Letter from Elder Morrison

hey family. that's too bad that the computer is being retarded. i hope it gets fixed soon. this week has been pretty intense. i've had to deal with 3 car accidents this week. 2 of them were not serious and they were not in the car. someone hit their parked car. at least we dont have to do missionary medical stuff. the 3rd one, however, was definitely not just a fender-bender. it happened with 2 of our sisters that were coming home from poplar bluff, mo. they got to farmington and decided to get something to eat and to stretch and walk for a bit so they could stay awake. well, they pulled off the highway, and at the top of the intersection they were turning left. they looked twice and didnt see anything. as they were turning, they saw some headlights, and got hit. they took some pictures that apparently show they were in their own lane, and that the guy swerved into them in the left lane. i have to get that fixed up this morning. the car is undrivable and will probably be considered totaled. on the bright side, everyone is ok, and the car was actually one that we were going to get rid of next shipment anyways.
i bought me some shoes this week to play basketball. they worked really well. i am really happy with them, and they are so much better than playing in the adidas shoes. we play every wednesday night with some college students that go to Logan college of chiropractic, here in chesterfield.
last week, we got a new bishopric. yesterday was our first meeting and we also had a separate meeting with the bishop. he seems really motivated for missionary work and is wanting to take it the same direction as we are. we are going to try and get the families here to create 'family mission plans' so that they can have monitored goals. we should be starting this in a couple weeks. the bishop even wants to be the guinea pig for the new program.
i heard the byu game went pretty crappy. the people we live with had a couple families over for the game, and they were pumped up with their chicken wings, cheese cubes, and other snacks. when we got home after the game was done, brother tenney looked depressed. i asked how the game went and he said 'not good'. that was all he said. lol.
today we have to go get a 2nd estimate on one of our cars for body work. when we are getting ready to put a car up for sale, we fix body damage and make sure it will pass inspections. one car has so much body damage from missionaries being stupid that our first estimate was over $3,000! so we have to go there this morning. i'll probably be back in the office around 7:30 your time, and will be leaving the office no later than 9:30 your time. so if you want you can email me back before then. if i miss it, i'll at least check tomorrow for anything i missed.
love you!
Elder Morrison

Letter from Elder Morrison

hey family. this week has slowed down a little bit. not much, but a little bit. we've still been moving cars all around the mission. halfway through the month and we finally have our own car. we got 4 new 09 chevy mailbus that we've been trading with people for their old cars so we can sell them. one car we had to take to macon, which is about 2 1/2 or 3 hours away. it's north of boonville. we also had to pick up some furniture in St. Peters and take it to mt. vernon, IL which is a good 2 1/2 hours as well. we've done a lot of traveling.
i did get to see alex last week, and he is still doing pretty good. he is still a zone leader in the cape girardeau zone. almost a month ago he hit a raccoon while he was driving and it broke out the bottom grill of his car, so we're working on getting that fixed up. we also have to get all the cars for sale fixed up with the body work before we sell them. i then have to call the insurance company to open a claim for them to pay for it. its really not my favorite. i think you know i'm not one for talking with people on the phone.
we had my first real teaching appointment in this area this week. we're teaching a kid named Andrew who is 17. he is really solid and is almost ready for baptism. there are a couple things stopping him, and we dont know what it is, but president turley knows. president will be talking to andrew today to see if he can help in any way. last week at church he came up to us all excited because he had his own set of scriptures that he bought at the temple and had his name embossed on the quad.
on saturday, it got really cold and started snowing. just a little flurry, nothing big. it didnt even stick on the ground. but we were out raking leaves for a recent convert. the conversion story for this family is amazing. one day, he took his family on a drive, and went to the temple. he was feeling pretty troubled, didnt know what to do or where to go, but he ended up in the temple. he talked to the person at the desk and said "what do i do to join your church?" they got the temple president, and he explained that he needed to be taught by the missionaries. a few weeks later, their family was baptized and since then, they have had a little boy, who they named Angelo Moroni Frazer. anyway, we spent 4 hours raking leaves and filled 28 bags of leaves. i'll send a picture of that. i'm also sending a picture of St. Louis as we were passing over the Mississippi River on the freeway.
we had our president interviews the other day. sounds like i'll be staying in the office until the end of next transfer, which is about the middle of January. then i'll be sent to my last area from there. by the way, i hit 18 months yesterday!!!! only 6 left! also, it's just over a month till i get to call home again.
well, i guess that's about it. make sure to get some good hockey videos you can send me. since we dont really get p-days because we're so busy, i only email at the office, so i dont get to see the blog or anything. i did appreciate the video on the camera.
love you much!
Elder Morrison

First Night of Hockey

Stick Saves! Coltin is the goalie in the St. Louis Blues sweater and Ty is white and red.

Letter from Elder Morrison

first things first, i didnt get the package. i imagine it will come today. we were in the office on sat, but we had to leave for a while and just left the bucket for mail outside the door. the mail guy came while we were gone, so he may have kept it so it didnt get stolen or something. this week, although it's only been a few days since i emailed, has been pretty crazy. we had our zone conferences, which were hectic. we had 4 zone conferences in 4 days, and we had to check windshield wiper fluid, oil, tire tread depth, and body damage on all of them. lots of work to do. plus they were all over the place. first was in Cape Girardeau, 2nd in chesterfield, 3rd in o'fallon illinois, and 4th in columbia. that is a lot of travel. the one in columbia was freezing, and i hadnt packed a jacket or anything because it had been so nice the days before. as i was filling up some windshield fluid, i splashed some on my hand and that was really really cold because the wind was blowing pretty hard too.
this weekend, we spent some time in the office catching up on the week, and then we had our several hours of church.
sounds like for creesh that birthday was pretty sweet. i wish i could have been there.
as for hockey, i'm really stoked to be able to play next year. you'll have to be sending me some pictures and videos of everyone playing.
i was reminded at church that there are some native moses lakers in the ward here. the Bowen family. he said they were just up there this week doing some salmon fishing on the columbia. needless to say i was pretty jealous.
yesterday at church we had a food storage/finance sunday. sacrament meeting was all about that, including the hymns "we give thee but thine own" and "because i have been given much". sunday school was divided so that one hour the high priests and their families were in a finance and food storage class, while the elders and youth were in their normal classes, and then they switched so there was no PH or RS. at the end they were giving away a few items for food storage, and nobody was taking it. we were just talking to someone at the front of the chapel and a guy in the ward just started handing stuff to us. so we each got 2 cans of chicken and rice soup, 2 cans of green beans, and a box of ritz crackers. this goes toward our 7 day food storage, while everyone else needs to get 90 days. lol.
and about the driving, you dont have to worry about me driving in spokane now. lol. i can drive in the middle of st. louis (which in case you didnt know is way bigger than spokane).
well, love you all. hope you're doing well, and i am looking forward to the package!
Elder Morrison

Letter from Elder Morrison (better late than never)

so do you remember the time i was getting packed to go to college and i was WAY STRESSED? well, here we are again. i think i've gotten in over my head. there's so much to know and so little time to know it. also, we've been WAY busy. i'm writing now because we didnt get a p-day this week. we were working in the office. i'm so tired all the time now. i was talking to the last elder that did the cars and told him i never thought he did any work, and that they never had to tract. well, now i'm finding that tracting is sissy work. lol. i'm really struggling with it though, and am trying just to keep up on top of things. at this moment there is stuff all over my desk that needs entered into the computer, and not coming in just one day will kill you in paperwork. we have zone conferences this week, and because i'm over cars i have to check all of them at zone conferences, so i have to go to all of them. so far we've done 2 and have 2 left.
so a week ago, i was playing basketball with some college students for church, and i sprained my ankle. ouch. it is still kinda sore, especially in the morning, but i think i'll be better soon. i can walk on it, so that's good.
for halloween, we went to a member's house for dinner. they had some good chili and some other stuff, but the cool part was that they had built a box maze in their basement. imagine being in pitch black, and crawling your way through a maze made of refrigerator boxes, but it's also multiple levels. CRAZY. it was a lot of fun, but it got really hot in there. this member has been doing a box maze for about 18 years.
we had to move a ton of cars around recently, and i had to go out to mt. vernon IL to swap a car. pretty long drive. then on the way back we had 2 cars (me and another elder) and he was following me and got lost. so i'm freaking out, and i figure the best way to find him is to pray. so i park the car on a residential street somewhere in st. louis, and pray. when i was done, i saw i needed gas. so i decided to get gas before i tried to find him. i turned onto the next street, and there was a gas station, and i just felt that was the one i needed to get gas at. i missed the entrance, so i circled around and went into it. as i pulled in, i saw the other elder standing outside looking for me. i knew that Heavenly Father was watching over us, and led me to find him.
thanks for the halloween. i really appreciated it.
as for tyler and the guitar, if there is a scratch on it when i get home...you're dead. but if you wanna chance it, go ahead.
my companion is Elder Dandoy. he is a pretty big guy, but not as big as me. i like him so far. he is from arizona. he's really good with computers and the like, and that's why he's been in the office since i was transferred to fayette and now he's still here. he's 23 years old.
well, i guess that's about it. as soon as i get a camera i'll try to send some pictures.
Love you!
Elder Morrison

Election Day

I just checked the BCS computer standing online and looks like Hillary still has a chance.