To family,
No I haven't received
the martinelles yet bummer =( Thanks so much for all the letters Jenn!! I hope I
can get your letter for the prank on Elder Knox before I leave!! I am sending a
package home with pictures so you guys can all look at that. Dad my watch broke
so I had to buy a new one and I have to pay 71 dollars for my shot today!! =( Mom
great job hiking!!
Ryan! Dude one of the kids in my zone is just like SpongeBob!!!!
He is going to be the best missionary ever!! He has this great spirit about him
and he sounds just like SpongeBob and acts just like him! I’ll be sending a pic
home of the two of us! He already left to the field. He went to New York Spanish speaking mish!! He
is so funny! There is this kid in our zone who is an amazing beat boxer. He can
hum a song and beat box and talk all at the same time. Elder Nelson (SpongeBob) was like here I’ll
rap and he started doing opera!!! He wants to be a music teacher but he actually
was way good at opera.
So this week has been so spiritual. I love it!!!! Sundays
are the best. Every Sunday we all
prepare a talk to give in sacrament meeting in Spanish! Only two people are
chosen to give the talk. Then we go have a temple walk. Which I don’t think I
am aloud to tell what time my temple walk is because then people would come to
see us. It really distracts from the
spirit and what we are trying to do for the next two years. Today is my pday. I just got back from a temple session. I did my first sealing session. It was incredible!!!! =) Sorry my English is
bad from all this Spanish speaking (un chieste). My English was always bad.
Today I volunteered my companion and I to teach next Sunday
in our priesthood session. It’s on hope
charity and love!! Which I think is so amazing. So in my gospel journal I
decided to choose an attribute of Christ each week and work hard the whole week
to become more like Christ in that attribute! This week I chose hope. My favorite scripture is Moroni: 7: 40-48. I believe
it is 48 that is my favorite but it might be 41 because it talks about why we
need to have hope. Any ways I advise you
all to read it. I love it!!!
So last night I had a way cool experience. I was
praying for like a good 20 min and was trying to be very sincere, fervent and
calling out to our Father in Heaven. I don’t really remember what I was saying but I
was filled with the spirit so strongly. I
couldn’t really even think. I know this
experience sounds weird but it was so incredible!!! =) Plus it’s hard to pray
in Spanish for 1 min when you know so little.
Yes we are to pray in Spanish and no Jenn I am not gringo in my Spanish
if you wanted to know. Okay maybe a little, but they help you with it. What
makes me feel better is that there is another guy here that is tone deaf and
the language he has to speak has 13 different tones. So at least I was blessed
with only being a gringo Spanish speaker.
So I am sending some packages out from the Provo mtc with
pictures if they will let me develop them. As of this upcoming Monday I’ll be
in Guatemala so don’t send things to this mtc after this upcoming Monday.
I just want you all to know I love it here!!! I am so grateful
for the opportunity to be here. I really
do just love it here. We have a
devotional every Sunday and this last one was on Pioneers of course. They were talking
about the faith of the Pioneers and how they came unto Christ. I always thought the Pioneers were so
incredible to have so much faith to just leave everything behind for our Lord
and Savior!!! When we were in the devotional it made me think of why can't I
have that? Why can’t I be a Pioneer today!! It made me think of D&C 4:4 and
to come unto Christ and to bring everyone to our Savior. To be strong like the
Pioneers who devoted themselves to him. If I devote myself to Christ and be
strong like the Pioneers I can be the very best instrument the Lord needs me to
be!!! I am honored to be a missionary and an instrument to the lord and I don’t
want to leave this place!! I know I haven’t brought any investigators closer to
our Heavenly Father yet or baptized any one yet, but here at the CCM (MTC) I
have watched videos on it. So I am already kind of a pro at it. Joke but really
watching those videos on district 2 and how they changed people’s lives and
brought them to their Heavenly Father is incredible!! I can’t wait to be out in
the field. Those videos give me a spiritual
high. I just want out of the CCM to be
out there!!
I can’t wait to be at the Guatemala CCM. I think we get to go tracting and get to go
into the city, the real world!! I mean yeah I won’t understand one person and
they probably won’t understand me but I can’t wait to teach people what I know
to be true and to build that relationship with their God!! They don’t have to
understand me, they just have to understand the spirit; it does practically all
the teaching!! But yes Spanish does help, trust me!! I said I was embarrassed
in one of my classes and apparently that sounds close to the Spanish word to be
pregnant. So I said I am pregnant.
I really am glad to be going to Guatemala. I think it will
help me learn Spanish faster because I have to be able to understand what is
going on there!!
I want you all to know I love you!! I pray for all of you
and you all mean a lot to me!!
Elder Daniel McKenna
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