P-day!

Hello! Thank you for the E-mails! And let us all rejoice in the fact that I
finally received an E-mail from the prodigal E-mailer who has returned from his
evil ways and has finally sent me an E-mail :). Things back home seem to be
going extremely well as always!

The St. George McKenna’s were happy to have the Huston McKenna’s over for the
marathon and have repented of their un-healthy eating ways and have embraced one
of the grossest sounding things I have ever heard of… it’s a smoothie that is
green because you put spinach into it, and it sounds a bit to ‘pop eye’ to me.
Football continues to be the big thing with the St. Georgians while the Huston
McKenna’s got to see the premier of Jared’s new movie ‘Gentlemen Broncos’ and
are excited for their trip to Hawaii (with Jared and his family) in the coming
days… yeah that’s pretty ridiculously awesome! Mom is recovering from her
illness, The Zurfluehs had a primary presentation, and apparently Kai is totally
ripped and grades cheese on his six pack because of all the sit-ups he has been
doing! In answer to some questions… no, I haven’t let Rachel know that I could
come to her wedding in the temple but I don’t know if they will be getting
married because they are having some relationship issues so we’ll just have to
see what happens. Overall life is good back home and thank you dad for telling
me about the trial it sounded pretty intense.

Things in Chorley are superb! Louis is still dated for his baptism on the 24th
and is progressing nicely… Rachel and Phil are working out some relationship
issues but are still excited about church and the Book of Mormon… Nickie Holdin
is still way pumped about the Plan of Salvation and getting baptized, she is
still trying to overcome some major family opposition… Louise is still way funny
with her crazy eyes and makes me laugh so much when we say something funny and
she tilts her head back laughs and it makes her eyes go in different directions…
there are so many things that I could share with you about these amazing people,
the trials they are facing, the love I feel for them, and the spiritual miracles
that I see everyday in their lives but today I want to share with you the story
of our newest investigator Ann Rudd. We met Ann Rudd one day while tackting on
her street near were Phil and Rachel live, she was nice when we talked to her
but we weren’t able to set up any definite time to see her (this was a couple
weeks back), then a few days ago Elder Larson and I showed up a bit early to
Phil and Rachel and decided that we would just knock on her door and see if she
had some time… She answered, invited us in (which we had to decline because she
is just a single woman), and ended up teaching her the restoration in her back
garden (and it was freezing cold!). The lesson was short and powerful; we bore
testimony of the book of Mormon and explained the importance of the prophet
Joseph Smith… We asked her how she felt about what we said and she responded
that she had never heard any of this stuff before and was a bit sceptical. We
left her the Book of Mormon and 3 Nephi 11 to read, we promised her that if she
were to read and pray that she would receive an answer through the Holy Ghost
(the same way she came to know that Jesus is the Christ) that the Book of Mormon
is true and that Joseph was a prophet of the Lord. We went by a few days
latter… She read the chapter THREE TIMES, a couple chapters after it, prayed
about it, and now she wants to come to church to see what this is really all
about. Were seeing her again this Wednesday and are super excited about what is
going to happen!

It’s wonderful how powerful the Book of Mormon actually is! Once more here is a
person who knows nothing about the church or it’s teachings and yet is driven to
read a chapter in a book that she doesn’t really understand to well 3 times and
then to press on in her reading! WHY! WHY would someone who knows nothing
about this church who is given a book which is so difficult to read be so drawn
to its pages that she can’t put it down and has to read on and reread! The
Spirit is SO REAL! It’s the Spirit that touches the heart and drives a person
to read and reread! The Church is true and the Book of Mormon is from God there
is no doubt in my mind about that! How grateful I am for the chance I have to
share this wonderful book with everyone I meet!

With all of my love,
Elder McKenna

P.S. Don’t forget about the Christ like attribute thingy… :)

P.P.S. So are we ok with the gift buying thing for Christmas…