october 25, 2010

So I've been in North Carolina for 1 week now, and it's going great! I'm in a city named Greenville, and I cover the Greenville second ward, as well as the Greenville College Branch, which covers the East Carolina University campus, or ECU. The area has been really slow for a long time, in the last 14 years they've only had like 2 baptisms, but we're going to fix that. My companion's name is Elder Anderson, and he's from Burley, Idaho, and he has been on his mission for 23 months, so he goes home in 5 weeks, this is his last transfer. We had our first baptism on Saturday! A college student named Hope Echols, who had been taught for some time, but we were able to help her keep her baptismal date and be baptized, so that was really incredible. We also set 2 baptismal dates in November, for Emily and Alex, so we should be having at least 2 more baptisms in the coming month, and we have one more girl named Mary who I think will have a date within a week or two. The lord has blessed us already so much with this success, and I can't wait to keep serving. North Carolina is really really green, and it rains alot, and I am already starting to talk like them. sometimes I do it without even trying haha. Well I gotta go, I 'm out of time already, but I love you all and miss you all, and you are all in my prayers.

Love,
Elder Rider

P.S. I'll be sending some pictures in my e-mail next week.