Letter from Elder Morrison

wow, you really make me miss playing hockey. i'm way stoked to come back and play. i may even have to go to the tri-cities to practice my skating. well, this week has been a pretty good one. we had our christmas party this week. elder goudie and i did a musical number for the program. we combined 'silent night' with 'samuel tells of the baby jesus' or something like that, from the childrens song book. the piano was too loud, my mic was too low, and it just didnt work very well. so we're going to re-record it, and then i'll send you a cd or something with that on it. when we went to play volleyball, elder goudie hurt his knee again. he's been in pain for the whole week. i dont know what's going to happen, but me and brother stokes gave him a blessing. it was getting better yesterday, but today it's still hurting pretty bad i guess. if it's not really getting better by thursday, he'll get an appointment with the doctor. i talked to a dentist in the branch about my teeth being really sensitive. i didnt like his answer. he said i may have to have a root canal. problem is, is that the pain is in 4 different places. i'm going to schedule an appointment with him, and he'll take a look and see what needs to happen. i really hope i dont need to do that. with elder goudie's knee, we havent been doing much walking, so we havent been tracting really at all. apparently it is kinda hard to get new investigators here. goudie says there hasnt been a new one in like 6 weeks. i hope things get better. last night we had dinner at the stake president's house. they are a great family. he said he was going to call you, and by reading the blog, it sounds like he did. he had a ton of questions for me and i didnt have any clue as to who the mission president was, or who was in the mission or whatever. so he wanted to call and get his info. too bad he wouldnt do it while i was there. oh well. i got the packages. thanks. i did open them, and figured i didnt want to wait until christmas, so i just opened them all. thanks for all the stuff. it's really going to help. the fudge is really good too. i do love your fudge mom. i've determined that since you always send me sugary things that will make me more fat, i've decided what i want for my birthday. i just want some of your chocolate chip cookies. you know the ones. the weather has been pretty bad. yesterday, we were supposed to go to a zone meeting, but it was cancelled due to the weather. so our p-day is today. yesterday, we couldnt really go anywhere, so we played some games with the stokes' and did some cleaning. it's pretty bad today, too, but we'll see what happens. they told us to use judgment on the driving. i'll be going to the post office today though, to mail your package. i packed it different, so it's going to be your christmas present in the bottom, with my mail all around it. you can just throw the mail into a box or something, whatever you've done with my other stuff. i guess that's about it for this week. love you much!Elder Morrisonby they way, i didnt open my presents but one was torn. i may know about a pair of socks.