Kendrick, Noah

Greeting from Far Rockaway  This week was another week of street contacts. The weather has hampering our efforts due to all the rain. Tropical storm Ophelia has been running up the coast. I am learning about the  weather that comes off the ocean. It is overcast a lot of the time and rains frequency. I am sure the humidity plays a big part.  I went to Manhattan this week for interviews. My companion and I had to come early to bring other missionaries into town so we decided to get off the subway a few stops early and walk the streets of Manhattan. Believe it or not, I felt safe the entire time. We had to avoid Times Square (we stayed a block away) but did walk down the sidewalks near the iconic building you would recognize. I took a few pictures for you to see.   We had two baptisms this week. They are form Puerto Rico. We have been teaching them for a couple of weeks. They are brother and sister (Jeidilian and Omar). They are very humble and were searching ...

Greeting everyone, Just another week in Far Away (Rockaway). My week has been full of contacting people on the street. We have maybe 70 people who said they will come to church. Maybe 7-8 show up. That is actually good. This week we taught a lot of Venezuelan families. There is a family shelter here in Far Rockaway. We are teaching 3 to 4 families who are Venezuelan. We can’t baptize the parents yet because they have to be married. We are trying to help them through the process of marriage so we can get them baptized. My companion and I went to the building our church meets in. Remember from last week we meet in a business building on the fourth floor. We went to the roof and took some pictures. One is looking toward Manhattan and the other toward the Atlantic Ocean. The other picture is the beach now hurricane Lee has passed by. It is a lot calmer. The beach is a one minute walk from our apartment. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. I love being on a mission and serving as t...

Hello from Far Rockaway, This week we had another baptism. It is hard to take credit but.... we will. The missionaries that we replaced had been teaching Dannette and she was almost ready for baptism. We taught her one lesson and invited her to be baptized. Dannette agreed and was baptized that week. I am starting to get use to the area and learning to teach again in English. I taught this week in English and it is a bit of a change for me. It is weird to have to think of words in English. The rest of my week has not been to eventful. I talk to a lot of people and invite all to come to church. Of course we get turned away at times and some listen but aren’t interested. I pray we are planting seeds. We are keeping our eyes to the sky. Hurricane Lee is churning up the coast headed our way, but is suppose to stay off shore. The hurricane is stirring up some spectacular storms though. I wish I could sent a video of the lightning off the coast, it is awesome. The ocean is crashing harder in...

Greeting everyone, This week has been a big change. It was transfer week and I learned I would be going to Rockaway, NY. I moved here on Friday. Yes, that is actually a place. You will have to look it up. It is still part of Queens but is on the very southern edge. It is actually right on the beach of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a small strip of land or peninsula that sticks out off of Long Island. This description may give you a picture in your mind of how this area is. Every street is named Beach Street. It is 12th Beach St, 13 Beach St. etc. This area is a lot more laid back than Rego Park and a lot less people. Another big change is, I no longer just teach in Spanish. I teach in English as well. We travel a short distance to a busy street and that is where we contact people. I now notice the smell of the ocean. I can’t really describe it, but is has a definite scent and those that have smelled the ocean know what I’m talking about. It’s a fresh air kind of smell. The weather here sta...