My Morning Prayer...

Dear Lord,
THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA.
Amen.

I won the BANANAGRAMS game tonight!

Letter from Elder Morrison

hey family,

well this week has been pretty good i suppose. norco is really nice. it is a very nice area. its too bad not many people want to hear the gospel though. we still dont have any investigators but we are workin on it.

ok so you kinda get what my companion is like, i have an experience for you. we were at district meeting on tuesday and infront of the whole zone of elders, says he has a question about a verse he read in personal study. he wanted to know if he should follow what it says in 2 cor. 13:12. look it up. pretty funny.

yesterday at church, during sacrament meeting, of the family ward, e. ayers tells me that i am giving a talk in singles ward sacrament meeting. fancy that. so in between wards i threw somthin together. they high councilor never showed up either. pretty crazy sacrament meeting.

i also have some other great news. on saturday, i baptized Jeannie from perris! oh my it was such a good experience. she said that she wanted me to come back and baptize her so that was a really neat thing. i didnt get to stay long after but it was so great. i forgot my camera at the house so i cant email you pictures but next week i will try to remember.

so to answer some of your questions. we drive a 2010 malibu and i havent been on a bike for about 2 months, except for friday. we had exchanges and our district leader is on bike. so he came here and i went on bike. his seat was so crappy, i couldnt walk normal for a couple days. oh yeah, that reminds me, the 2nd councilor of the singles ward bishopric is like a regional manager or rep for ihop so he just said stop by friday at 9 in the AM and get some breakfast....so we did. about 10 singles from the ward came too. awesome.

the members do feed us dang well. they are already filling up the may callendar. they only got 4 days left to fill. mom, promise me that if you are feeding the missionaries, dont feed them spaghetti. PROMISE ME! lol im not complainin. im fine with it. ;D

norco is quite a bit bigger than oakley. its just like any other old town...just no sidewalks lol.

everything sounds good at home. HAILEY IS NOT OLD ENOUGH FOR A BOY/GIRL PARTY!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO!?!?! haha good luck with that one.

anyways i dont even know when the date is for kenz. or what place. hmmmm swear to me that you will get a cardboard cut out. not playin. ;)

oh yeah, and i just remembered somthing elder ayers told me. i said hey, you wanna hear a joke?

- womens rights- E. Ayers

haha random.

well, we are going to go eat at in-n-out in a little bit, just gunna wait for Elder Ayers to get done. I love you all

love ty

ps i got a sweet hockey goalie callendar. half of it is in french

Letter from Elder Morrison

just thought i would send a pic of me and wiley. boy was that a fun ride to norco!

sounds like everything is going pretty good at home. i hope coltin feels better soon.

ok first off, my companion.

his name is elder ayers (airs) and he is from, in coltins words i suppose, the mother land.(canada) he is the youngest of 4 and the only one to serve a mission longer than 6 months. he has been out for about 13 months so he is on the downhill slope. he is really funny, and is workin on being obedient. we are doing pretty good, concidering we have no investigators. i have had about all the aboats i can handle hahaha. he is a good guy tho.

norco, horse town usa! i guess this place is famous. they love the horses more than people. they have no sidewalks, just horse trails. and that is the only way i know whether we are in corona or norco. we got sidewalks in corona.

at FHE last week, someone asked where i was from, and the lesson was going on. i said moses lake and this guy popped up from accross the room and was like NO WAY! his name is rick garcia and served 101/2 months in moses lake. he got home from his mission 2007 and i found out he went into the mission with elder piper. he knows andrew hyer and talks with him regularly it sounds like. he is takin us to icecream tonight i guess. but we talked all about people back at home. he knew a lot of my friends.

then we went to the Jones family because he is our ward mission leader. his son in law asked if i knew natalie jones. she married one of his roomates at college. what a small world it really is. another lady in the family ward served a couple months in yakima too. pretty crazy.

our homeshare is pretty cool. we live in a barn that has been made into an apartment. its pretty nice except the last couple elders were sloppy...and we still have dirty dishes because i refuse to clean theirs up. haha i went to the dollar store today and bought a bowl and silverware so i can have clean stuff. other than that its a pretty sweet set up.

when i got here, i saw our car that we are driving. can you say brand new 2010 malibu (tee) haha. its dang nice and it is my turn to drive this week. awesome!

thanks for the easter card! wow, am i spoiled or what. really, thank you. i just realized yesterday that i got to skip a fast sunday. in my last area, they had fast sunday the week after conference. and here they had it the week before. hahahaha. but i basically fasted yesterday. we were at church from 7:30 in the am, until 5 in the pm because we had a lesson there right after. normally we will be able to bounce at 4:15. still a pretty long day haha. so yep, all is well here.

singles ward is so dang funny! it is just like the one at home. i wish you could even reallize. i think i would prolly die at church for being there that long if there wasnt the enormous amounts of comic relief at singles ward. haha

well family, i love you all. i hope everything is going well.

Love T-huh Ty

Letter from Elder Morrison

hey there,

sounds like the weekend was super fun. i kept tellin all my missionary buddies that you were all kickin it with grandma this weekend. it was weird to see a picture with grandma in her own house. and what the heck! why is hailey driving. crap, everyone off the roads.

well first things first, transfer calls came it 10 pm saturday evening. i am being transfered to Norco, CA. it is part of the Corona stake. IM OUTTA PERRIS!!!!! Wiley will be driving me there at 4 or so this afternoon.

i havent gotten an easter card because they have been holding mail because of the transfers. did you guys get the box i sent home? hope so. i was hoping it would get there before you left but yeah right. haha.

i didnt feel the earthquake that everyone is talking about. i guess it was a big one.

not much has happened this week. not much to report. i havent slept well for the past few days because i knew elder anderson was leaving and i thought i was going to be in perris another transfer so i was pretty much freeking out. but it was a great relief to find i was leaving. i was so happy and energetic that night. im really gunna miss some people here, but im glad to be switching things up.

in corona i will be covering a family ward in norco, and the singles ward in the corona stake. i heard both wards are some of the best in the mission. pretty excited about that.

oh yeah funny story. it was april first, you know what that means. elder schenck woke up at 5 am and snuck into our room and switched our clocks forward an hour. he also took our phone becuase he couldnt switch the time. i woke up at what i thought was 715, freaking out. "elder scheck! we all slept in!" he told me i had better get in the shower so we could all be ready to study at 8. i bolted into the bathroom and showered and shaved in about 4-5 minutes. i opened up the curtain and my towel and clothes were all gone. i opened the door and was yelling for E. Kidman to bring me a towel. his first words, where is the phone?? i said, flip kidman! i dont got no phone, i also have no towel or clothes, not real worried about the phone. haha so i got some clothes on and walked into the kitchen and realized that it was actually 630. i was ready for the day by the time i was normally just waking up. they got us pretty good. i then tried to throw a hand full of medimucil on elder schenck in the shower but our homeshare has little alarms on the windows that if they get bumped, they go off. he set one my the door in the bathroom and when i opened it, he heard the alarm, opened up the currtain and BOOM, threw a big old cup of water on me. pretty much i got worked pretty good that whole day. haha a night shortly before that day, i hid under elder andersons bed and he got in bed and didnt see me, so i reached up with my hand and he FREAKED OUT!!!!!! it was dang funny.

G-CON was pretty dang good. i did fall a sleep a couple times for a few minutes, but dang, i havent sat through that much church in a dang long time. the up side was that on sunday, we only had church for 4 hours instead of the usual 6.

well family i love you all, thanks for the emails.

Love ty

Off To The Races

Weigh-in starts in just a half hour. Kevakin and his Canadian Zamboni is ready and to go!

Welcome Home Sister Burch

It was a quick trip to Oakley but well worth it. After a year and a half passing without seeing Wilma's smiling face, it was nice to know she was home safe and sound.

This is a quick itinerary of our trip.

Wednesday:

I got off work early (3:30pm) and hit the road. We hit a terrible storm around Baker and ended up traveling about 35mph for what seemed to be forever.

We arrived in Oakley around 2am, hugged Isoa (who was the only one awake) and we went to bed.

Thursday:

I didn't get up until about 9am or so.

We all visited with Grandma Burch for a while and then started getting some work done around the house.

Deb worked in the yard pulling weeds, trimming shrubs and cleaning cobwebs.

Creesh and Kevakin helped a little... (very little) but mostly kept Becky and Isoa's kids entertained.

Me & Isoa pulled video cable and helped the dish network tech hook up the satellite. After a few hours it was done.

Becky pretty much did hair the entire time. (hair cuts, colors, styles etc. even Kevakin got his hair frosted) She worked her butt off. By noon she had 4 heads of hair done. I still don't know how she did it?

Deb, Grandma and Becky went to town in the afternoon to do some shopping while Isoa and I went with Kevin and Grandpa Morrison golfing at the Ponderosa Par 3.

The wind was CRAZY. Nobody in their right mind would have attempted golf in that weather. Long story short... I won! All 18 Holes! (Eat your heart out Kevin!!!!)

After golf and shopping Kevin and Grandpa Morrison took off and left Isoa and I with Deb & Grandma to eat in Burley. Grandma bought a very nice dinner and fun was had by all. (Thanks Mom!!!)

Melvin, Bonnie & Family got in about 1:00 a.m. and we all went to bed.

Friday:

Pretty much a work day on the farm.

We had 3, 4-wheelers with trailers (including Grandpa Morrison's who came to join in the fun).

We went along the fence line and pulled stumps, gathered garbage, and loaded rocks and twigs into a big pile.

John and Joshua pulled out fence posts with the front-end loader and the rest of us picked them up and put them on the trailer to haul off.

The wind didn't seem to stop. Still, I imagined that it could be 90 degrees with no breeze, suddenly the wind was a welcomed friend.

Deb fell on her butt and landed on a stump... Saturday morning she had a black bruise the size of a softball.

We took a break for lunch about two o'clock. (Bonnie made chicken salad sandwiches that were very good.)

After lunch me, Isoa, Creesh, Brindy, Kevakin, Skyler, Kelsey, Ozzy, Jale Cade and Walker picked up the last of the steel posts from the west end of the field and called it quits.

We finished just in time for a snow storm to blow in. everyone went in the house except ozzy, kevakin, skyler and jale cade who stayed outside to jump on the tramp and have a snowball fight.

Lorilee and Mackenzie got there about 9pm.

We visited for a bit and all went to bed by midnight (or there abouts)

Saturday:

I slept in until about 9 or so.

We mostly visited in the front room and watched becky do more hair. That poor girl just kept going.

Then, we watched conference until noon.

We went over to Morrison's to visit for a short time. KK, Christy, and Kerry were there.

We then took Brindy to Searle's to have some tater tots and pizza. The burch family dinner was planned for 4pm so we didn't want to eat too much, but felt the need to give Brindy the whole oakley experience.

Concretia drove the car for the first time. She did a great job and even got the "Oakley Wave" down when passing other cars.

I took all the little kids to Clarks and did the candy thing... you know how that goes... AWESOME!!

The 2pm session of conf didn't get listened to much at the house. The storm had blown snow on the satellite dish and we couldn't get any reception. The radio worked, but not good enough to compete with the kids.

Dinner at 4pm was good. Turkey, Salads etc. Felt like thanksgiving! WONDERFUL!

Gary & Lorraine joined us, but only for a short time.

Then, it was off to the priesthood session. The chapel in Oakley was packed. Kenz and I sat about 6 rows back in the cultural hall. I think we were the only ones in jeans. For sure I was the only one in tie dye.

The session was good. Loved the talk about how they called missionaries. I knew that was coming because Isoa had texted and told me about the talk. That is the one he translated for. Anyway, after priesthood we went back and watched Becky cut josh's hair, then called it a night.

Sunday:

We left for home about 9:30 or so after making the rounds and saying goodbye to everyone.

We followed Kenz in the Subaru to Burley and then parted ways.

The only problem was that part on the highway where it goes from 65mph to 55mph to 45mph.... Kenz was clocked doing 62 in a 45. A little pink ticket and $75 later he was on his way. Not a good way to start a happy easter morning.

We stopped at McDonalds and got some breakfast sandwiches and listened to conference on our way to toward Boise.

We hooked up with Spencer and Ruth in Ontario (they were coming back from a weeklong vacation in Utah visiting family).

The trip went pretty good until we hit tri-cities and the girls patients wore a little thin.

But now, we are home. It is time to get to bed and try to get enough rest to start a new week.

Thanks everyone for a good and memorable time. Welcome home Mom! Hope you recover from a family infested weekend. We look forward to doing it again real soon.