E-mail (1)

Alright! Something is wrong with the E-mail system! Somewhere down the line
information is being lost... I haven't missed one week of E-mails for quite a
long time but here I am feeling like Pahoran fighting the E-mail battle to the
best of my abilities while receiving a massive rebuke from Captain Moroni (aka
my family) when in reality I am guilty of no crime! But I take no offence... in
fact I am filled with joy knowing that my family wants to receive provisions/an
email and that you are still strong in the E-mail ways :). So let us come
together now and conquer! I'm going to send my past E-mail to the Wankier's as
well as this new one and I will send it to Dad and hopefully everything will be
back to normal.

Anyhow... Things back home seem to be going alright... actually I don't really
know because I hardly got any information other then the fact that none of you
have received an E-mail and I think in retaliation have unjustly held back your
E-mails and information :(! Especially pictures of Connor's Wedding! He has
been married now for like 8 million seconds and yet I haven't gotten any
pictures! But I am confident that the Godly Sorrow of your mistakes will seep
into your hearts and you will make the correct choice :)... SEND ME SOME PICTURES!

Despite the lack of information from the American front things over here on the
British side are going very well. Elder Larson and I are seeing a ridiculous
amount of blessings! When we came here we had no people to teach, we didn't
know any members, and had no idea where anything was (it was like opening an
area) but now Elder Larson remembers how to get around and just tells me
(because he doesn't have his licence so I drive and he navigates :)), we know
loads of the members (they are super nice) and our teaching pool has grown a
lot! The Lord is showering his blessings down upon us and I am way excited to
see what the future holds! There are so many things that happened this week
that it is hard to decide what to write about... But I feel that I should share
with you a moment that I will not soon forget. I was on splits with one of the
YSA from the ward by the name of Bradley and we were trying by on some potential
investigators just talking to people as we went from PI to PI. When we stopped
this woman and her daughter who were rushing home, they didn't have much time to
talk but said that we could come by another time, I tried to set up an
appointment but they just walked inside there home, and so I didn't think much
of it and we moved on with the day (which was Sunday)... Monday evening Elder
Larson and I were doing some finding near by the street where this woman lived
and during the down times we talked about how nice it would be if there was like
a Spirit GPS system that we could carry around that would just say were to go
and then we would do it and it would be so much easier... We didn't find much
success and decided that we would move to another area, we got in the car and
while we were driving I was thinking in my head how much I just wanted to know
what Heavenly Father wanted me to do when I had the smallest feeling to stop the
car... so we did and it was on the street of the woman whom I have previously
mentioned earlier, Elder Larson got a call and so I talked to someone on the
street (they weren't interested) and then I had the smallest feeling to knock on
the woman's door... thinking that she wouldn't be home or she wouldn't be
interested I just walked to the door and knocked on it while Elder Larson was
still talking on the phone across the street. The woman answered the door and
said, 'hello, come on in' and walked into her living room leaving the door open.
I was a bit shocked and it took a few seconds to realize what just happened! I
called her back and asked if my friend could come as well, she said yes. I then
waved frantically for Elder Larson to come he came still on the phone not
realizing what was taking place... when he came to the door and understood what
was happening he quickly ended the conversation, we went in, taught the
restoration to Carol and her daughter Amy (her partner wasn't interested) and
the Spirit was so strong. Carol had been struggling for some time with a lot of
hard times she was facing and at the end of the lesson she said that what we
taught her just makes sense! I am so grateful for a Father in Heaven who
answers prayers! I am so grateful for the still small voice of the Spirit! The
church is true! It just is and it's amazing!

The weak servant of an empowering God
Elder McKenna



P.S. this is August 24th the other E-mail was last weeks.