Cuentas Tus Bediciones

Well family I am glad to hear that you guys finally got some snow in
March! that is pretty stinking cool. That is awesome that you guys got
to go and have a ski trip too, it sounded like it was pretty fun. That
is cool to hear about stephen and another call to mexico city, I am
excited for him... But it is a bummer because he is missing out on the
DR now haha And that is sad/happy to hear about June but now she has
went home and is back in the presence of the savior, so that is
awesome for her. Anyways so I have kept forgotten to say stuff for the
last couple weeks, first off when Bednar came we also learned that
they opened up Cuba to missionary work! That was one big part of what
Elder Bednar is doing down here, but we heard that they are only
sending dominicans, venezuelans and bolivians missionaries, only from
countries that dont have problems with that. So we are thinking that
most all of the kids from here will start getting called to Cuba so
that is really exciting. Maybe they will send a couple of us Gringos
too and see how we fare there haha just messing im pretty sure that
wont happen. But listen for it in general conference they will anounce
it. Anyways, this week has been an awesome week. Well we have been
here in enriquillo for almost 6 weeks knocking doors everyday and
teaching first lessons but we havent had anybody progressing and we
just have kept doing the same thing day in and day out. Well on
saturday we contacted a lot and we had our agendas filled up with
almost 15 first lessons to teach. As we left the house we said a
prayer that we could find someone that would accept the message and
come to the waters of baptism. And I knew that if we had faith the
Lord would do the rest for us. So we went out to work and out of those
15 appointments we taught 1 and everybody else fired us. After that my
faith was a little low, I thought, wow, how are we supposed to find
somebody that will accept the message and be baptized if we cant even
get into their houses. But we kept working, I had forgotten that at
the end of the night we were going with the first counselor in the
bishopric, because he had a referal for us. So we met up with him and
then we went and met his referal. She is about 17 but she has been
going to seminary for a while and has been going to church with her
friends too and we didnt even know. We taught her the first lesson and
the spirit was super strong, so we set a date of baptism with her that
same night! And now she has been reading the book of mormon and she
came to church yesterday and it truely was an answer to our prayers!
It was super awesome, and then we went to one more appointment that we
had planned that night right after that and it was a guy that we
taught the first lesson and he has already read 10 chapters of the
Book of Mormon. So the Lord has really led us to the people who are
prepared. So this week has been awesome and we are going to keep
moving forward with these people too. Anyways, the church is true, the
gospel really has been restored on the earth and it is an awesome
opportunity to be a part of it down here in the DR. Anyways, I love
you all and have a good week.
Elder Wadman