Dear Family and Friends,

Well, this week was quite and windy and rainy one. Friday, we got a call from president that told us that we couldn´t leave the house because the hurricane isaac was coming, so all day friday we stayed in the house. Luckily the hurricane didnt hit us here because if it did this whole city of Barahona would have been wiped out. We had little bit of it hit and just the tiny bit that hit did quite a bit of damage. A lot of trees got pulled out of the the ground and the streets were rivers because of how much rain we recieved. Their is a bridge that connects the whole south part of the country with the Santo Domingo and it got taken out because the river got so high. But from what ive hear it got replaced yesterday so things are connected once again. The good thing is that no one died here in the DR, but i heard that 4 people died in Haiti so i hope it didn´t do any more damage over there and i hope it doesnt do too much damage up there in the states either. But it was quite a spectacle, my first cyclone! haha Anyways, the only damage that happened with our house is that it started leaking and we had a little pool in the house. Then we went to the church and everything was perfectly in tact but there was a little pool in the church from all the water that came in so saturday morning we spent our time getting all of the water out of there, it reminded me of my days at Brad and Teri´s house after it flooded haha But all and all we made it through the storm. Anyways, this week the work went good too, with claudia i was praying quite a bit about her because i didn´t feel like she was ready to be baptized on saturday, so we postponed the baptism for the 15 of september, she too felt better about this new baptismal date. She has had a lot of things going on in here life lately, especially in this last month so we couldnt share with her as much as we wanted to but now we are reteaching her everything again and i already feel that she is a lot more ready to take on the covenant of baptism, and she will just keep on progressing and be more ready everyweek, and she will be prepared for the 15th so we are excited for her. Also, in the branch good things are happening. My first week we had the president and one other preisthood holder there, and a lot of inactive preisthood holders but we have been visiting alot and been doing a lot of visits with president and there are  a couple priesthood holders that have gotten reactivated, And yesterday three of them got callings. One to be elders quorum president, another to be secratary of the branch and the other to be the young mens president. And our president is going to call the one that has been active this whole time to be his counselor so things are turning around here in the branch and with the Lord´s help things should continue to change for the better. So everything is going good here and we are all safe no problems with hurricanes or nothing haha. We also just had transfer and president is leaving me and my companion together another transfer here in this branch so we are going to continue working hard and have another good transfer. Well I am glad that everything is going good for you all back home. I liked seeing the pictures of all the guys trying to put up the greenhouse and grandma and grandpas´s house.. hopefully it will last the winter. Also, the day of service sounds like it is a pretty cool event, i bet you guys got a ton done. Anyways family, I hope you all have a good week this week and know that i love ya all.

Elder Wadman