Week of February 1, 2016: I love to see the Temple!

Me and Sister Widdison with the New Iberia Sisters in front of the Baton Rouge Temple! 
(Sister Neilson, Sister Morris, and Sister Castro)

Hello! I hope y'all had a good week and enjoyed that snow (if you're in Utah). The majority of this week was warm so I am very grateful for that :) 

   We met with Kylie again this week and she is so great! We shared the restoration with her and she took it pretty well. The next day we brought by a Book of Mormon and she told us that she had prayed about the message we had shared the night before. She said that she felt a weight being lifted off of her shoulders and that she felt really peaceful. We told her that it was the spirit! It is so remarkable to see the importance of the spirit. We are not the converters, the spirit does all the work! Sadly her mom (Christina) and her didn't make it to Church. We are still really grateful to have had that lesson with Kylie and we will continue to meet with her :) Another investigator that we saw this week was Cheryl. We met her through a member that she is dating! We met them all the way back in November and finally were able to get a hold of them and set up a time for a lesson. We shared the restoration and it went pretty well. We explained that the authority of Christ was taken away from the earth and it needed to be restored. She is catholic so it was probably different than anything she has heard. We got a message a couple days later from her boyfriend and he let us know that Cheryl was studying the pamphlet we gave her and was having good spiritual experiences from it! We can't wait to go by again and hear about them :)

   This week we also had the opportunity to meet Elder Ronald A. Rasband from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He came to our mission conference on Saturday and spoke to us along with and area and member of the seventies (Elder Blooth and Elder Zwick). The spirit was so strong as he spoke, and he spoke with such love to us. We learned a lot. He shared that how much easier serving would be if we did it because we love the Lord. He said a lot of other incredible things. We all got to shake his hand as well and introduce ourselves to him. He told us that our handshakes with him were one away from the Prophet of God on the earth today, President Thomas S. Monson. It was really powerful. Afterwards we got to go to the temple! The Baton Rouge Temple is pretty small, but it is still so beautiful. I was grateful to feel so close to my Heavenly Father. It really is the happiest place on earth. 

   I know that this church is true. There are many experiences I have each day, and if I had time I would share every single one with yall. There is nothing greater than bringing people to the light of Christ and helping them change their lives so that they can feel closer to His presence. I know that Heavenly Father loves each of us and knows us by name. His arms are always extended to us. I know this is Christ's church on the earth today, restored in fulness. I am grateful for this knowledge and I invite yall to pray for an opportunity to share of it.

"How we live our lives increases or diminishes our faith. Prayer, obedience, honesty, purity of thought and deed, and unselfishness increase faith. Without these, faith diminishes. Why did the Savior say to Peter, “I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not”? Because there is an adversary who delights in destroying our faith! Be relentless in protecting your faith."

-Elder Neil L. Anderson

 Love,

Sister Amanda Cornia

The Bozemans had us over for boiled crawfish! After you look past the creepiness of them they taste really good :)

Old Companions that are now companions with each other!
(Sister Fristoe and Sister Tomblin)