Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like you all have had a really good and busy week this last week. Meg and Tyler were out in across the world riding elephants and petting tigers and stuff. Mom´s been tending their kids and dad has been busy with all the Stake stuff, so it sounds like its been a good week. Well this week has been a great week here too for me. We have been finding some more cool people and some of our investigators are really starting to progress. This past week we contacted this lady and we started teaching her husband and her and they just felt the spirit from the get go of our first lessons and we invited them to go to church and they showed up. We asked them if they wanted us to go look for them before church and they told us that they would find it, and so that is what they did they showed up by themselves without really knowing where the church was, so it was really cool to see them show up. Also the rosani, the lady we found a couple weeks ago, is still just progressing and her mom too. They are reading all of the pamphlets and are going to church so they are right on track to receive the great blessings of baptisms. And we are also teaching this other lady her name is isaman and her husband is a member who is coming out of inactivity. We found them a couple Pdays ago, when we got finished writing you guys we started walking back to the house and on our way home the guy saw us and called out to us and told us that he wanted to repent and come back to the church and that he wanted his life to hear the lessons. Well they have been going to church every week for about a month now and she is reading the book of mormon and is already in 2 nephi 10, so she has a lot of interest in the message and accepted a baptismal date and will be getting baptized on March 23, we just got to get them married first and then she will be ready. So we are finding a lot of people and we are just trying to be the Lord´s instruments here in Los Alcs, so all is going well. So I am still just learning a lot, one thing we teach a lot to our investigators, is recognizing the holy ghost in their lives as it gives them answers to their question. Like it says in Galatians that the fruits of the spirit are love, peace, joy, goodness etc. We explain to them that the spirit will talk unto our minds and unto our hearts, so when they pray about the message, and if the message is true, then they are going to feel the peace, the happiness, and the joy in their hearts and then they will know that it is the spirit that it is testifying that the message is true. I have noticed that when we really explain it to them so that they can understand how to recognize the spirit, they receive and recognize so many more answers from God. It is the same with us in our lives, when we realize how to recognize the spirit in our lives then we will strive so much more to have those feelings with us everyday. And we will be guided to help a lot more people. Anyways, everything is going good for me here, I hope that all is going good back home. I love you all and I hope you have a good week.

Elder Wadman

Dear family and friends,

Well, first off that is big news about dad and being the new stake president. So dad you will do a great job and like I said in the other email youre prepared for this calling. I also was excited because now I know that him and mom will be home for the next 9 years and it looks like dad will be setting me apart when i come home so that will make things easier haha. But anyways that is a great opportunity to serve the Lord my prayers will be with you both, dad and mom. Well this week has been an awesome week in the Lord´s work. The coolest thing from this week had to have been yesterday in Church. So what happened is that we have been teaching a family for a couple weeks and them mom and the kids have been going to church for a couple weeks straight but we have been having troubles with getting the dad involved. But on Saturday we went out to their house and we taught them and the dad decided to sit down and listen to us. At the end of the lesson we committed him to come to church and he said that he would go and he went. So the mom and dad and the a girl of 14 and a boy of 11 all went to church yesterday. And our lesson on satuday we taught them the word of wisdom and the mom has a problem with coffee but she committed on Saturday that she is going to stop drinking coffee and she is going to pray for strength to stop doing it. So this family is super awesome, and it is weird because at the first they just werent keeping commitments and didnt seem like they had a lot of interest and then we had a very bold lesson with them about getting their own testimony about the restoration of the gospel. The Lord spoke unto their hearts through the power of the Holy Ghost and after that they have been keeping their commitments and are getting closer to being able to making covenants with the Lord. So I am excited for them and their progression in the Gospel and in coming closer to God. Also things with Rosani are still going really well we are just trying to help her to grow more faith and to get closer to God too, so it has a been a good week. What I learned this week is about the same as last week, if everyone just had the same mindset as Joshua to serve the Lord and put Him first in all things then how much better off would we be as members of church and in the world. If each of us had the mindset that no matter what comes a long in our life, if we remember that we are going to put the Lord first and the we are going to keep the commandments and serve Him and others, how much more good could we do? So that is whatIm striving to do in my life and im going to strive to help the investigators here in Los Alcs to do the same. Anyways, I love you all and I hope you have a good week this week.

Elder Wadman

Dear family and friends,

Well you guys dont know but I just wrote this whole email and I accidentally hit a button and it all got erased so this is my second time writing it, so I will see if i can remember everything I wrote the first time. Anyways, first off Happy Birthday Grandpa! I dont know if he reads these but if not will you guys tell him that I say happy birthday. Well this week was an awesome week for us here in Los Alcarrizos. Yesterday, in church we had almost 10 of our investigators come for the whole 3 hours, most of them even got there early, which is something cool here because Dominicans are never on time for anything, theyve kind of just got that island no time feeling I guess. But one of the investigators that showed up was that Lady that I told you guys about last week. She is the one that found us in the street and told us to come back and visit her again. Well, we passed by her house on saturday and she was washing all the clothes and and cleaning her house and she told us that she was getting everything done so she would be ready for church on Sunday. And she showed up with her 2 kids and with her mom, that we are teaching too. She really liked church and I am pretty excited for her and her mom and their progression in the gospel. Also, there is another family that we are teaching and they are really cool but havent wanted to commit to doing very many things. So on Wednesday we had a pretty blunt lesson with them. We told them that they need to pray about what we are teaching and they need to receive their personal answers to the church, and that they need to meditate about if they have true desires to learn about and follow Christ. We left them with basically that thought in their minds, the spirit was felt and it was a good awakening lesson for them. Well, when we went back the next time the mom and the daughter had read the whole pamphlet and had prayed, they said that they werent sure if they have received an answer yet but they committed to go to church and then they went to church too. So I am pretty excited for them too and Im praying that they will receive the answer to their prayers. Also, we receive a referral this week and she is a single mom of 3 kids and it just seems like she has been trying to find the truth for a long time and we told her that the easiest way to recieve an answer is through praying and asking God. So we have some people that are really taking this stuff seriously and the ball is rolling her, Im just praying that they will receive the answers to their prayers and that they will commit to put the Lord first in their lives, just like Joshua when he says, as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. So Im pretty excited and I think we will be able to help the Lord bring forth His work down here this transfer. Anyways, everything is going really good for me down here, Im just enjoying this time that I have to serve the Lord full time. I hope everything is going good for you all back home. I love you all and have a good week.

Elder Wadman

Dear family and friends,

Well sounds like it was a great week for you guys in this last week. I got to see all the pictures of Russell and mom and dad´s trip down to st. george. And I also heard that Liberty made the news with 32 inches of snow, so its good to hear that we are getting plenty of snow back there, i hope you guys are having fun in all of that. Well, this week was an awesome week for us we saw the Lord´s hand in the work. So a couple weeks ago we contacted this family and we started teaching them, but they werent really reading the pamphlets that we were leaving and they just didn't seem way interested in the message so we decided to let them have more time to get ready to hear the message and i put our number on the back of the pamphlet and i told them to give us a call when they had read the pamphlet and we left and started working in a different area. But the other day we were finishing up teaching at the end of the day and we were about to walk back to the house to finish up the day, but we needed to talk to one more person on the other side of the area but it wasn't very important and we were thinking well its late lets just go back to the house, but for some reason we decided to go back and talk to the person. It ends up the person that we needed to talk to wasn´t even in their house, so we thought, dang whatever, lets go back to the house and there as we were walking we saw the mom of the family, and she was a far distance from her house, and she said that she was hoping we see us again because her and her family had all read the pamphlet and that they wanted us to pass by and start teaching them again. So we passed by and they had read everything and they were praying about the message. We will see what happens with them but it was a crazy way to run into her again and then to find out that she was reading and wanted us to go back and keep teaching her and that she wants to change her life, which was a great little miracle. And then the other day we taught a first lesson to this guy that only had one leg because he had lost it in a working accident, anyways we started teaching him about the Savior and about all that He has went through for us, how he has suffered for all of our pains, sins, and weaknesses and that through Him we can become whole, and that the Lord has a plan for each and everyone of us and the spirit was felt and the man started crying.  And we explained to him that what he was feeling was the spirit. It was a nice little miracle to see God touching someone´s heart. All and all the work is going forward and we are looking for those who are ready for the gospel here in Los Alcarrizos and I'm just loving it, things are going great. I hope that everything is going well for you all back home. I love you all.

Elder Wadman