24 September 2012
Hey family,
How are you all doing?
Mom, how is the garden doing? Tutoring? Spanish class?
Dad, how is work with the other three mines down south?
Kevin, write me! I hope school and family is going great!
Cheryl, how are you doing with everything? Is it weird just to have Nani at home sometimes?
Kyle, your bike ride sounds cool. What did you do once you got there? How is BYU going?
Doug, are you getting used to work now?
Dani, are you getting used to Doug going to work? How do you feel to be back in Gillette?
Paul, How are you feeling? How is work or school or both going?
Mom, the creche display thing sounds fabulous! I wish I could be there
to see and hear and sing it all. That just sounds awesome. This week I
completed one year in Nicaragua. One year ago I was in Nagarote,
getting confused. haha Well, I´m thinking that this is my last week in
La Borgoña. I´ve gotten the letters that you´ve sent me from Hannah, my
friend from BYU that´s in Russia, and I just can´t imagine being in the
same area for 8 (or was is 9) transfers. The Borgoña is small and I´m
kind of ready to leave. Hopefully I´m not jinxing myself, because I
could stay here for another transfer. But I´m ready to leave. It´s a
special place and I love the people here but I want to start over. New
place, new adventures. I guess we´ll see next week. Hna Martinez is
really fun to be with. We made pupusas today. The first one didn´t
work out very well, it just broke into little pieces. I was
interviewing her and making a video and she told the camera that la
pupusa se hizo pupusitas. It was really funny. They turned out pretty
delicious.
Highlights... Friday we visiting a less active father and his family
which is active. We decided to teach faith in Jesus Christ. In the
pamphlet there is a picture that I always love to teach with because it
is Jairus´ daughter. And I talk about how Jesus can heal us. This time
when I was sharing the story it came to me that the whole family was
part of the story, not just Jairus. In the picture you can see the dad
and the mom and we talked about how they probably felt, judging by the
picture. The dad got kind of interested and started talking about how
the dad looked happy but almost a little surprised. And he kept on
looking at the picture and kept on talking about how we need to show our
faith. It was a cool experience because I had never thought of sharing
the story about a family but it seemed to hit home with him. Something
I´ve learned here is that we should always strive to teach with the
spirit, but even when we teach with the spirit, some people are going to
choose to sin.
Yesterday we started teaching one of our investigators to read. He
loved it and I loved it too. I was thinking about the special ed classes
and how they really have helped me to teach. It´s not that the people
aren´t smart, it´s that they are so poor that they couldn´t go to school
when they were younger because they had to work. It´s sad that there
are so many people that can´t read. Giovani, the investigator that we
were teaching, was writing a and e. After we had him read a line of a´s
and e´s. a a e e e a a e something like that. And he was LOVING
IT!!! Then we talked about how he has two types of homework, he has to
write and he has to pray. It was cool.
Well, it´s been a good week. I hope you all are doing good. Don´t get too crazy up there.
Love, hna Tew
Monday, September 24, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
17 September 2012
hey family,
hey family,
a few questions...
did you all get my pictures and voice recordings that I sent like two or three weeks ago?
is tanner going to school?
also, I don´t know if it´s possible but I would like to get a new debit card....
love you all!
thanks for the emails Dale and mom and dad.
send me a note, the rest of you
love, hna tew
hi family,
Yesterday we had stake conference. We went to
Managua. One of our recent converts told us that she had received many
answers to some questions she had had. Questions about why some things
hadn´´t worked out in her life like she felt God had promised. And she
said that she realized that it´s because she hasn´t been responding to
the promptings of the Holy Ghost or keeping the commandments completely.
She said that she has to fast more and that she has to keep the
sabbath day holy and that she always has to pay her tithing. And that
was awesome to hear because she really has a humble heart. The
conference was great We got instructed that we shouldn´t say "everyone
shut your little eyes" and "let us pray", when we go up to the
pulpit to pray. That was probably my favorite part. No, seriously it
was really good because they talked about how the Nicaraguan members
will never get out of poverty until they keep the sabbath day holy.
President Monestel talked about how we need to be like Amulek. He
shared the story of how Alma preached to the people with the help of
Amulek. He talked about how Amulek was probably a less active. He also
talked about how Zeezrom preached the gospel and how King Lamoni
preached too. It was cool because a lukewarm church member, a wicked
lawyer, and a wealthy king all changed and started to share the gospel.
People were amazed when they listened to Amulek because there was a
second witness to all the words of Alma.
We found out that one of investigators actually DID show up to
church one of those weeks when we thought we had no investigators. He
said, yeah I sat next to Don Victor. And then we talked to Victor (Hno Narvaez) and
he was like, it´s true he did sit next to me. So that was cool.
We also went to El Eden and it is so beautiful there. It´s up in
the mountains. SO BEAUTIFUL. And everyone we met was outrageously
nice. We met someone the elders had been teaching before and he just
said, welcome to my house over and over. We read Alma 7 with him and he
really liked it because he had been confused if we based our faith in
Joseph Smith or Jesus Christ so he really liked what we shared. He has
gone to church twice. He´s a cool guy. His name is Melquiz.
Hey Dale! Thanks for the letter. I´m glad that you´re up there
in Gillette, and I wish I could visit with you! Tell Andrew that I say
hi and that the mission is the best thing that I´ve chosen to do in my
life. Love you! I hope you are doing great!
Mom, thanks for the letter. It sounds like you´re doing fabulous. I love you!
Dad, don´t get too crazy up there in Gillette and all over the place. I love you!
Dani, thanks for the letter, that´s great that Doug got a job offer.
Monday, September 10, 2012
10 September 2012
Is Tanner going to school?
Kevin, that´s awesome that you´re interviewing with BYU.
I got the Dear Elder letters from hannah and Ben. Thanks mom. :)
Also I received the letters from youth conference. They got sent to Guatemala first.
I hope you´re all doing well. Thanks for writing me.
love, mb
Hey there family,
How´s it going?
Mom.... thanks for the letters and everything. I liked the Spanish letter. If you stop talking to Dad in English you will feel a lot more comfortable when speaking Spanish. Your Spanish is going good. Felicidades! :)
A few phrases or words that are really common that I never learned until coming to Nicaragua
Darse cuenta
Tener pereza
Estar rendido(a)
Cansarse
Felicitar
Alegre
Buenísimo
I would really love some music to listen to for before Christmas. I can listen to inspired music by the church or by church members. I would like some motab porfa. My wish list in pocas palabras would be....
1. Chocolate
2. Peanut Brittle
3. Christmas stuff to decorate and music to listen to
yep, that about sums it up. But could you send me a package that I could open before christmas with decorations or music. I don´t want very much. I can make paper chains here, but maybe something to put on the table or something.
Also, could you send me like 5 or ten cards that aren´t girly? I really like the cards I have, but I can´t really give them to any men that get baptized. Thanks for everything mom. All my district leaders and all the office elders always tell me that I get a ton of mail (the mail comes through their hands) They always say, it´s a competition between you and hna cottam. haha
Also, thanks for the pictures of the miracle tree (thanks Dani). I love that tree. :)
Dad, thanks for the letter. I love you!
Douglas, thanks for the letter. I´m glad work is going well. don´t get stressed. Just don´t do it. Sounds like you and Dani are doing great out there.
Kevin, write me! Are you getting busy with everything?
Kyle, be good. I hope BYU is going great and that you´re enjoying everything down there.
Pablito, hows it going. I hope you are feeling good.
Dani, thanks for the fotos and the letters!
Cheryl, Hope you´re doing great and that the kids are being good!
Tell Robert I say hi. That´s crazy that he´s back from his mission. Wow.
Um...La Borgoña is moving along. We need help from the members. Noel came back from Costa Rica and started drinking.
Paul... yesterday something hilarious happened. We were teaching a lesson and I noticed that it kind of smelled bad but I didn´t know why. A few minutes later I realized that there was a weird noise. I looked back and there was a pig that was vomiting about 3 feet away from us. Oh.... that´s why it smells bad.
We had some great lessons with Ernesto and Jessica. We introduced the Book of Momon and then read to them about repentance and baptism. It was awesome because hna Martinez led the lesson and we had planned it during comp study. We talked about how Jesus heals us when we go to him (3 nefi 9), Then about how we can go to Jesus 2 Ne 31) and when we should go to Jesus, or in other words when we should repent and be baptized (Alma 34) Jessica said, yeah because we never know what will happen. Maybe we don´t go to church on Sunday and on Monday we die. and I guess that´s true. After hna Martinez invited them to get baptized and they said yes. They committed to go to church on Sunday. But they didn´t go.
She works a ton and doesn´t have time to wash except for Sunday. Sunday morning I noticed that there wasn´t water. And I thought, oh no, our investigators are going to use that as an excuse. So I said a prayer... please let the water come. And seriously in less that five seconds the faucet started dripping again. But.... it wasn´t until later in the day that I realized that if the water hadn´t come, Jessica wouldn´t have been able to wash, and she might have gone to church. So, I guess I shouldn´t have prayed for the water to come? I don´t know. But I like them because they listen and we feel the spirit really strongly with them.
Love you all!
love, hna tew
Is Tanner going to school?
Kevin, that´s awesome that you´re interviewing with BYU. I got the Dear Elder letters from hannah and Ben. Thanks mom. :)
Also I received the letters from youth conference. They got sent to Guatemala first.
I hope you´re all doing well. Thanks for writing me.
love, mb
Hey there family,
How´s it going?
Mom.... thanks for the letters and everything. I liked the Spanish letter. If you stop talking to Dad in English you will feel a lot more comfortable when speaking Spanish. Your Spanish is going good. Felicidades! :)
A few phrases or words that are really common that I never learned until coming to Nicaragua
Darse cuenta
Tener pereza
Estar rendido(a)
Cansarse
Felicitar
Alegre
Buenísimo
I would really love some music to listen to for before Christmas. I can listen to inspired music by the church or by church members. I would like some motab porfa. My wish list in pocas palabras would be....
1. Chocolate
2. Peanut Brittle
3. Christmas stuff to decorate and music to listen to
yep, that about sums it up. But could you send me a package that I could open before christmas with decorations or music. I don´t want very much. I can make paper chains here, but maybe something to put on the table or something.
Also, could you send me like 5 or ten cards that aren´t girly? I really like the cards I have, but I can´t really give them to any men that get baptized. Thanks for everything mom. All my district leaders and all the office elders always tell me that I get a ton of mail (the mail comes through their hands) They always say, it´s a competition between you and hna cottam. haha
Also, thanks for the pictures of the miracle tree (thanks Dani). I love that tree. :)
Dad, thanks for the letter. I love you!
Douglas, thanks for the letter. I´m glad work is going well. don´t get stressed. Just don´t do it. Sounds like you and Dani are doing great out there.
Kevin, write me! Are you getting busy with everything?
Kyle, be good. I hope BYU is going great and that you´re enjoying everything down there.
Pablito, hows it going. I hope you are feeling good.
Dani, thanks for the fotos and the letters!
Cheryl, Hope you´re doing great and that the kids are being good!
Tell Robert I say hi. That´s crazy that he´s back from his mission. Wow.
Um...La Borgoña is moving along. We need help from the members. Noel came back from Costa Rica and started drinking.
Paul... yesterday something hilarious happened. We were teaching a lesson and I noticed that it kind of smelled bad but I didn´t know why. A few minutes later I realized that there was a weird noise. I looked back and there was a pig that was vomiting about 3 feet away from us. Oh.... that´s why it smells bad.
We had some great lessons with Ernesto and Jessica. We introduced the Book of Momon and then read to them about repentance and baptism. It was awesome because hna Martinez led the lesson and we had planned it during comp study. We talked about how Jesus heals us when we go to him (3 nefi 9), Then about how we can go to Jesus 2 Ne 31) and when we should go to Jesus, or in other words when we should repent and be baptized (Alma 34) Jessica said, yeah because we never know what will happen. Maybe we don´t go to church on Sunday and on Monday we die. and I guess that´s true. After hna Martinez invited them to get baptized and they said yes. They committed to go to church on Sunday. But they didn´t go.
She works a ton and doesn´t have time to wash except for Sunday. Sunday morning I noticed that there wasn´t water. And I thought, oh no, our investigators are going to use that as an excuse. So I said a prayer... please let the water come. And seriously in less that five seconds the faucet started dripping again. But.... it wasn´t until later in the day that I realized that if the water hadn´t come, Jessica wouldn´t have been able to wash, and she might have gone to church. So, I guess I shouldn´t have prayed for the water to come? I don´t know. But I like them because they listen and we feel the spirit really strongly with them.
Love you all!
love, hna tew
Monday, September 3, 2012
3 September 2012
Hey family,
thanks for the letters mom dad and dani. I hope everyone is doing okay. I love you all!
Write me a note
love, hna tew
Hey Family,
Thanks for the letters,
The first picture is hna martinez dying. I mean.... being silly.
The second is today after playing basketball out in the sun.
The third is what we did after playing basketball.
I hope you can open the recordings. They aren´t very prepared. But it was fun to record a little bit.
Um... well I´m going to be honest. I´ve felt really stressed out lately and we haven´t been having very much success. I don´t know why it´s so hard for me just to trust God that everything will work out. I don´t feel like I´m progressing very much spiritually, I just feel like I´m going and going and going.
But...yes I have still seen the hand of the Lord in my life. I guess I just am not very grateful for everything that he does for me. Because he really does help us, especially as we strive to be obedient. I´m an obedient missionary, but I am not perfectly obedient. So, that would be a good goal, I guess. Strive to be perfectly obedient. I think another good goal would be pray more ea
Let´s start now.
I´m really grateful for the chance I have to be in La Borgoña because it´s a special place.
I´m really grateful for the opportunity to know Enrique and his family because I feel like they are my family. I care a lot about them.
I{m grateful to be companions with Hna Martinez because she has excitement to do things well and she always enjoys life. She´s a good example of how to be happy.
I´m grateful for the chance to talk with everyone about the gospel because that´s cool. I can say hi and start talking about baptism or repentance or Jesus or the plan of salvation.
I really don´t have very much time today.
Noel is coming this week and we are praying that he won´t go off drinking like he did last time he came.
The new family that we found, Ernesto and Jessica seem really positive. They both prayed with us and I definitely felt the spirit. I like finding.
Enrique is doing great. His family is so happy. I love them so much.
I´m glad to hear that Kyle is enjoying school.
I love you Paul! Be good!
Douguito, hope work is going good.
Kevincito and Cherito thanks for teaching your kids to pray for me.
Love you all!!! Love you mom!
hna Tew
rnestly: express more gratitude and
ask more specifically for the things that I need. I feel like these are the same goals I have had for all of my mission.
Hey family,
thanks for the letters mom dad and dani. I hope everyone is doing okay. I love you all!
Write me a note
love, hna tew
Hey Family,
Thanks for the letters,
The first picture is hna martinez dying. I mean.... being silly.
The second is today after playing basketball out in the sun.
The third is what we did after playing basketball.
I hope you can open the recordings. They aren´t very prepared. But it was fun to record a little bit.
Um... well I´m going to be honest. I´ve felt really stressed out lately and we haven´t been having very much success. I don´t know why it´s so hard for me just to trust God that everything will work out. I don´t feel like I´m progressing very much spiritually, I just feel like I´m going and going and going.
But...yes I have still seen the hand of the Lord in my life. I guess I just am not very grateful for everything that he does for me. Because he really does help us, especially as we strive to be obedient. I´m an obedient missionary, but I am not perfectly obedient. So, that would be a good goal, I guess. Strive to be perfectly obedient. I think another good goal would be pray more ea
Let´s start now.
I´m really grateful for the chance I have to be in La Borgoña because it´s a special place.
I´m really grateful for the opportunity to know Enrique and his family because I feel like they are my family. I care a lot about them.
I{m grateful to be companions with Hna Martinez because she has excitement to do things well and she always enjoys life. She´s a good example of how to be happy.
I´m grateful for the chance to talk with everyone about the gospel because that´s cool. I can say hi and start talking about baptism or repentance or Jesus or the plan of salvation.
I really don´t have very much time today.
Noel is coming this week and we are praying that he won´t go off drinking like he did last time he came.
The new family that we found, Ernesto and Jessica seem really positive. They both prayed with us and I definitely felt the spirit. I like finding.
Enrique is doing great. His family is so happy. I love them so much.
I´m glad to hear that Kyle is enjoying school.
I love you Paul! Be good!
Douguito, hope work is going good.
Kevincito and Cherito thanks for teaching your kids to pray for me.
Love you all!!! Love you mom!
hna Tew
Monday, August 27, 2012
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
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 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
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