Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like you guys had a great week this last week, It sounds like it warmed up a little bit and that you guys got to enjoy the sun a little bit this week. It sounds like Gabe is getting better and I heard that he even got to ride a train, so its good to here that he is doing better. Well this week was a great week for me here in the work. We had an awesome experience on Friday, we were teaching a bunch of first lessons in our area and we would teach the people but not very many of them had very much interest in the message, but then we showed up to last house on the street and we taught a lady named Mari. We got there and we started sharing with her and she told us about how she has seen a bunch of messages of the church on TV and she said that the messages are always so positive and that she always feels so good after watching them. For some reason, I felt impressed to talk about all of the joy, peace, and happiness the gospel brings into the lives of those who accept it and live it. We shared for a while and after a little bit she told us that she had been suffering from depression, she said that she believed in God and that she has been trying to find a way to bring peace and happiness back into her life again. We told her that through the gospel she would be able to feel the peace and happiness again and that the message would greatly bless her and her family. We came back on Sunday afternoon and she said that she had been praying a lot and had been thinking about what we said on Friday and that she was feeling a lot better. I could tell because on friday she wasnt smiling at all, but when we went back on Sunday she was smiling and was very excited. She told us that she will be going to church on Sunday and she accepted a baptismal date right then and there. Now it will be the process of teaching her but she is really cool and I believe that this message is going to help her out a lot, and that through the gospel she will feel the peace and happiness once again in her life, so that was a really cool experience. Also, with Maira and Orfelio, the couple, they are becoming dry members, they are coming to church every week and have been reading a lot in the Book of Mormon and have told us that they know the church is true and that they will be getting baptized once they get everything figured out so that they can get married. They are really cool people and have made big changes in their lives. Really it has been great to be able to see all the changes that these people have been making in their lives to be able to come unto Christ and receive all the blessings of the gospel. The mission is going just great, I am enjoying the time and all of the experiences that I am having. I hope that you guys are enjoying life back home. I love you all and hope that you have a good week.

Elder Wadman

Dear Family and Friends,

Well, It sounds like it has been a pretty crazy week for all of you last week. I was super happy to hear about Gabe and that he is getting better. I was praying a lot for him last week, Im glad that he is feeling better and I just saw a picture of him in Tasha´s arms so it looks like he is doing really good. I am glad to hear that grandma got to go and be reunited with grandpa once again it sounded like she missed him a lot and I bet he missed her too, so it is happy that they are back together again. You guys are going to have to tell me how the funeral goes and send me the pictures and everything, she was a good lady. I will miss seeing grandma getting mad at grandpa and him saying, yes dear. They were good people and now they are together again.

Well, this week was a great week with the missionary work. We have still been going strong with our goal to put baptismal dates in the first lesson with everyone that we share with. It has been helping out so much, the lessons have been so much more spiritual and we find out a lot sooner about who are the people that have true desire to recieve all the blessings of the gospel and to come unto Christ. So we are still finding a lot of cool people in that way and some of them have really started progressing. There is one couple that we are teaching that are super cool. They have been coming to church for about 2 months straight now and both of them have reciven answers to the prayers and they know that the church is true. Yesterday in the investigaders class in church the teacher taught about the atonement of Christ and how we can all receive the blessings of the atonement we only need to have faith in Him, repent and be baptized. And then the teacher invited all the investigadors to accept to be baptized and they both said that that is what they want to do. They really do have a lot of desire and are super cool, but they also need to get married too, but with them it will be a longer process so we will see what we can do for them. Also, on Saturday we shared with a guy named Negro and he lives with his wife and they have three kids that are all grown up. Well we shared with him and his wife on saturday and at the end of the lesson he agreed to go to church and sunday at 8 in the morning he showed up. He really liked it and we are super excited to start teaching him and to see how he progresses in the gospel. Really, the work is going great right now and we are just trying to bring as many unto Christ as possible, so its going great. I hope all goes well this week with you guys and with the funeral, I love you all and I am thankful for all you do for me. Have a good week.

Elder Wadman

Also, a special shoutout to Spencer and Dallin Happy Birthday guys! In all the pictures they look so much bigger, I guess I will just see how much bigger they really are in a couple months. But Happy birthday to both of you guys!

Dear family and friends,

Well I just got on and saw the letters it looks like there have been some complications with gabe´s surgery and that he is going to get open heart surgery tomorrow he is in my prayers and will continually be in my prayers this whole week. I hope that all of you guys are staying strong through all of this too, I know that the Lord will help us make it through this. Gabe is a strong little boy and I hope that these surgeries help him make it through this. We just have to keep our trust in the Lord, He knows the plan that He has for each one of us. If we keep our faith in Him then we can make it through any difficulty and challenge, the Savior knows what each one of us goes through, just like it says in Alma 7 that He would go forth suffering pains, afflictions and sicknesses of his people so that he could know how we feel and know how to help us. I know that if we rely on the Savior and trust in His redeeming power in our life and during this time we will make it out on top. I love you all and know that I will be praying for all of you guys too and especially for Gabe.

To give you guys a quick update on what happened here, Isamay got married on Thursday and bapitzed on Saturday. It was an awesome baptism the spirit was definatly felt at the baptism. We had a couple investigadors show up and at the baptism we watched the short movie about the restoration, and everytime I watch it I feel the spirit so strongly. I am glad to be born into this family that has the knowledge of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And I am thankful that God has called prophets once again and has revealed to us the way to make it back into His presence and His Son Jesus Christ after this life and for the temple covenants that make it possible to be able to have eternal families. It is all true, I have felt it and I know you guys have too, keep the faith and all will go well. I was going to send pictures but this computer wont send the pictures, I will find a way to get them to you. I love you all you are in my prayers and Gabe too, have a good week and keep me informed on what is happening.

Elder Wadman

Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like you guys had a good week this last week, and that it is warming up back there. I hope you all enjoyed general conference and the great messages that we heard onsaturday and sunday. It also sounds like you guys had some spiritual experiences at Ryan and Tasha´s and the fast and blessings for Gabe. He has been in my prayers and fast too, he is a trooper and all will go well. He will be in my prayers this week too. Well this week has been an awesome week, weve have seen the Lord´s hand in His work. I am going to tell you guys about a couple different investigators that are taking some big steps to get closer to baptism. First off, Isamay is going to get married on thursday and then will get baptized on Saturday this week. Everything is looking really good for her she is reading a lot in the Book of Mormon and has a solid testimony about the restoration of the gospel. So this Saturday she will get baptized. Also, we have set a new goal to set specific baptism dates with everybody that we teach. If they accept then those are the ones we need to be working with, if they dontaccept then we are going to waste the Lord´s time on someone that isnt serious about making covenants with Him. So last week, we set specific dates for  8 different people and we told them all to pray about it to know if the church is true and if they should get baptized. It is working out really good, we had 8 people that showed up to general conference, and out of the 8 there were 6 that have baptismal dates and that are progressing toward those days. So the excitement levels are high for the work right now we are finding some really cool poeple. For example, on tuesday we left at 10 after studying to go and work and we had to walk about 25 minutes to get to our area. We had a lesson planned out with a lady and when we got to her house we saw that she wasn´t there, so we decided to start tracting, the next house that we got to an older lady answered the door and she didnt really want to let us in but asked us how long our message was and we told her about 10 to 15 minutes and reluctantly she let us in the door to share with her. So we started sharing with her and I could feel the spirit there at her house during the lesson, at the end of the lesson I remembered our goal to commit people to get baptized even in the first lesson. I explained to her the importance of baptism and the importance of being baptized by someone the holds the true priesthood power of God. I asked her, that if she prayed, and if God told her that the church is true, and that she needs to get baptized, then would she be willing to follow the example of Jesus Christ and get baptized. She said that she would pray and that if God tells her then she would get baptized. We asked her to pray and ask God right then and there, in her pray she sincerely asked God to know and by the end of the prayer she was crying, we explained to her that what she was feeling was the Holy Ghost and it was telling her that the message is true and that she needs to get baptized. We set a baptismal date with her for a couple months in advance, so we can teach her everything but she felt the spirit and received an answer from God. Also, a couple weeks ago I told you guys about a referral that we received from the stake secretary that lives in our ward. The referrals are his in-laws, we have had a couple really cool lessons with them and very powerful, but the mom has to work on sundays and the dad just didnt want to commit to go on Sundays. Well on Wednesday we had a lesson with them, and at the end of the lesson I remembered the goal that we had to commit everyone to follow Christ´s example and get baptized. I explained about the same thing that I explained to the other lady and they also said that if God answers their prayers then they will be willing to get baptized. We told them that they needed to pray fervently to receive the answer and they committed to pray to know for sure. Well it looks like they started praying because for the first time the dad decided to go to church with us, and it just so happened to be general conference. I was super excited to see him in church and the best part was is that after conference he told us that he loved it and that he felt peaceful and good inside and that he really enjoyed it. We will be passing by this week to talk more with them but we are really excited for them. Also, Maria has got a date for baptism on the 4 of may, we have been working a lot with her. She is reading a lot in the Book of Mormon but she was having some troubles with getting to church and we had a very bold lesson with her and we told her that her commitment to go to church isnt a commitment between her and us but it is between her and the Lord. Right there she committed to go to church and then she went to general conference. So she is back on track to be able to receive the great covenant of baptism. Basically, we are finding a lot of cool people and are having a lot of spiritual experiences just trying to help these souls come unto Christ. The work is going great, the mission is great and all is going good. I love you all and hope that all is going well back home with you guys too and I want you all to have good week this week.

Elder Wadman

Dear Family and Friends,

Well it sounds like you guys had a fun time down there in hurricane this last weekend and it sounds like the baby blessing went really well. Congrats to Brad and Teri and to Russell, the pictures look like it was a lot of fun and a good turn out. Well this week was an awesome week for us, it was a week full of service, I got to do a little bit of EW excavation Dominican style. There is a member family in our ward that are super poor but they are building a new house and we had to dig out the footings for the house with picks and shovels. We invited all of the 20 missionaries for the zone to come over and help out too. We got a lot done and we dug her down a lot, one thing that I noticed is that my hands have gotten soft, because I cut them all up, but it was a lot of fun it felt good to get back in a hole with a shovel and to go to work. So we did that twice this week, it was a good little service project. With the missionary work it is going really well, this week we found an awesome new investigator. Her name isMagalis she is about 40 and has 2 children and we had our second lesson with her on Thursday and she was there waiting for us, we went to her house with the ward mission leader, and we started teaching her. She seemed super interested, she committed to go to church and the lesson was super spiritual and at the end we invited her to pray and when she got done praying their were tears going down her face and she was smiling, we told her that what she was feeling was the Holy Ghost and that the Spirit was telling her that what we are teaching is true. She said that she was going to invite her husband to share with us for our next visit and on Saturday we passed by and her and her husband were sitting there waiting for us with the pamphlet in their hand ready to share. We had another cool lesson with them on Saturday and she committed to go to church again but her husband couldn't and he told us that next week he is going to go to church. We told her that we would pass by in the morning early on Sunday to go and find her. Our church starts at 8 o'clock and she lives a good 20 minutes from the church so we went and got to her house at about 730 in the morning and her and her 10 year old son were ready to go to church. Her son told us that they had woke up at 6 to get ready to go to church. We went to church and she told us that she really likes it and she has already expressed desires of getting baptized but like everyone else in this country she needs to get married legally to her husband. So we are going to be working a lot with her and I am super excited to see her progression in the gospel. Also with Isamay, we are going to get all of the birth certificates in this week and hopefully have the wedding next week so she can get baptized on the 13th of April, that is what we are hoping for and so far it is looking like we will be able to make it for that day with a little help from up above. We have another couple that have been coming to church for a month or so now and they are really cool. They want to get baptized but the thing is that he got married by the law before to a different lady and then they split up a couple years ago and then he moved in with this other lady that we are teaching. So in order for them to get baptized, he has to get divorced and then they got to get married and then they can get baptized. Here in this country divorce is a super big process and it cost lot... money that people don't have here so we are going to keep teaching them all of the gospel and keep praying and figure out someway to get the divorce process going. But this couple  is super excited for general conference and to see and hear the prophet and the apostles and so am I, it is going to be a great weekend, to be able to hear the Lord´s chosen Prophet and the Apostles here on the earth. It is great opportunity that we have as members and as the world to hear them so we are getting pretty excited. All and all everything is going really great I am just enjoying this time that I have to serve the Lord and see the changes that are coming in to these peoples lives. Anyways, I love you all and I hope you all have a good week this week.

Elder Wadman