My area is doing great!

As always I would like to begin my letter by thanking you all for the wonderful family updates you give and for the love you so freely share with me!

Wow, the St. George McKenna's clan are the football professionals! Jackson's team (formerly called the squids) finished their season undefeated and are now going to play in the Utah Summer games under the much more fearsome title of the GLADIATORS (very nice); and Meghan's team is getting ready to take the State Cup (I feel sort of bad for those other teams that are going to feel the fury of Meghan McKenna!); and Ellyse is now Junior Class Assembly and Activity Chairman which is very good because every president started somewhere now the next step is State Senator and then on to President :)! Memorial day seems like it is going to be way fun (I don't really know what your all doing but with Timette in charge it has to be fun) and I have to admit that I really am going to miss seeing you all there (remember when me and Chelsey where are own tent for the Olympic games and we had that Handicap flag and everyone froze! You can't buy memories like that :) ) But I'll only be gone for two, so enjoy no Elder McKenna there while you can :)! So Chelsey's new place has the toilet separate from the shower and sink that's pretty weird but in England they have no electrical sockets in the Bathroom so the light switch to turn on the light is on the outside of the Bathroom instead of inside, you can only imagine the shenanigans that Missionaries get into using that... :). And for some reason in England all of the faucets are separate!!! The hot faucet is separate from the cold faucet, which means you can either burn or freeze your hands, there is no happy medium! But my crazy ranting aside I'm very glad that Chelsey was able to move in all safe and sound and I know she is going to do amazing things!
The Altrincham area (the place were I'm serving if you've forgotten) is being blessed far more than my unarticulated words can express the Lord truly has poured out his spirit upon the people and has opened the windows of Heaven! Samuel and Ellse (some people who have been struggling with the word of wisdom) are now down to one tea a day and one coffee and Samuel no longer drinks! It is so amazing to see the spirit work in someone's life they truly have had a change of heart and are singing the song of redeeming love! Their happiness truly feels my soul with such happiness as to praise my God with all the energy of my heart! The members here are really beginning to understand that marvellous spirit that comes from missionary work. A man by the name of Brother Thapa (his first name is to hard to pronounce :)) from Nepal simple just invited his friend to church last Sunday. His friend (who is a born Hindu) knew nothing of the scriptures or of God for that matter, and yet the Spirit wrought such a change in him that he is now preparing himself for baptism! This change truly had
nothing to do with my weak and simple words but had everything to do with the Spirit and with God! This is his work I can not testify it enough and I will never stop! God's work and his glory are to bring to pass all of our immortality and eternal lives. God is our loving Heavenly Father who wants nothing more than to see his sons and his daughters in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, he wants nothing more than to be with us again and for all eternity. This life is hard, and it is difficult, and a lot of hard things do come from being a member of this church, but I can promise you that all of these things are for our benefit and to make us better! This life is a time for us to prepare to meet God and there is a battle going on not a battle of the flesh but of the spirit for we are fighting for something much more glorious than money, or land, or fame, but for a place in the kingdom of Our Father in Heaven. Never forget your potential you and I are all sons and daughters of a God and as such have in store blessings equal to all the Father has! I love you all and I know one day we will all stand before the pleasing bar of God and will have a perfect
recollection of all that we have done that is good and pure and will know that we have accomplished it! We have kept our second estate and are now entitled to the greatest blessings the Eternities have to offer! This I know!
Elder McKenna