Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like you guys had a pretty cool week this last week down there in Salt Lake, staying at the hotel and going to the play, sounds like it was a pretty fun time for you guys, and sounds like you are going to go have fun down there in hurricane this week too, so I hope that you  all enjoy it down there. Well this week was a great week we taught a lot of lessons and found a lot of new people, hopefully we can find those who have true desire to progress out of all the people we taught this last week. But I do want to tell about one of my favorite lesson from this last week. We taught the In Laws of a priesthood holder from our ward and he went with us too. We taught them the message of the restoration, and it was a very spiritual lesson. They understood the message, the understood prophets, and the apostasy, and the reason why the Lord needed to restore his church. We told about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and we all bore our testimonies. It was a lesson were the spirit filled us with the words to say and it all just  came out great and the spirit was felt by all that were there. They are super cool they both have interest but the wife seems to have a little bit more interest. The only bad thing is that she has to work on Sundays but we are going to explain to her the sabbath day and hope that she will use her faith to change jobs so that she can be able to go to church and receive the great blessings of the gospel in her life and in the life of her husband too. They are super cool and we will be passing by again this week to see there progress. We are also teaching a lady named Isaman and she has almost finished 2nd nefi in her reading of the book of mormon, which is quite a bit of reading in the amount of time that we have been teaching her. She has now heard almost all of the lessons and is willing to keep the commandments of God and has a desire to get baptize, the only thing is that her and her husband have to get married first. So this week we are going to go and get the papers and everything taking care of for their marriage and we are planning on a baptismal date for the 13 of April so that is what we are going to be working at a lot in these upcoming weeks and once we get that taken care of she will be ready to get baptized. Oh and by the way we got transfer calls last night and I am staying here one more transfer with Elder Nelson, so I am excited because we are teaching quite a bit of really cool people and we are going to be having some success in the next transfer. It has been a good time here and we have got a lot more work to get done so I am excited for this next transfer. Anyways I hope that all is going good back there for you guys and that you are having fun. I love you all and hope that you have a good week.

Elder Wadman

Dear Family and Friends,

Well it sounds like you guys had a good week this last week. I hope that all went good with Caitlyn´s talk and that all went well up there in Rexburg. It sounds like it has been a pretty busy week and that things are starting to warm up a bit up there. Well this week was a great week for us down here in the DR. On tuesday we went out and had a great day of work, some of the investigator are progressing really well and we are just trying to help them come unto Christ and have faith in Him, repent, be baptized, receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, and preserve until the end. Some of our investigators are really making big changes in their lives so that they will be able to receive the saving ordinances of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. For example, we have been teaching this guy named Martin and he was a referral that we received a month or two ago. And at first he had the desire to learn but I feel like he was going to church and everything more out of his friendships that he had with the people that gave him to us as a reference and not because it was truly his desire. But we kept teaching him to see if he would receive his own testimony of the restored gospel and the teaching went slow when we started but he kept going to church so we kept teaching him and at first we couldn't get him to read the pamphlets or anything that we were leaving and it seemed like he was just kind of going through the motions. Well the last couple lessons that we have had with him he has read all of the pamphlets and has explained all of them to us and is going to church and has been completing with all of his commitments and we set a baptismal date with him and he should be getting  baptized next transfer. Also, Maria is still progressing right a long and also has a baptismal date for next transfer. We are going to get transfer calls on Sunday and I got a feeling like I might be leaving Los Alcarrizos, if so it would be difficult because we are teaching some really cool people that have a lot of potential, but we will see what the Lord wants. Also, on Wednesday we went to the temple, it was my 3rd and last time in the mission. It was super awesome, the spirit was definitely felt in the lord´s house and it was great to go and receive the spiritual nourishment of the temple, it was a great temple trip. On Thursday, we received two referrals, it was a couple. The couple are the father and mother in law of the stake secretary, that lives in our ward. He went to do visits with us on Thursday and he asked us if we would have time to past by their house and share with them and we told him yes and went and visited them. They seem really cool, the stake secretary says that he has been waiting for the right moment to give them as referrals and he feels like right now is the right time. So it feels good to know that we have the trust and the confidence of the members for them to give us their family as referrals. Most of our good progressing investigators are family members of the members here in our ward. So the work is progressing here in Los Alcarrizos, we are staying super busy and Im just enjoying the moment. I love you all and I hope you all have a good week.

Elder Wadman

Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like you guys have had a good week in this past week and that you have stayed very busy. First off, I got to say happy birthday dad! I hope you had a good birthday and that you guys enjoyed the day, I think mom said that you went to the temple, that is a good way to celebrate the birthday! Also, I want to say good luck to Caitlyn Mccoy as she does her farewell and as she goes to the mission.

This week was an awesome week, we are starting to get a lot of help from the members of the ward. They have been going out with us a lot and visiting our investigators and it has been helping the investigators a lot. Like on friday we left with our ward mission leader to go and teach some investigators, and we went and taught Rosani. In our lesson we shared about the Book of Mormon and we all testified that we knew that it was true. After she stopped us and she asked us how we all got our testimonies, she said you guys all say that you know that the church is true but what happened how did you guys receive your testimonies. And all three of us told her how we received our testimonies, it was very spiritual and she told us that she has felt the same feelings in her heart when she goes to the church and when she shares with us. We told her that it is the Spirit that is telling her that what we teach is true. She has a difficult situation because her husband doesnt want her to get baptized, he doesnt even want her to go to church. Its tough because she has a testimony but we are just going to have to be patient and see if the Lord will softens the guy´s heart. Also, with Maria, Rosani´s mom, we shared with her yesterday and she is going through some trials right now because her mom is really sick and she is about going to die and her dad just died a couple years ago, we explained to her again about the plan of salvation and about how she is going to see her relatives again after this life. She told us that every time she feels bad or disheartened that she starts reading the pamphlets and the Book of Mormon and it always brings peace back into her heart, she also told us that she knows that these things are true. She has a baptismal date for April 6th and she has given up coffee and other things and is right on track to recieve the blessings of baptism. So we are just going to keep working with here and keep helping her through the trials she is having.

Also, yesterday we shared with this mom named  Rosi, she told us that she has shared a lot with a lot of different churches and with a lot of missionaries from other churches but she feels something different when we go by and teach her. She said that their is something special and that she can feel and she hasnt felt it with all the other churches that have passed by. We told her that she wasnt feeling those things because of us the missionaries, but it was because the Holy Ghost is telling her that the message is real and that our words are true, that is why she was feeling those feelings. It is so awesome to be able to be a witness of the Holy Ghost testifying the truth of our words to the people. I know that the message that we share of the restored gospel is true, that Joseph Smith was called of God to restore the fullness of the Gospel to the earth. That the Book of Mormon is the word of God, along with the bible. And I know that my Savior Jesus Christ lives, He lives and through Him we can all live. I love the Savior, and His Gospel its all true, and Im very thankful for the testimony that I have and that has grown so much more here on the mission. So everything is going great here just taking this great message to as many people that are willing to accept it. I love you all and I hope you have a good week this week.

Elder Wadman

Dear family and friends,

Well, it sounds like all of you had a good week back at home, st. George trip for some you and the Thailand trip for the others sounds like you guys had some fun trips. I also saw a picture of Megan and Tyler with a tiger, so that looks like it was pretty interesting. Well this week was an interesting week for us. The work is still going just great, we have been finding a bunch of cool people and our investigators are progressing. We set a baptismal date with Maria she is mom of the mom that found us on the street and told us to come back to her house and share more with her and her family. Well on Saturday we were sharing with her and she told us that she had been praying a lot about the message and that she knows that it is true because she has felt the peace and happiness inside. She received an answer from God through the Holy Ghost. I am really excited for her and for the decisions that she has been making lately to make her life and the life of her family better. Also with Isaman, the lady that has the baptismal date for the 23rd of March, everything is just rolling along quite nicely except that her and her husband need to get married, she is in the same situation as almost all Dominicans, they live with someone for years and they call each other husband and wife but they never go and get married legally so she needs to get married before she gets baptized so we will be working on that. This week was a little sad for us and for the ward because the 2nd counselor in the bishopric in our ward died. He was a great guy always smiling and a young guy too. He had a diabetic attack and he went to the public hospital and because the hospitals aren't very good here he ended up dying. So it has been a week full of funeral stuff here so its been pretty sad. But yesterday in the fast and testimony meeting was very powerful and very spiritual, lots of people bore their testimonies about how we never know when it is our time to go to the other side but we need to be prepared, and that we can be prepared through keep the commandments and making sure that we do all of the ordinances in the temple so we can be sealed to our families. Our counselor was sealed to his wife and his kids, and although it puts them in a very tough spot and a sad situation they at least have the knowledge of the gospel and know that he still lives and that they are going to see him again. I'm very grateful for the knowledge that I have of the plan of salvation and that knowing that through Christ we will all live again and that through Christ we can repent and be cleansed from our sins and be ready for whatever happens. I know that He lives and is our Savior and He just wants all of us to go unto Him and receive the peace and the joy that he gives. Anyways, other than that all is going very good here, the work is going forth and we are just looking for the people that are waiting for the gospel in their lives. I love you all and I hope you have a good week.

Elder Wadman