Erika Knight

ERIKA KNIGHT served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter￾day Saints in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia, in 1996-97. She married Ronald Ward in 1998, graduated from Brigham Young University in Mathemat￾ics in 1999, and now works as a stay-at-home mother in Fairfax, Virginia. She thanks her mother Ruth Knight Bailey for saving the voluminous let￾ters Erika sent from the mission field, for selecting passages for publica￾tion, and for her editing. She also thanks Cherie K. Woodworth for edito￾rial help and for guiding the manuscript to Dialogue.