Jun 24

Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like you all had a good week this past week and that you are all doing good. Happy birthday to Eric, I hope you had a good one! And happy birthday to heather tomorrow, I hope that youve got something fun planned to do. Well I am here in San Cristobal, in Canastica, my companion is elder Mendez and he is from the DR and I live with a columbian and a honduran, so its all spanish again in my house and its going good. Me and Elder Mendez have got some cool investigadors, first off we are teaching this guy named Jorge and he is the husband of a less active lady. The bishop told my comp and his old comp to go and teach the less active familiy, they invited Jorge to share and he has been sharing and going to church for a couple weeks now. When my comp explained his situation I asked him if he has got a baptismal date and my comp said no and that he needs  to get legally married to the his wife. So on Thursday we went to his house and we put a date for his baptism for the 27th of July, my last saturday of the mission and he accepted the date and told us that he has already bought rings for him and her, and he expressed to us his desire to get baptized and basically he is just golden, and another preciouse soul coming unto Christ, I am excited to be able to be here and help him. We are teaching another couple named Alexander and Virginia and they are so awesome, they have been going to church for almost 4 months straight now and the are reading like crazy in the Book of Mormon and in Doctrine and Covenants, they just got to get married legally to be able to get baptized, and he has some problem with his birth certificate, so we are putting some goals with him to do what he needs to do with his birth certificate so that they can get married and get baptized also. So there is quite a lot of work that we need to do here, and a lot of awesome people that we can help come unto Chirst. Watching the capacitation for leaders and missionaries last night got me super pumped to be able to be here full time in the most important work that can be done in this world, and that is preaching the true and restored gospel to all the world, what a maravalous work we have and what a great time it is to preach the restoration of the gospel. I love this time that I have, miss my old area, but already feel sad to not be able to be in this area very long, the ward here is great. Lots of willing brothers and sisters to help the work go forth, the Lord truly is hastening His Work. I love you all and hope that all is going well for you guys back home and that you have a great week!

Elder Wadman

Jun 17

Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like everything is going just great back home for all of you. I want to wish dad and grandpa and all the other dads a happy fathers day yesterday, I hope you had a great day! Its good to hear that all is well with shambree and with meg and with the two new babies that are coming. It sounds like its all just going good back there. Well last night we received transfer calls and after 7 months here in this area I am getting transfered. It is crazy because I have came to love the people here in this ward especially the people that I got to help come to the gospel here. Ive got some mixed feelings about it because it sure is going to be hard to say bye to these people here, but I know that I worked hard here and I got to see the fruits of the labor and I couldnt have asked for a better place to be for the last couple months. I got to see Ana, Isamay and Mari enter into the waters of baptism, and Ana and Mari have already set the goals themselves to go and do take out their endowments. Ana in January and Mari next June, they are two strong women that will complete those goals. Yesterday, Mari was assigned to teach the relief society class after just a week of being baptized, it was a lesson from the teachings of Lorenzo Snow, I didnt even know about it but after all the relief society ladies told us that she taught it as if she had lot of years in the church, bishops wife came up to me after and told me that just for that lady alone I can go home happy, its cool to see how strong of a lady she is and how prepared she was to receive the gospel. Also, Isamay and her husband have got their goals set on a temple marriage and hopefully that can happen this next year too. They are great people here in Los Alcarrizos, great bishopric, and we have had a great ward mission leader, things are firing on all cylinders here and I know the work will keep going forward here and Im thankful for the time God has giving me to be here. Well, I am going to an area called Canastica of San Cristobal, its back outside of the city and from what I hear it will be a little countryish, my companion´s name is Elder Mendez, I dont know him but Ill get to know him. Im excited to go and work over there in San Cristobal and hopefully we can bring a couple more precious souls unto Christ in my time there. I love the mission and this time that I have been giving from God to do His work bring forth the establishment of His kingdom. I love you all and I hope all is well back home have a great week.

Elder Wadman

Jun 10

Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like life is going just great back there for all of you guys. Mom told me that its hotter right now in Liberty than it is in the DR so Im glad to here that it is heating up back there for you guys. Well this week was an awesome week, on Saturday our ward all went to the temple so we had Maris baptism on Sunday right after church. It was such an awesome baptism almost the whole ward was there and the place was packed and we had some awesome messages there and then she was baptized and recieved the Holy Ghost right then and there. She was so excited for her baptism and had been anticipating here baptism for a while. She is going to be a very strong lady and is going to help this ward out a lot. I think I have only found a couple people like her on my mission that have been so golden. We knocked on her door about 7 weeks ago, and she hasnt had problems with any commandments she was already living the law of chastity and was already living the word of wisdom. All we did was knock her door and tried to let her feel the spirit and receive a testimony, well the spirit touched her and a few short weeks later she is baptized. Her daughter also went to the baptism and we have started teaching her too and are hoping to bring more members of her family unto Christ too. It was an awesome baptism and I am going to try to send some pictures home to you guys. Also, our other investigators are progressing along real well too. Rosani has got a baptismal date for the 6th of July we are hoping that she will keep on progressing and that she will be ready and prepared to get baptized. We also have starting teaching this other lady named Yudelki and she is really cool, we have taught her a couple times and we put a baptismal date with her for the 20th of July. We are hoping that she too can get prepared to be able to be baptized on that day. We have been praying a lot to be able to find the chosen ones and the ones that are waiting for us and the Lord truly is guiding us to them. The work is going good just enjoying this time that the Lord is giving me to be a missionary and try and find those that need the gospel in their lives. Anyways, life is great here I truly am enjoying it, I hope that everything is going great for you all back home. I love you all and hope you have a good week.

Elder Wadman

Jun 4

Dear family and friends,

Well it sounds like you guys had a great week this last week, it sounds like it just keeps warming up and that you all are enjoying that summer weather. Well this week was a great one for us we really worked hard we knocked a lot of doors. We are trying to find the people that are chosen and ready and that are waiting for us so we are knocking a lot of doors to be able to find them. We found a couple cool people and hopefully this week we will find a couple more. I am super excited for this week because it is going to be Mari´s baptism. She is super cool and has a strong testimony. In a class on Sunday she stood up and told her testimony about the book of mormon and about the church. She said that she didnt want to get baptized unless she new that for sure that everything is true and she said that she has received that answer from studying the Book of Mormon and praying a lot. She is very excited for her baptism and we are too. Also, our ward is doing a temple trip this week and some of my converts from here are going to go and the ward wants to take Mari too just so she can see the gardens there at the temple, I think it would be an awesome opportunity for her to feel the spirit that you feel by just walking on the temple grounds, so I hope she can go and that everything goes well for her baptism. We have invited a lot of members to go to the baptism and I think that we are going to have a really good turn out, I will send the pictures. Well there is quite a bit of work here to do in Los Alcarrizos, all though I have been here for a while it will be hard to say bye to this place. But I just keep getting the feeling that Heavenly Father has some peopled prepared and waiting for us here, people just like Mari, and Ana, and Isamay. That we just got to keep working really hard and that we will find them. Im very grateful for this time that I have to be a missionary and for all of the learning opportunities that I have and for this time to serve the Lord my biggest hope is to please Him. I love you all and hope that you guys have a good week this week!

Elder Wadman