Chinese New Year (& Transfer)

Hello from Flushing 








If you remember from last week we had a shelter family of 4 from Venezuela. We baptized their  8 year old son this week. We had to help the parents prepare to get married as well. It is quit  the story. We had to go to the court house with them to get the document so they could get  married. They are getting married on Tuesday. Once they are married they can be baptized  which we hope will be on Tuesday as well.  



We also baptized Shaheem. He was a find from a couple weeks ago. He was born in Far  Rockaway. He is one of the kindest and most humble people I have met.  



The other family I spoke of which was the second generation family from Columbia had the  husband get deployed for the military. He was the religious base for the family. His wife is not  religious so they are not going to progress and we had to drop them.  



This week is transfers and I will find out tomorrow (Tuesday) if I’ll be leaving or staying.  

Everything is going well and I am enjoying my time in Flushing. I did experience my first  Chinese News Year. We went down to the parade and it was just as you would imagine it would  be in China, dragons and fireworks and everything. The mess they left behind was unreal. The  streets were covered in colorful paper pieces. Large street sweepers came behind and cleaned  up. Quite the site.  



I know that prayer is powerful. One of the people we baptized didn’t have a phone or any way  to contact him. We prayed he would make his commitments and he did. God is a God of  miracles and small details for sure.  



Elder Noah Kendrick  

Flushing, New York  





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