Barahona Conference

Dear Family and Friends,

Well I am glad to hear that the trip up in Jackson was a success! I heard that there were some fighting words, and that next year i am going to receive an L on my forehead in Ticket to Ride... we will just have to see about that haha. Am glad to hear that you got  the boat out on the water and did a little bit of skiing and wake boarding. Well this week was a good week, we got a lot of work done. We've won the confidence of the branch president and he has started doing lots of visits with us and it truly has been working. There is one other strong Melchizedek priesthood holder in the branch and he did some visits with us this week too, needless to say it paid off. We had a little over 60 people in the church this week and 6 Melchizedek priesthood holders, that might now sound too great but trust it is really good here haha. Also this Sunday president Rodriguez came to Barahona and the whole mission presidency, because here the branches and districts are underneath the mission president. The first counselor in the mission presidency came to our Branch and he gave an awesome talk. It got all the people fired up. There were two inactive Melchizedek priesthood holders that showed up for church on Sunday and the talk from the counselor got them fired up. Then President gave a conference last night for all of Barahona and it was really good. He talked about love and the importance of love and how barahona is only going to grow when there is love in there hearts and they are helping each other grow in the gospel. So everybody here has caught a new bit of excitement and are wanting to do the lords work. Also with our investigadors we are having some that are progressing. we started the week out with two people that have baptismal dates and now we have 6 people that have baptismal dates! So with the Lords help hopefully we can help them make their covenants with the Lord and recieve the cleansing affect of baptism. So things should be changing around here in Barahona and hopefully we can get the work rolling the way the Lord wants it done. Anyways, I hope you all have a good week this  week, everything is going just great for me down here. Supposedly there is small hurricane coming this way but last week a small hurricane passed and it just rained a lot, i guess that is what happens this time of year but dont worry we are always protected. Anyways i love you guys and i hope you have a good week.

Elder Wadman