Kendrick, Meghan

Hola hola todos! I hope that you are all doing well! We had another amazing week here. We were able to have our first lesson with Yrianni. We got to know her more and started talking about the Plan of Salvation. She already has a very strong testimony that what we teach as missionaries is true. She learned a lot from the missionaries in Colorado and is excited to continue strengthening her faith in Christ.  We also had another visit with our friend Keinis. She has a strong testimony of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, and she reads the Bible every day. During our visit, we read some of 3 Nephi chapter 11 with her. In this chapter, Jesus Christ appeared to the people in the Americas after He was resurrected. We talked about what Keinis learned and felt as we read. It was so cool to see her add on to the knowledge that she already had of Jesus Christ.  Each week, we have the opportunity to sing hymns at a rehabilitation center close by. We take hymn books so that the patients c...

Hola hola! I hope that you all had an amazing week! We saw so many miracles last week and there are so many good things happening here.  At the start of the week, we got a referral named Velita. She had filled out a form online to meet with missionaries. We reached out to her and were able to set up a visit. When we went into her apartment for the visit, we noticed a picture of Jesus on her wall. It was a picture that we had only ever seen in church buildings of our faith so we thought it was interesting that she had it. We started getting to know Velita a little bit and she told us that she is a member of our church! She recently moved here from Mesa and has been an inactive member for a little while. She said that she wants to come back to church and have weekly visits with us to discuss what she is reading in the Book of Mormon. We gave her all of the information for church and she came yesterday along with some of her family!  We also received a referral named Keinis and s...

Hola todos! I hope that you all had an amazing week!  I made it to my new area! I'm now in Scottsdale and it is absolutely beautiful! There are lots of cactus and mountains around us. Hermana Rosales is amazing and I love her. I have already had so much fun working with her and I know that its going to be a great transfer. We normally share the Spanish wards or branches with a companionship of Elders. However, the Elders were moved out of the area, so we are now covering all of the spanish branch and our english ward. It has been fun to get to know some of the members and friends that we are teaching. The people here are very sweet and I already love them.  We helped out at the Chinese Autumn Festival last week, along with a bunch of other missionaries in our zone. When we got there, the person in charge told us that we would all be going up on stage later to sing a song, then he handed us the lyrics. It was I am a Child of God in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. He wanted us...

Hola todos! Its transfer week! I'm leaving Vía Verde and heading to the Vía Linda and Chaparral area. Its a little north of where I am now. I will be in two wards, one in english and one in spanish, and my new companion will be Hermana Rosales. I am so grateful for the time that I had here in Vía Verde. The people here are amazing. I am excited for this new transfer and for the opportunity to teach in both english and spanish. I am also excited to meet all of the people there and get to love them!  We had exchanges last week. I went with Sister Bolton to her area. She is so much fun! We started the day by doing service for a lady named Lily who needed help moving out of her apartment. Lily is a member of another church and doesn't really have any family or friends close by. One of her friends reached out to some other missionaries to see if we could help her move. We showed up and Lily didn’t have any boxes or a way to move her stuff into the storage unit she is renting. We did...