December 6, 2010

This week was really great! I got a new companion, Elder Segundo, who is from Georgia, but before that he lived in Brasil, (he was born there) and he speaks Portuguese! Which I thought was cool. He is a way awesome missionary, he's been on his mission for 4 months, and I've been out just over 2 months, so we're both pretty new, but we work really well together. We've been biking all week long, and on Saturday the temperature was about 35 degrees, and it was snowing on us, it was so cold because we were out on our bikes. It was a really good day though, we got 3 new investigators during that time, which is awesome. I had my third baptism this last sunday! It is the daughter of a less-active family that we've been trying to re-activate. The mom has been coming to church regularly since we started meeting with them, and the dad is coming around. When we first started going over he wouldn't even open his scriptures, but now when we come he's so excited to show us what he's been reading. He served a mission in Salt Lake about 10 years ago, but has had some hard times since then, so hopefully we can continue to help him. Their daughters name is Jaz, and she is 9 years old. This week was really really good, we've been doing alot of service, helping people rake their leaves and clean up their yards now that fall is almost over. Things are going really really great on the mission. I love you all and miss you all and will see you all soon! (22 months) :) haha

Love,

Elder Rider