Newman, Kade

Merry Christmas everyone! It was a great week of missionary work and ofc had some Christmas festivities! First of all thank you for all the Christmas wishes and constant love I received!  The work has been great our friend Christopher is going to get baptized this Saturday on the 30th! We are so excited for him and he's soooo ready! We love Christopher!  This week was a bit of a blur lots of exchanges tho which was great! I'm blessed to live around some amazing missionaries we all have a good time and help eachother grow as missionaries! We even made a Christmas movie...let me know if you want the link to my Google photos haha. But anyways its been a great Christmas and a great week of missionary work!  I love you all and merry Christmas I hope you were able to spread some of the light of christ this year!

To sum up the week I have never been so tired in my life yet never have felt so much Joy in my life! This week has truly been great but it was a blur! Lots of miracles and just grinding here in Oakland trying to find souls and not spending too much time talking to people under the influence of something. Anyways its been great truly blessed and I just love it here! Highlight from the week we got our boy Noel on date for baptism! He's so cool and wants a relationship with heavenly father so bad! Hes a senior in high-school and he is set on reading his scriptures and getting baptized asap!! All I cared about as a senior in high-school was baseball and how good I looked but he is striving to make covenants which is amazing! So proud!  Spiritual thoughts from this week is from our prophet! And I just love teaching others about the real name of Christ's Church but he says "To remove the Lord’s name from the Lord’s Church is a major victory for Satan. When we discard the Savior’...

Imagine the title is Katy perry singing about the elders in Cali. Jk but this week was sooooooo fire lots of miracles again.  I am just so thankful for the support from family and am so grateful to serve around great Elders and Sisters who have so much faith in the work. My district this week went crazy! We were finding like crazy getting a ton of members to lessons and all our friends showed up to church!!! We also had a couple of friends we put on date for baptism which is crazy bc I didn't think they were gonna be prepared but the lord prepares anyone who is ready for those covenants! But besides the district success we had a great week and great time in Oakland.  I think I'm fighting off winter allergies bc I wake up every morning and feel sick haha. But as soon as I get to morning basketball I'm feeling right! Gotta drop a daily 40pt performance for the boys back in the valley! Ive been truly blessed to realize how valuable this time is on a mission theres not going to...

YALLLL I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!  Why is Christmas time just a time of miracles! We had a very productive week where we just saw the lords hand in everything we were doing! We were guided and we found so many people and we just kept going with faith! One miracle from this week was being able to see our friend Christopher and having a couple of lessons with him and getting him to one of the events at the temple! You truly begin to love the people you teach so much and want to literally do anything for them. That's how I feel about Chris...HES A DAWG! Recently he's been deciding between getting baptized in our church and another non denominational church. Then when we taught him Wednesday he just straight up asked us how soon can I get baptized in your church? And we said we can get you in the water asap! So now he's on date for baptism for January 6th! He's so hyped and he has grown so much!  That was just one of the many miracles but I don't want to type for foreve...

Hello everyone sorry for the lack of an email last week it was a hectic pday! But I have so many updates I am now in the heart of Oakland and am now a district leader! Being a district leader is kind of hard so far haha leading district councils are stressful and I literally just have so much love for every single missionary in my district I just want all of them to be successful and want them to feel the joy of missionary work. Ofc leaving my first area in Richmond and leaving the hilltop ward wasn't easy I truly built a strong relationship with all of my friends and members there so it was hard But it's all part of the mission experience sadly.  But this new area is amazing! Amazing in the way that there's alot of missionary work to do not amazingly safe or pretty to look at in some parts but it's amazing! And this ward here is absolutely amazing so many loving members and its so diverse it's crazy. The Utah folk would probably drop their jaws but I surely love it...

Hello everyone this is going to be a very short email so I'm sorry!  Pdays are busy and especially when we gotta get to work after!  But the big updates is that I don't think I've ever been happier in my life. I really feel like I'm making a difference and that the lord is working through missionaries everywhere! It's been really refreshing knowing all I have to worry about right now is missionary work. Don't get me wrong it's hard But it's the best thing I could be doing right now and it's the greatest work on earth in the history of the world! How lucky am I to have a part!  Spiritual thought today is from Mathew 5. I love the sermon on the mount and I love how simply christ teaches us and how he expects alot from us. Being perfect? Nah you got the wrong guy. But it's possible through him. We can achieve it one day and we can live with our father in heaven. So do what the prophet says and get your family and think Celestial!! I love you all so ...