Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Email - April 25, 2009
My companions name is Elder Giles. He is a hard working obiedent missionary. We will see alot of success. He has been out alsmot a year I think : )
Email - April 21, 2009
So this week we had stake conference. We drove up with a member on Sunday and went to it. It was really good. We hadn't seen others missionaries in over 5 weeks so it felt good to say hi to them.
We had interview with President Dance. We have interviews every transfer or 6 weeks with him. He says that I will probably leave Delta Junction for my last transfer. He said that 3 transfers or 4 and a half months is way to long to be in Delta LOL : ) He said this is a very "SSSLLOOOWWW" area. And I have felt that lol. The branch members are amazing but the people here have talked to missionaries hundreds of times. Effects of a small town. President said he wants to go to Tok so we might go this week.
Transfers calls are Saturday and transfers are on Monday. This will be my last transfer. I have 6 weeks left. It has been really good, but I am really excited to see my family again : )
Doing Good! : )
Love Elder Kennedy
Monday, April 13, 2009
Email - April 13, 2009
It sure has warmed up this week : ) It got to 35 one day : ) Everything is slowly starting to melt : ) Easter Sunday was amazing : ) lots of smiley faces lol hope you like them.
Well so I came into this area and there is an Elder from the Branch that came home and he decided to go back out and got called to a different mission. He went and we just heard that he is coming home again for good. This is very sad to here. He is such a good kid when we talked to him.
Something that this experience really did for me is to REALLY appreciate being on a mission and being able to finish it. I really haven't thought of it as much of a blessing till now but it is something that really hit me hard when I saw this Elder come how early. I really am blessed to be able to be out here and serve the Lord and finish a two year mission! : ) It really has helped me look at what great blessings I have : )
Church was great this Sunday! Something really bothered me though. I don't maybe I am slow but something just hit my nerves. Our lesson was about Joseph Smith and his time in liberty jail and all that he went through. and all the saints went through. It just hit me really hard. Why was Joseph and the saints persecuted SO much! They lived in a country of freedom of religion. They did that which was right. They never hurt any one. They just wanted to live their religion in peace. The Savior was the same way. He was PERFECT! A perfect being. He could do no ill, but he was still crucified. I guess I just had a "It just DOESN'T make sense to me" moment.
It made me think about today. Would the world do that if the Savior came again? Will they do that to our church again?
I guess I learned that Satan is REAL and that he will do all he can to stop the work from progressing. BUT the Lord promised the work WILL NOT stop progressing and it wont! The Saints went through SO much but never lost the faith. They are an example to me : )
I believe that the more people that feel the effects of the Atonement of Christ there will be more Peace. There will be more missionaries. There will be more converts. There will be more love.
I have felt the Atonement in my life. It IS real! The effects are life changing and everlasting! I have seen those effected by it and change their life because of it. That is what make everyday of my mission worth something. love Christ and I love his Gospel!
Elder Kennedy
Well so I came into this area and there is an Elder from the Branch that came home and he decided to go back out and got called to a different mission. He went and we just heard that he is coming home again for good. This is very sad to here. He is such a good kid when we talked to him.
Something that this experience really did for me is to REALLY appreciate being on a mission and being able to finish it. I really haven't thought of it as much of a blessing till now but it is something that really hit me hard when I saw this Elder come how early. I really am blessed to be able to be out here and serve the Lord and finish a two year mission! : ) It really has helped me look at what great blessings I have : )
Church was great this Sunday! Something really bothered me though. I don't maybe I am slow but something just hit my nerves. Our lesson was about Joseph Smith and his time in liberty jail and all that he went through. and all the saints went through. It just hit me really hard. Why was Joseph and the saints persecuted SO much! They lived in a country of freedom of religion. They did that which was right. They never hurt any one. They just wanted to live their religion in peace. The Savior was the same way. He was PERFECT! A perfect being. He could do no ill, but he was still crucified. I guess I just had a "It just DOESN'T make sense to me" moment.
It made me think about today. Would the world do that if the Savior came again? Will they do that to our church again?
I guess I learned that Satan is REAL and that he will do all he can to stop the work from progressing. BUT the Lord promised the work WILL NOT stop progressing and it wont! The Saints went through SO much but never lost the faith. They are an example to me : )
I believe that the more people that feel the effects of the Atonement of Christ there will be more Peace. There will be more missionaries. There will be more converts. There will be more love.
I have felt the Atonement in my life. It IS real! The effects are life changing and everlasting! I have seen those effected by it and change their life because of it. That is what make everyday of my mission worth something. love Christ and I love his Gospel!
Elder Kennedy
Email - April 6, 2009
YEAH! We got a member referral from the Wrigley's in our Branch. We went to the families’ door and they let us in. We had a pretty good talk with them. The wife really likes to over power the conversation and couldn't stop moving around. They were talking how they believe in that everything has an energy and the more energy you have the more you vibrate and there is positive and negative energy.
We felt like Ammon and trying to relate the Gospel to what they were saying. You really had to concentrate and think hard. And they would just randomly ask you a question like, so when has gone done something against what you wanted and it turned out good? It really made us think quickly. I told how I wanted to leave later on my mission and put my release date later so I could finish my job at school, and how they Prophet moved it sooner. I said I went sooner and how in my first transfer the Lord provided us a family that got baptized and wants to be sealed in the temple. I knew Gods will is hirer than mine.
Well General Conference was GREAT! The last General Conference I will watch on my mission. I have been out 22 Months today!! It has gone by SO fast and I am really happy and excited to see my family in a couple months : )
Thanks for all the Prayer, Letters, Emails, and Support!
Love Elder Kennedy
Picture # 1 Buffalo are all over Delta Junction. A member of our ward shot and feed us buffalo. It is pretty good. Taste kinda like hamburger. Everybody kills their food and that's how they and we eat : )
Picture # 2 There is a place up here calles "White Stone" it is like its own religious farming based community. We were crossing one of their bridges. It was pretty shaky : /
Picture # 3 Smoky the bear and I
Picture # 4 Dig Delta River : )
We felt like Ammon and trying to relate the Gospel to what they were saying. You really had to concentrate and think hard. And they would just randomly ask you a question like, so when has gone done something against what you wanted and it turned out good? It really made us think quickly. I told how I wanted to leave later on my mission and put my release date later so I could finish my job at school, and how they Prophet moved it sooner. I said I went sooner and how in my first transfer the Lord provided us a family that got baptized and wants to be sealed in the temple. I knew Gods will is hirer than mine.
Well General Conference was GREAT! The last General Conference I will watch on my mission. I have been out 22 Months today!! It has gone by SO fast and I am really happy and excited to see my family in a couple months : )
Thanks for all the Prayer, Letters, Emails, and Support!
Love Elder Kennedy
Picture # 1 Buffalo are all over Delta Junction. A member of our ward shot and feed us buffalo. It is pretty good. Taste kinda like hamburger. Everybody kills their food and that's how they and we eat : )
Picture # 2 There is a place up here calles "White Stone" it is like its own religious farming based community. We were crossing one of their bridges. It was pretty shaky : /
Picture # 3 Smoky the bear and I
Picture # 4 Dig Delta River : )
Monday, March 23, 2009
Email – March 23, 2009
Well...I have been with my companion for almost a full week now. He is a very good missionary. Very obedient and hard working. He keeps me in line. He is my only missionary I have ever met that doesn't talk about home. He is SO focused on his mission that he REALLY has left everything behind.
We have a had a pretty good week. We found two new investigators and Glen came to church. This is going to be his last week till he goes back to Iowa. He said he doesn't think he is going to be baptized, but we are going to try and commit him again tomorrow. Hopefully all goes well : )
I had my 21st Birthday this week! It is crazy to think I am 21 now! A member here cooked me my favorite dinner and baked me a cake. It was really nice : ) I love this branch!
We gave a talk at sacrament on Sunday about knowing who you are and the Pre Earth life. Then I taught the Gospel Doctrine. It was kind of nerve reckoning teaching all these "gospel scholars" but I got through it lol : )
I talked about how my mom would always ask me before I left for school or with some friend, "Remember who you are?" That is something that has really stuck with me and helped me make some right choices. To know that we TRULY are children of God with UNLIMITED progression and FULLNESS of joy to await us. It really helps me keep things in perspective : )
Well I got some really good pictures at the Ice Sculpture festival. I guess this advent is pretty world famous and the sculptures were AMAZING!!! Truly a once in a life time advent. I took SO many pictures but I will try to send the best ones : )
Love Elder Kennedy
Email – March 16, 2009
Well this week hasn't been the best health wise. I got the cold about a week ago and am still feeling a little sick from it. I just felt SO week for awhile it was ridiculous! I SO much rather be healthy and well then sick. I HATE feeling so weak over your whole body. Well hopefully I can fully recover and get over this stinking sickness.
It is SO SO COLD today! It just cuts to your bones!! That probably doesn't help recovery time lol. Well they say that April is where break up it so hopefully and really PLEASE be getting warming. Is it just me or are you all just DONE with this winter. It has just been such a LONG winter!! BRRR!
Well we got transfer calls on Saturday. I am staying in Delta Junction and getting an Elder Young. This will be the second Young I will have served with. My companion is going to Anchorage. We drove up to Fairbanks Sunday night and stayed the night at the Zone Leaders and another set of missionaries. Well they wouldn't go to bed till like 12 and we had to get up at 430 to take a kid to the airport to go to Sitka, AK. I am pretty tired not going to lie, but I will have a lot of time to catch up on sleep in less than 3 months. It’s crazy how you get no sleep one night and get 7 hours the next and are fine again. Well still tired but not as bad. well I guess you are always tired, but just different extremes.
Well we are going to this Ice Sculpture thing up in Fairbanks today. You have to pay money to get in, but it is WELL worth it I heard. I should have some more pictures next week. Man I am excited. There are so many once in a lifetime things that you only could do on a mission. When will I EVER be in Fairbanks Alaska in the winter? I am never planning on being in Alaska in the winter again. I will visit in summer’s lol. Summers are just MARVELOUS!! I am SO Ready for summing. But right when it gets nice I go home. I go home the 8th of June, and they say it starts to get way nice the 1st of June. Like Flowers and leaves and everything.
I just want to be warm again lol : )
Well hopefully I don't fall asleep on the drive home : /
O so somehow the branch found out it was my birthday this Thursday and that is a lot of what they talked about in Relief Society LOL. Women and their gospel lol. JK. Well it should be a good B-Day, the last on a mission. I will be 21 years old! WOW! When I think 21 I think Return Missionary. Well I love you all and know that the Lord hears your prays and mine :)
Love Elder Kennedy
It is SO SO COLD today! It just cuts to your bones!! That probably doesn't help recovery time lol. Well they say that April is where break up it so hopefully and really PLEASE be getting warming. Is it just me or are you all just DONE with this winter. It has just been such a LONG winter!! BRRR!
Well we got transfer calls on Saturday. I am staying in Delta Junction and getting an Elder Young. This will be the second Young I will have served with. My companion is going to Anchorage. We drove up to Fairbanks Sunday night and stayed the night at the Zone Leaders and another set of missionaries. Well they wouldn't go to bed till like 12 and we had to get up at 430 to take a kid to the airport to go to Sitka, AK. I am pretty tired not going to lie, but I will have a lot of time to catch up on sleep in less than 3 months. It’s crazy how you get no sleep one night and get 7 hours the next and are fine again. Well still tired but not as bad. well I guess you are always tired, but just different extremes.
Well we are going to this Ice Sculpture thing up in Fairbanks today. You have to pay money to get in, but it is WELL worth it I heard. I should have some more pictures next week. Man I am excited. There are so many once in a lifetime things that you only could do on a mission. When will I EVER be in Fairbanks Alaska in the winter? I am never planning on being in Alaska in the winter again. I will visit in summer’s lol. Summers are just MARVELOUS!! I am SO Ready for summing. But right when it gets nice I go home. I go home the 8th of June, and they say it starts to get way nice the 1st of June. Like Flowers and leaves and everything.
I just want to be warm again lol : )
Well hopefully I don't fall asleep on the drive home : /
O so somehow the branch found out it was my birthday this Thursday and that is a lot of what they talked about in Relief Society LOL. Women and their gospel lol. JK. Well it should be a good B-Day, the last on a mission. I will be 21 years old! WOW! When I think 21 I think Return Missionary. Well I love you all and know that the Lord hears your prays and mine :)
Love Elder Kennedy
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