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Hello everyone! I apologize in advance if this letter seems short or scattered, I have recently become ill (IT’S ALL THAT FREAKING WATER) and my state of mind isn’t quite where it usually is on Wednesday. But never the less I knew that I had to come and read your E-mail’s and to share with you some happenings of my week.

First off, I know very little about this ‘Twilight’ movie except that I know it is based on a book and it’s about vampires, and over here in England I haven’t heard anything about it. But then again it usually takes a little while for things to get over here to this side of the pond so I wouldn’t be surprised if I start to see some posters and hear some people talking about it. It would seem though that my whole family really liked it sense some of you have already seen it 2 times and a couple went to a midnight showing! Besides ‘Twilight’ stealing the heart of thousands, it would seem that the St. George crew have just recently been involved in a Book
of Mormon reading marathon were the youth as well as Mimi did nothing but read the Book of Mormon for two straight days (taking a break every two hours) and that they were all able to finish that delightful book, well done! Chynna scored 5 goals in her football match, I have figured out who Chelsey’s Mike is, and yes it is ridiculously cold over here (we are teetering on the negatives, and with the rain you just can’t escape being cold :( ). Once again I am pleased by the reports that I have been receiving… Our family still continues to ROCK!

As I review this week on my mission I can easily find an experience that I would like to share with you. It starts off 2 Saturdays ago when Elder Perry and I went to go knock on the door of this man by the name of David… David is a professional engineer who has developed the wheel suspension for the VW Bug and is a very accomplished man, the only problem is that he has no purpose in life, he has no happiness, and he has found refuge in drinking. We shared with him the concept of being truly happy and that this can be accomplished through faith in God and Jesus Christ and invited him to come to church the following Sunday, he agreed and so we left, made plans with a local ward member to pick him up, and returned home. The following day we arrive in the morning and knock on his door… he was dressed for church but told us that he spoke to his family and that he didn’t feel good about leaving his Church of England roots. We shared with him in a bold, but loving way that the Church of England was run by man while the Church of Jesus Christ was run by Jesus Christ. He wanted nothing to do with it, apologized and shut the door in our faces… I assumed that would be the end of David, but the Lord had different plans. A few days latter while walking to an appointment that we had at 6 o’clock (at 4:30 it starts to get dark over here so at 5:30, when this happened, it was pitch black) I saw a couple people walking on the other side of the road, and I felt like I should cross over and talk to them. I crossed over stopped both of them and both of them wanted nothing to do with it. I looked over to my companion who was now talking to
someone on the other side of the road and decided that I would just wait for him to finish his conversation and then I would cross over… There I stood, under the street light, no one around, leaves blowing by my feet, my trench coat lightly flapping as the wind would catch it and let go, when sure enough around the corner walked none other then David! The corner was sharp so he didn’t see me until he had fully gotten onto the road that I was standing on… I put my hand forward and called out his name, “David”. He stopped looked at me dumbfounded and asked in a somewhat trembling voice if I was a ghost. I told him that I was just a missionary and that our meeting again was not coincidence. It was a wonderful moment as I felt the power of the Spirit fly through me and smash into David. We talked for some time about the choices that he has made recently in his life and then I invited him again to have the missionaries over to teach him more about the Gospel and the way back to God and eternal happiness. He agreed that there was something ‘eclectic’ in the air as we spoke about God and Jesus Christ and so he agreed that missionaries can come over when ever they feel they want to! The Lord really does love each and everyone one of us and the Gospel is designed to help us to feel the full measure of our Heavenly Father’s love.
I know that me meeting David in such an amazing way was no coincidence I know that the Lord worked in a small and simple way to have me be in that exact place in that exact time! THE LORD LOVES US! Please don’t ever forget that… I love England, I love the work, and I love you all!

Elder McKenna

P.S. I can’t receive video via E-mail, or anything :(

P.P.S. I heard that mom looked wonderful at the baptism and that Chelsey played
the harp beautifully.