HI YA

HELLO and greetings from your sibling/son/English guy who is NOW 20! :O

To start off this E-mail I have to ask, what happened to my last E-mail! I sent an email last Wednesday which was full of awesomeness and no one received it! I have sent the E-Mail that I sent last week as well as this one… the last weeks E-mail is entitled Gruesse :). Any who, it seems like things are wonderful back home! Chynna apparently has an I-phone (which reminded me about when I had to stand in line for about 3 hours, was late to work, and had to talk to Hippie Amie because Chelsey wanted one right when they came out >:( but hey, I’m not bitter) and is going to a football tournament in Arizona where she intends to destroy the other girls! While Irelynn is being crowned student of the month as well as cheer a cheer cheerleading in PALM SPRINGS where she intends to destroy the other girls! Max is making arrangements to run a Marathon by the end of the year, which I think if he does run a marathon he should wait for me to come home so that I can cheer him through the finish line! Plus the Zurflueh’s are making there way to IRELAND for their Spaghetti thingy! And to top it off, it would seem that Charlie is still receiving oodles of love! The St. George McKenna’s rejoice in the new ski lift at Brian Head while Ellyse (having to decide which boy she would allow to ask her to prom) has finally decided to allow a young suitor to take her to the junior prom. And in answer to some questions that were asked… no, no one even knows what the Super Bowl is over here in England… yes, England is so green which is not enough compensation for how much it rains… My favourite food in England is called a ‘donor kebab’ which isn’t English at all, but is soooooo GOOD :). Well, it seems that the Lord continues to pour his blessing out upon us!

Well, like always, here I am writing the second part of my E-mail, thinking about what I am going to write to give you just a glimpse of the adventure that is my life in England, and I have decided that today I will share with you two things… the first will be funny the second spiritual. First, just yesterday, me and my companion were teaching a man by the name of Martin Pass (a bit of background on Martin: He is Church of England, one of the nicest people that I have ever met, rides on a motorbike, has an awesome beard, and knows more about the Bible in his little pinkie then I do in my entire body :)… so you can assume that when we teach him many silent prayers are said) in a members home by the name of Mike. We have been trying to keep all of our lessons on basic doctrines and principle of the church despite Martin’s attempt to dive into deep doctrine (i.e. is David in the Celestial Kingdom). So yesterday we were teaching about the priesthood; its role and how it is passed down. The lesson starts off all right; we share some scriptures like Hebrews 5:4 and then talked about how Aaron received the Priesthood, we then went to Jesus Christ anointing his Apostles, how Matthias was called, and how Paul, even though he saw and heard Jesus Christ, still needed to be anointed for the ministry. Overall it was an excellent lesson and Martin’s only response was that he had to think about it… but then our fellow shipper (who is a really good guy) started to talk about random things and started to drift the lesson towards deep doctrine, as me and my companion fought to bring the lesson back we had to watch as it drifted from the priesthood to men becoming Gods! And the worst part of the night was when Mike (our fellow shipper) couldn’t remember what the lineage of Shem was and turns to us and asks us, ‘Elders, what’s the lineage of Shem’… WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT! My face turned bright red as a flustered through my brain not having any idea who Shem was let along his lineage! Well, needless to say the lesson could have gone a ‘bit’ better (And for the record I now know the Lineage of Shem) :). Even though sometimes even missionaries get confounded there is nothing more powerful then the Spirit that comes from pure testimony. Just yesterday I had such an opportunity, as Elder Diatel and I were talking to people on the street I met a man who had just recently lost his father and brother in quick succession, who was bitter, and had lost all faith that there is a God… I proceeded to explain the Plan of Salvation, and how we can be with those again who have passed on… he started to tell me that it wasn’t possible for me to know such things and that it was just in my ‘imagination’! I stopped him and began to bear my testimony. I told him that I did know, weather he wanted to believe me or not, that his brother and father still existed, that they were waiting on the other side, that God does live, that Jesus Christ is his son, and that because of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice he could not only live with his father and brother again but that he could find a peace in this life that only Christ can bring. As I finished my testimony the Spirit came down like electricity from above. He physically moved back as if hit by the Spirit and said with moist eyes you really do know, don’t you. My precious family, this is the truth.

The weak servant of an empowering God,
Elder McKenna