Time is drawing near for Ty's graduation. Tonight he presented his Sr. Project. He did a good job. The first picture is what it looked like. The second picture is what he wanted it to look like.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Letter from Elder Morrison
well, sounds like another busy week. it also sounds like the missionaries still like our house. i'm pretty excited to come home and see it from the other side. maybe i'll have to do splits with them and ty. it would be good practice for ty.
this week, we had a baptism. marty robinson got baptized on saturday, and he got the aaronic priesthood yesteday. it was great, and he will baptize his youngest daughter this upcoming saturday, which we will go to as well. it's really great to see how much the gospel can change someone for the better in just a short amount of time. he has definitely changed, not that he was bad before, but now he just has the glow of a member of the church. i think you know what that is like.
speaking of pulling out trees, we helped brother robinson pull a tree stump out this week. it's amazing how thick the roots get. it took us about 3 hours to get out. we just used shovels and an axe. then we had dinner with them. they are a great family, and kinda remind me of home. i also noticed on their wall was a big board of their son's mission, and where he served, and his companions, and all that, along with random pictures. are you an obsessive mother like that, mom? lol. i'm not expecting it by any means, but with your love of scrapbooking and whatnot, i wouldnt put it past you.
i'm completely fine being roommates with ty. i've had a lot of trials on the mission involving companions, that me and ty will do just fine. plus, we dont have to spend 24 hours a day together. its always better when you can have alone time. i'm really looking forward to that.
as for my bike, i'll probably ship it home just before i leave, like the day or 2 before transfers. so like the 18th or 19th. that way i can still use it for the time we dont have a car. we actually lose the car a week before transfers, so i have to be on bike my last week. i'm trying to come home in one suitcase, so i'll be de-junking those last couple days. maybe i'll put some stuff in with the bike. that way, it will be a lighter load. i'll be throwing away most of my (kinda) white shirts and socks and other things that are 2 years old and need to be trashed. that will save a lot of room.
as for isoa coming to see me in SLC, i dont know how that all works. if it's possible, it'd be fine with me. i think lex and penni will be there to pick up alex. i dont know. i dont know if i'm allowed to leave the boarding area or what during that time. i dont know how that all works. but if it's possible, i'm game. i'd love to see them. (and anyone else that may be in the area).
dad, i'm glad you have the talent of being concise in your words, but when you tell me that you flew a helicopter...what the heck does that mean? did you get an RC helicopter or what? also, there was a dance that ty went to?
you need to post things on the blog so i know what's going on. or at least give me alittle background.
so you didnt answer my question of when church is so i can call you on mother's day. pretty sure there's only one p-day in between now and then, so i need to know when i can call you to say "yep, still planning on coming home next week..." lol.
well, i guess that's really all that's happening here. cant wait to be home in 3 1/2 weeks (24 days). Love you!
Elder Morrison
this week, we had a baptism. marty robinson got baptized on saturday, and he got the aaronic priesthood yesteday. it was great, and he will baptize his youngest daughter this upcoming saturday, which we will go to as well. it's really great to see how much the gospel can change someone for the better in just a short amount of time. he has definitely changed, not that he was bad before, but now he just has the glow of a member of the church. i think you know what that is like.
speaking of pulling out trees, we helped brother robinson pull a tree stump out this week. it's amazing how thick the roots get. it took us about 3 hours to get out. we just used shovels and an axe. then we had dinner with them. they are a great family, and kinda remind me of home. i also noticed on their wall was a big board of their son's mission, and where he served, and his companions, and all that, along with random pictures. are you an obsessive mother like that, mom? lol. i'm not expecting it by any means, but with your love of scrapbooking and whatnot, i wouldnt put it past you.
i'm completely fine being roommates with ty. i've had a lot of trials on the mission involving companions, that me and ty will do just fine. plus, we dont have to spend 24 hours a day together. its always better when you can have alone time. i'm really looking forward to that.
as for my bike, i'll probably ship it home just before i leave, like the day or 2 before transfers. so like the 18th or 19th. that way i can still use it for the time we dont have a car. we actually lose the car a week before transfers, so i have to be on bike my last week. i'm trying to come home in one suitcase, so i'll be de-junking those last couple days. maybe i'll put some stuff in with the bike. that way, it will be a lighter load. i'll be throwing away most of my (kinda) white shirts and socks and other things that are 2 years old and need to be trashed. that will save a lot of room.
as for isoa coming to see me in SLC, i dont know how that all works. if it's possible, it'd be fine with me. i think lex and penni will be there to pick up alex. i dont know. i dont know if i'm allowed to leave the boarding area or what during that time. i dont know how that all works. but if it's possible, i'm game. i'd love to see them. (and anyone else that may be in the area).
dad, i'm glad you have the talent of being concise in your words, but when you tell me that you flew a helicopter...what the heck does that mean? did you get an RC helicopter or what? also, there was a dance that ty went to?
you need to post things on the blog so i know what's going on. or at least give me alittle background.
so you didnt answer my question of when church is so i can call you on mother's day. pretty sure there's only one p-day in between now and then, so i need to know when i can call you to say "yep, still planning on coming home next week..." lol.
well, i guess that's really all that's happening here. cant wait to be home in 3 1/2 weeks (24 days). Love you!
Elder Morrison
Monday, April 20, 2009
Letter from Elder Morrison
hey family. after today, it's just 4 p-days left. 3 weeks until mothers day, and then a week and a half from then i'll be home. i'm pretty stoked. speaking of mothers day, when is your church? i think it's going to be a little harder to line up this time, because we're on the 1:00 schedule, with PEC at 11:30. let me know what time your church is. sounds like i'm going to be pretty busy the week i get home.
this week, we've had an amazing thing happen. there was a guy who called us from the ward. his name is marty robinson, and has been going to church for 16 years. however, he was never baptized. he married a member of the church, and the members of this ward have been waiting for 16 years for the phone call we got from him. he said he wants to be baptized. he wants to be able to baptize his youngest daughter, who will be baptized the first saturday of may. so after a visit with him and his wife, and a baptismal interview, he will be baptized this saturday. it's amazing how quick this has come to be. i mean, 16 years isnt quick, but after all of that time, it is so all of the sudden and is happening so quickly. we're really excited for him.
that is the most exciting thing of the week.
our ward mission leader is the one that is taking stuff to oakley. he's actually going to burley. it's really great that they're heading out that way, because there's no way i could get that stuff home. i'm going to try to come home with one suitcase, because i guess you have to pay for any luggage you check, even if it's just one bag. so the more i can put in one bag, the better. i dont want to have to pay more than i need to. i donated some clothes to a clothing drive, because i just wont have room for it. thought i'd at least put it to good use.
you know, it's kinda hard to not be trunky when everyone is constantly reminding you. it just adds to the anxiety of wanting to come home.
i guess that's all that there really is to report this week. i suppose i'll write a bit next week. love you, Elder Morrison
this week, we've had an amazing thing happen. there was a guy who called us from the ward. his name is marty robinson, and has been going to church for 16 years. however, he was never baptized. he married a member of the church, and the members of this ward have been waiting for 16 years for the phone call we got from him. he said he wants to be baptized. he wants to be able to baptize his youngest daughter, who will be baptized the first saturday of may. so after a visit with him and his wife, and a baptismal interview, he will be baptized this saturday. it's amazing how quick this has come to be. i mean, 16 years isnt quick, but after all of that time, it is so all of the sudden and is happening so quickly. we're really excited for him.
that is the most exciting thing of the week.
our ward mission leader is the one that is taking stuff to oakley. he's actually going to burley. it's really great that they're heading out that way, because there's no way i could get that stuff home. i'm going to try to come home with one suitcase, because i guess you have to pay for any luggage you check, even if it's just one bag. so the more i can put in one bag, the better. i dont want to have to pay more than i need to. i donated some clothes to a clothing drive, because i just wont have room for it. thought i'd at least put it to good use.
you know, it's kinda hard to not be trunky when everyone is constantly reminding you. it just adds to the anxiety of wanting to come home.
i guess that's all that there really is to report this week. i suppose i'll write a bit next week. love you, Elder Morrison
Monday, April 13, 2009
Letter from Elder Morrison
hey family. after this email, i will have but 5 more to write. i think you may need to update the countdown on the blog. i dont think it's quite right. anyways...
mom, thanks for the card and the money. i'm really glad you didnt send me cadbury eggs or something that i would be tempted to eat that would be really bad for me. as of this morning, i have lost 42 pounds since the beginning of the year. i figured it out, and that was 12% of my body weight.if everything goes according to plan, i will be lower than when i went to the MTC. it wont be lower than the lowest i was, but i'll leave lower than when i came.
this week has been pretty crazy. monday and tuesday were spent getting Elder Tolman ready for transfers and cleaning up a bit. wednesday was transfers and getting all settled in. me and elder goudie are just picking up where we left off. not much has changed. it's like we just took a 6 week break and are just getting back at it. on friday we got to go to the temple. we went for an endowment session and then when we got done with that, we went to the baptistry and did confirmations with the crystal city branch youth. it was great to see a lot of them there. danielle was able to go as well. elder goudie and i were amazed at how much she's changed for the better since we left. she's a great girl, and it was great to see her in the temple. i was the ones that did her confirmations. it was a very good night. we had stake conference this last weekend. we had a great adult session on saturday night. it was all about the Atonement of Christ. we watched the movie 'the Lamb of God'. after that, it was basically a testimony meeting with people that the stake presidency wanted to hear from. the spirit was very strong there. then we had a broadcast from SLC for our stake conference. we heard from Dallin H. Oaks and President Monson.
i'm pretty excited to be coming home next month. sounds like dad is pretty trunky too. i'm excited to be able to play music and such. i'll have a lot to do when i get home. by the way, when is the cub scout thing? is it really on memorial weekend, and i have to miss springfest?
i've pretty much written down a bunch of things that i want to do when i get home. plus some things that i know are going to be happening. i'll probably just have to play it by ear though. well, i guess that's about it for this week. i guess until next week...
Elder Morrison
mom, thanks for the card and the money. i'm really glad you didnt send me cadbury eggs or something that i would be tempted to eat that would be really bad for me. as of this morning, i have lost 42 pounds since the beginning of the year. i figured it out, and that was 12% of my body weight.if everything goes according to plan, i will be lower than when i went to the MTC. it wont be lower than the lowest i was, but i'll leave lower than when i came.
this week has been pretty crazy. monday and tuesday were spent getting Elder Tolman ready for transfers and cleaning up a bit. wednesday was transfers and getting all settled in. me and elder goudie are just picking up where we left off. not much has changed. it's like we just took a 6 week break and are just getting back at it. on friday we got to go to the temple. we went for an endowment session and then when we got done with that, we went to the baptistry and did confirmations with the crystal city branch youth. it was great to see a lot of them there. danielle was able to go as well. elder goudie and i were amazed at how much she's changed for the better since we left. she's a great girl, and it was great to see her in the temple. i was the ones that did her confirmations. it was a very good night. we had stake conference this last weekend. we had a great adult session on saturday night. it was all about the Atonement of Christ. we watched the movie 'the Lamb of God'. after that, it was basically a testimony meeting with people that the stake presidency wanted to hear from. the spirit was very strong there. then we had a broadcast from SLC for our stake conference. we heard from Dallin H. Oaks and President Monson.
i'm pretty excited to be coming home next month. sounds like dad is pretty trunky too. i'm excited to be able to play music and such. i'll have a lot to do when i get home. by the way, when is the cub scout thing? is it really on memorial weekend, and i have to miss springfest?
i've pretty much written down a bunch of things that i want to do when i get home. plus some things that i know are going to be happening. i'll probably just have to play it by ear though. well, i guess that's about it for this week. i guess until next week...
Elder Morrison
Monday, April 6, 2009
Letter from Elder Morrison
hey family. this week has been pretty good. it's gotten a little colder. in fact, it snowed this morning, although it wasnt for very long, and none of it stuck. i guess the real highlight of this week would be conference. i really enjoyed Elder Holland's talk on the Atonement. i would suggest you read/listen to that if you didnt get the chance to live. saturday, we had breakfast with our recent convert and his wife and then watched conference there. then we had lunch with the ward mission leader of the o'fallon ward and watched conference there. then we went to red robin with the priesthood of the ward before the priesthood session. brother schmutz bought us dinner, which was really nice. then yesterday, for lunch, we went to our ward mission leader's house and had lunch there, with a dinner appointment after conference. it was a meal appointment weekend!
so transfer calls came last night. Elder Goudie is going to be my killer.
Elder Tolman is going to Goudie's area, which is in Columbia, MO. he'll be training there.
for those of us who cant read the blog page (or that are losing it as they
say) my address is:
1506 Savannah Circle
O'Fallon, MO 63368
and just so you know mom, i think you always told me not to say crappy, too.
just a little 'table turning' i guess.
our ward mission leader has a guitar, i learned this week. and he said he doesnt know how to play it, nor does he have time to right now anyways, so he let me borrow it for the next 6 weeks. it's pretty nice having that there, although my fingers have been pretty sore building up those callouses again.
the medicine is doing well, and even my companion commented the other day "that medicine must be doing good, because i dont think you've had a bad day for a while." so yeah, it's doing good. i'm still kinda struggling with feeling kindof alone, but that's kindof the definition of a missionary.
yesterday in Elder Holland's talk, he started by saying that his message was for the lonely, whether it be...and then listed some things. he said, "it may be a missionary, in the first few weeks of homesickness" and i leaned over to my companion, and said "or the last." lol.
well, i cant really think of much else that has happened this week. i hope everything is going well for you, and that you dont get too trunky. i'm trying not to be, although i'm really excited to go home and be with you, and with my friends, and just be where i feel i belong.
love you,
Elder Morrison
so transfer calls came last night. Elder Goudie is going to be my killer.
Elder Tolman is going to Goudie's area, which is in Columbia, MO. he'll be training there.
for those of us who cant read the blog page (or that are losing it as they
say) my address is:
1506 Savannah Circle
O'Fallon, MO 63368
and just so you know mom, i think you always told me not to say crappy, too.
just a little 'table turning' i guess.
our ward mission leader has a guitar, i learned this week. and he said he doesnt know how to play it, nor does he have time to right now anyways, so he let me borrow it for the next 6 weeks. it's pretty nice having that there, although my fingers have been pretty sore building up those callouses again.
the medicine is doing well, and even my companion commented the other day "that medicine must be doing good, because i dont think you've had a bad day for a while." so yeah, it's doing good. i'm still kinda struggling with feeling kindof alone, but that's kindof the definition of a missionary.
yesterday in Elder Holland's talk, he started by saying that his message was for the lonely, whether it be...and then listed some things. he said, "it may be a missionary, in the first few weeks of homesickness" and i leaned over to my companion, and said "or the last." lol.
well, i cant really think of much else that has happened this week. i hope everything is going well for you, and that you dont get too trunky. i'm trying not to be, although i'm really excited to go home and be with you, and with my friends, and just be where i feel i belong.
love you,
Elder Morrison
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