September 27, 2010

Great week again

Dear Family,

Estoy muy bien aqui en Greenville se me olvido a decirles que voy estar aqui en Greenville por otro translado. Entonces al final de este translado voy a cumplir 9 meses aqui en Greenville! Mucho tiempo! Pero a mi me encanta esta area. Los miembros son tan buenos! Los amo mucho. Yesterday we had a really good day at chuch our recent convert Vicki has been talking to her friend Rosario about the gospel and we have taught her twice or so and yesterday she came to church with her yesterday and brought her two daughters. She really enjoyed it and hopefully we can set a baptismal date with her. Also we had a little miracle this last week, we have been working with this part member family for a while and the hardest thing was that they struggled with wanting to get married and then the member or the wife was not really wanting to come back to church. But with the time we have gotten her back to church and this last week we had a miracle they had been fighting and struggling but we told them that they needed to put the Lord first and do what he wants, they had been without work for three months or so. But then the Husband whose name is Marcos Came home one day this week and just told his wife/girlfriend that he wants to change his life around and he wants to work toward getting baptized! They came to church yesterday and we are working on getting them married now so they get married asap and him get baptized asap. We were pumped! Also the Zamora family is doing good they didnt make it to church yesterday cause the Mom was sick but they are still working toward getting baptized on the 9th of October. On the 16th of October (Mom's Birthday) the branch is having a Culture day where they celebrate all the different hispanic countries and i thought i would represent Arizona, ill have to think of some authentic Arizona food to make.... haha Some cool skills i have learned on the Mission... Cook... No just kidding but i have taught myself how to cut hair. We used that as a way to do service this last week. I cut 5 peoples hair in one day. It was fun i gave a Charly who is the youngest son in the Zamora family a mohawk! haha He loved it. Everything else is great here. Im excited each day to work more and more, The Lord is truly blessing us and answering our prayers. I love these people. Charity, it is something i have strived to develop my whole mission, if someone asks something of me i try not to hesitate and just give of myself to help others out. It makes you feel so good to help others. I wish i could be a missionary forever. Teaching how God has put His church on the earth again. I wanna be a great member missionary when i get home i wanna continue to bring people into the church even after my mission. i dont ever wanna lose this fire. I know our Savior lives, I know Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. He translated the Book of Mormon, I cant wait till this week to hear from our Prophet! This life is o beautiful God has given us so many chances to serve and help others know him. Victor Uribe Martinez is going to start teaching in the Elder's quorum as well, he was nervous and was like..."Riding you have to help me! I cant do this!" Elder Radmall is doing great he is really becoming a great missionary. Elder Puhlmann bore his testimony yesterday in the Branch he did great. I sure do love that guy, he is growing so much. Miracles i see them everyday. Thank you all for all you do I love you so much! Tell Grandma hi for me and that i love her. This gospel is true. Live it and Love it and share it!

Love,

Elder Riding