kevin, good luck with school love you!
Paul, tell me what´s going on in your life!
Cheryl, hope you´re feeling good and doing good! Good luck with everything
Alrighty folkys, hasta luego.
I´m going to quote a group of drunks in Masatepe... Oren por nosotros! o Pray for us!
The
gospel is true. God is our loving heavenly father and the gospel
blesses families. I´m glad to know that you all are doing good. And I
pray for you all too! I love you all!
Love, love, love,
hna Tew
Monday, August 27, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
20 August 2012
hey family,
How`s it going?
A few questions...
how is Paul doing?
Mom are you feeling better?
Kyle, did you go to Spain? and if you went how did it go? are you excited for school?
Dad, how is little Philmont planning going?
Do you like your work Doug?
Hey family,
how´s it going?
Dad, thanks for the letter. I always print off all the letters and read them throughout the week.
Mom, thanks for the letter. Thanks for all the pictures too. I really liked the pictures of the garden. It looks beautiful. The picture of you and the munchkins is really cute! Scotty and Adam look so white. And Tanner and Nani look so big. Tanner especially looks like a big kid now! cool!
Kevin, I hope you are doing good and enjoying having Kyle and Paul nearby. I hope you are doing great!
Cheryl, I hope you are feeling good now with your foot and everything. Thanks for the letters that you´ve sent me.
Kyle, I hope you are feeling good about school. I hope you really enjoy the program
Doug thanks for telling Dani to write me. I hope you are enjoying your work. I´m sure you will like it more and more as you get used to it. But I know that you´re doing great! I love you a lot! :)
Dani, thanks for writing me. I love to hear the mission advice. How has serving a mission helped you in your life as a mom/wife? Thanks for the pictures. David is adorable. I loved the picture of Adam. Maybe someday he´ll save lives in the wild west as a train conductor....?
Pablito, Well, sounds like you´re still alive. Keep on keeping on! Today I played ping pong and I was thinking a lot about you! :) Be good! I hope you are doing okay healthwise. I´m always praying for you.
Well, we´re still here. Everything is going good. This weekend was one miracle after another. It was great. Sunday morning everyone said no, I can´t go to church today. But the last person that we visited was getting ready to go. He had his black shoes shined and everything. And he told us that he would show up and so we got to church early and just chatted with people. Before he came, one of our other investigators came. and he hadn´t wanted to talk to us at all for the last 3 days. But he showed up and chatted with us and everything. He brought a really beautiful vase and gave it to the church. I was like.... what?! But hey, whatever. I´m okay with it.
Everything´s better when we have faith. and love. Alrighty folks. Thanks for the answers to the questions. I love you all and I love to hear from you. I´m fine. Don´t worry about me at all.
Also, I forgot to write about it last week, but tell Bro. McKown´s wife that I´m thinking about her and that I hope she´s keeping up okay.
Love, hna tew
hey family,
How`s it going?
A few questions...
how is Paul doing?
Mom are you feeling better?
Kyle, did you go to Spain? and if you went how did it go? are you excited for school?
Dad, how is little Philmont planning going?
Do you like your work Doug?
Hey family,
how´s it going?
Dad, thanks for the letter. I always print off all the letters and read them throughout the week.
Mom, thanks for the letter. Thanks for all the pictures too. I really liked the pictures of the garden. It looks beautiful. The picture of you and the munchkins is really cute! Scotty and Adam look so white. And Tanner and Nani look so big. Tanner especially looks like a big kid now! cool!
Kevin, I hope you are doing good and enjoying having Kyle and Paul nearby. I hope you are doing great!
Cheryl, I hope you are feeling good now with your foot and everything. Thanks for the letters that you´ve sent me.
Kyle, I hope you are feeling good about school. I hope you really enjoy the program
Doug thanks for telling Dani to write me. I hope you are enjoying your work. I´m sure you will like it more and more as you get used to it. But I know that you´re doing great! I love you a lot! :)
Dani, thanks for writing me. I love to hear the mission advice. How has serving a mission helped you in your life as a mom/wife? Thanks for the pictures. David is adorable. I loved the picture of Adam. Maybe someday he´ll save lives in the wild west as a train conductor....?
Pablito, Well, sounds like you´re still alive. Keep on keeping on! Today I played ping pong and I was thinking a lot about you! :) Be good! I hope you are doing okay healthwise. I´m always praying for you.
Well, we´re still here. Everything is going good. This weekend was one miracle after another. It was great. Sunday morning everyone said no, I can´t go to church today. But the last person that we visited was getting ready to go. He had his black shoes shined and everything. And he told us that he would show up and so we got to church early and just chatted with people. Before he came, one of our other investigators came. and he hadn´t wanted to talk to us at all for the last 3 days. But he showed up and chatted with us and everything. He brought a really beautiful vase and gave it to the church. I was like.... what?! But hey, whatever. I´m okay with it.
Everything´s better when we have faith. and love. Alrighty folks. Thanks for the answers to the questions. I love you all and I love to hear from you. I´m fine. Don´t worry about me at all.
Also, I forgot to write about it last week, but tell Bro. McKown´s wife that I´m thinking about her and that I hope she´s keeping up okay.
Love, hna tew
Monday, August 13, 2012
13 August 2012
Hey family,
how´s it going?
How is Paul doing?
Is there anything new in Gillette?
love, mb
Hey family,
There are still miracles in Nicaragua. I really enjoyed everyone´s letters. It´s very easy to hear everyone´s personality in the letters. Dad´s sense of humor is still very dry. I like it.
Sounds like everyone had a good time up in Gillette. I guess there are a few more rocks in the river now thanks to Adam. haha.
Well, the church attendance is up to 83. Yay! A few nifty experiences...
Saturday night we had nowhere to go and I´m pretty sure that it had been raining so it was really dark and there was no one in the streets. So we ended up going to visit a member. We knocked on her door like 4 times and she finally answered. We shared a message about love :) and asked for references. We had asked her for references like 15 times before so my faith was pretty low/nonexistent, but she gave us 11 references! Yay! I wanted to give up knocking about the second time but my companion kept on knocking until she answered.
Josué and Daisy came to church. I met them when we first came to la borgoña and I always wanted to teach them, but they lived in the elders area. They were going to move to our area, but for the moment only Josué is living in our area. Daisy is being taught by the elders and we´re teaching Josue. But they came to church together yesterday! cool! Wednesday we went to teach Josué at his house and we had planned to teach about the atonement and forgiveness. We had left a passage from Mosiah about how God has given us everything and we have to give to others. We only left 3 verses for him to read and told him to think about how the passage applies to forgiveness. He understood really well. Tuesday before teaching our lesson we asked him about his reading and then we asked if he had a question about something, or if there was something that we hadn´t explained very well. And he said, I would like to learn about the atonement, I don´t really understand it. And I was like... WOW! that´s exactly what we had planned to teach: What is the atonement.
Training... is fun but it´s pretty hard. I feel like I have to do everything. And I need to rely more on the Lord. I feel the Spirit a lot more now. I feel a lot more guided by the spirit. I really do feel where we should go and what we should do. It´s cool. There´s always a lot more to do, but it´s nice/good to recognize that we´ve come along.
We also taught someone that was really interested in our message. He asked a ton of questions. when we talked about the bom he said, you know what, I would have liked to have had a copy of that book. And we talked about the church, I would like to be able to go. And when we were going to end. I would have liked for you to come back and talk a little bit more. well, hermano, it´s a sacrifice, but we´re going to let to read the bom, go to church, and we can even come back and teach. He was studying to be a pastor.
Um... I miss you all. I am going to receive my trunky papers in a few weeks.
Love, hna tew
Hey family,
how´s it going?
How is Paul doing?
Is there anything new in Gillette?
love, mb
Hey family,
There are still miracles in Nicaragua. I really enjoyed everyone´s letters. It´s very easy to hear everyone´s personality in the letters. Dad´s sense of humor is still very dry. I like it.
Sounds like everyone had a good time up in Gillette. I guess there are a few more rocks in the river now thanks to Adam. haha.
Well, the church attendance is up to 83. Yay! A few nifty experiences...
Saturday night we had nowhere to go and I´m pretty sure that it had been raining so it was really dark and there was no one in the streets. So we ended up going to visit a member. We knocked on her door like 4 times and she finally answered. We shared a message about love :) and asked for references. We had asked her for references like 15 times before so my faith was pretty low/nonexistent, but she gave us 11 references! Yay! I wanted to give up knocking about the second time but my companion kept on knocking until she answered.
Josué and Daisy came to church. I met them when we first came to la borgoña and I always wanted to teach them, but they lived in the elders area. They were going to move to our area, but for the moment only Josué is living in our area. Daisy is being taught by the elders and we´re teaching Josue. But they came to church together yesterday! cool! Wednesday we went to teach Josué at his house and we had planned to teach about the atonement and forgiveness. We had left a passage from Mosiah about how God has given us everything and we have to give to others. We only left 3 verses for him to read and told him to think about how the passage applies to forgiveness. He understood really well. Tuesday before teaching our lesson we asked him about his reading and then we asked if he had a question about something, or if there was something that we hadn´t explained very well. And he said, I would like to learn about the atonement, I don´t really understand it. And I was like... WOW! that´s exactly what we had planned to teach: What is the atonement.
Training... is fun but it´s pretty hard. I feel like I have to do everything. And I need to rely more on the Lord. I feel the Spirit a lot more now. I feel a lot more guided by the spirit. I really do feel where we should go and what we should do. It´s cool. There´s always a lot more to do, but it´s nice/good to recognize that we´ve come along.
We also taught someone that was really interested in our message. He asked a ton of questions. when we talked about the bom he said, you know what, I would have liked to have had a copy of that book. And we talked about the church, I would like to be able to go. And when we were going to end. I would have liked for you to come back and talk a little bit more. well, hermano, it´s a sacrifice, but we´re going to let to read the bom, go to church, and we can even come back and teach. He was studying to be a pastor.
Um... I miss you all. I am going to receive my trunky papers in a few weeks.
Love, hna tew
Monday, August 6, 2012
6 August 2012
Howdy folks.
Happy Birthday Dani! I hope you have a good day today! I love you!
Thanks for the letters everyone. I liked your letters dad.
Thanks to Doug and Mom too.
I needed a pick me up today.
Did you all get my pictures that I sent?
Love, mb
Hey family,
So, like I wrote before Enrique got baptized. It was a really great service. There is a baptismal font in La Borgoña but it´s not very pretty and he wanted to get baptized in the chapel in San Juan. So we went to Managua. He got there an hour late, so we combined with another baptismal service. All five Cardenal children participated. Tami gave the opening prayer and it was so sweet. I was at the back and couldn´t hear all of it but her prayers are always awesome and she prayed for her mom and her dad. bendice a mi mamá y a mi papá. And the week before in all the prayers she and all the kids prayed that their dad wouldn´t change his mind about getting baptized. Eduardo, Angel and Erick gave talks. Eduardo volunteered but the other two had pena and didn´t want to do it at all. But using my cat like persuasive skills they chose to do it. They all did really great. I was really proud of all of them. And Enrique jr. baptized his dad. I went behind to give them a towel as they were leaving the font and they had such big smiles on. It was great. Enrique jr. was trying not to cry. It was really special. I really love this family. They are wonderful. I hope that they can keep progressing all together.
Saturday, the day of the baptism, was hna Martinez´s birthday. Yay! It was her first baptism! We brought soda and bread to Enrique´s house and shared with them. Afterwards we went to the Narvaez´s house to eat cake (and dinner). I´m starting to get a little sick of rice and beans and platanos. I mean.... I looooove eating rice two times a day every day. mmmm...... rice.
Thanks for the worldly updates. I did realize that the olympics were going on but I never hear anything about politics.
Doug! I hope that work went well today! Felicidades! It sounds like you all are really happy there.
Pablito, how are you doing? Write me my friend. are you still in your spanish class? How is it going?
Kyle, I´m glad that you are okay. Be careful! You should be starting at BYU in about 3 weeks, right?
Kevin, I heard something about your rockets. Sounds like fun. Be good and exitos with your schooling!
Cheryl, I hope your foot heals up okay! Thanks for the letter in the tube. I got it last thursday when we had interviews with President Monestel and all the Elders made fun of me and my bazooka, I mean package. I really liked it. I´m thinking about taping around the wall of my apartment.... vamos a ver... It was really fun to see.
Dani, don´t get too crazy up there in the celebrations. Have a good day!
Tanner, Nani, Scotty, Adam, thanks for praying for me. I love you guys!
Mom, sometimes people ask me about how I feel in Nicaragua and what it´s like to be away from my family. And especially when they know that I´m the youngest and the only girl they ask me and how does your mom feel? And I tell them that you all are happy and are blessed that I am here. Sometimes I think that you probably miss me the most from anyone. You write me all the time and I´m really grateful for all your letters. I love you a lot. I like it when you write me three times a week. :)
Dad, it sounds like you are doing great things in the stake. I really like the idea of spending the whole day in an area. That´s great because you get to visit people. Thanks for writing me three times this week. I really like to hear your letters.
Alrighty folks. Take care. Keep praying for me. So I can help people and be better!
Love, love, love Marybeth
Howdy folks.
Happy Birthday Dani! I hope you have a good day today! I love you!
Thanks for the letters everyone. I liked your letters dad.
Thanks to Doug and Mom too.
I needed a pick me up today.
Did you all get my pictures that I sent?
Love, mb
Hey family,
So, like I wrote before Enrique got baptized. It was a really great service. There is a baptismal font in La Borgoña but it´s not very pretty and he wanted to get baptized in the chapel in San Juan. So we went to Managua. He got there an hour late, so we combined with another baptismal service. All five Cardenal children participated. Tami gave the opening prayer and it was so sweet. I was at the back and couldn´t hear all of it but her prayers are always awesome and she prayed for her mom and her dad. bendice a mi mamá y a mi papá. And the week before in all the prayers she and all the kids prayed that their dad wouldn´t change his mind about getting baptized. Eduardo, Angel and Erick gave talks. Eduardo volunteered but the other two had pena and didn´t want to do it at all. But using my cat like persuasive skills they chose to do it. They all did really great. I was really proud of all of them. And Enrique jr. baptized his dad. I went behind to give them a towel as they were leaving the font and they had such big smiles on. It was great. Enrique jr. was trying not to cry. It was really special. I really love this family. They are wonderful. I hope that they can keep progressing all together.
Saturday, the day of the baptism, was hna Martinez´s birthday. Yay! It was her first baptism! We brought soda and bread to Enrique´s house and shared with them. Afterwards we went to the Narvaez´s house to eat cake (and dinner). I´m starting to get a little sick of rice and beans and platanos. I mean.... I looooove eating rice two times a day every day. mmmm...... rice.
Thanks for the worldly updates. I did realize that the olympics were going on but I never hear anything about politics.
Doug! I hope that work went well today! Felicidades! It sounds like you all are really happy there.
Pablito, how are you doing? Write me my friend. are you still in your spanish class? How is it going?
Kyle, I´m glad that you are okay. Be careful! You should be starting at BYU in about 3 weeks, right?
Kevin, I heard something about your rockets. Sounds like fun. Be good and exitos with your schooling!
Cheryl, I hope your foot heals up okay! Thanks for the letter in the tube. I got it last thursday when we had interviews with President Monestel and all the Elders made fun of me and my bazooka, I mean package. I really liked it. I´m thinking about taping around the wall of my apartment.... vamos a ver... It was really fun to see.
Dani, don´t get too crazy up there in the celebrations. Have a good day!
Tanner, Nani, Scotty, Adam, thanks for praying for me. I love you guys!
Mom, sometimes people ask me about how I feel in Nicaragua and what it´s like to be away from my family. And especially when they know that I´m the youngest and the only girl they ask me and how does your mom feel? And I tell them that you all are happy and are blessed that I am here. Sometimes I think that you probably miss me the most from anyone. You write me all the time and I´m really grateful for all your letters. I love you a lot. I like it when you write me three times a week. :)
Dad, it sounds like you are doing great things in the stake. I really like the idea of spending the whole day in an area. That´s great because you get to visit people. Thanks for writing me three times this week. I really like to hear your letters.
Alrighty folks. Take care. Keep praying for me. So I can help people and be better!
Love, love, love Marybeth
Monday, July 30, 2012
30 July 2012
Hey family,
yall should write me por favor.
Everything is fine here.
How is Paul doing?
Are doug and dani living in Gillette?
What's new in Gillette?
Is Romney the un official nominee?
How did the trip to the tetons go?
Dad, how are you doing?
Kevin and Cheryl, how are you all doing? What are Tanner and Nani like now? How is work and church and school?
I love you all!
love, hna tew
Here are some photos. I´m just going to send four at a time and hopefully they all make it there.
On my birthday with hna silva and Gabby. Shes the grand daughter of the family that we eat dinner with.
Cooking one morning with Enrique´s family. Tami and Angel
Rafael working with the tomatoes when we gave service.
Me in my area.
Yesterday our recent convert got married. Her husband has a baptismal date and he went to church this sunday.
The first picture is at their wedding. She is Roberta and he is Noel.
The second picture is my companion, hna. Martinez with a girl from the branch.
I don´t have a picture of the two of us together.
The third picture is Hno Enrique. It was hna Silva´s last day in La Borgoña so I was taking pictures for her. Everyone is there except for Enrique chiquito (the oldest son). They are unbelievably happy.
The fourth picture is our old district. Elder Brough, Elder Tencio, Carlos (he`s from the branch this is right after he got set apart, hna Silva and me) and the little girl is gabby again.
The fifth picture is me and my nacatamal that our neighbor gave us.
Well, there isn´t a lot to tell. I´m fine. My companion is fine. We have two families progressing! yay! I would like to hear how everyone is doing. I hope everyone is happy. Thanks for the note Kyle.
I feel the Spirit a lot more now. I think mostly I recognize it a lot better.
This week sister Payne (from The District 1 those missionary movies that you ve seen that were produced by the missionary dept.) came to our mission and we got to listen to her this past thursday. It was great. She and Pres. MOnestel taught us a lot. She taught us about teaching with the spirit. and how every missionary can be a pmg missionary. She talked about self analizing. not just saying yeah that was a terrible lesson, or yeah that went fine. We should read the standards in pmg and ask ourselves... did I do that? did I do that? We should see what the Lord`s standards are and see if we fulfilled them.
It was great!
Well, write me next week folks.
love, mb
Hey family,
yall should write me por favor.
Everything is fine here.
How is Paul doing?
Are doug and dani living in Gillette?
What's new in Gillette?
Is Romney the un official nominee?
How did the trip to the tetons go?
Dad, how are you doing?
Kevin and Cheryl, how are you all doing? What are Tanner and Nani like now? How is work and church and school?
I love you all!
love, hna tew
Here are some photos. I´m just going to send four at a time and hopefully they all make it there.
On my birthday with hna silva and Gabby. Shes the grand daughter of the family that we eat dinner with.
Cooking one morning with Enrique´s family. Tami and Angel
Rafael working with the tomatoes when we gave service.
Me in my area.
The first picture is at their wedding. She is Roberta and he is Noel.
The second picture is my companion, hna. Martinez with a girl from the branch.
I don´t have a picture of the two of us together.
The third picture is Hno Enrique. It was hna Silva´s last day in La Borgoña so I was taking pictures for her. Everyone is there except for Enrique chiquito (the oldest son). They are unbelievably happy.
The fourth picture is our old district. Elder Brough, Elder Tencio, Carlos (he`s from the branch this is right after he got set apart, hna Silva and me) and the little girl is gabby again.
The fifth picture is me and my nacatamal that our neighbor gave us.
Well, there isn´t a lot to tell. I´m fine. My companion is fine. We have two families progressing! yay! I would like to hear how everyone is doing. I hope everyone is happy. Thanks for the note Kyle.
I feel the Spirit a lot more now. I think mostly I recognize it a lot better.
This week sister Payne (from The District 1 those missionary movies that you ve seen that were produced by the missionary dept.) came to our mission and we got to listen to her this past thursday. It was great. She and Pres. MOnestel taught us a lot. She taught us about teaching with the spirit. and how every missionary can be a pmg missionary. She talked about self analizing. not just saying yeah that was a terrible lesson, or yeah that went fine. We should read the standards in pmg and ask ourselves... did I do that? did I do that? We should see what the Lord`s standards are and see if we fulfilled them.
It was great!
Well, write me next week folks.
love, mb
Monday, July 23, 2012
23 July 2012
Hey mom and dad and other loved ones,
can you look up Mary Katherine Drasbek's email address and also Regan Bakers and send it to me? I can email people.
How is Paul doing
is kyle going to BYU?
Doug and Dani have a job?
love you all. Everything's going good here.
Love, Mb
hello family.
Happy birthday to Doug and Paul and Dani's Grandma! I hope they are good days.
Well, its actually pretty fun to train. Hna Martinez is great. Shes really funny and is always happy. Were working harder and focusing more on inviting people to get baptized.
Enrique has a fecha, the fourth of August. He said he wants to get baptized so he can serve God and keep on learning. Finally! That's the right attitude. Hes great and his family is incredibly happy. Now I just need to find more families like them here in the Borgoña. I want to have more faith. Sometimes I don't feel like I have very much faith and I don't know how I can change that.
This Friday we went to Managua for zone meeting and they had told us to get there early and we left the house late. I was standing up on the bus and I saw a book that someone was reading and a little paragraph caught my eye. It said something like Miracles aren't wrought by holiness. Miracles require faith, not perfection. And I just starting thinking, I know I'm not very holy but I have faith that we can get to the chapel in one hour. And... we were the first people to get to the chapel, and we got there on time! Ive been thinking that if we think God requires perfection in order to perform a miracle that's opposed to the principle of faith.
I finally feel like I have more confidence as a missionary. Everything that we do seems more real to me. I also feel more love for people. Before my mission I think I only loved 5 people outside of my family, and now its a lot easier to love people.
Please pray for me to be able to develop more faith and to be able to find and baptize all the families that the Lord has prepared for me.
Mom, I got the picture letter with the pictures of Doug and Dani and Scotty and Adam and David and the plants. I really like Dani's hair. And the boys look really cute. Its fun to hear about Scotty and Adam's personalities.
I hope everyone is doing well.... Kevin, Cher, Tanner, Nani, Kyle, Doug, Dani, Scotty, Adam, David, Pablito, Mom and Dad. Happy bday to Grandma Tew! and hi to G Campbell and G Tew
Well, talk to you all later... :)
Love, love, love,
hna tew
Hey mom and dad and other loved ones,
can you look up Mary Katherine Drasbek's email address and also Regan Bakers and send it to me? I can email people.
How is Paul doing
is kyle going to BYU?
Doug and Dani have a job?
love you all. Everything's going good here.
Love, Mb
hello family.
Happy birthday to Doug and Paul and Dani's Grandma! I hope they are good days.
Well, its actually pretty fun to train. Hna Martinez is great. Shes really funny and is always happy. Were working harder and focusing more on inviting people to get baptized.
Enrique has a fecha, the fourth of August. He said he wants to get baptized so he can serve God and keep on learning. Finally! That's the right attitude. Hes great and his family is incredibly happy. Now I just need to find more families like them here in the Borgoña. I want to have more faith. Sometimes I don't feel like I have very much faith and I don't know how I can change that.
This Friday we went to Managua for zone meeting and they had told us to get there early and we left the house late. I was standing up on the bus and I saw a book that someone was reading and a little paragraph caught my eye. It said something like Miracles aren't wrought by holiness. Miracles require faith, not perfection. And I just starting thinking, I know I'm not very holy but I have faith that we can get to the chapel in one hour. And... we were the first people to get to the chapel, and we got there on time! Ive been thinking that if we think God requires perfection in order to perform a miracle that's opposed to the principle of faith.
I finally feel like I have more confidence as a missionary. Everything that we do seems more real to me. I also feel more love for people. Before my mission I think I only loved 5 people outside of my family, and now its a lot easier to love people.
Please pray for me to be able to develop more faith and to be able to find and baptize all the families that the Lord has prepared for me.
Mom, I got the picture letter with the pictures of Doug and Dani and Scotty and Adam and David and the plants. I really like Dani's hair. And the boys look really cute. Its fun to hear about Scotty and Adam's personalities.
I hope everyone is doing well.... Kevin, Cher, Tanner, Nani, Kyle, Doug, Dani, Scotty, Adam, David, Pablito, Mom and Dad. Happy bday to Grandma Tew! and hi to G Campbell and G Tew
Well, talk to you all later... :)
Love, love, love,
hna tew
Monday, July 16, 2012
16 July 2012
Hey family,
thanks for the letters Mom, Dad, and Kevin.
Write me a quick letter!
How is paul doing?
Is Kyle going to BYU?
love, hna tew
Hey family,
Kevin, sounds like you are having fun! Enjoy your summer and
good luck with the potato guns. That sounds like a fun project. I hope
school and church and family is going well! I miss Tanner and Nani.
and you guys too! :) I can´t believe that Tanner is able to spell some
words! Wow!
Mother dear, thanks for the letter. Philmont sounds like it
went really well. If you end up going to the Tetons with Kyle that
would be fun. Congrats on finishing the watering system in the garden.
That will be fun to see it. I got your package last week. It came
super fast. I like the puzzle letter and the bracelet you made me. The
chocolate covered raisins melted into a one big chocolatey raisin
mass. Mmmm... yum. Thanks! I told Hna Silva that you sent her a
package.
Dad, thanks for the letter. I love to hear from you. Philmont
sounds great! I´m glad to hear that the Capron Tew water fight lives
on.
Well, I have a new companion. Her name is Hna. Martínez.
She´s from El Salvador. She´s great! I was so nervous. Wednesday we
got to the chapel in Managua really early because we caught a ride with
someone (not hitch hiking). Only one new hermana was coming so when we
saw her we knew she was going to be my companion. She´s really fun and I
enjoy being with her. One of my favorite moments of the week was when
she almost invited our recent convert to get baptized. She was about to
do it and then I started talking about the day of his baptism and she
realized that he was a member. She told me afterwards and we laughed
and laughed. He probably would have accepted. haha
Enrique! I really believe that he´s going to be baptized this
month. He tells us that this month isn´t going to pass without him
getting baptized. Last night he shared some verses with the BoM with us
and he was so happy and I was so happy because he was happy. I feel
really blessed to be able to see all the changes that he has made.
Everything has changed. We went to help him prepare a message for FHE
last night, because his son always does the FHE and we thought that el
papá should start directing the FHE. Turns out that he had the same idea
and was already studying in his Book of Mormon to give a lesson on
repentence and baptism. So tonight, he´s going to teach his wife and
five kids (all of whom are baptized except for the five year old) about
repentance and baptism. Isn´t that great!? He´s going to be a great
member.
The mission has a goal to baptize 60 families in one month. At
the transfer meeting hna Monestel talked about the little engine that
could and how we need to believe that we can. The thought of people
waiting for us should get us moving. We´re never too old or too young
or too weak or too tired to get going on the mission. I liked that
because I really don´t have a lot of confidence in what I do. Sometimes
I think that I just can´t. But of course I can. No one was sent to
earth or on a mission to be a failure. I´m glad that I get to be in
the Borgoña for probably 6 months. The Monestel family is so
good. They really love us, all of them. For the transfer meeting they
had vacations so they all spoke to us. Their oldest daughter gave her
presentation in ENGLISH!! she was nervous but it was great!
I feel like I have made a lot of progress on my mission. I
love people a lot more now. It really makes me sad when I see people
who aren´t progressing. Yesterday in the gospel principles class I felt
happy because everyone participated and talked to each other. They are
each other´s support. Rafael was talking with Enrique and Enrique was
talking with Roberta and Alba. I feel like I actually care about people
now. That´s a good change. I´ve been thinking about what Christ did
when he was here and how I can be more like him. I want to have charity
and faith and hope and an eye single to the glory of God.
Well, my time is about up.
I love you all. I´m praying for you and I know that you all will
be blessed as you live the gospel because the gospel blesses families. I
love you, family!
Love, hna tew
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