Kendall Green San Bernardino Mission

Hey everyone! This week has been busy like always. We had exchanges last Wednesday which was fun. It was nice because the Elder I was with struggled last time to talk to everyone. However, this time he did amazing. It was cool to see that growth. Besides that, we have been continuing to try to get in contact with people that we are teaching. We were finally able to teach Matthew this week. He's been going through a rough time and is just really tired from work. We were able to have a good lesson and he said he would come to church. Sadly, he didn't and we're not sure what else to do. We are praying for guidance to know how to help him. We did have one miracle though this week. One person we've been teaching told us that he believed that the Book of Mormon was true. He's been being taught for years and has been praying for an answer. As we read the Book of Mormon last Monday, however, the presence of the Spirit was very strong. I was impressed to ask him ...

Hey everyone! This week has been busy with a lot of meetings so we weren't able to get out as much as we would like to, however we did have some fun experiences. Meetings wise we had follow up training which took another one of our afternoons away from us on top of district council and weekly planning. Follow up training, which is a meeting that allows the trainees and trainers to receive additional council and advice on any challenges they are struggling with,   was pretty fun. I was able to get some good advice on how to be willing to talk to more people. The best advice I got was to pray for the power to talk to everyone and then go out and do it. I haven't been good at applying this advice, but we've definitely gotten better at talking to everyone as a companionship. The fun part about talking to everyone is that you meet the most interesting people. We had one person ask us if we had any snacks. When we responded no, she suggested that more people might want to t...

Hey everyone! Wow! Another week has come and gone. There is still a lot of work to be done here. This week was good for the first few days. We were able to get in contact with someone that had been hard to find which was cool. He was pretty nice and even invited us to go fishing at the beach with him. We said we would love to but couldn't because the beach was outside of our mission boundaries. We also had a great zone conference. During the zone conference President McKinnon said something that was very profound. He asked that for the bicentennial general conference we prepare to receive personal revelation. He said that he believed that at least one of the things that will make the next general conference will be the personal revelation we receive. We also had some cold and windy nights this week. I'm hoping the wind dies down because it makes it harder to bike. One miracle that we had was that last night it was really cold and windy. It was also dark and we were try...

Hey everyone! So this week has been another fun week in the mission field. Last Wednesday, we had a zone conference for all the Spanish missionaries in the mission. This was the first time they've done this and I believe they may start doing it in order to help hasten the work among the Hispanic population. They really want the work among the Spanish population to increase. It was pretty fun and the new goal for Spanish missionaries is at least one baptism per companionship per month. It's a lofty goal, but we are going to do our best. We also had some great lessons this week. We just started teaching this couple and were able to give a lesson to them this week. It was a great lesson. As we taught the message of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the importance of prophets, the husband, Danny, asked if there were still prophets today. We bore a powerful testimony of modern prophets and they both felt the spirit. They said they believed it was true. It was a...

Hey everyone, So this week I got a new companion. His name is Elder Squires and I'll be training him for the next transfer. He's adjusting to missionary life very well and is excited to do the work. We've been doing our best to talk to everyone and we've had a few successes. One miracle that happened this week was that we contacted an hermana that we had met on the street. When we passed by her house, her and her husband warmly welcomed us in and were very receptive to our message. We hope that they will continue to receive us. We also were able to visit a friend that we hadn't seen in a while and he was very happy to see us. We gave him a priesthood blessing and he felt the spirit powerfully. After that, he said, "You have a lot of power in your church." In my head I thought, "You're right. We have the power of God." It was so amazing to see that power in action. We also got a couple of new people from the Alder Elders because th...

Hey everyone! So sorry, but I forgot to send this last week so you'll get two emails this week. This week has been great but kind of slow. The highlights of this week us that we were able to find a man and his wife who are very humble and are open to receiving our message they're very friendly and we've been able to have several lessons with them this week. During one of them they said that they would love to be part of Christ's church if they found it and were certain that it was Christ's church. Our lessons with Matthew have also continued to go well. He loves learning and asked us a lot about the organization of the church. We went over the baptismal questions last Saturday night and he was so ready.  Another highlight of the week is that I got to meet some ward members that were from Peru. They were pretty awesome. It was nice to eat some Peruvian food again and they also gave us some treats that I used to eat while in Peru. It was pretty fun. The fat...

Hey Everyone! This week has been sort of a whirlwind and pretty busy. We had exchanges with the zone leaders and the I did exchanges with the Alder Elders so we have been doing a lot of coordination. The good thing is that as we have been able to talk to a lot of people and I have been able to become more comfortable with talking with people everywhere and in every place. The nice thing with talking with everyone is that we've found a lot more people willing to listen to our message. The only downside is that we've contacted people several times. The nice thing about that, however,  is that we get to know them better and while they may not be interested in our message now our multiple contacts may pique their curiosity. We also had several miracles occur. One of the people we have been trying to teach for the past few weeks was finally home and willing to hear us. He asked us about what after we die and we were able to show him using scriptures both in the Bible and the Bo...