Kendall Green San Bernardino Mission

Hey everyone! Well time has just been flying by here in San Bernardino.  It's crazy that it's only been four days since I've written. Some of the highlights of the week was I got to help set up a huge service project for those that could not afford paying for dental work. It was pretty fun. I learned how to set up some of the tools and s ​a​ t in chairs in order to help the camera crews filming the service project.  Last Saturday, it ​ was​ really wet and cold in the morning. Even this morning was a little chilly. However, it's better weather for biking than blazing heat. We also had the zone activity which was fun. We played volleyball and ate ho ​​ t ​ ​ d ​​ ogs. What was also fun is that a couple of police officers came up to us to introduce themselves. We were worried that we were doing something wrong, but they just said they wanted to be friendly and see who they are. They were pretty friendly and once they found out that we were missionaries from...

Hey everyone! So its been quite an adventure this week with transfers. My new area is very different from Borrego Springs. It basically covers the entire stake of San Bernardino. The downside is that I'm on a bike so some parts parts of my area are unreachable. There are, however, some Spanish speaking sisters that cover my area too,  but they have a car so they can get to the parts where me and my companion can't.  Besides the fact that my area is huge, its also mostly city and the sirens of police cars, ambulances, and firetrucks never stop here. Thankfully, we've been fine as we have traveled around talking to people. Along with the stress of adapting to a new area, I'm follow up training (my companion has only been out on his mission for 6 weeks). Thankfully, it hasn't been too stressful. My new companion Elder Livingston is pretty awesome and has a gift for finding people that are open to receiving us. We actually found a man who is really awesome. He...

Well this week has been interesting and I'm not sure where to start. The biggest thing is that we found out transfers this week! I will be moving to a new area called Rancho in the San Bernadino Zone. One of my companions will be leaving to be a zone leader and the other will stay to train a new missionary. This is the first time I've ever trained so we'll see how this goes. Besides that, we had a pretty good week. We finally had enough miles to go out to Borrego Springs and so we did some contacting. Surprisingly, we found some people interested in hearing our message. We tried proselyting there when I arrived and it wasn't very effective so it was nice to see some fruits from our labors. Hopefully, some of them will become new people to teach soon. Sadly many people that we started to teach in this area have either stopped keeping their commitments, moved, or haven't responded to our attempts to contact them. However, I have been to touch many people'...

Hey everyone! Well this week has been a difficult,   but wonderful week. What was difficult is that this last Wednesday we had six appointments and all of them fell through except for one. This really surprised us because many of the people we had appointments with usually kept their appointments. We ended up knocking on a lot of doors. The good news is that this week we met an hermana who is just awesome. We asked a member for references and she told us to visit her neighbors. We started to knock on the door of one her neighbors and then an hermana came up behind us and asked who we were. It turned out to be that she had talked to sister missionaries before, but then moved. She brought out an old pamphlet of the message of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We set up a return appointment and then taught her the next day. It was awesome! She readily accepted the restoration and the invitation to read the Book of Mormon. She said she had seen the Book of Mormon and...

Hey everyone! This week has been great! We have seen a lot of great miracles this week. First of all, I have been able to see the great poet of the Book of Mormon in helping people feel the impressions of the spirit. So one of the people we are teaching,  expressed some reservations to being baptized and wanted to read the Book of Mormon before she was baptized. We were a little disappointed that she was hesitant about baptism, but we were grateful for her desire to read the Book of Mormon. When we came back for our next visit,  she said that as she read the thought came to her, "What are you afraid of?" Towards the end of the lesson, she asked if we were going to invite her to be baptized. We asked her if that was the desire of her heart and she replied, "Yes." We also are very happy because this week we were able to pinpoint the concerns of another person we are teaching, who is a very close to baptism. He's in for a trial of his faith, but we...

Well this week has been very interesting and long. We have been teaching and traveling a lot. This week had a zone conference so we had to wake up 5:30 in the morning so that we could make it to the conference.   We then drove back and had barely enough time to do some studies before going to teach another lesson. This week has been interesting because we've had some curveballs thrown at us through out the week. First of all, one of the people we are teaching asked us about polygamy. This caught us off guard because we were ready to teach about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I'll also admit that this was the first time I've been asked that in the mission. No one in Peru ever asked me about polygamy. Most of the concerns were about accepting the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith because though they are mentioned in the Bible, they are not referred to by their names. My companions were also surprised so it was kind of all over the place in trying to answer her. Another c...