Letter from Elder Morrison

well, well, well, just another week gone by. hopefully the next 4 go quickly. this week has been a little crazy. first, this week we had teamups with the zone leaders. we found 4 new investigators that day. that was way good. we found one a couple days later, putting us at 5 for the week, which is a good number. it was especially good because we had ice fall on thursday (it was like tiny hail...except there was like an inch and a half of it) and so we couldnt drive the car. it was like walking in sand, and it made me real tired to walk in it. we had to get out of the apartment at least though, or we would have gone crazy. friday was a little relaxed too, since the ice had melted a little bit and then frozen overnight. on saturday, we helped a friend of a member move. they moved from Gerald to Union. it actually surprised me that we did it in about 6 hours, moving out and then back in. it worked really well when we had 10 or 12 people hauling stuff.
well, it's good that the missionaries feel welcome enough around you that they call up if they are hungry. i dont feel that way about anyone around here really, especially with the economic circumstances around here. people have a little less money, and so i feel really awkward if i were to solicit a dinner appointment. i dont feel so bad if we call and schedule a lesson with a member at around 6, and they just offer to feed us. lol. but we do have a calendar we pass around and we lately have been having 3-4 a week, which is good compared to a month ago when we had 1-2. the members do alright of taking care of us though. i kinda wish they'd take care of each other though. there's so much drama here and its so small that everyone knows about everything. its really ridiculous. then we try to add to their numbers and we cant because they all go less-active. tough situation.
next weekend sounds busy. sounds like to me that ty is a big boy, and could ride with one of the other teammates and you could take coltin. but i dont know the whole situation either.
as for the pants, i got them taken back, and the money was refunded on your JCPenny card. basically i just have to do with what i have until i can lose enough weight to fit back into my stuff. i've started the low-carb diet as well as i can here. i've been doing it for almost 2 weeks. this last week i dropped 3 lbs, so i'm on a start. i would appreciate your prayers in that area. i really have to drop some weight or i'll probably lose my knees. i'm really upset i dont have the things i need to lose it either. i dont have the facilities or the time to exercise the way i need to. jumping and running are out, though we play basketball once a week with some young men. we do that on mondays. i really just need a swimming pool and the permission to go. it's really frustrating. plus if we have dinner at a members house and they have mashed potatoes with corn and bread and some meat, i have to eat all of it. so that shoots my diet for that day. lately i've been getting really really frustrated with my situation. i'm fat, have a bad companionship relationship, and i cant seem to control either. it's really frustrating me, but hopefully here in a little while we'll have a transfer. i'm also going to be talking to president turley about all this, and see what i can do to control some things.
well, i guess that's about all for this week. make sure you have family prayers every night, and you should start doing them every morning if you're not. love you all and miss you lots.
Elder Morrison

PS
i forgot to tell you about our pranks that occurred this morning. as i was in the shower, elder heath completely moved all my major furniture into weird places. my bed was in the 'keep our crap' room, my dresser was next to my desk, and my chair, keyboard, and puzzle i'm working on, was all where my bed was. annoying, but i got him back. as soon as he got in the shower, i began plotting my comeback. i got in the fridge for anything i could do, with the standing rule being that you have to clean up any mess you make while pranking. this sparked the idea "if i use something liquid, i can dump it on him in the shower and it will just go down the drain." i saw an old jar of pickles and realized that neither of us have used any of those. i dumped the juice into a cup, along with a few pickles and stormed the bathroom, dumped it on him in the shower, and ran. he didnt smell like pickles afterward though, but that's why i'm going to hide the teryaki sauce from him....