It seems that back home everyone is keeping busy! With mom being the bestest greeter ever at the temple, The Relief Society having there leadership dinner at the house, the scouts going up to have a ‘snow encampment’ at the cabin (which just shows how posh our ward is… we go on ‘snow encampments’ to cabins :P), Irelynn is the best cheerleader in the world while Chynna destroys woman football with her ‘sweet skills’! And Jeff has been released, reluctantly and yet willingly, from being the Gospel Doctrine teacher. Overall you guys still rock and I LOVE YOU :).
As for over here on this side of the pond things are going great, but I feel that this E-mail should be one of proper pictures… The first picture is of me and the member that let me use his phone for Christmas calls, he’s letting me know that for Christmas he wants a new car and I let him know for Christmas I want a member referral :)…
The Second picture is of me and Santa, I asked him for my companion not to snore at night (I didn’t get my Christmas wish :( )…
The third picture explains why I was so happy that for Christmas I got new shoes (my life is like my shoes :) )…
The fourth picture is the reason why I call my companion the BFG (HE IS HUGE)… The fifth picture is of me FREEZING in a freezing fog that his England just a couple of weeks ago (everything was frozen solid, even the little spider webs, you could break the web off like an icicle)…
The last picture is of my district and yes we do have matching ties and yes the sisters have a matching colour as well :) we rock.
Overall I can just never seem to express how wonderful my mission is into words. Every week I attempt to articulate into words the feelings of the spirit, the funny memories of a companion spilling a glass of water at the climax of a lesson, the sorrow of seeing someone walk away from something they felt in their hearts to be true, the subliminal joy that comes from watching someone you taught enter into the cleansing waters of baptism, the list goes on and on. But I think that the greatest part of my mission, something that I wouldn’t trade anything in the world for is that I now know, not believe, not hope, not desire, but I now by ways that are known to me and God that this is the true and living church of Jesus Christ, that Joseph Smith did see God and Jesus Christ, that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet, that the Book of Mormon is a record of God’s prophets in the Americas, and most important and what means more to me then any amount of worldly matter… I know that Jesus is the Christ my savior.
Love,
Elder McKenna
P.S. in answer to Jackson’s question the only unique animal in Manchester is the ‘Manqurian Scallie’
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