Dear Family and Friends,

 

Well it sounds like you guys had quite a fun week this week. WIth the montgomery family party and with the boating out there at pineview, looks like it all was pretty fun. I am glad to hear that you guys had some really good soup and geeze oh sheeze, the little kids are getting so big from the pictures i saw. I saw gabe out there on the tube and the last thing i knew he was way to small to be out there on the tube and now he is just tubing away! So that kind of surprised me. Anyways this week was really good for us we had a lot of opportunities to serve this week. First one of our investigators lives in a really rough area there are a lot of gangsters more or less that live where she lives. For example, something crazy happened to us this last week. First off, Elder Morgan from Idaho, is back in my district. I lived with him for like 5 months back in Enriquillo and he is one of my best buddies in the mission. But on Wednesday i went on an exchange with him and he came over to my area. We went to my investigators house, the one that lives in the rough area, and we started teaching her. We started talking about tithing when we heard some hit the top of the roof and it was people throwing rocks at the police. Then we heard something else hit the top of the roof and it fell down in front of the house and it was a tear gas bomb and it exploded in front of the house and started shooting out the smoke stuff. So she grabbed her kid and took off running out the door, she went to the right and another one exploded in front of her and then she took of running to the left and a guy pulled up with a motorcycle and picked her up and they took off. So me and Elder Morgan looked at each other and we decided we should probably start running because the smoke stuff stings really bad, so we took off running. And we heard 3 more bombs go off behind us, we were about to take a left at the street and we saw the police with there shotguns and other guns coming our way some we decided to run the other way and we got aways from everything. And now we walk past there the people always those mormons are really fast, i guess we were booking it pretty quick out of there haha but dont worry all is good there. Well that investigator happens to be Claudia and she has been trying to move for a long time. She told us that she wants to move before she gets baptized because she separated with her ex husband and he wants her out of the house. So she wants to have everything resolved before she gets baptized, so i finally just asked her what is keeping her from moving and she told us that she need 3000 pesos to move to the other house like 75 dollars and her ex husband doesnt want to help her. So i told her that i didnt want her in that house anymore so i am going to give her the money she needs to finally get out of her house and out of that neighborhood. So that is what is happening with her and then another one of our investigators houses got pretty messed up during the hurricane so we had the opportunity to help him out too. And we have found another investgator and he uses a wheelchair so on sunday we went and passed by his house early in the morning to go and take him to church he lives like 20 minutes from the church, and he has went the whole way all by himself before and i told him to not go solo and that would pass by and take him to church. So we took him to church and then when we were coming back from church i asked him what he was going to eat for lunch and he told me that he doesnt have any food in his house so we went to our house and gave him a big bag of rice and avocados, and then took him home. So it was a really rewarding week to be able to be in the right spot to help some people out here in Barahona. So, the work is coming a long and Claudia will be getting baptized any saturday now we just need to get her moved first. But other than that everything is still just chugging right a long, we are getting a lot done and i am thankful for this opportunity i have to serve and to learn. Anyways, i hope you guys are all doing good and that you have a good week in this upcoming week. I love you all.

 

Elder Wadman