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