February 14

Well, it's Valentine's Day, which out on the mission is basically the same as any other day :) things here are going really well. I'm still in a companionship of 3 missionaries, I will be until the 22nd, when I will get a new companion, but I am actually enjoying being with 3 missionaries.

So lets see, what has been going on. Right now we're teaching a really awesome family named the Statons. Well, technically he's a Staton, her last name is Arrondell, because they aren't married and have 2 kids, but they're engaged and ready to get married. She has been to the church before and knows it's true, but he didn't really know anything about the Book of Mormon, he grew up Baptist, and wants to do what is right. The first lesson we had with him we read from the introduction of the Book of Mormon, and he said he could feel the Spirit just as strongly as when he read the bible, just from the first paragraph, and he said he already knows from that experience that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God. Basically it was incredible

Oh! I have an awesome story to tell you. Do you remember Bobby Woolard? He is the old man who got baptized in December. Well when we started to teach him he had lung cancer that had spread to his brain, and they didn't think he would live much longer. a couple of weeks before he got baptized we gave him a blessing. I was the one who actually gave the blessing, so I was really really nervous, but in it the spirit told me to say that he would be healed. This last week he got his test results back from the doctors office, and he has no cancer anywhere in his body! The doctors are trying to understand what happened, because they expected him to be gone within a couple months, and that there was nothing that could be done, and now his cancer is completely gone. It was just a testimony builder to me, to show what faith and the power of the priesthood can do.

Well, that's what's going on here, I hope everyone is doing good back home. I love you all, and will see everyone soon! (19 months)

Love,

Elder Rider