Service

           Hello friends and family from once again from the
Cornhusker capital of the world.  I hope you are all having a great
time in life, and looking forward to all the great opportunities that
will happen as summer comes to a close and school and fall enter the
picture.  I'm super excited for school to start, because that means we
will actually have people to teach here in the student ward, haha.
I've never been so excited for it in my life.  Despite the lack of
young single people to teach, I've still had some awesome experiences
this past week.  So on Thursday I was on an exchange with one of the
assistants Elder Geddes.  He's pretty sweet, and we both love Sci-Fi,
so we had to try to not talk about that and focus just on working.  He
came to my area, while Elder Jackson went up to Omaha, so we were
doing some finding.  We prayed to know where to go, and the Spirit led
us to this apartment building by campus.  While we were knocking we
saw a guy outside putting his bike away, and we felt prompted to go
talk to him.  For some reason we just started talking to him about
prayer, and receiving guidance from the Holy Ghost.  He talked about
how he was Catholic, and he prays, but not really to receive guidance,
but more just to vent to God.  He also informed us that he works for
NASA, which is awesome, and he invited us back to share more about the
Restoration.  We had a sweet second lesson with him, and really were
able to testify about prophets and Christ's Church.  It was an awesome
experience and it showed that the Lord still will help us find those
who are prepared even if they are few and far between right now.  We
also had Zone Leader Council which was great since I got to see Elder
Carrier and Elder Bell, my former companions.  It was really good, and
President and Sister Weston are great.  It was a hard transition, but
I am fully committed to following their council and guidance.
Yesterday was sweet as well because my good friend Zach Anderson from
Omaha came and visited me.  It was good to see him, since he moved
away from Nebraska in May, but he'll be getting married in October to
a recent convert from up there named Laura.  They are both great
friends, so it was really nice to see him.
             Well, spiritual thought of the week is on service.
August is actually service month in the Church.  Obviously we should
always be serving, but we have a special opportunity to really focus
on and pray about how we can best serve others.  Often we think about
doing big service projects as the only way we can serve, but in
reality, there are so many different ways we can serve others on an
hourly basis.  Think about the Savior, He didn't wait to be asked to
serve others, but He earnestly sought out ways that He could help lift
others burdens.  We have that same opportunity.  Although we aren't
perfect like Christ, we have all been given talents and abilities and
spiritual gifts to help serve others.  These are given to us not for
our own benefit, but for the benefit of lifting others' burdens.  And
often, all we need to do is sacrifice a bit of our time to be with
others, and talk with them.  Find out what those around you are
concerned about, and then follow the Spirit on how you can best help
them.  I promise as you do so, the power of the Spirit will increase
in your life, and you will know the Savior better.  I love you all so
much and hope you have a great week serving others.

Godspeed,
Elder Chandler Kendall