How's everyone doing? North Carolina is great, although it is starting to get colder, and it rains a ton! which is great until you're biking in it every single day haha :) I had my second baptism yesterday! Her name is Emily Downing, and she is awesome. She has a really strong testimony of the Book of Mormon and the Restoration, and is truly converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father has blessed me so much in my mission it is hard to comprehend. I feel like my mission is straight out of the Ensign, haha. It's incredible what the Spirit can do, how it can touch peoples lives and help them to change, and how Heavenly Father prepares people. We're teaching a man named Bobby Woolard, who is in his 70's, whose wife is less-active. She joined the church about 20 years ago, but he was always against religion and didn't want anything to do with it, and was a big part of the reason she went inactive. We stopped by a couple weeks ago to see how they were doing, and they invited us back to teach him, he wanted to be taught the lessons. So we taught him twice in the last couple weeks, he's had some health problems lately (a couple strokes) that have really humbled him and opened him up to things. The last lesson we taught the Spirit was really strong, and he realized something was different, he said he'd "never felt anything like this in his life". We invited him to be baptized on Dec. 11 and he agreed! It is amazing what the Lord can do, if we just follow him.
We should have another baptism on the 28th, if all goes well, and two more (one of those being bobby) that should happen in December, Heavenly Father is truly helping me have success, which I am so grateful for.
Well I need to go, but I love you all and miss you all, and can't wait to see you all again. I want to let you all know that I know this church is Christ's true church restored to the Earth, That Joseph Smith was a prophet called by our Heavenly Father, and that the Book of Mormon is true, and that if we read it every day then everything else in our lives will fall into place. It won't be easy, but it will be worth it. I love you all.
Love,
Elder Rider.
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