Newman, Kade

Wow!!! What a great week! We saw so many miracles this week! At the beginning of the week we made a goal with President lash to find 200 people as a mission and it was a week full of miracles! We saw a bunch of miracles in our companionship as well as the rest of the missionaries in the mission!  One of the sick miracles was one day we decided to walk down this random street we never have been down in our area. The reason being it's just usually all the rich people that live in our area that walk down that street so not the humble crowd we are looking for. But we felt prompted to go and we were met with so many people who were not interested and not very nice! Haha! But at the end we met the most elect dude! His name is Rishi and his whole family just recently converted to Christianity from being Hindu. And he expressed that he doesn't really understand why he needs Jesus Christ in his life but he wants to understand and learn. So we were able to help him see the influence of t...

This week was sick....literally. We got sick . But that's OK we learned so much this week! Definitely relied on the lord this week and he low key magnified our efforts!  First to start this week we had transfers! Luckily me and my comp Elder Patterson are staying together!! But we did have to move apartments to an apartment Into downtown Oakland near lake merrit. Which makes the commute into our area and to church wayyyy longer but we stay blessed with our mom van! Also our apartment comes with a crazy neighbor named Alice. Our mission president called us and told us bc of previous experiences with this lady we have to ignore her at all costs. He didn't get into details but to quote president Lash he said to treat her like " Danger, fire and poison" so that's a lovely welcome to our new apartment. And also a funny story we locked our keys in our apartment and I had to climb up the building to our 3rd floor apartment to go through the patio door. Haha it was an imp...

Hey Everyone! Just checking back in after an amazing weekend of REVELATION! I love General Conference and the inspiring messages! I hope you were all able to tune in at some point and if you couldn't watch it watch it rn! The prophets voice is so powerful! After hearing his address there was a little bit of a sense that the second coming of christ is coming A LOT sooner than we may think! But also big news! A NEW TEMPLE IN QUEEN CREEK! I literally called it! Great to see the old hometown getting a house of the lord!  Besides conference this week was a good one! We had zone conference and it was focused on using the scriptures while teaching the doctrine of christ! So many scriptures that I wrote down!! Also this week in Oakland has been HOTTT. it's been getting up to 100 degrees in the bay which is unusual here. Usually I wouldn't complain. Bc I'm an AZ kid but when you live in the top apartment with no AC it's a bummer!  Anyways a crazy miracle is our new friend Co...

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...