Pecan Chicken with Blue Cheese Sauce

Ingredients:
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
halves (5 oz. ea.)
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tbsp. minced fresh rosemary or
1 tsp. dried rosemary
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 tbsp. brown sugar
3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
SAUCE:
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese
1 tbsp. finely chopped green onion
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper

Directions:
Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. In a shallow bowl, combine flour and rosemary; in a separate shallow bowl, combine butter and brown sugar. Place pecans in another shallow bowl. Coat chicken with flour mixture, then dip in butter mixture and coat with pecans. Transfer to a greased baking sheet. Bake at 375º for 20 -25 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170º.

Meanwhile, place cream in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 8-10 minutes or until thickened. Stir in the cheese, onion, salt and pepper. Serve with chicken.
(yield 4 servings)

February Visiting Teaching Message

Converted unto the Lord

Prayerfully study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit.  Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters to make Relief Society an active part of your own life.  For more information, go to www.reliefsociety.lds.org

Faith, Family, Relief

New sisters of the Church – including Young Women entering Relief Society, sisters returning to activity, and new converts – need the support and friendship of visiting teachers.  “Member involvement is vital to convert retention and in bringing less-active members back into full activity,” said elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.  “Capture the vision the Relief Society... can become [one of] the most powerful friendshipping resource[s] we have in the Church.  Reach out early to those being taught and reactivated, and love them into the Church through your organization.”

As members of Relief Society, we can help new members learn basic Church practices, such as:

..Giving a talk   

..Bearing Testimony

..Living the law of the fast.  

..Paying tithing and other offerings 

..Participating in family history work.

..Performing baptisms and confirmations for their

  deceased ancestors.

“It takes attentive friends to make new members feel comfortable and welcomed at church.”  said Elder Ballard. ²  All of us, but especially visiting teachers,

have important responsibilities to establish friendships with new members as a way of helping them become firmly “converted unto the Lord”  (Alma 23:6)

From the Scriptures

2 Nephi 31:19 – 20; Moroni 6:4

From Our History

“With the ever-increasing number of converts,” said President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910 – 2008), “we must make an increasingly substantial effort to assist them as they find their way.  Every one of them needs three things; a friend, a responsibility, and nurturing with ‘the good word of God’ (Moroni 6:4).”³

President Joseph Fielding Smith (1876-1972) said Relief Society is a vital part of the kingdom of God on earth and… helps its faithful members to gain eternal life in our Father’s kingdom.

What Can I Do?

     1.  Do I pray for my companion and ask that the Spirit will guide us as we minister to our sisters?

     2.  In what ways do we serve each sister we watch over so that she knows we truly care about her?

     Notes

     1.  M. Russell Ballard, “Members are the Key,” Ensign, Sept. 2000,13.

     2.  M. Russell Ballard, “Members are the Key,” 14.

     3.  Gordon B. Hinckley, “Converts and Young Men,” Ensign, May 1997,47

     4.  Joseph Fielding Smith, in Daughters in My Kingdom:  The History and Work of Relief Society (2011), 97.

February Birthdays

1 Lia Mendoza
2 Ruth Ann Taormina
9 Shirley Ogle
14 Grace Shores
16 Nina Britt
16 Linda Griffith
16 Monique McLaws
17 Mara Lee Houdyshell
17 Suzie Heald
20 Madison Thomer
23 Tamoline Chappell
25 Cheryl Cannon