Week of January 5, 2016: We ate Kermit!

We ate Kermit!  

​First off, happy new year! I can't believe it is already 2016, time goes by way too fast. To start off the new year I had fried frog legs! We went to the Bozemans (Donnie, Jill, and Greta), they are a part member family. I seriously love them so much! Donnie fried frog legs for us, and they tasted surprisingly good! You just have to get past the fact that you're eating Kermit :) In Louisiana it is custom to eat certain foods to mark off the new year with good luck! One of the foods you eat is cabbage, for good fortune. I don't know the other ones though! 

We had some really good lessons this week too! We got two new investigators from Bible referrals, that was really cool. It's hard to see them because they both live on the outskirts of our area, but we always find a way to make it work :) We taught Ashley Robinson the Plan of Salvation and it went pretty well. It was the most focused lesson we have had with her and she believed a lot of the same things in the plan! However, I still think it will take longer for her to convert. I just have to keep remembering patience!!! We also met with the Porters yesterday! They are the best family, I just love them so much. We showed "A savior is born" video (even though it is after Christmas). We had a beautiful discussion on Jesus Christ and figured out the reasons that was holding them back from church. It was the best lesson because I feel hopeful for them again :) 

We finally got to see Stephanie, after what seemed like forever! It was so good to see her. I am very hopeful that she is going to start coming back. She seems more prepared. She was super sad because her son just moved to California for basketball, but by the time we left she had a smile on her face. It was a beautiful experience because she was in tears when we left because of the Holy Ghost. We are going to help her get back into reading the Book of Mormon again! 

We also saw Krista (a less active in the ward). She is lesbian and has some brain damage from an accident. She is super sweet and feeds all the missionaries dreamsicles when they visit! We met her partner Karen as well. During our lesson with them I felt charity towards them. It just keeps coming to my mind to "Love the sinner and hate the sin". I just learned that we all have weaknesses and we really need to learn how to love one another. So that was a cool experience for me. 

As we start the new year I would invite yall to contemplate the story of Lot's wife.

"So, as a new year starts and we try to benefit from a proper view of what has gone before, I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone, nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead, we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future. Faith always has to do with blessings and truths and events that will yet be efficacious in our lives. So a more theological way to talk about Lot’s wife is to say that she did not have faith. She doubted the Lord’s ability to give her something better than she already had. Apparently she thought—fatally, as it turned out—that nothing that lay ahead could possibly be as good as those moments she was leaving behind."

-JEFFREY R. HOLLAND

I am grateful for the support y'all give me! May we all have more faith this year in 2016 and look ahead. 

Love,

Sister Amanda Cornia

Ps. Me and Sister Widdison are both staying in Lafayette for another transfer!!! Yay :)

A visit from Pop and Miss Robin (ignore the
socks, our feet were cold)