June 6th, 2011

, Here's a link for a talk on patience by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf: http://mormon.org/videos/, click on it and go to the site. It's the video titled "Continue In Patience" at the bottom and it has a picture of a little blonde haired girl! It's a really really good talk or excerpt from it! It's on the mormon.orgwebsite which is one of the only sites we're allowed to get on!

A really quick but awesome insert: We have an investigator being baptized! I can't believe I forgot to mention him to you before this point! His name is Saliym, (you'll recognize his name from the letter to president) We tracted into him when I first got here and was with Elder Hunt! He's being baptized on June 11th and then we're all going to an Elder's Quorum party! Man LIfe is SO GOOD! He's made some amazing progress!! He came to a members home with us last night for a break the fast/dinner appointment/FHE night! It was amazing and he had a great time! Pray for him please in family prayers! His name is pronounced like Saleem, It rhymes with "A Beem"! It's kind of a hard name to get a hold of! To be honest, Elder Hunt, Elder Marlar and I have been misspelling his name for the last 4 months! That's exciting! I'll send you a picture next monday!

I haven't put that thought up on my wall yet, but I still need to and will! I have that quote and a quote from Maximus off of Gladiator that says "What we do now...echoes in eternity!" It's at the beginning! I really like It! Get Austin to say it in a slightly British accent and you wont even need to watch the movie! ;) Naps this year are non existant...well kinda! President said they were being abused last year, so if you need one, take one, and to follow the spirit and use good judgment! We haven't taken one yet, but Saturday would have been a great day to! We were outside all day, working hard, spreading the gospel! That last 3 or 4 days it's been over 100 degrees outside, but all we can do is sing hymns and find people that will let us in because they feel sorry for Elder Marlar who sweats like a sponge! ;) It's hillarious! People get scared when they see him and ask why I'm not sweating! It's not that I'M not sweating, cause I am, it's just that compared to Elder Marlar I'm not! :)

As requests for a package? Hmm...demand that Alec put a letter in it! :) I miss him! Also Elder Marlar said (and I agree) not a whole lot of sweets! Maybe a couple pictures that were taken recently, but not of the nieces! I told them I don't wanna see them until I get home!

Oh Oh Oh, Dad, Dad Dad! Have you ever tried a Crawfish? I had some at a members house and they're AMAZING! You don't get a whole lot of meat per fish, but man I loved them. The whole meal I was saying, "Oh man my dad would LOVE this!" It was authentic, Cajun Crawfish! So So good! Plus it reminded me of all the times we ate sea food without Brad, because of course, he wouldn't like it! ;)

Justin doodles! Good luck with the fund raiser! You'll have to try hard to beat my record ;) but the McKeens have always sold more than anybody in that fundraiser...thanks to our wonderful mother and father! They took the sheets to work and got tons of people to buy some! You get so many many orders that way! Mom, if Justin doesn't read this, do what you did with me and FORCE him to call people! That's the best way for sure! I gotta go though! Kristen, thanks so much for the emails each week! Sorry I don't write back much, but I LOVE hearing about you and Jared doing missionary work, and about Kaylee's early training at motherhood! I LOVE IT!

Thanks for the package and the PooPoo paper! I got it at a Zone Meeting and the Elders around me (me included) loved it! MAN I love you so much! I love you all so much! Sorry for the last couple weeks of me whining! I'm doing so well, plus we're playing racquetball with our bishop and ward mission leader! Life is Awesome! I love being a missionary and spreading the gospel! This RESTORED GOSPEL IS SO SO TRUE!

I gotta go mom! I love you!

Your boy, Elder McKeen

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Cool miracle! We're at the library now, and it's pretty packed, so we couldn't find two computers open by each other. So Elder Marlar started at a computer, and I wrote some hand-written letters instead behind him. I was tempted to just forgo the rule about using a computer next to your companion, and go to one opposite of him, but instead I prayed and asked for a computer next to Elder Marlar, so I could follow that rule! I gave it 3 minutes, and guess what?! The lady at the computer next to Elder Marlar left, so here I am, and the mercy of the lord, writing home! Cool huh?!

You are indeed right! Sister Wojnowski came up to me on sunday and told me all about her communication with MY AUNT DEBBIE! Man that was really cool! I'm gonna write Aunt debbie so I'll have her tell you about the experience. But at the end I was so so happy and I said "Man Sister Wojnowski (She's an amazing person) I wish I could give you a hug!" Yeah, she then gave me a hug and said "That's okay, I know you're not supposed to give hugs, but you didn't hug me back!" Which I didn't! Man she's so so cool! What a cool moment! My sunday was AMAZING!!! It was a hard fast, but the spirit was so so strong during church!

So, today is Zone P-Day and next monday, the 8th I think, is transfer P-Day! Man these transfers go by so so fast! I've been in Baytown for 2 and a half months! Isn't that CRAZY?! Funny story! So since I've been out here in Baytown, I've held I think 3 girls hands, and they've all been during Prayer Circles! Now, as far as I know, there isn't any doctrine against prayer circles, I just think they're a bit weird! But we were visiting some Less Actives, and there was a mom and her two daughters, so all girls and we talked and taught outside cause the weather was nice, and cause we couldn't go inside! At the beginning, we started with a prayer, and they held out there hands for a prayer circle. That usually only happens at investigators houses, but we jumped in. I was holding Elder Marlar's hand and I was also saying the prayer. The worst part was when Elder Marlar started stroking and squeezing my hand during the prayer! Oh my gosh! I lost it! I felt horrible, because I had to pause for a long long time cause I was barely holding in the laughter! I closed the prayer so quick and once again felt horrible because I think they thought I was laughing at the prayer circle, when I was laughing at Elder Marlar squeezing my hand and stroking my fingers! The dumb part is, is that Elder Marlar is a pro. cause he said the closing prayer, and even though I was doing the same thing, he was very calm and said the prayer without incidence. A Greenie moment was exposed that night!

So quick question for father! Dadio, are you gonna do that surgery to get the metal out of your leg? I used that trial as an example during a lesson Elder Marlar and I were teaching and I wondered if you were! I know I don't have to go through all of it, and I'll only see the good side when I'm home, but I'd suggest doing it! The doctor said you could jog slightly, and get moving again! Isn't that Amazing?! That surgery, and the modern medical system is a blessing to you!

So Carol is being baptized at 7 pm on Saturday the 7th. She's amazing but needs prayers. The only thing that could keep her is tea. She hasn't drinken any for a while, but this last week is when Satan starts to hit people hard ya know? So please pray that that baptism will go through without any incidence. We have 3 baptisms at 7 pm this saturday in Baytown! COOL HUH?! We're definitely seeing miracles everywhere or stuff like this wouldn't be happening.

Please keep in there! This week has been great, but hard also. Like every week it flew by faster than anything!

Your son,
Elder McKeen

Monday, April 25th, 2011

1st story: (This one to Bishop Davis) During weekly planning, Elder Marlar and I were talking about an investigator whose name is Kenneth. He's a crazy but funny guy who smokes and wants to be better and follow "the word". We were talking about what to teach and his plans for progressing this week, when I remembered that we needed to teach him about the "Stop Smoking" program the church does for investigators like him. We honestly should have taught it to him and got it running a couple weeks ago, but I was reminded of it then. We talked about it and put it down. (We were visiting him that day for a lesson) During the prayer to leave the apartment a couple hours later, I was once again reminded of him and how I needed to grab the Stop Smoking pamphlet for him to keep....I forgot after 15 seconds in the prayer. As we were walking down the stairs to leave, I was reminded one more time to get the pamphlet for him, so we ran upstairs to get it. As I was in the apartment I thought, "I'll grab two copies, so he can have one to keep, and we can have one to read with him while we're there." I got two copies and we left. Kenneth's house is the farthest we ride on our bikes, about two miles, so it's quite the pilgrimage. While we were riding, this guy at a gas station called us over and asked if we were mormons. We said we were and asked him the same question. His wife was and he has been taught everything by the missionaries down in the South Mission. His name was Wade and he was saying how bad he wanted to go to the Celestial Kingdom. He said the only reason he wasn't baptized was because he smoked and he "didn't want any smoke in him when he was baptized." Elder Marlar mentioned the "Stop Smoking" Program, the same one we were doing with Kenneth that same day, and he said he would be really interested in it. I almost started laughing as we told him we just so Happened to have an extra copy of the program today. We gave him the spare pamphlet we had and got some info from him, not much though. He's gonna be a hard guy to get a hold of. We gave him our number and he said he'd love to meet with us. MAN!! Cool story! The Lord does surely work in his mysterious ways and I know that he DOES work for the missionaries!! If Bishop wants to edit or condense it down so it's shorter that's okay!

OH OH OH! Carol is being baptized! On May 7th! Let me tell you just in the last 2 or 3 weeks we've been making great progress and really feeling loved by them and love them! I LOVE going over there to teach and visit them! There such amazing people and they're so so humble! There's a scripture in the beginning of a chapter in alma that talks about them finding great success among the poor and those that were cast out of the synagogues, and they are a perfect example of that! They read from the Book of Mormon all the time! Jon can't read very well so we got him the BoM Audio CDs, and we weren't really sure how commited they were, but they're being baptized now. Carol has been to church 4 times in a row, and we're still working on Jon. I learned with them the great importance of becoming friends and loving your investigators, and not just seeing them as a, as Elder Holland put it "Baptismal Statistic!" There here at the library with us right now cause they don't have a computer. They're so so humble and amazing people! Yesterday we taught them the Word of Wisdom which was my biggest worry, but they don't smoke, do drugs, drink coffee or alchohal. But they do drink a bit of tea. The awesome part was they were so ready to change and felt sorry that they had been drinking it. Jon said, in very very poor broken up english, "oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know we weren't supposed to drink tea." I LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM! So much! Last night Elder Marlar, myself and Jon had a group hug cause we love them so much, and they love us. I get so happy and joyful when I see them! They always tell us to be careful and that even after I'm transferred we have to stay in touch. Mom and Dad? When we come back? That's who we're going to go visit! Jon is just as amazing, but has a tiny hesitancy in coming to church, so that's what we're working on. They love reading the BoM, and praying! They're super good at praying about everything! Pray for them please! Jon and Carol! They're brother and sister, and every investigator who is gonna be baptized needs help in the weeks leading up to it ya know?Thanks!

Hey Dad, ya know how I always asked you how on earth you survived in the hot and humid Brazil? And you always told me that you just didn't notice it as much? I could never understand that, until now! When you're out riding your bike in it for hours each day, I just don't care or notice it as much. You just get used to the humidity. Lately I've been feeling myself relying to much on myself, and not enough on the spirit, and it's something I have a hard time controlling. I've figured out it's a problem with my pride. Even though it's not in extreme amounts, it's to much, and I need to be more humble and recognize the lord. It seems weird but I've actually been praying for afflictions to make me more humble. :D Any thoughts from anybody? I love you mom!

I really do love the work, and am so grateful for you and your influence on me! I'm doing the lord's work, and it is work. As Elder Eyring said, "I love this work, and it is WORK!"

Hurrah for Israel and keep being amazing okay? Enjoy Indiana! Love you

Your son
Elder McKeen

Monday, April 11th, 2011

This week was a better week than the last one. There weren't as many of those time where I was hurting, physically or emotionally, but they were still there. Elder Marlar and I have had fun this week, and worked hard. We taught 18 lessons, which is very close to the goal we wanted to hit for the mission standards. We were fighting really really hard for 20, but it was impossible near the end of the week. Elder Marlar and I had a couple more head butting moments, where I was super frustrated, but we're doing great. We're human! I wouldn't have the amazing relationship with you and the rest of the family, if there weren't those fights and struggles we've had at times. They've been there. I was quickly reminded of some of the fights I had with Justin and Brad! Man, hahahaha, some of the were bad fights, but now I look at both of them as my best friends, along with the rest of the family.I love you, I apologize for the shortness of the letter, but know that I love being a missionary. Sometimes It's hard, but it's amazing at times as well. I love this church, and I love being a missionary. I love you mommy! Keep being so so amazing! Your 1 of 52,225 Elder McKeen

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Conference thoughts: AMAZING!! Fastest time of my life! We went to the church for conference and watched all of the sessions there. We had a good amount of investigator and less active members we invited come too which was awesome! My favorite session was of course and usually is, the priesthood session. My favorite talk? It's a tough one, there's a tie with Elder Uchtdorf's talk about living below our potential as priesthood holders, the talk on Pain by the Surgeon whose name I can't remember, but I think it was saturday morning?, David A Bednar's talk on revelation and light last night, and Richard G. Scott's talk about building a relationship with your spouse. The reason why I liked Elder Scott's talk was because all of the elders left the chapel wanting to fall in love and get married. I'm not gonna lie, I was love thirsty for a bit after that talk. I also loved Neil A. Anderson's talk about missionaries in the priesthood session. Hmmm....I wonder why. Mommy, read that talk, it's a really good one. Oh, and just as a heads up, I'm sending you, Kristen/Jared and Angie/Austin a talk I read the other day. I know we just had conference, but as I read it I felt I should copy it and send it to you. All I ask is you take 10 or 15 minutes on a monday night and read it together as a family. That goes for you as well Kristen and Jared, and you Angie & Austin.

Another thing I loved was how one of the speakers was name C. Scott Grow, (See Scott Grow) That made me chuckle, how one of the speakers was named, Carl B. Pratt. I'm guessing maybe a great great grandson of Parley P. Pratt? As I thought that I remembered all of the times Dad would tell us the "STUBOY" story. Never think that those little memories don't matter or are insignificant, because when I remembered that, I realized, how precious those memories, as well as memories of us playing KOOB in the front yard, us (Kristen, mommy and myself) staying up late on christmas eve talking and laughing, eating carrots and celery in london, playing that prophets card game on the train to London, playing pictionary the night before I left, (Goldfish Beard) and many many more little moments. It's those tiny memories, that I remember most. I treasure those so much in my mind and hope to never forget them. Make those memories every single day!

I had an interesting experience this last week. We were tracting and the first house we knocked on, a lady opened up and invited us in, just as her husband pulled up from the store. We went inside, and it just took off from there. Basically, an hour and a half later we left. The guy's name was Henrie, and he was...nice! We left laughing and smiling, but at the same time got no where. It was basically on the verge of bashing the whole time. He goes to the Church of Christ which produces the most Anti-Mormon Literature. (DANG STAY AWAY FROM THAT STUFF ALWAYS! It is so so horrible and damaging. President Moldenhaeur said that by reading it, apostles have been lead to hell) That stuff is evil, and I know it can seem interesting, because I've been curious about it, I've thought "What could someone have against the church?" Well let me tell you, this guy started going off and off! He knew the bible so so well, and asked us to proove the BoM out of the bible alone! Well that's a little hard, because the prophet Jeremiah I don't think had a clue that Lehi was leaving Jerusalem and was a prophet at the time. He wrote down everything we said, and I can just hear him in his sermon yesterday, spouting out at how the Mormons had visited him, but ya know, I felt like we did something! His wife was sitting there very very quietly, listening, not saying a word. We bore testimony at which Henrie chuckled because of my, as he called it "witness", and I think to her, she could feel the spirit. I promised them as a representative of Jesus Christ that if they just prayed (reading the BoM was out of their reach, it wasn't gonna happen) when we left, that they'd be told to learn more about the BoM. He wouldn't, and I just thought, you can't teach someone who thinks they know everything. I learned a lot! First of all, Get out of there and put your time to better use. It wasn't bashing, but it was basically just as unproductive.

So ya know the Pardos we had really really high hopes about? They sent us a text telling us they couldn't "keep up with us" and that for now they'd let us know when we could come back, but that they'll continue to read and pray. Man that was the hardest time I've had concerning investigators! I was frustrated and a bit mad at Satan for postponing their faith filled efforts! BLAH! We're gonna give a bit and then try to go back. Cool story though, Elder Marlar and I were out tracting, and we ran into this guy, named Richard at his house. We talked and he seemed REALLY uninterested, when I just had a thought (I now recognized it as one of those small revelations that the HG gives us that Bednar talked about) to bring up a church tour. I talked a bit about them and asked if he'd be interested in coming to one. He immediately opened and said he'd love to come to one the next day. We had it and it went pretty well. I'm always reminded at how the spirit teaches and we don't, and how we have to ask inspired questions, because frankly, there were a couple that weren't! I thought to much about them. He's probably our most promising investigator now so I'll let you know how it goes!

Sorry, I'm really gonna try to put more investigator updates in my letters, they'll all just like the large plates of Nephi. But ya know what momma and family and others? I'm out here doing this right! I try my best, mess up all the time, and use the Atonement everyday in my life. I'm here serving and doing what I should. While listening to conference, I'm not sure when or what was being said, I felt this incredible feeling of the spirit. Elder Bednar talked about how there are three kinds of revelation! One like the sun over the horizon, slow, but barely noticeable, one with the sun coming over the horizon on a cloudy day, where you can't see the progress but it's there, and then the light switch revelation, where it's just a....BAM! There's the spirit for ya! I often get frustrated because I can remember the last time I felt that...BAM, SPIRIT, and they don't happen often, but that was one of them and it was great. It confirmed my mission and my efforts as a servent of the lord and I will strive to live worthy as a missionary of that...BAM SPIRIT! I love it out here. This morning was the first time since I've been out where I've been able to say when I'm feeling down, "Today is going to be a great spirit filled day! Be Happy Jason!" And amazingly, it worked! It's just good!

I love you momma! You're the most amazing mom in my life and have given me so so much that I can never repay you. I will try though :) Keep working hard and being who you are. I love you!
Your Son,
Elder McKeen

PS Justin & Kimberly, because you're on vacation, I'll send you a letter, but it's gonna be a short one, just a heads up, that's all! Love you all!

Monday, March 28th, 2011

The baptism went great! Scary though, it was scheduled to start at 10 but at 10:10 they weren't there. I thought they'd pulled a run-away convert and booked it to almost join another church :) (Not really) I baptized her and it was a great great day. The confirmation was yesterday and that was as well awesome. We also had our first investigator at church yesterday, (I don't count Olivia, she came most every week with her way active mom), and in fact, his name was John, and he's sitting right next to me. I didn't notice but we came to the library and he was sitting here, kinda neat. Another cool thing was that the reason why Olivia and her Mom were late was because she was bringing a ton of her less active/non-member family to the baptism and to church the next day! Awesome!!! The ward yesterday was Packed! There were more there than when we had Ward Conference, so that was neat to see. It's cool how just adding more people can bring more of a spirit and contribution to classes and sacrament meeting! Thanks Kimberly for keeping Olivia in your prayers! That means a lot to me.

Bradley of mine, I got your letter and loved the pictures, to bad BYU lost! I truly thought that they would win to fulfill some prophecy or something to prove to the world that people are better off for not doing bad stuff, if that makes sense, but it wasn't meant to be. But anyways, do you remember a Christine Clinnin from Indiana? I met her in the MTC and she recognized my name. She knew or might have been converted by Elder Lyons and she remembered you, and now she's serving a mission.

So something happened this last week that kinda broke my heart a little. Elder Hunt and I were tracting and this guy answered the door after we knocked. We talked and introduced ourselves as missionaries of Christ's church. He listened but then interrupted us and said, "Can I ask you a question? Why did god make my wife kill herself? Thank You! BYE!" He just shut the door and went inside! I couldn't believe it! I was partially heart broken because I KNEW how much he needed what we have and how happy he could be! He just needed to give happiness a chance. That was hard! I almost wanted to go back and force it upon him, for his own good, but we can't do that as missionaries, or as members of the church.

BUT GOOD NEWS!!! GENERAL CONFERENCE IS COMING THIS WEEK!!! I missed it! I can't believe it was 6 MONTHS ago that I went through the Salt Lake Temple and BYU lost to USU in football! Isn't that crazy how fast time goes mom?

In Elder's Quorum yesterday we were talking about families, and how to run them as fathers with our wives now or in the future, and I thought, "Man, I am SO SO blessed to have parents like mine." AND I AM! Mom, all the kids will agree with me! Both you mom and you dad are amazing. I shared with the Quorum that the best thing is prevention and not correction of inappropriate child behavior. The example was how as long as I can remember, we read scriptures early in the morning, and said prayer twice as a family, and you know what? I grew up with that, all the kids in our family have, and you know what that's done? It means that even though Ashlyn and Geneve don't understand anything about the world and are under 5 months old, their parents are reading with them and praying with them. All because that's why you mom and dad have done with us! I'm sure Ashlyn and Geneve and Kaylee will do the same thing with their kids! We don't know when kids start remembering and developing their character, so if you make sure you start early, like Kristen/Jared and Austin/Angie do, and like you did mom and dad, you have nothing to worry about. For you there is and was no need to worry about me doing bad things, because you had taught us well, which translated into me getting good friends. I want that for my children. I was reminded of that during church yesterday!

Hey Justin, Brad and Dad, hopefully Austin as well (unless he's going with his dad and brothers), but probably not Jared, cause he's in Texas, anyways, have fun going to priesthood session this saturday! My comp and I are taking our dinner hour during a pre-priesthood session barbeque and then are gonna watch the session, so it's kinda like what we've been doing for years! Love one another!

I love you mom! I'm reminded of how much you do and how lucky I am to be born into a family with you and dad as the heads. VERY few people have that chance, and I have! I love you!

Your favorite 19 year old son,
Elder Jason McKeen

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Happy End of the World Day (According to the New World Order, today was and is the end of the world, so wait for a giant meteor, or a mushroom cloud, personally I expect it to hit in 2 hours).

Honestly, this last week has been a harder week. There were a lot of stuff that we had to do, weekly planning, leadership training, and more that kept us from being outside finding people. I wasn't feeling like a missionary, but I've realized that those things are very important because they help you be more affective when we're proselyting. We also HAD to do a long service project on Saturday, which we don't usually do, but it was kind of almost an emergency. Just little stuff like that has kept us from contacting and teaching, so that's really why it's been a bit harder for me.

I started the New Testament today cause I finished the Book of Mormon this last week. We read the BoM as a mission, so I read from that everyday as well as the New Testament. THERE'S SO MUCH TO STUDY IT'S CRAZY!

Investigator Update: Something really cool happened. Olivia is getting baptized this next saturday and she asked me to baptize her and Elder Hunt to confirm her! :D That's pretty pretty cool! You'll be getting a great picture next week of us at the baptism. It's this saturday at 10 am, so I'm excited about that. She's the 9-year-old girl who was found by a miracle!

Donovan and Michelle Pardos: AMAZING PEOPLE! We have a lesson at a member's house tonight and they're so fun and easy to teach, or, easy for the spirit to teach. They're open to so much good and ask LOTS of questions which is good!

We have lots of people we've taught once and are waiting to see if they keep commitments, so these are the people we're really really hoping for.

Last night Elder Hunt and I had a party in the living room! We moved our mattresses in there and slept on the floor, just to change things up a little. So a really really cool story happened! We were riding our bikes out of the apartment complex and a guy stopped us and called us over in his car. We walked over and I very calmly freaked out in my mind. I recognized him at once. We talked and he asked if any of us went to BYU and I said I went to a semester there before I came here. He said he'd played football there so I played ignorant and said, "What's your name!" "Michael Reed!" CRAZY! I shook his hand and told him how much I and my brothers and dad had loved to watch him play. He lives in our complex and we have his number in his phone. He said that Mac, the supply guy from BYU had sent him some shirts and asked if we wanted a football BYU t-shirt. Of Course!!! I got a pic with him and after that he asked us, "Have you ever heard of Austin Collie?" (My mind started hoping that he was inside his apartment or something) "Of course I know Austin Collie!" He said he'd just gotten off of the phone with him and they still stay in touch and hang out if they can. Way cool

Quick note, Brad, could you send me your first mission journal, of when you got to Indiana? Only if you feel comfortable, it's just that me and you are SO much alike in our minds and in most every way, so It'll help to see someone else going through the same thing...does that make sense?

Another funny story, there was a recent convert, whose name is Caitlyn, and she's I think 15ish. She was baptized after her older 19 year old sister was and they're both really really solid. Their family, mostly extended has been giving them a hard time for their conversion, and after Caitlyn put a picture of the Book Of Mormon on Facebook and said that "This is what I read in my spare time!" one of her cousins commented about how she could do that to the family, and dishonor and stuff, so Caitlyn (kinda sassy!) wrote back, "I don't know by what authority you were baptized by, but I was baptized by the authority of GOD!" .....Smackdown! It's like those Anti-Christ prophet smackdowns in the Bom! Such good people out here, but we're focusing especially on strengthening the ward now! It's very very much needed to help converts. Sorry, I'm running out of time!

I love you all so so much! Pray for me please, but don't worry about me please :D I'm doing so well and splendid! It wouldn't be worth while if there weren't hard times now would it. I know this church is true and Justin and Kimba....prepare for missions if Kimba you decide to serve! I love you!

love,
Your son: THE Elder McKeen (just to let you all know the word THE means Texas Houston East mission)