Elder JD McKenna

Yo yo yoooooo!!! What is up everyone?! Just been chillin out in Bama, probably gonna be spending another 6 weeks here in the wonderful state because no word on my visa yet and transfers are on the 4th. Though it is very sad, the lord has a plan and his plan is always better than we can ever imagine. So I'm just hyped to be in the lords hands! First Christmas out in the field lowkey little sad but it was really cool to be turning outward instead of inward on the day where I feel like I'm most inward with gifts and all the worldly things. It really helped put into perspective the true meaning behind it all which was so fire! Lots of our friends were out of town so like no one pulled up to church but we straight because they been coming pretty constant and said they'd be there on the 1st. Work is going good, and jess will be entering the waters of baptism this Saturday!! Keep praying for her! We went and visited some less actives and long story short one of the members kids wa...

Yo yo yo what's popping everyone!!!! This gonna be one of my shorter emails just cuz I got like no time. This week we did Exchanges with the ZLs and the APs. My comp is the DL and we originally were planning on Exchanges with just the Zone leaders but the APs were in the area and wanted to run some Exchanges. I had the absolute time of my life. The Zls are some Dawgs and same with the APs. The one AP elder arave, played lacrosse at BYU for a year before he came out. Both the APs some Dawgs but I didn't get the chance to go out with the other one. Anyways I learned so much from him and the spirit that was there was just crazy! Hes such a good guy and we was runnin it like we've known each other for 10 years. The lord is really awesome and finds a lot of those little things that bring me lots of joy out here. So much crazy stuff happened that night it was so HYPE! We then all slept over at the ZLs and had 6 dudes in a tiny apartment. Then we woke up at 5 and played basketball...

  Yo what up everyone!!! This week was full of miracles and crazy faith boosters First miracle Is our homie named Chris. This guy is your typical hillbilly vaper and drinker. He drinks because it numbs the pain in his back. He says he wants to stop because he doesn't want to die. And we're like okay dawg just stop then. And he was like but my back. And so we were like oh bet, priesthood blessing. Gave him a priesthood blessing and promised him if he didn't drink or vape his back would be better. I had full 100 percent faith this was gonna work. About 10 minutes after we left he called us and said he has the biggest grin on his face and he doesn't know why. He said he had such a warm and powerful feeling just buzzing out of his chest, and he said he felt his back slowly getting better. He also said the spiritual "high" he was feeling was better than the high he got when he did cocaine and heroin. Yeah buddy did some pretty sketchy stuff 15 years back. Next mira...

  Ayoooo what up everyone!? Hope all is well, I was lackin and didn't send out a email yesterday and I'm typing it now on the way to zone conference. Pretty fire week ngl, had Exchanges with an absolute dawg while the DLs and ZLs went to a leadership meeting. Had some fire lessons. Pretty hype 24 hours. Then we went on a blitz with the Zone leaders and both of them some dawg!! One of them went to mountain crest and he's dope! The lord been helping jess like crazy and its so dope, she's so willing and so understanding of legit everything. She's got 2 little kids and the branch just loves them and actually helps out with taking her to church and stuff. Branch lowkey bein a tad bit more helpful They assigned our branch to make 3,000 gingerbread cookies for a stake Christmas party we probably can't even go to cuz its like an hour and a half away lol. We spent 5 hours on Friday and probably made 900 of them jawns. Yall gotta read that Book of Mormon everyday fr. It...