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
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