Blessings Everywhere!!!

Okay, this has been an amazing week! The first part of the week was weird because Sister Grover left Sunday evening, so I stayed in a different area with a different missionary until Wednesday. Wednesday we headed up to transfers to pick up my new "Golden" that I am training. Her name is Sister Dobson from Wyoming and she is 20 years old. Let's just say this: I'm going to learn a LOT over the next 12 weeks.

 

We saw a ton of miracles though, due to all of the hard work that we did over the last 6 weeks and the work that Sister Grover did with her previous companion. We are now reaping the harvest of all of that planting.

 

We still have Lawrence who will be getting baptized March 30th. I love him and Maddie, his girlfriend, so much! They are some of the people that I know I was supposed to meet on my mission.

 

We committed Cindy to be baptized on April 6th and she emphatically said, "YES!" She is a good friend of Sister Walker, one of our ward missionaries, and just has the most incredible testimony of the church already! Then yesterday, we taught Ashley and committed her to be baptized when she knows it is true and once again she emphatically said "YES!" And on top of that, we finally met with Michael, a man we have been trying to teach for months. He was given a Book of Mormon by some members of our branch and he got online and bought the Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price on ebay and read all three books! He knows it's all true and has just been waiting for his wife to jump on board. He finally decided, though, that he wants to do it on his own and hope that she'll follow afterwards. So we taught him and he told us that he's on board to join. We'll commit him to be baptized next week!

 

I love this area so much. I love being a missionary and I love the people that have become family to me out here. The church is TRUE! Families can be together forever. And peace and happiness can be reached in this life, we just need to follow Christ's gospel to reach them.

 

I love you all!

Love your favorite New Jersian missionary, Sister Amber Flower Ricks