Dear Family and Friends,

Well it sounds like life is going pretty good for you all back there at home. Mom still is getting all of the vegetables and fruits from the garden, and everyone is back into school, sounds like it was a pretty chill week for you all. Well this week was a good week for us too, don't worry there weren't anymore tear gas bombs this week. Claudia still hasn't moved because another person rented the house that she was going to rent but she found another house and should be getting moved here pretty soon. She is still really strong and is learning a lot and her faith is growing a ton, she will be a strong convert. We also have been finding a lot of new people that have a lot of potential to progress so things are looking up right now. And the branch is doing better too, yesterday we had 60 people in church and we had some really good meetings. Yesterday, me and my comp had the opportunity to teach the primary. The primary is really really irreverent here, and there are a lot of kids that are quite a handful so the branch president threw us in there to control them because they have scared away all of the other teachers. When we are in there they stay a lot more reverent but i took a DVD of the ¨living scriptures¨ the book of Mormon stories in cartoon version and they were all hooked on it. Still though after an hour of being in there i was tired and wanted out, I have a lot more respect for all of the primary teachers the ones that put up with me and the other guys from our ward when we were little, you definitely would learn a lot of patience with that kind of calling. Also, on saturday we had a huge service project with all the people here in Barahona and we went down and cleaned the beaches. All the beaches close to the town here in Barahona have a lot of garbage, so Saturday there was a big service project to clean up the beaches and the majority of the people down cleaning were members of the church so it was fun to be able to help out with all of that. The beaches looked a little bit better when we left but still have a little bit of garbage. Also, on Friday i spent the whole day in the chapel, from 9 in the morning until 1015 at night. Our zone had interviews with president and because it was our chapel and our house was closest to the chapel we were the last ones to recieve our interviews. We even had a big activity at the church that started at 7 and got over at 830 ish, and when it got over we still hadnt got our interviews but then at like 945 we got our interviews and finally went home and slept, so it was a pretty long day. But next friday we are going to have a conference with Elder Anderson of the area presidency so i am pretty excited about that. Anyways things are still just rolling right a long here the work is coming forth and we are doing our best to help these people out here. Well I love you all hope everything is going good back home and that you all have a good week this week.

Elder Wadman