Well, here I am at the MTC. I figured that I wouldn't be able to E-mail while staying here but I guess I can. England is amazing! I feel trully blessed that I am able to learn here at the Preston MTC which is actually in a small logging town of Chorley, go figure. The flight getting to England was pretty nice, I believe there were about 28 Elders and Sisters coming over so I was in good company. Yesterday (Friday) was just a registration day were we had to see the doctor, get interviews, and things like that; so it wasn't all that great but I did get my companion who will be with me for the duration of my MTC stay. My companion's name while I'm at the MTC is Elder Manning from Colorado. He has a great personality along with a strong testimony of the Gospel and we are getting along great, he is serving in the England, Leeds mission. The Missions here are England Manchester, England Leeds, Scottland (the whole country), Iryland (the whole country), Germany, and Switzerland. I feel incredibly grateful that I was sent here to learn how to preach instead of the Provo MTC; there are only about 50 of us and all of us arrived together and will be leaving together and were the only ones here, so we are on a very personal basis with our fellow missionaries as well as our teachers. Winston Churchill wasn't lieing when he said that were two countries seperated by a common language (the accient is fascinating but sometimes you just can't believe that there speaking English). Today (Saturday) we had some great introductions to the teachers as well as learning a wee bit on how a missionary should serve his mission and I have to admit that it is very intimidating to think about all the resposibilities that are upon my shoulders and how important it is that I learn everything I can in the few 17 days that I have to learn it so that I can be the type of missionary my Savior would want me to be. It truly does seem like a lot of work but I whole heartedly believe that so long as I humbly pray for assistance and continue to give it my all that the I will be blessed, that I will be able to retain the knowledge that I am being given, and that I will be prepaired to go out and get to work. I believe with everything that I have that this Gospel is true, that Presiden Monson is a called prophet of God, that what I am doing here is to help bring my brothers and sisters back to be with our Father in Heaven who loves them. I feel a love for the people of England that I never thought I would feel, I worry about them and want nothing but eternal salvation for them all. I love this gospel, I love the power for good that it can have on peoples lives. I love you mom and dad, and I hope mom learning the computer is going alright (I worry about her). Well for the moment I can only email my parents until I actually leave so if you want to forward this message it is totally alright. I don't know the next time I will be able to E-mail but I'm sure it will be sometime before next Monday.
Forever your careing and loving son
Elder McKenna
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