snackies and the NEW CAMERA, I will no longer be mocked when I pull out my
disposable camera and wind it up :)!
And thank you for the E-mails; I was most impressed by the amount of E-mails that I received this Monday. It’s always nice to receive so much information on what is happening back home; and it seems like a whole lot is happening! The family reunion sounds like a ridiculous amount of fun with the beech house, white elephant auction, and the talent show which is apparently going to be dominated by the Zurflueh clan (according to them). Ellyse’s lamb received the blue ribbon in the Jr. Livestock show (a happier day I’m sure for Ellyse then for Mr. Lamb :( ), Meghan has been elected
student body president (first the middle school and then the world :) ), Jackson
smashed a huge goal in his last football game, and Carson is reading the Book of
Mormon all by himself! Chynna, Irelynn, and Kai are still amazing and Jenni is
in boot camp mode waking up at 5:22! Every morning! To work out! The Huston
McKenna’s continue to have Star wars battles, surf, read books, and rock n’
roll! Overall everyone seems to be holding the McKenna name high and the Lord
continues to keep us safe in his hands.
Well, there has been quite a lot that has happened this week. So many
things that I could share with you… President Packer was amazing! And the
coolest thing was that he didn’t even really speak about anything in particular,
he opened it up for questions and answers, and then he just sort of talked to
us, it was so nice to see his personality (he is well clever and witty) and to
see that even though he has a commission from the Lord he is still a human being
and has a unique personality. As for the work it continues to be the Lords and
his hand is seen in it every day. One simple experience that I would like to
share with you is the finding of an investigator by the name of Tina. Elder
Eicelberger and I were stopping by on a potential investigator whom we had
scheduled an appointment with on Tuesday; he wasn’t in, but across the street a
woman was walking with a pram we went over to talk to her, scheduled an
appointment to see her that Friday at 3 O’clock. The following Friday I was in
the Wrexham area on an exchange with Elder Riddley we went to the appointment at
3 but no one was home, we left a note and continued on with the day… then at
around 8 O’clock we were waiting for our fellow shipper to arrive so that we
could see our investigator Simon (who is dated for baptism!) but while we were
waiting I had a thought come into my mind that we should stop by on Tina again,
I looked to Elder Riddley who had the exact same thought so we ran to were Tina
lived (because we only had about 5 minutes) knocked on her door once… twice… and
just when we were about to walk away we knocked one more time (really loudly :)
) and sure enough Tina answered the door and invited us in! We apologized that
we couldn’t come in right then but scheduled to see her the next day. We came
by the next day, she was in, and we taught her the restoration. The Spirit was
there, Tina was prepared, and the Lord had truly guided us! And the most
amazing this of all is that she is moving TODAY so if we wouldn’t have caught
her we would have lost her and her chance to learn about the Gospel would have
been postponed!
HOW GRATEFUL I am for a merciful Lord who works by small and simple means. How
wonderful it is to be a tool in the hands of the Lord, how amazing are the
promptings of the Spirit! How magnificent is it to be a missionary an advocate
of the truth! It truly was such a simple thing to just go try by right then,
but if we hadn’t she would have moved and who knows what would have happened but
the Lord didn’t allow that to happen! This is the work of the Lord, The church
is true, Joseph Smith was a prophet, Thomas S. Monson is a prophet today and
Jesus Christ as well as our Heavenly Father love us… To that there is no
question.
With all the love I can muster,
Elder McKenna
P.S. I’m not positive on what time I’ll be able to call on Mother’s Day but I
will let you know next P-day.
P.P.S. can anyone get a confirmation on if Audrey got her package
P.P.P.S. The first picture is of me and Elder Eichleberger, the second is me
with an ace picture of a missionary in Wales, the third is Elder Riddley and I
with the Welch flag!
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