Charity is the pure love of Christ!

Truly I am humbled every time I come to the library and have the blessed opportunity to read your E-mails! Thank you for the wonderful words, love, support, and kindness! So, now onto the big news! You probably already know but the Zurflueh clan, for there spaghetti eating in Baltimore, were filmed for the 'Ace of Cake' show! Apparently our family is just so Amazingly Awesome that people can't help but love us, our ideas, and traditions! And it's just soooooo cool that they made a cake that was a depiction of a spaghetti bowl that looked like the world! Moving from Baltimore to Utah; Timette seems to be wasting no time in her busy schedule; already she is planning out a cousin's week to rival all others with hiking in the canyons and Tiponogos caves, camping out in the backyard, going to some splash parks, and swimming in the clubhouse pool! Although all of those things sound amazing the best part of the week has to be that she is going to make a movie! YES! The spirit lives on! As for the St. George McKenna's Elyse is turning 16! And Jeff is going to be speaking at a youth conference on the Atonement and as for their summer family trip there
going to see Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore! Just too amazing! As alway it is good to hear that Charlie and Jack are still alive; and as for Charlie eating baseboards, I had no idea that he liked to chew on wood... :)! Anyways, I'm glad things are going so well back in the good ol' states and in response to Timette's question... over here in England the price of 'petrol' is £1.30 and that is only for a LITTER, and the gas truck drivers are going on strike! So were beginning to have a shortage in the Cumbria area! But despite all those things the work will and is moving forward!

Once again as I look back on the week that I have had and ponder on the countless miracles I have seen my heart is filled with joy and my soul is filled with peace. My thoughts are brought back to an experience that I had just yesterday... I was sharing in a lesson the idea that we need to 'Endure to the End' and the blessings that await us if we do. As I was saying how wonderful it will be to achieve salvation and exaltation I suddenly realized how glorious it will be. To think that we will not only be with our families for ever but that we will see people whom we knew in this life. It suddenly dawned on me in perfect beauty and bliss that we truly will have a perfect recollection of everything good and everything evil that we have done in this life. I will, at some point, not only have the opportunity to be with my family forever but to see and associate with others whom I have either helped or hindered! As this thought sank deep into my heart the spirit of the Lord filled my very soul with the pure love of Christ! And as I continued to teach my eyes began to cloud and I stated "how wonderful it would be so see everyone here one day crowned with Eternal glory, having entered into the highest of the kingdoms, and having achieved the greatest blessing the Lord can give us! And to embrace each and every one of them having a perfect remembrance of all our experiences together and to know that all of them and my self included lived up to our divine potential and can now enter into the rest of our Lord!" I am not here in Manchester England because I fear that I will be shunned if I'm not. I am not here in Manchester England because I feel that I am duty bound to serve. I am here in Manchester England because I love each and every one of my brothers and sisters! I know that this is the only way for us to truly return to God! This truly is his Gospel and I hope to embrace not only my family in the next life but many others who can shout in praise with me that they have truly fulfilled their potential! This is our Heavenly Father's work and his glory...

~With all my love
Elder McKenna