Newman, Kade

Wow wow! What another Great week! I'm gonna do my best to remember all the important events that went down this week!  We've been working really really hard to find new people to teach! We are still consistently teaching our friend sirine! She needs lots of prayers! She's scheduled to be baptized on the 19th of October! I have so much faith she will be able to be baptized then! But she needs your prayers!  We've been trying to find new ways of finding people in Oakland! We've gone to parks! Bus stations! Bart stations! And everything in between. But I truly need to have more trust that the lord is preparing us more people to teach!  Yesterday we found this really cool young man from Mongolia named Lucas! He believes in Jesus Christ and he was so excited when we talked about the book of mormon. He wanted to know where to buy one! Imagine his excitement when we said we had a free copy for him to take! It's amazing to see those who are humble in accepting more of t...

Good morning beloved family and friends!! That's right as you see from the title it is in fact president Nelson's 100th birthday! God bless that man! But this week was another great one! Been bumming on the emails but hopefully this one's better!  Been trying to write down more experiences I've been having with people and with friends bc I forget a lot while writing these emails. But my sister invited me to write more stuff down so hopefully this is better shout out Candin!  This week and weeks prior we've been making it PRIORITY to build the member relationships here. Oakland 1st ward is amazing but it's dying. Literally...everyone's a little old and there's no new faces. And it's all on us. We had meetings with a lot of members this week and left them with lots of invitations to do missionary work. We hope it will catch because we are struggling finding real interested people to teach! But it's been working!  But some highlights from the week w...