May 27

Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like you guys had a good week this last week. It sounds like Gabe is off the feeding tube and is just loving life, and it sounds like dad had quite the trip down in Texas but it sounds like all went well. Well you guys are probably all eating some good old barbecue right now and I hope that you are all enjoying it. For me, this week has been an awesome one, it starting to get back into hurricane season so it has started raining a lot again so that's always fun. Also, the investigators are doing really good, Mari is looking great for her baptismal date. She always has so many questions and wants to learn so much about the church. She is reading a lot in the Book of Mormon and she has been going to every activity in the church, her daughter has started coming to everything too and on Saturday we set a baptismal date with her daughter too, now we only need to get her husband on board too. It is so great to see how much happier Mari has gotten through living the gospel and through  finding the truth that she has been looking for for years. On Sunday in the investigators class she told the class about how she has wanted to join a church for a long time but was just waiting to find the true church, she said that she had been praying for a couple months to find the true church and then we knocked on her door. She always talks about how she accepted a baptismal date in the first lesson and that she cant wait for her baptismal date. So we are really excited for her and for her daughter. We also have been teaching Candido, we had a really spiritual lesson with him this last week about the restoration and about the church being restored to the earth again. He understood it completely  and said that he is praying a lot and that he wants to know for sure if everything we teach is true before he gets baptized so we just told him that if he wants the answer then he just has to pray and ask God and that God will answer his prayer. We also have been finding a lot of inactive people and have been sharing a lot with them, trying to get a couple reactivated, not a ton of success with that yet but we are working at it. So the other day I read a scripture in Doctrine and Covenants that explains a little bit about missionary work. It says that we are here to find the chosen ones, and that the chosen ones, or the people that are ready, wont harden their hearts. That got me pretty motivated, so we have been knocking doors like crazy lately trying to find the chosen ones that wont harden their hearts, I know that their are some more that are out waiting for us right now in this area so this week we are going to go hard and we are going to find them. Well I hope everything is going good back home I love you all and hope you have a good week.

Elder Wadman

Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like this last week was a good one for you guys back home. sounds like mom is getting back to planting and that it is starting to get really green back there. I saw pictures of Gabe and it was great to see him out there playing outside and being able to play again, so I was excited to see that. Well this week was pretty great here in the D.R. the work is just continually moving forward, we are just finding more people that could have a lot of potential to progress in the gospel. With Mari everything is going good, on Saturday we went and shared with her and the bishop´s wife went with us too. It was a great lesson and bishop´s wife is really cool and shared her testimony and it was on like a perfect level with Mari because she told about her conversion story and it really helped Mari. Also, on Saturday the other missionaries in our house had a baptism and we invited Mari and her and her daughter went. After the baptism she had a tear in her eye and she said that she loved it and cant wait for her baptism so we are super excited for her. And then her daughter came to church on Sundaytoo and she is about 18 so we are going to start sharing with her because it looks like she has got a lot of desire to learn about what her mom is doing. So everything is going great with Mari. We also found this other guy named Candido this week. He is probably about 45 years old and we knocked his door and he let us in right from the get go. So we shared with him and set a baptismal date with him and asked him to pray about it to know if it is what he should do and to know if our message is true. We also invited him to go to church and he told us that he was going to go and then on Sunday he showed up with a shirt and tie. We were pretty excited about that, he has a lot a questions about the gospel, he really liked church but he asked me a couple times who was Joseph Smith, so I told him that our next lesson that we would explain who Joseph Smith is. Its crazy because we havent shared with him very much but he decided to come to church and tonight we invited all of our investigators to come to the church and we are going to watch the restoration, so it will help the newer ones to know more about Joseph Smith and how we have the church and to feel the spirit. Candido said that he is going to go tonight too. He told us that he wants to change his life around and come unto Christ so Im pretty excited for him. So right now the work is going really good, we are working hard to try and find the chosen ones. All and all everything is going great here, just enjoying this time that Ive got to do this work. Anyways, I love you all and hope you guys have a great week this week.

Elder Wadman

Dear family and friends,

Well it was good to talk to you guys yesterday! It sounds like all is going well for you back home and that you all are enjoying life right now. Well when I got done talking I realized that ididnt wish mom a happy mothers day. So Happy mothers day mom, and grandma, and tashaand megan, and all the other moms that are reading the email. It was good to get an update on everything that is going back there at home and hear whats going on. Well I gave you guys a pretty good update yesterday about what is going on here but Ill just re pass. Well I told you all about Mari and everything is going just great with her she is getting ready for her baptismal date on June 8th and we are pretty excited for that, we still need to teach her some more stuff but for now she is looking really good for that day and she is going to be really strong too when she gets baptized because she is really smart and knows a lot, so we are just going to keep teaching her and get her prepared. Also, I told some of you guys about Amouris, he is a police man and we have been teaching him for about a week and a half. Well he has been reading everything that we give him and yesterday during sacrament meeting he leaned over to my companion and he told him that he felt really good and that he wants to get baptized, so we are excited to keep teaching him too. Also, with Maira and Orfelio they are just constant, they have been going to church for about 3 months now and are just turning into dry members but this week we are going to visit them with a member from the ward and she is a lawyer. So she is going to explain to them all the process of divorce, if you guys dont remember he needs to get divorced to his wife from years ago and get married to maira so they can get baptized. It will be a little bit of a process but we are going to get them started on it so they can come to waters of baptism and make covenants with the Lord. The ward here is doing great and the work is coming a long just great too. Im loving the mission and the time ive got to serve the Lord here. Well I love  you all and I hope everything is going well back home and that you guys have a good week this week.

Elder Wadman

Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like you guys had a good week last week. It likes we had quite the miracle with Gabe and it sounds like he is going to be able to come home this week, that as a great blessing from God. It also sounds like grandma`s funeral went really well and that it was a very happy funeral, so I was glad to hear that too. Well this week has been a great week, I told you guys about the women that we ment last week named Mari, well she is super cool. So we have shared with her about the restoration and also about the plan of salvation and she told us that she has recieved an answer from God and that she knows that what we have explained to her is true and that she wants to get baptized. In our first lesson we put a baptismal fecha with her for June 8th and every time we pass by after she always reminds us of that date and how she is preparing for that day. She said that before we knocked on her door that she had been praying for a couple months to know which church is true and to know which one to join. Well we knocked on her door and she has completed with the commitments and is preparing for baptism. She went to church on Sunday and she really enjoyed it so God definatly helped us find her because she was truely looking for the truth. And we asked her if she is married to her husband and she said yes! which is very rare in this country so she is just golden and Im really excited for her. Well we recieved transfer calls last night and Elder Neslon is leaving and I am staying and Im getting a new comp named Elder Mahn, or something like that. By the end of this transfer I will have almost 7 and half months in this same area, but its good because I really like this area, and there are a lot of people to help here and our investigadors are super cool, so lifes good. We are just going to keep working hard and we are going to keep trying to to find the chosen ones here. Anyways, next sunday is mother`s day so I am going to be calling you guys, mom said that you get done with church at 2 so I will call at like 230 your guy`s time and we will chat it up! Well I hope everything is going good with you guys this week, everything is going great here, I love you all and have a good week.

Elder Wadman