Cubby's Fry Sauce and Rosemary Fries

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Mannnnnn I miss those. Pray for me. 

This email will be short because I'm trying to type mega emails and make mega calls. But I love you all. 

Shoutout to everyone who sent me a conference talk. I loved them and have a few left to read. 

Also found out the word hermana doesn't have an ñ so a huge thanks to everyone on this list who speaks fluent spanish and let me sign my last 3 emails as Hermaña McKinlay. 

Here is a quote I love: "For of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: it might have been!" Also another quote I love that sort of relates: "Full send." Ya really living that right now haha.

Here's a cool story: So I don't know exact details but I guess the FBI went to the Provo MTC to try and figure out how so many young missionaries were learning so many different languages so fast. They couldn't figure it out. Lol.

Didn't wake up to my alarm the other day but I did wake up to Hermana Steed yelling, "Hermana are you DEAD?!" So I've officially reached the point of sleeping through my alarm. Glad I made it 4 weeks in at least. 

Here's a cool quote from one of my favorite conference talks by Dieter F. Uchtdorf titled "Of Regrets and Resolutions": "One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes."

Also Shayne M. Bowen from the Seventy came and spoke to us this week. Super cool guy. His wife was way cute too. 


Got super bored during a devotional so I wrote a list of 21 things I am thankful for. 

1. my testimony of the gospel
2. chick fila waffle fries
3. my mom and dad! and their examples! 
4. the peace I've felt since being on a mission
5. Temple marriage! WHOOOOOOP whooooop
6. thunderstorms
7. laughing super hard
8. being sore after a workout
9. argentina
10. re-reading conference talks 
11. diving boards
12. being able to feel the Spirit 
13. cubby's tritip sandwich with rosemary fries WITH fry sauce
14. letters! emails! and packages!
15. my knowledge of the Plan of Salvation
16. the priesthood
17. poems that inspire
18. lizzy! michael! maggie! max! mia! jim!
19. floss
20. utah canyons
21. my northface jacket


I know the gospel is true! I love it! I'm so thankful for all your letters and emails of support. There's a lot more I want to throw in this but I'm spacey right now and can't even think through this week. 

Everyone go listen to Hold Me Now by the Thompson Twins because I want to be listening to it right now but instead I'm listening to The Lord Is My Light by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square (Oct. 2019 GC) hahahahahaha 17 more months folks. 

Hermana McKinlay

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