The Missionary's Printable RECIPE Edition

Thank you mom! 

My mother is amazing and already had put together a printable recipe book and had made me a recipe book for college of some of the favorite recipes from the book. I guess organization does run in the genes... 

So this Edition was the easiest to make and has 100% infallible recipes for appetizers and salsa, beef and pork and poultry, breads, breakfast, desserts and cookies, salads and soups, and side dishes. 

All tried and tested by one of the best cooks around and some of the pickiest eaters. 

Hopefully this will help kick start your own recipe book!

view this---> Recipe Edition <---print this

Hermana McKenna Finch

The Missionary's Printable HAIR Edtion

First, a big thank you to all my sisters for being so interested in my Exercise Book! I am so glad that one of my favorite projects has become such a favorite with you ladies! 

Next up, you asked for a Hair Edition and so here it is! The Hair Edition of every easy hairstyle on Pinterest and some ideas for days when you maybe have a little more time.

I also included some tutorials of how to do some basic braids just in case you need some help with that, because I am a braid fanatic and might have included a couple extra. ;)

Let me know if there's something you would like me to add or change and I would be happy to incorporate those! Good luck on your missions and let me know if there's anything else I could make to organize our missions for us! 

view this ---> Hair Edition <---print this

Hermana McKenna Finch

Language Learning

I have been so blessed to have been able to test out a language learning program through the MTC before I left, but before I was blessed with that chance I starting looking for other programs to help me learn Spanish.

Annnd I found this little gem:

My Mission Language

This site is for LDS missionaries (you have to have an LDS account to login) and you'll choose whichever language you will be learning and then you can start learning the alphabet and how to pray and how to testify. All in your mission language! Perfecto!

Another huge helper has been the "Spanish for Missionaries" book. I guess you get these when you get to the MTC, but why wait?! You can buy your own at the BYU Bookstore (in person) or also online here.

This is what is should look like:

(Or whatever language you are getting, not necessarily Spanish)

So in our packets it tells us to bring scriptures in our native language. While talking with one sister she suggested bringing the smallest quad I could find in English and then a triple combination in Spanish (or whatever language you're learning).She said that once I got over to Spain I could just go out and buy a little Bible on one of my P-Days and showed me the cutest little vintage Bible she had bought on her mission.

In her words "Every kilo counts." Whatever you can get small, do it! But keep your triple combination in your mission language big because members and investigators will be reading from it!

Study your language everyday! Just read 5 verses in your mission language and 5 verses in your native language!
We can dooo it!

Annnd while I was at it I thought I would add the link to your mission portal, because I am always forgetting the address! 

Mission Portal

Hermana McKenna Finch

The Missionary's Printable EXERCISE Edition

Welp... I did it! I made my exercise book!

It seems so weird to actually start making the things I want to use for my mission, buuut maybe it's just me.

So, I heard from a few different sisters that the exercise routine gets a bit monotonous, 

thus my Exercise Edition was born.

There's probably a book floating around somewhere with a bunch of exercises, but I don't know where it is so I made my own.
It took long enough to make it and I hope that if this was something you were interested in this will help jump start your project!
Next step: Printing it...

Annnd here's a copy of your own Exercise Edition! Have a wonderful mission! :)

view this ---> Exercise Edition <--- print this

Hermana McKenna Finch

Counting My Blessings

Oh...I am so blessed! So very blessed! 

This year was my first year at college and it rocked! 

Going to college by myself. Blessing 1: Getting the best roommates I could have ever been blessed with. Heavenly Father definitely knows me more than I know myself!

I applied to be an RA at my apartment complex and my second semester the assistant manager quite and I was hired. Blessing 2: Assistant manager position with a fabulous boss who became my mentor.

I also applied to be an Ambassador at my university and got it. Blessing 3: Getting to know some of the most amazing people of my life and becoming a better leader.

One of my friends recommended a job opening to me and I took it! Blessing 4: Getting a job learning Spanish testing out a new Spanish learning system at the MTC. Did I mention I'm getting paid? To learn Spanish? For my mission? Booyah!

Choosing to go on a mission. Blessing 5: Working to improve my communication with Father in Heaven leading me to be in the right spot at the right time and taking the opportunities that have presented themselves.

Going to the temple. Blessing 6: This has been the best!!! Honestly, I love the temple! I love knowing I'm worthy to go there! I love learning there! I love the Spirit there! I lovelovelove it!

My family. Blessing 7: My family...is the best. For reals. I could never be in the place I am now without them. They are thee best!

Hermana McKenna Finch

My Mission Checklist

Well dang it! I thought I would be better at this blog posting thing...turns out it wasn't meant to be! Despite this post being to remind me that I still have a blog I think I'm going to make a list of everything I still need or want to do before leaving on my mission.

• Make a tulle skirt! I saw a Pinterest (I know, how typical sis mish...right?) tutorial and it looks so easy and cute and I want one!
• Organize and create a binder to help me come back to real life after the mission instead of floundering around:
• how to get back into school
• my class schedule
• housing
• plan to start looking for a new car
• plan to start looking for a new job
• financial budget
• Move all my stuff from my apartment back home
• Sell my car

Ok, I think that's it! My to do list, guess we'll have to see how it works!
Hermana McKenna Finch

Why the Savior *Does* Understand Our Temptation

While at was at my grandpa's house a month or two ago he showed me a paper. The topic of the paper was of Jesus understand the temptation people face and how He was perfect so He couldn't understand anything they had ever experienced before. I had thought about this many times before, but had never reached a conclusion on why He can understand. I had even heard other people mention it and when my grandpa gave me this paper I became so excited about the prospect of the question being answered. This little excerpt really helped me out though and I hope it will do the same for you!

"Some may contend that the Savior cannot empathize with those who succumb to temptation because he never yielded and, therefore, he could not understand the apparently unique circumstances of those who do. The fallacy of such an argument is exposed by C. S. Lewis:

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives into temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. This is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means - the only complete realist.""

The first introductory paragraph was written by my grandpa I believe, but C. S. Lewis's statement is so accurate and provides such a perspective that I had never considered before, but I love it!! Honestly, I don't think much more needs to be said, or could be said, that C. S. Lewis didn't cover. So there it is. I hope you found this little gem as priceless and helpful as I did!

Hermana McKenna Finch