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