Dear Family and Friends,

Well first off congradulations Tasha and Ryan with the baby! I cant wait to meet Sara Ann when she is a year old! And Reggie when he is two haha I saw the pictures and it looks like kenzi jack brady and gabe will be helping out a lot with her, so congradulations! Well mom it sounds like you made it through girls camp and that it was alot of fun too. Well I am here now in Barahona and it is quite the paradise. From the top of our house i can see the beach and there is always a nice breeze from the ocean that hits us. Well, i spent all day tuesday traveling and i got here in Barahona at 9 at night. The buses to bring us out here were full so we spent about 7 hours at a bus stop waiting for a bus to bring us out here but in the end we made it. My first morning here we woke up early and we ran out to the beach, so now i can say i have been to the beach in the DR. So that is really cool well half of my area is up in the mountains and when we are contacting i feel like I am at home up in the mountains... and then i see dominicans and palm trees  and i remember that i am still here in the DR. But the area is really cool.  Yesterday we went to church and this branch needs a lot of work. The branch president is strong but he doesnt have much help. We went to church and with our investigadors there were 41 people at church and besides the branch president, and a couple kids that are about to go on missions, there wasnt anybody there who has the melchezidek preisthood. So it is a little weak but with the Lords help we should be turning it around. I talked with the branch president and he is going to give us a list of all the inactive priesthood members in the branch and we are going to start visiting all of them and start getting them reactivated. We are going to try and work with the Branch President a lot and be the help he needs to get this place turned around. So i am excited for the oportunity to work in this area and get things rolling. The people here are super nice, everybody says hi to everybody and everybody wants you to come in and sit down and talk to them, so they are easy to love here. The literacy rate is a little bit lower here than in the city but the people are nicer here than in the city. My companion is a mexican named Elder Vicente and we live with a missionary from Honduras and one from Peru so i am still sticking with the 24/7 spanish. So thats always good to keep practicing the spanish. My new house has got water and power 24/7 so i am basically just living the dream right now haha. Well we have a couple of investigadors that are progressing and i have a feeling that with the Lords help we definately can work some miracles here in Barahona. So I that is what is going on with me these days but I hope that everything is going well for you guys back home and that you are having a fun summer. I love you all

Elder Wadman

ps here are some photos