Elder McKade Kerr Mission

Hello! Well, most of you probably know this, but General Conference was this weekend. And it was AWESOME! I love listening to conference so much! The spirit was so strong, and I felt like I learned so much, and also got reminded of many things that I need to do and need to do better. It is such a blessing to have a prophet on the earth today to help us with that. I want to encourage all of you to read and watch the conference talks again and again, and to study them. The Chruch doesn't do general conferences just to give us a spiritually uplifting weekend, and then have us keep doing what we've always done. It is so that we can receive counsel and advice, and then change. And like we learned this weekend, changing to come closer to Christ is repentance, and we need to repent every day. I know that if you keep studying the talks and applying the things in them, you will see miracles and many blessings in your lives.  Also, I have a kind of funny story to tell about m...

Hello everyone! I've got a little bit of a funny story to share. So when we knock on doors here, we always yell in too. So if it's morning we say "Good morning inside", or if it's later we say "afternoon inside" or "evening inside". I learned that my first day in the mission, and even though it's different on the French islands, that's what I've always done on the English islands. But there was an activity for the young single adults on Barbados this week, and we went to the end of it. They were sharing stories about being with missionaries, and how they always think it's so funny that missionaries always yell the word 'inside' when we contact houses. It turns out that most people here just yell "good morning" or "good evening", and don't actually say the word inside. That's just something missionaries do. Whoops. It only took me over 20 months to learn that, haha. So I thought that was ...

Hello! I wasn't sure what to write about today, so I decided to talk about what I ate. Yeah, I know, it's not uru and poisson cru and all that crazy stuff my brother is eating, but at least you know what I'm talking about. And I made my food myself. Kind of. So it's kind of a little exciting. Anyway, this morning I decided to make pancakes for the three other missionaries living with me, so I mixed up the batter, and then I realized that we didn't have a ton of time, and I didn't want to spend forever making one pancake at a time anyway. So I took a page out of Calvin's book and poured the entire thing into the pan. It was the thickest pancake I've ever had, but we turned the head down so it actually cooked really well. It was super hard to flip it though because it was still wet on the top, and the pancake was the same size as the pan, but it worked out ok. Then we just cut it into fourths and ate it. It tasted like..... pancake. Or, in French, ...