Aloha family and friends. Hope you are all enjoying this nice Fall weather. I know I certaintly have. So I won't write too long of an email because I'm trying to upload some pictures to send to you but I'll let you know how the week went. Also I know I need to write letters to a lot of people and I'm working on it, so... yeah, they'll come sooner or later. So this was an interesting week. First of all we had Zone Conference on Wednesday which was really awesome. We learned a lot about the 8 fundamentals of Preach my Gospel and it was good to see President and Sister Pitts. So we had a lot of cancled appointments this week and we were suppossed to have a few new investigators. We were getting a little discouraged. But then Saturday we had Cameron's baptism and Maddy and Gabby's baptism. It was so cool. Cameron is such a cool guy (he's 20) and has just an amazing testimony. He moved to St. George the same day that he got baptized so it was sad that that was the last time we would see him, but it was cool to see him change. Maddy and Gabby's was awesome becuse there were a lot of people there and they had so much support. They are two wonderful girls and they'll do great things in the Church. It is great to hear all about the family. Carsen will have a great time at homecoming. Hopefully Cassandra gets her part that she wants in the play. Craig, keep being awesome and kicking butt. I'll try to write you all letters soon. I pray for you all every day, even extended family and friends. I love you all so much.

So this week my spiritual thought is about the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law. The spirit of the law does not give us an excuse to do less than the letter, but it actually requires more. The letter says thou shalt not kill, the spirit says thou shalt not be angry. The letter says thou shalt not commit adultery, the spirit says thou shalt not lust. The letter says thou shalt not steal, the spirit says feed the hungry, help those who stand in need of comfort. Let us strive to live the spirit of the law and be true followers of Christ. I love you all so much. Keep up the good work.

Godspeed,

Elder Chandler Kendall

Chandler's Mission Address

Here is Chandler's mission info. He is in the Provo Mission for 2 transfers and then he will go somewhere else. Not sure where yet, but so excited he is doing so WELL!!

Elder Chandler Kendall

2520 N. University Avenue

Suite 100

Provo, Utah 84604-3877

Hello Family and Friends,

Hope everyone had a great week and a fun Labor Day. Oh crap! I'm wearing white the day after. Oh well. So I'm writing today because the library was closed yesterday. So since last week... well, we had transfers so we have some new Elders in our district. We basically have the funnest district ever so that's really awesome. We've been playing "Tron ball" a lot in the mornings. So teaching was a little slow this week because of the Labor Day but we did have the Onion Days Festival going on here which was really cool. Whenever we had down time we would go talk to people there and try to get referrals. We got a couple and we also saw some of our investigators who we were able to make appointments with. We also got a lot of free food and a free tie so that was pretty sweet I guess. Saturday we had a baptism of a woman named MaryLou. Her husband baptized her which was super awesome because he recently became reactivated. Her father believed in polygamy and so she had to meet with the mission president. She was really nervous but it went really well and I felt the Spirit really strong. She is also having twin girls in December and has a little two year old named Sycoya. She is hilarious. So I had an experience that about broke my heart this week. We met with a girl named Jenakah who is nine years old. We've had a hard time catching her and we were finally able to teach her a quick ten minute lesson on her front porch. We see her a lot at the snowcone shack and she always comes up and gives us hugs. We talked to her about getting baptized and how God loves us and His love for her. Her parents aren't members and I guess she gets yelled at a lot and picked on by her older brother. So she was telling us how her family doesn't love her and how she would like to feel that love. We tried to tell her that her family did love her, but I think she felt better when we told her Heavenly Father loves her and that we love her. So that was pretty sad so if you are reading this tell everyone in your family that you love them.

Spiritual thought for the week. Magnify your calling. First of all we all have callings, whether it's as a parent or child, home or visiting teacher, or other church callings, we all have different stewardship over things. To show that we are faithful we must do the best we can at whatever we are called to do. That doesn't mean we try to tell everyone else how to do their calling or to overwhelm ourselves. All we have to do is to do our best and when we feel too weak to keep going, the Lord will strengthen us. So do your very best and you'll never have any regrets. And if we make mistakes the Savior is always there to help us. Love you all and hope you are doing amazing things in your lives. I know I certainly am.

Godspeed,

Elder Kendall

Dear Friends and Family,

Greetings from Payson! I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying life and school. So I love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, adore, love, cherish, love, um... I can't think of any other words, love, being a missionary! I am so glad I came back out and have the opportunity to be in Payson for a bit. So good news, I'm not getting transferred and neither is Elder Billy. He'll probably be around for another transfer and then I'll take over the next one. So a couple things that happened this week. I was actually in a threesome with Elder Osbourne when I first came out here. He was another trail missionary from West Jordan and had to go home Sunday because he has a back condition that is getting worse. So while he was here we had a car, but we're actually in a biking area, so Tuesday we got our car taken away. So Payson is really hilly so, on Tuesday, we were going pretty fast down this hill and Elder Billy was in front of me, and he saw an investigators brother he wanted to talk to. So he went in front of me and, since my brakes suck and we were going so fast, I pretty much hit him at a ninety degree angle. We both crashed pretty hard (don't worry Mom I'm totally fine) and he got up right away and started shaking people's hands around us without missing a beat. It was hilarious. I wish I had a video because the crash was also pretty funny. So that was fun. We had DTM on Wednesday and our Zone Leaders were there. One of them, I forget his name, served in Highland and taught my good friend Chelsie Martinez and he was wondering what happened to her, so if you're reading this Chelsie the missionaries miss you. We had a really good testimony meeting and the missionaries here are great. Their testimonies are so strong and help lift me up. One tiny problem, they're not the most obedient people, so I try to help out as best I can, but there's only so much I can do. We also have a member named Brother Gordon who owns a snowcone shack and he gives us free snow cones every day. His wife isn't a member so we go over and try to see her as well. He makes the best snowcones ever and has a lot of his own flavors he made up. He has this contest called the Titanic Resurfaced where you basically have to eat a 64 oz. snowcone in ten minutes. If you beat it you get to rename it. I was thinking if I beat is I'll call it Sprinkles my Dead Cat. Haha, anyways. We are teaching about twenty lessons a week and picking up about 3 or 4 new investigators. We pretty much have baptisms lined up every Saturday for the next 6 weeks. Yesterday we had the baptism of a girl named Taylor Farr who is Cassandra's age. She's really shy but she knows what is true. At her baptism she had a lot of her extended family there who weren't members or inactive so it was good that she was able to set that example. Friday we went as a district to the Provo Temple and it was awesome. I saw my friend Daniel who I played lacrosse with there. He's in the MTC and going to the Philippines. Katrina Lewis was also in the witness couple in the group that went before us, but I don't think she saw me. We had really good sacraments yesterday and I felt the Spirit a lot.

Spiritual thought of the week. I was thinking a lot about people and how often it is those who are poor in regards to worldly things who are the most receptive to the Gospel. When they do accept the gospel they are very happy, sometimes even more happy than those who have lots. So I was thinking what constitutes the measure of our happiness. Basically the question we must ask ourselves is "If I lost everything I have, would I still be happy?" We need to make it so that in our lives our happiness is based around the Gospel; that we have a Heavenly Father who loves us, we have our older brother Jesus Christ who is always there to help us and to heal us, and we have the Holy Ghost who is always there to comfort us and guide us in our lives as long as we are living worthy to have his companionship. We don't need nice things, or to live in a certain place, or to have certain friends, or to have a girlfriend, or money, or any other thing we think we need. These things are certainly great and we can want them. But our happiness should be based on how well we a striving to live the gospel and how our relationships with our Father in Heaven, His Son, and the Holy Ghost are. So my challenge for you this week is to try to improve your happiness by improving your commitment to living the standards of the Gospel. Love you all and hope everything is going well for you in your lives.

Godspeed,

Elder Kendall

Greetings everyone from Payson, Utah. The culture here is so different, haha. Actually Payson is awesome. So I arrived here on Friday and my companions name is Elder Billy. He's Native American from Southern California. More importantly he is a huge Harry Potter fan so we get along quite nicely. He's also a huge Tron fan. I guess the missionaries got to watch it on the 4th of July so he's pretty obsessed. The missionaries in the district actually made up a Tron game called Glow-ball Wars and we made Tron outfits with black shirts and glow in the dark paint. Elder Billy made a whole outfit with black pants and everything so he's pretty excited to wear it when we go to play today. So Payson is awesome, especially since this is where they have the Scottish Festival. So the first day I got here we had two baptisms. The first was a 17 kid named Edgar. The second was a 16 girl named Anne-Marie. She's actually pretty cute and Carsen should date her because she's really good at the piano. We teach a lot of kids, which if you know me is the greatest thing in the world. It's a good thing I taught primary before I came out. The members here are great also. We get a lot of referrals and they'll come and teach with us a lot. So we cover three stakes and 25 wards which is a lot. For church we attend three sacrament meetings. Yesterday was all in the same building and they were having the High Councilmen all give a talk on the same topic, Duty. So we basically heard the same talk three times, it was rough. But we had our two confirmations which was awesome. We get a lot of free food here and people feeding us as well. It's nice :). We go to this Snow Shack owned by a member named Brother Gordon. He is awesome and basically the Snow-Cone king. His wife isn't a member so we have a good excuse to go there and get free Snow-Cones. Oh, Cassandra will like this, there was a guy in one of the wards we went to yesterday and he looked just like Chuck Norris. It was pretty amazing. Anyways we've been teaching a lot and it's been a lot of fun. I love being a missionary and am looking forward to serving the people here in Payson. Spiritual thought of the week. Nobody is perfect. Everyone is trying to fit in in life and figuring out where they belong. Sometimes they may make decisions that may not be the best and we can judge them. They may be going down a path that we can see will lead them to unhappiness, or maybe they've even done something to offend us. But you know what, I think that for the most part people are good, and they want to do good. For some it make take longer to find the Gospel and accept it. Others may never accept it, but Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ don't love them any less, and neither should we. It's not up to us to judge others or to try and make them live like we do. Instead we must serve others and try to be their friend. Everyone is our brother or sister and we all have different challenges. It is not up to us to judge how people respond to live. Even Christ, the greatest person who ever lived or will ever live on the earth, did not judge. Instead He taught, He served, He invited, He loved, and He did everything he could to improve the lives of His brothers and sisters. So my challenge to you is to think of someone who you might be judging or who you just can't stand, and instead of trying to make them do what you think is best just love and serve them. Try to see what trials they are going through and have the same love Christ had to help them through their trails. They may see your example and want to know what your motivation is. They may not change at all, but if you really love them that won't matter. The only thing that will matter is that you were able to help lift someone's burdens. Love you all and hope everything goes well in all of your lives, especially you kids with school starting.

Godspeed,

Elder Kendall