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Cajun Christmas! |
This week was full of tender mercies, ugly Christmas
sweaters, and free pizza!
I will start with my favorite moment of the week! We have
been trying to contact a referral we received from online for a while now, her
name is Cathy Gray. Finally we were able to schedule a time for us to drop off
this bible to her. She invited us in! Most of the time (especially for Bible
referrals) we don't get invited in so this was already a miracle. She told us
she was a part of this Christian Biker church and loved learning about the
bible and it's teachings. Sister Blaylock felt impressed to share the Plan of
Salvation with her. So we taught this lesson and talked about how this is a
plan God has for us so that we all can be happy. It was really cool because she
seemed to connect with our message. Her Dad had passed away so we were able to
explain that he is in the spirit world right now. The spirit was so strong
during the whole lesson! We are going back to teach her on Friday. I am so
excited to share more with her, I really feel that the Lord has prepared her to
hear the restored gospel.
Later in the week we had a zone meeting. We had an ugly
sweater contest! It was really great and we also learned a lot from other
thoughts zone. Unfortunately we didn't win the contest, but our sweaters were
still awesome :)
We had another referral and her name was Wilburette. It was
really funny because we had the hardest time figuring out how in the heck you
pronounce that! We came to the conclusion that it was suppose to be like Wilbur
(the pig on Charlotte's Web) with an -ette on the end. That's how we said her
name and I think it was right because she didn't correct us haha. Anyways, we
had a brief message with her about the restoration. She said that missionaries
used to visit her and she really liked the Book of Mormon. So we gave her one
and promised that if she read it she would feel peace in her life, she also
wanted to come to church! She didn't come on Sunday, but I know she will when
she isn't working :)
On Saturday we had a lesson with the Porter's and it went
super well! It was the first lesson that I had been to with them where the
spirit was definitely there. We watched Finding Faith in Jesus Christ with them
and after discussed the impact that Jesus Christ can have on our lives. I felt
prompted to share Alma 32:28 with them, so we read it. Rolland liked it so much
that he asked me to read it again! We invited them to read the chapter and they
said that they would! I am so grateful that we were able to have a lesson with
them that had the spirit, because that is the only way to find out the truth.
After our lesson with them we went to Walmart and ran into
the Swansons (a family in our ward), they invited us over for lunch but we
sadly had to decline because they were going to have the Spanish Elders over
and it is against our mission rules. Instead they offered to buy us EACH frozen
pizza and ice cream!!! It was a huge blessing that we received for being
obedient :) even though it was really hard to turn down a meal with amazing
people, we got free food out of it!
We also met with Ashley this week and also showed Finding
Faith in Jesus Christ with her. She liked it, but just related it to everything
else she has seen before. She did open up to us more and so that was really
awesome. She still isn't progressing but I am not losing hope on her!
On Sunday we watched the Christmas Devotional at the
Galespies! If any of yall didn't have the chance to see it PLEASE WATCH IT. The
true spirit of Christmas comes from learning about Jesus Christ. I am so
grateful to be here in Louisiana, especially during this time of year! My
favorite part of the devotional was when Elder Bednar talked about Christmas
decorations. He related the Christmas lights that we hang up to the light that
Christ is in our lives. It was a simple metaphor but it really stuck out to me
and now I love Christmas lights even more!
I am so grateful for all of the blessings that the Lord is
pouring out to us in this area. I am also grateful for the opportunity I have
to be here. I invite yall to think about the Generous One, Jesus Christ, this
season and to have him at the center of this Holiday season. I promise that if
you do this, he will fill in all of the missing gaps in your lives. Through him
we can have complete joy.
I love y'all very much :)
Love,
Sister Amanda Cornia
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