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