Dear family and friends,

 

Well it sounds like this last week was very busy for all of you and that the christmas season is here and that you are all enjoying that. Well I have to send out a congrats to Meagan and Tyler who are going to have another baby July 10, congratulations! There will be a lot of new faces for me to meet when I get home, I am excited for you guys. Well this week was an awesome week in the work. Last, Sunday we knocked on this door and a middle aged lady answered the door and we started talking to her, turns out her name is Ana and that she has a son in the East mission here, and that she isnt a member. So we shared with her, and bore our testimonies and we told her that she needed to read and pray to know the truth. So we went back a couple days later and she told us that she had read and had prayed and that she knows that the Church is true. She told us that Sundays are here only free days, and that she usually does all of her house chores on Sunday but that she was going to do all of her house chores on Saturday from now on and go to church every Sunday. And congratulated her for making that decision and then I asked her if she would be willing to be baptized and she said yes, but that she just needs to get some things done first and I asked what she needed to do, and she told us that she needs to get married, she has been living with her basically husband for 19 years but they just hadn't gone and got legally married. So she told us that she will go and round up all of her information, and that she talked to her husband and that he is willing to get married and then we will go get them married. And that once she is married then she will get baptized, and I said welll that is perfect. So we are going to be doing that this week trying to get all of their birth certificates and papers rounded up and then we will take them to the judge and get them married. She also told us that her husband has shared with missionaries before and that we should try to start teaching him too, so tomorrow night we have an appointment with her and we are going to invite him too, to come and share with us so that the whole family can recieve the blessings of the Gospel. But anyways yesterday at church she showed up early in skirt and everything, basically just a golden investigador, I am so thankful that the Lord led us to her, I bet it is an answer to her missionary son's prayers, so hopefully God can use us as the instruments to help this family come into the gospel. We also found this other guy named Elias and he is just finishing egineering school, but is in the middle of getting a divorce, so basically a pretty crappy time in his life. We shared with him last saturday and he was very sincere and truly wants to come unto Christ and change his ways, so we are going to let the gospel help him out a little bit. Anyways fam the mission is awesome, I am so glad that I have this opportunity to serve the Lord and the people here in the DR. The field is white and it is a great time to be a missionary and to be able to testify of Christ everyday and of his infinite atonement, that through him we can overcome all hardships and all trials, and recieve a remission of our sins. Like President Monson says, the true meaning of Christmas is easy to remember, just drop the last syllable, it's Christ. I love the Savior and I know that He lives and that he truly has given us the greatest gift, and that is that through him we can have eternal life. Anyways fam, I love you all and I hope you have a great week this week. I wont be writing next week because we have a Mission Christmas Conference, but i will write you guys on the pday before Christmas which will be Christmas eve. But I am thinking that I will probably be calling at about noon or one oclock on Christmas. But write me and tell me what would be the best time for all of you and we will figure her out on Christmas eve. Anyways have a good week.

 

Elder Wadman