Search This Blog

Elder McKinley's Stint Across the Pond

Week 99: new beginnings

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

July 15, 2019

Photos:
Piccadilly circus

Telephone booth Lego edition

Fred armisen asleep in an elevator

The real big Ben

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

Week 49: "it's like the feeding of the 5,000 but only four of us showed up"

July 30, 2018

Hey friends. So disclaimer. We have some new technology guidelines that I wanted to make you aware of. I will be deactivating my old facebook for now and creating a new one to only use with people here in England. So bye bye for now on Facebook. Also, I only have 90 minutes to email home each Monday now. So that means this weekly email is about to get a lot shorter. That being said, this week: So we had some really great ups and some really low downs this week. First the downs: So a friend of ours we have been working with was planning on getting baptised this weekend. Given some circumstances, he is now going to be waiting until December. There are a lot of details I will not get into but the important thing is we are still really close with him and are going to keep seeing him. We are just going to do everything we can to make sure that nothing derails him from his desire to be baptised between now and December. Another thing is that this week has just been draining. Hon...

Week 61: "I'll be frank with you"

October 22, 2018

o, in full disclosure, I have gone through my inbox and have been deleting things to make space for photos in Google photos and may have accidentally deleted old emails that I meant to respond to. So if you responded to my group email last week and I have not responded to you yet, that is probably what happened. It's hard to keep track Also, I think I am on week 61 , but if not, please correct me haha. Anyways, welcome! This email might be just a bit shorter because we have a lot we need to do today. We are needed in london tonight because, drumroll please...ELDER BREWSTER IS GOING TO LONDON! I am so excited for him. He will be serving where the Westminster abbey, buckingham palace and big ben are so I am only a little bit jealous. I am sad to see him go. In homage to him, here is a poem: the power of friendship though underrated is truly built on the foundation of people like warren brewster okay sappy stuff aside, I know you are all dying to...

Week 28: The Pilgrims Left Plymouth for a Good Reason (Don't Forget to Pray You See It)

March 07, 2018

So this week was interesting. The title of my email is an homage to fall out boy (not that I even like fallout boy but the whole "Wow that random sentence that is kind of meta could be a fallout boy song" meme is one of the three I can remember). If you're unaware of who fallout boy is, join the club. England had snow! And I didn't really get to see any of it :-( We were down in Plymouth for a meeting with some other missionaries and by the time the meeting ended we learned that there was snow all over the roads that we had to take and all the members in our branch said "don't you even think about driving in this weather" even though it wasn't all that much snow. But, exercising caution, we made the decision to not travel home Thursday night. Wednesday night, before the storm hit but everyone and their uncle thought it was coming, we were at the house of one of my favourite families here, the Cavaneys. They recommend we throw a changed cloth...