Letters From Hermana McKenna : Mom, I'm In Good Hands

Hola Famila!

This week was packed with amazing faith building highs, and devastating heart-breaking lows. I had my first interview with the President with actual missionary experience under my belt (not counting the interview when I first arrived). We had investigators attend church!!! We lost 3 investigators. And we found a snake hiding in our investigator pool.

The President:

Wow, he is such a spiritual giant! I loved every minute of the interview and the opportunity to just be with him because of the spirit that emanates from him. The past weeks I've been a little down because our investigators weren't progressing and I didn't know what to do to help them. I felt like it was my fault and that I wasn't doing what I needed to. During the interview he assured me that the Lord was proud of the effort I was putting forth and if I continued to work hard and be obedient I'd be blessed for my efforts. He also gave me a blessing after the interview, and in the blessing he blessed me that I'd have the courage and gift of discernment to drop the investigators that weren't progressing. I can't even express the feeling of peace I felt when the interview was over. I'm so grateful to have a President like President Kahnlien; don't worry Mom, I'm in good hands.

Investigators:

This past Sunday we had 2 investigators attend church, and one of them was RAUL!!!! When Hna. Cabral and I got off the micro and saw Raul walking towards us to go to church I thought I was hallucinating! I couldn’t believe it! He's been taking lessons from the missionaries for years and this was his first time ever attending! Thank you so much for your prayers back home, I know they have helped soften his heart to the gospel.

Also this week we put a baptismal date with one of our investigators!!! His name is Patricio and he's a saint! He's 70 years old and lives all by himself, but takes care of the 2 little boys that live in the house behind him. Their mom is a drug addict so he does everything for them...provides food for them, clothes, everything!

Snakes:

This week we were teaching Andres, a 22 year old college student that has a huge interest in the church...or at least we thought he did. We found him about a week ago when we were contacting and he was super receptive! We planned on putting a baptismal date with him this week during our lesson and when we extended the invitation for him to be baptized he told us he had no real intention of joining the church. He apologized for leading us on, but he told us the only reason he was taking the lessons was because he thought we were cute...

When he told us that it was like a slap to the face! In the misión it's the equivalent of having a boyfriend cheat on you! I wanted to go all soap opera on him and yell, "I thought I could trust you!" But instead we thanked him for his honesty and dropped yet another investigator.

Besides Andres, we dropped 2 others, one of them being Kimberly. It was pretty depressing to see our investigator pool shrink so fast, but it was also amazing to see the hands of the Lord help us find 5 new investigators to teach this week!!!! Hna. Cabral and I are super stoked to start working with the new investigators! Please keep us in your prayers and pray that our new investigators can start to progress.

XOXO- Hna. McKenna

English update:

Hna. Cabral is learning English and loves to say:

"I am the master of my destiny"

"Sleep Tight or the bed bugs will bite"

And when we walk up the hills she always sings, "This girl is on fire...my legs are on fire"

I'm currently teaching her how to sing, "I love to see the temple" and the phrase, "ready spaghetti"

Photo Comments:

I got the packages!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!