Kendrick, Noah

It’s been a while. Sorry, weeks have gone by quickly. My last few weeks have blended together because there hasn’t been a whole lot going on. It has been a dry spell. We have been working hard and not a lot of baptisms. Then last week, hard work paid off. We had three baptisms. Ysraal was the first. He is from Peru. He knows about the church from his brother and has been coming to our ward. We had some really powerful lessons with him. We baptized him because he did not have any records. The next baptism is Austin from Mississippi who is 20 years old. He lives right on the Gulf of Mexico. He lived in a foster family. He had a really rough childhood. He is now homeless in New York. We found him in the street and invited him to church. We started teaching him and he embraced the Gospel. We also baptized Walter. Walter is from Guatemala. He divorced his wife and remarried in New York. He was a self proclaimed member, no records. The Branch President had us re-baptize him. We had a Fathers...

Holy cow, it’s been a while. There is not a lot to catch you up on, but here we go. I have gone through another transfer. I am staying in Flushing. I have a new companion, Elder Morgenegg who is from Colorado. He has been out for 7 months. I have been in Flushing now for just over 5 months. It will be 6 months when next my next transfer comes. We are still doing a lot of street contacting. We had a guy by the name of Luis who was on date to get baptized. He all the sudden dropped off the radar. We lost contact with him and he hasn’t reached out so we had to move on. Sad to see, but it happens. We had an interesting sacrament meeting a couple of weeks ago. A guy giving a talk, (actually telling more of a story) talking about his job he just retired from. Our recent convert / baptism, Kenneth raised his hand and the guy talking called on him. The convert asked about metro trains and why the 5 train is slower and this and that. They had quit the conversation, right in the middle of sacram...

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...