Transfers!

 The call came Saturday morning- Sister White is staying in Cape
May and I am off to somewhere new! I expected that I would be leaving
because I've been here for almost 6 months, but it is super hard to
leave. I feel like this place has become my home and these people have
become my family. I had a neat experience yesterday in sacrament
meeting. I had gone up to bear my testimony and as I started speaking,
in my mind I had a flash of all of the people that I have met and
served while I've been here. It was incredible to feel such an
overwhelming love for Heavenly Father's children.
        We went camping this week! Well.... Kind of. We were invited
to lunch with some members from Pennsylvania that were down here for
vacation, and they were staying in a campground. So we sat around
their camp site to eat.
        We received a referral from church headquarters for a girl
living in our area. We drove down to check it out and we found a
building that looked like a hotel that was under construction. We
decided that it was a flaky referral and we were going to mark it as
contacted. We had the thought that we should double check the referral
though, and we found a phone number. We called it and the girl
answered! She told us that she had been investigating in Virginia and
needed the church back in her life. Another miracle! We taught her on
Wednesday and she is almost ready to get baptized!
        In sacrament meeting after I bore my testimony, Cindy got up
and bore her testimony! That was a miracle because she had said
multiple times before that she did not want to have to talk at the
podium. But she felt the spirit encouraging her to go and she did it!
        I love these people. I love this work. It is hard and
exhausting and oh so wonderful! I hope that each of you are praying
for opportunities and acting upon them when they come to share the
gospel and prepare people to take the missionary lessons. Elder
Ballard challenged us to invite people at least four times a year to
take the missionary lessons. That is an apostle who speaks for God
giving that challenge.... Which means that there are major blessings
attached to being obedient. This church is truly Christ's one true
church on the earth. I know it, I love it, it love it! And I love you!

Love, Sister Ricks

The District

A quilt I made for a member's new baby

Monster's Inc Doors!