Earthquakes And Baptisms

It has been an interesting couple weeks. Last week started out with an earthquake. I’m sure  everyone has heard all about it. We were in our apartment studying and the chair I was sitting  on shook away from the table. It felt like the subway rumbling by. My companion and I thought  that was weird but didn’t think much more about it.  I found out it was an earthquake when my dad and Nick were texting me asking if I was OK  and what the earthquake was like. We were fine and just went on with our day like nothing was  different.  


We had a couple of baptism over the last couple of weeks. Last week we baptized Samuel  from Venezuela. Samuel was a referral from the Chinese missionaries. He came to church and  we started teaching him. He is very friendly and wanted us to go travel with him.  The other baptism is Kenneth. He was born and raised in Flushing, NY. His family is Jewish and  he was really never involved in practicing his parents religion. Kenneth was invited to church  from the missionaries in Rego Park by a shopping mall. The Rego Park missionaries were  teaching him and then found out he was within our boundary. He already wanted to be  baptized and so we finished up the lessons and got it done. I got a new name tag in Korean. We have some Korean members in our branch that  combined with ours so I was sent a name  tag they could read.  


I watched General Conference at the church house. Not a lot of people came  to the church to watch. The conference  was amazing. My biggest take away was  Temple work and Covenants. I promise as President Nelsen taught,  Temples will keep you on the straight and  narrow path, protect you, bolster your  testimony, sooth your spirit and open the  Heavens.  


Thank you all for your support and  
prayers. 
Elder Noah Kendrick 
Flushing, New York 


Cyber truck I found in Flushing




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