Kendrick, Noah

Hola everyone. Everything is going well in Flushing. Not a whole lot new is going on. We did have a baptism this week. Crazy story. We baptized someone in 4 days. How does that happen? We met a gentleman from the Dominican Republic. His name is Juan Ramon. He is actually a member. So why did we baptize him? He actually has no records. We contacted church headquarters and there is no paperwork for his ordinances. Soooo, now you see why it only took 4 days. I still do a lot of street contacting. We mostly go to the same two streets. We run into people now and then we have talked to. It’s hard to explain how many people are here and that’s why we can work the same streets so often and not see the same people over and over again. I testify of the power of prayer. We have been praying to find someone too baptize. That is when we found Juan. I know it is all by design and God is working his miracles in all our lives, everyday. I am amazed at how fast my mission has gone. I have six months le...

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 ...

It's been a few weeks. Everything is going well here in Flushing. I had transfers last week and I am staying here with the same companion. Over the last few weeks we had two baptisms. The one picture is Thomas. We found him on the street and he lives in a group home. We invited him to church and started teaching him the lessons. He accepted the Gospel and was baptized. The other picture is Leslie. She is from Ecuador. We found her on Main St. in Flushing. We again invited her to church and she loved it. We started teaching her and she had a lot of questions. She had an uncle die in Ecuador. She asked about what he was doing now and where he was. We taught her the plan of salvation and baptisms for the dead. She was thrilled at the news. She, of course was baptized. The weather here is up and down but overall to the nice side. On P-day last week our zone went to Manhattan to sight see. I went to the Apple store on 5th avenue. It is really something to see. I also went to One World T...

Hola everyone. It has been a quick couple of weeks. I’m still cruising around Flushing, New York. Transfers aren’t for another couple weeks. We have been busy here and had a few Baptisms. Our first two baptisms from last week found an ad on Facebook. A father son (Alex and Hector) from Lima, Peru showed up to the Chinese ward and were told to come back in a couple hours. He came back and we met with them and started to teach them. He quit answering our calls and we had to drop him. He was struggling with some personal issues and was praying for help. Soon as he finished a recent convert called and was an answer to his prayers. He came back to church and we started to teach him and his son again and they ended up getting baptized. One of the pictures is with Alex, Hector, his wife, me and my companion and Shaheem. Shaheem is a recent convert who just got the Priesthood. He did the baptism which was an incredible experience for him. Shameem is the one next to my companion holding up a pe...

This last week was transfers. I am staying in Flushing and got a new companion. His name is Elder Critchlow from Sandy, Utah. He has only been out one transfer longer than myself. Last week I talked about the parents that needed to get married so they could get baptized. They were married this week so we are working to get the husband baptized. His wife is already a member. We had two baptisms this week. One was Delfino who is from Pueblo, Mexico. Delfino came to the US for a job and is sending money back to his family. He has a rough background and wanted a new start. When we met him on the street he took hold of the Gospel immediately. He is one of the elect. The other baptism is Maleek. He is a New Yorker. He was contacted on the street and we found he loves to learn. He took to the Book of Mormon and found for himself It to be true. The weather here has been colder and it snowed a little bit. Nothing like home. All is going well and I appreciate all of your prayers and support. Eld...

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 lea...

Hola everyone, It has been a great week here in Flushing. We had seven new people come to church this week. We had a shelter family of four from Venezuela. We also had a family who is second generation Columbian. They are a family of three. We found an inactive member who’s name is Sergio. Sergio hasn’t been to church for over 20 years. He use to live in Hyrum. He lived in the trailer park and worked at the beef plant. Our branch president found his records in SLC and his records got transferred to Flushing. He came to church this week, so that is awesome. Today we went to Manhattan just to shake up the scenery. I visited the “Night of the Museum” which is actually the American Museum of Natural History. It is a lot different than in the movie but some things I recognized. We also went to the Seinfeld diner which is actually Tom’s Restaurant. It looks just like it does in the show. We went inside and there is a poster with all the actors signatures. I couldn’t pass up going to the Appl...