Letter from Elder Morrison

well, things are going pretty good this week. i've been pretty homesick, with a lot of people coming and going to be with family. i know i only have
5 more months, but that's still 5 months away. anyway, the dentists name is Jeff Johnson, and his office is on St. Charles Rock Rd. but i dont know what city. i'm sure you could find him on google or something. i have been to the dentist here in crystal city, and he's done some work already. he said a lot of the new fillings had chipped or broken, and that's what could be causing some of the sensitivity. he replaced 2 of them, one with a sedative medicine filling. that one has kinda been worn down a bit, so i dont know what will happen with that. on the other hand, because some of them have broken, there is space between the surfaces of of my teeth. this makes it so that when i eat, food gets jammed in there and really makes the gums sore. one of the gums is very very sore, and i have an appointment tomorrow to the that one worked on. i dont know what exactly will happen, but brother parkin, the dentist says if replacement doesnt work, i'll probably need one or more root canals. not liking that at all. the problem is that i didnt have any of the sensitivity or any pain before i got them worked on the first time, so i dont know what happened.
as for court this week, there were 149 dollars worth of fines and court fees. the mission will pay for 49 of that, and i paid the 98 i had in cash there, so i'll just have to pay 2 more. the mission will pick up the rest because of the out of date insurance and the expired plates. after we went to court, elder dandoy said that the weather was going to get bad, so we stayed the night. the weather didnt actually get bad, but it turned out that they needed our help with a zone conference car check and some office work.
so it didnt work out too bad.
yesterday, the warmest i think it got was 20 degrees. after church we had a late lunch with the Higinbotham family. they're really a fun family. they took us to Belleville, IL to see this Christmas exhibit called 'the way of lights' it is at a catholic shrine and was really a good thing. they had tons of lights and you drove through this 'journey to bethlehem'. then they had buildings and stuff made of lights and a manger scene in a cave thing that is on the grounds there. it was really neat. we're going to the Higinbothams for lunch on Christmas.
as for the phone call, i dont really know what to tell you. things are going to be pretty hectic that day. we've also been told that we cant use the cel phones. so i'll probably either get to talk to you less, or it will be in shorter calls but a few of them throughout the day. so i dont really know what to expect. i'll definitely make sure i call though. i'll just call on dad's cel phone just in case you decide to go to oakley anyway.
on saturday, the Taylor family took us to the temple, and then to dinner and a concert put on by a youth choir from a few stakes in the st. louis area.
it was really good. they sang a lot of Christmas songs, and they had a little story along with it. it was loosely based on 'a Christmas Carol'.
i think that's about all this week. cant wait to talk to you in a few days!
love you
Elder Morrison