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