Dear family and friends,

Well this week has been a great week here in Barahona. The Lord has given us the helping hand this week a lot. On Wednesday I had an exchange and I stayed in my area with a mini missionary. Kids here can do mini missions for a couple weeks or so when the mission needs them to come and fill in until the end of a transfer or so. So I was with the mini, and we were knocking doors and we had been knocking doors for about 3 hours straight and we had another appointment that we needed to go to. So I said ok we need to head over to an appointment and we stopped and were about to start walking to the appointment when i looked up and saw three more houses on a little street. I was thinking to myself we should go and knock those houses before we go to the appointment so I said lets go finish these three houses and we will finish the street. We knocked the first house and they told us no, the second house there wasnt anybody inside and then the third house a lady answered the door and told us to come in. I thought well we have the other appointment but we still have a little bit of time so we went in there and shared with her briefly and told her to pray and ask the lord if what we had explained if it is true. So we left and didnt think much of it, I just thought well she is pretty cool we will see if she progresses. Then on Friday we went back again and she had read the whole pamphlet. I asked her if she prayed about our message and she said that she did, I asked her how she felt and she said that she felt a change in her heart and that she wants to keep learning more about our message. The spirit was super strong with her and I really think that she recieved the anwser from God and that she is going to be very strong in the church. Also, on saturday Pepe got baptized it was an awesome baptism all of his family was there and a bunch of people from the branch and it was a great baptismal service. The gospel is going to help him out a lot as he is entering into being a young man, he has got potential to be very strong in the church here. Also, last night at about 8 o clock we had just left from an appointment and we were walking to go to another appointment when a member that is less active from the branch drove up on his motorcycle. He told us that his baby boy that is about 2 years old was in the hospital with amebas, jardia, and other parasites and that he is really sick. He asked us to go give his son a blessing and we said of course and we headed to the hospital. So here in my area a river started up, that goes through the middle of the streets, it started after the hurricane. This family was over visiting their family that has a house right in front of the river. I guess the kids were out there playing in the river and the little boy drank the water and for that he got really sick. So we went to the hospital and gave him a blessing and shared with the family. I shared with them Ether 12 27 were it talks about weaknesses and that the Lord will show unto us our weaknesses and if we humble ourselves before the Lord he will make our weak things become strong. I told them that last night that they were feeling there weaknesses because truely they were powerless that wasnt anything that they could do. They could only give him the proper medical treatment and put it in the hands of the Lord. So that is what they did they were humble enough to come and give us the spiritual priviledge of giving their son a blessing and they had been praying a lot for him. We are going to pass by their house tonight and see how things are going or if they are still in the hospital. But the wife told us yesterday after the blessing and everything that she knew the baby would be better and that they would leave the hospital today so we will see. But it truly was a spiritual experience and I am grateful I got to be apart of it. Anyways I hope you guys are doing good back home and that you have a good week this week. Everything is going great here with me, I love you all.

Elder wadman