2010

WELCOME TO 2010! Thank you for the E-mails and love! It’s strange to think
that I am writing an E-mail in 2010, in 2008 the year 2010 seemed so far away
and now it seems to have snuck up and sucker punched me in the face… but, no
matter. It seems that back home the McKenna’s brought the new year in with
style.

Mom and Dad were on their cruise of Greece, Spain, and Egypt; finishing with a
stop in California where they stayed in a really nice costal town for a few days
and had a swinging New Years Eve party. The St. George McKenna’s were in Hawaii
celebrating with some of the lost tribe of Israel. And I’m sure that everyone
else had a great New Year as well… even though no one really E-mailed me… you
know, you would think, that with only three more chances to E-mail your little
brother/uncle/brother-in-law you would totally want to, you would want to give
him support in his last freezing days, you would want to fill his heart with
family love, you would want to make up for all the times you didn’t E-mail him
and at least make it look like you E-mailed him by E-mailing his last three
times… but alas, there are only TWO more times you can E-mail him now and then
after that you will have to face the judgement, in which case those who were
faithful will receive English chocolate and those who were unfaithful will get
some English Mince pies :). Choose ye this day whom ye will E-mail! Well, now
that we have that out in the open and everyone understands that you only have
TWO MORE CHANCES we can move on to happier things :).

The work is going so well over here! It feels as thought the Lord is blessing
us far more then we deserve and it’s one of the most amazing times of my
mission. Rachel and Louis are doing well, Phil still hasn’t set a date for the
wedding but I think it’s going to be pretty soon, and Louise is still dated for
the 23rd and has thrown out her tea, coffee, and wine so that she can be living
the Word of Wisdom. New Years Eve was amazing! We went to the Sumner’s with
Phil and Rachel for some delicious curry and a spicy game of Monopoly City
(which I won because I built a huge metropolis on Middleton (because I had
served in that actual city and so I knew it would be lucky) and Rachel got a
chance card that sent her right to Middleton were she had to pay 18 million
pounds! IT WAS AMAZING!) Then on New Years day we went to the chapel to watch
both Toy Stories and both Narnias, followed by an evening with the Padroven
family were we ate pancakes and played Crash Bandicoot Racing (which I think I
have played that 8 million times with Trent) and so I was able to come off
victor in that by just a few inches on my last race with Elder Atkin! That too
was AMAZING! Needless to say it has been a wonderful week but I just don’t have
much time to E-mail today so I will have to save the story that I was going to
tell you for next week. The Church is true, I love this work, and hopeful you
will all actually E-mail me.

With all of my love,
Elder McKenna

P.S. can someone see if Audrey ended up getting that package I sent?

P.P.S. I have to apologize for the January Birthdays because your present will
be a little late :).