Kendrick, Noah

It has been an adventure the last couple weeks. In my last email, I talked about Isaiah, the 11  year boy who’s parents are both inactive. We have been teaching him for 3 weeks and have  been to his house everyday last week. We invited him to be baptized which he accepted. We  then had to get permission from his parents which was denied. It is sad to see this happen  were he is ready and willing and his parents refused. We are going to have to drop him from our  teaching but hope he continues to attend church.   We did find another friend who speaks French. Her name is Marie. We are using Google  Translate to teach her the Gospel and I think she will get baptized. She was already aware of  the Church from a nephew who is a member. She is very patient because the services we  provide are Spanish and English. I sat on the back row of Sacrament meeting and the second  hour using the translator the best I could. She is a sweet older lad...

Hello everyone, The last couple weeks have gone by quickly. There hasn’t been a lot going on. We are teaching a 10 year old son of a member right now. I think he will be getting baptized soon. We knock a few doors at apartment building but mostly street contacts. It is still all about inviting everyone to church. My last transfer, if you remember, I was opening another companionship into the same area. It has been a lot more work starting to find a whole new teaching pool. We are starting from zero and finding people is going slow but I am having some success. The weather here is starting to get colder at night, but no snow yet. This week I have Presidents interviews. That means a trip to Manhattan. I am going to spend the day just wandering around Manhattan. So far I have been to Rockefeller Plaza and the Empire State Building. I found a Lego store and Nike store, of course didn’t buy anything. The rest of the day I am going to hang out at the Manhattan temple waiting for interviews t...

Hola todos los personas,  It has been a couple weeks. I had transfers last week. I am staying in Far Rockaway but am opening a new area. I am moving out of my current apartment and moving into a new one not far away.   A really interesting thing happened a couple weeks ago. We were at church at our small branch. If you remember we meet in a rented room on the 5th floor of a building in Far Rockaway. In comes the Presiding Bishop Gerald Causse and his counselors. They spoke at our sacrament meeting. The counselors spoke about the truthfulness of the Gospel. Bishop Causse spoke about how he has always been the happiest in his life when he has the companionship of the Holy Ghost. It was really neat to get to meet with him and his counselors after the meeting. Crazy they would just show up to a small branch in little Far Rockaway.   I have been working with a family from Peru. The entire family was going to be baptized the Saturday after I left. Because I was so clo...

Hola from NY, This week has gone quickly. We were suppose to have a baptism this week. The man is from Ecuador, but his wife was having a baby that same day. Obviously it was postponed. We are planning his baptism for this week. Last week was a lot of the same. We go out and invite everyone to church. We had some people come to Church this week we invited so that is always a good sign of more baptisms to come. Today for P-day we had a Manhattan day. The iconic pictures of the streets in downtown are exactly how you would imagine. If you look down the street, all you see is heads of people and tall buildings above that. The amount of people is unreal. I checked a box while I was here. I visited the 5th Avenue Apple store. It is as cool as you think it would be. It’s a giant glass cube with the Apple logo on it. The store is under the cube. The glass opens and there is an elevator or a big glass spiral stair case leading down to the store. We are going to spend today at the church house ...

Greetings family and friends, This week we had two baptisms. We had a recent convert bring her friend to church. Her name is Karen and she was interested in the Church so we started teaching her. We have been teaching her for about 3 weeks and she was baptized this week. The other baptism was a Haitian. We were tracting and he was sitting on a bench. His name is Jean Louis. We invited him to come to Church and he said yes. He doesn’t speak English or Spanish only French. We had to use a translation app to teach him. He came to all our lessons and Church every week. He accepted baptism and the ward has been great to help him out.  I had zone conference this week. We travelled to Woodside which is in Queens. The general topic was about the importance of church attendance and the sacrament. It was very motivating to hear about how the willingness of people to attend correlates to baptism. If you don’t come to church, you're not going to endure to the end. I got an awesome package from...

Hola from NY A couple of weeks ago my companion received a ticket for running a stop sign. His ticket was for not stopping and failure to yield right of way. I tell this story because it got worse. Last P-Day on our way home, we got in a crash, same missionary. He ran into the back of another car. In his defense, the car braked quickly, but his fault for running into the back. Everyone is ok. To say the least, his driving days are over. Driving here is always an adventure. This week has been more teaching on the street. We did not have any baptisms but have a couple people who are close. We should have a couple this week. Last week was transfers. I am staying in Far Rockaway and got a new companion. He is from Nicaragua and has been out about 4 months. His name is Elder Pravia. He mostly speaks Spanish which is good because I get to keep up on my skills. He does understand some English so I do use a little English still. The weather here has been pretty mild. It is cooling down but the...

Greeting from soggy NY, It has been a wet week. You may have seen the state of emergency that was declared in New York. It was quit the flood event. The skies opened up and wow, did it rain. The water filled the subways and streets. We drove around and tried to keep our car doors above water. Where we live wasn’t too bad, but other areas really got hit. It rained 8 inches in a few hours. The most rain ever recorded in one day in New York. It was raining at a rate of 2.5 inches per hour at JFK airport which is close to my apartment. When it was raining so hard, we didn’t really go out. We made phone calls all day. The rest of the week we did the regular street contacting. I watched conference at our church on the fourth floor of the office building we meet in. We had both English and Spanish versions going because our branch is both languages. I mostly watched in English. The Spanish version goes really fast so it was a little difficult to keep up. I loved to hear the talks and especial...