Letter from Elder Morrison

dear family,

Wow! sounds like the vacation was a good time! the worst part is always the day after the vacations. going back to the daily life. i really wish i was in the weather you were talking about. i dont know if i told you this already or not, but i think it happened this week. i left my alarm clock in the kitchen because it has a thermometer and we came in at 9 in the p.m. and it said 99.9 degrees. yuck! our room wasnt much better. this morning is the coolest it has been for a week. it got down to 75 when we woke up. but mostly it has been around 85. it is really hard to sleep when it is that warm in there. we have a swamp cooler so that sort of helps keep it down around 85. this week we went to lay sawd, and it was 104 outside. i hate the heat. i cant imagine what it is going to be like next fall when i come home and go from heat to ice.

dad that is so cool to hear about the missionary experience! please dont forget about it. put it at the top of that list. ask him if you can refer him to missionaries. if he is prepared right now, dont be the one to screw it up. haha. wow that is way cool to hear.

this week we were at the park because we had some time before we could go inside and we talked to a girl for a bit. turns out she goes to cross roads and doesnt like it. she goes but is tired of the "mediocre Christian." we are teaching her on tuesday and hopefully she will come to FHE in the singles ward tonight. Elder Meehan and i are pretty sure she is prepared. we are starting the new way of teaching from The Apostles. they are teaching it in the MTC now and we are planning to teach the doctrine of love, using God is our loving heavenly father, and the gospel blesses families, leading into the doctrine of Christ, specifically baptism, and will be committing her to be baptized hopefully mid august or sooner. the AP's bore testimony of this new teaching plan and they said they tried it on 6 people and not one of them rejected the committment to be baptized. i am really excited for it.

yesterday after church i baked the cookies you sent me. i was going to give them to a recent convert for his birthday but i made them and tasted them and it was less than satisfying. Elder meehan and i think its because we used expired margrine. i didnt know it expired but i think it has been expired for a while. oh well it was a good effort.

on thursday we had dinner with jessica lakin at our ward mission leader's house and our mission leader's friend showed up. he is 36 and single, returned missionary but less active. he is a cop that specializes in gangs. he showed us a presentation on Kempo, a martial art that he is a black belt in. he was "being nice" to josh, (Ward mission leader) and josh looked like he was in a whole lot of pain. i could not believe what this guy was doing. he doesnt look like he could at all, but he could kill people in a blink of an eye. it is almost impossible to follow his hands when he moves. it was really somethin else.

durring weekly planning we came up with 57 former investigators to check on. im sure there are at least one or two of them that are ready to be baptized now. its gunna be great week.

well i love you guys, keep on keepin on. good luck with the pig out. say hi to bill for me.

love

Tuh-ty

P.S.---i was wondering if you could send a couple things with the pictures from the beach. i was wondering if you could try to find one of those neck things you put in water and it soaks up the cold water and keeps you cool. i think if i have one in the room i might be able to feel cooled down for once. i cant find any in the stores around here. bummer. i was also wondering if you could send some anti-monkey butt. also an essential if i do say so myself. i dont really know where to even look for that stuff. but i do know its amazing haha.