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
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