Miracles on Miracles!! I love these people
and I love this work and I love this ward/area and I love the feelings of the
Spirit of the gospel and I love to love! I am convinced that there is nothing
in all this world that can bring greater joy, satisfaction, fulfillment,
purpose, and success to anyone leading up to the time that individual
begins his or her own family.
Immediately after Hannah's baptism last
Sunday, Bishop was able to visit with her and gave her her temple recommend. It
just so happens that for the last several months a ward temple baptism trip has
been planned for this last Wednesday, three days after Hannah's stunning
baptism, and she was able to go with the ward to the temple to do baptisms for
those who have passed on and not had an opportunity to accept the fullness of
Christ and His everlasting gospel. God's timing is just impeccable and
unparalleled. It was amazing and she was just beaming and couldn't stop smiling
from ear to ear the entire time that we were there. Just a few days before we
were able to witness the Spirit and joy of the gospel consume Hannah in that
hallowed place, we were able to see the same affects happen with two other
individuals that have become so dear and near to my heart as well. We were
privileged to have been invited by David in the Village ward and Alice in the
Norman YSA ward to be able to go to the temple with them to witness the same
ordinances and the same special Spirit and joy in the House of the Lord.
There is so much happening here right now
and I am just so grateful and I love and marvel at the opportunity to be apart
of such a work that is so much greater than myself. I feel no more and no less
the joy and gratitude of Ammon, one of the great missionary heroes and
representatives of Jesus Christ, as he expressed the feelings of his heart in
the entirety of Alma chapter 26. I love those words and I too feel to sing
the song of redeeming love "Therefore, let us glory, yea, we will
glory in the Lord; yea, we will rejoice, for our joy is full; yea, we will
praise our God forever. Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord? Yea, who
can say too much of his great power, and of his mercy, and of his
long-suffering towards the children of men? Behold, I say unto you, I cannot
say the smallest part which I feel."
Keep the faith,
Elder Ricks
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