First Week in San Antonio/ Converse

We got to talk to Morgan on Sunday. We also got an email from her on Monday! (Monday is her new email day.) She is happy and funny as ever. It was a real treat to talk to her. She arrived in San Antonio last Tuesday. She and the rest of the missionaries spent their first day at the mission home having dinner and entrance interviews. On Wednesday she contacted people and passed out Book of Mormons at the Alamo. Then she attended a mission Christmas devotional.

Currently, she is in a suburb of San Antonio called Converse. She says the people are really nice, so that's good. Unfortunately, it's an English speaking area. Hopefully she will be moved to as Spanish speaking area soon. She says she can't wait to get moved closer to the Mexican boarder where everyone speaks Spanish. But until then, I know she is content to go where ever she is needed.

So without further ado, here is Morgan's email:

Dear Family and Friends,

To begin my letter today I just want to say thanks for all the fantastic Christmas gifts. Specifically, however, I would like to thank you for the ear plugs you sent me several weeks ago. I had hoped that once I left the MTC my days of sleeping in the same room with someone who snores would be over. Alas, it is not so. I discovered last night that my companion does snore and I am a light sleeper so I put in my ear plugs and the world became a much happier place. I also wanted to thank you for the letter I got at Christmas conference. I admit I kind of cried when I read it. I'm a crier ok. What do you expect?

I was glad to hear all of your voices yesterday and to get your emails this morning. James, I was glad you could be there too. In our mission we follow the white handbook exactly so I'm not allowed to email you but I'll include you in my family email :) there isn't really a ton for me to say today except that I hope you have a fun drive to Arizona. (ugh *shudder)  :) and I hope it's warm. Also, I lied to you yesterday on the phone. I have no idea what kind of car I drive and just said the 1st one that came to my head; sorry about that. It was pretty believable though. I drive a Chevy Malibu, and I checked the oil today.

Yesterday after I hung up with you we had Christmas dinner with the Hunters. They are fantastic and have the cutest little kids. I love Mormons so much!  After that we went to visit a woman in an assisted living home who has some sort of memory loss disease. My heart broke every time she asked me where I was from which was about 10 times in 45 minutes. We just had the same conversation over and over, but we did get to read some scriptures to her and talk about church and she enjoyed that.

Oh, don’t forget to put my name on letters and packages or I probably won't get it. That's what happened to my Christmas packages by the way. The MTC mail room was very confused, but that's ok. They got over it, and I got my presents. Ok, I’m just talking about pointless stuff now so I'll let you go. Keep sending me letters because I love them and tell everyone thank you for the Christmas cards I got.

Love you all. :b..... I just drooled on you all. hahaha. That’s how much I love you. On the smiley face scale of 1 to 10 the drooley face is an 11 because I think it's so funny.

Lots of awesome love,

Morganthecoolest

p.s. Morgan has been getting your letters. She doesn't have a lot of time to respond to you. But she is very appreciative. Keep sending them!

No Email

As you may have seen, we didn't get an email from Morgan this week. She probably figured she would be talking to us soon enough. Plus, I know she was busy packing and preparing to fly to San Antonio. She did call and talk to our dad for a few minutes from the airport on Tuesday. She seemed excited and happy. We also know that she arrived safely.
So after her call home Sunday I will fill you in on all the interesting details about where she is, her trainer, and how her first couple of days in the Field have been. If we're really lucky she may even talk about her feelings. (gasp)


Until then, Merry Christmas and God Bless!

creepy puppets and ugly dresses

Hey family,

So first for the really good stuff, Nora got baptized today!!! Ok so Nora isn't real. She's one of our MTC investigators/ our teacher pretending to be an investigator; but she got ‘baptized’ and ‘confirmed’ today and is leaving for Mexico on Friday for Christmas. This week has been so long and stressful but it's also been a lot of fun too.

Oh, I have a fohawk again, and I love it. Everyone else loves it too! I think my coolness points go up by 100 every time I cut my hair like this.

Most likely this email will make no sense whatsoever...

I found the most amazing, ugly, give-away-box dress I've ever seen. It’s like Star Wars meets Hawaii. It has the biggest poofed sleeves I've ever seen. They make my shoulders huge but the rest of the dress fits me really well.

We’re having a Secret Santa with our Zone this week before we leave for Texas. It's been way fun… the poor elder who gets stuff from me… I made the ugliest pillow-case-doll ever and put it on his chair. The puppet’s name is Princess Edna.

That’s so exciting that James is getting home. Tell him I say ‘hi’ and give him my address if you so feel the desire.

Sister Morgan Heeder

Texas San Antonio Mission

404 E. Ramsey Rd #105

San Antonio, TX 78216

That's the mission home. I really wish I had something super witty* to say right now, but I'm kind of lacking. I get to call home in a week and a half. I'll give you more details about Christmas when I get them. I like that my 1st Sunday in the mission field will also be my 1st Christmas in the mission field. It's going to be so crazy busy! I'm not really sure what exactly is going to be going on but I'm sure it will be awesome.

Scripture challenge this week is 2 Nephi 9 and other things about the Plan of Salvation.

I am a four-square queen. I just started playing and I'm so good. The elders are all in awe of me. I recently won my first 4-square battle and it felt so good. I really like winning. The sad part is that I only have 4 days of gym left :( oh well I'll survive I guess.

Oh, so I've been getting a ton of Christmas cards so tell everyone thank you. I don't know who some of these cards are from but I'm guessing they’re people in our ward.

I’m starting to get more excited for Christmas b/c even though it doesn’t exist in the MTC it does in Texas and I'll be there in a week from today. Isn’t that crazy? If you want to send me any more Dear Elders make sure you do it before Monday morning or I will never get it. Even that might be cutting it close.

I hope you're all having a fantastic week. Sorry my emails are so poor, but maybe they'll get better in the field when I don't have a time limit.

I love you all and I pray for you always. Have a Merry Christmas.

Love,

Morgan

Doctor Who

Dear Family [and Friends],

In case you're wondering there is absolutely no reason for me to title this email "DoctorWho" apart from the fact that I just felt like it. So now on to what I've been doing this week. To be honest I don't really remember because I'm pretty sure yesterday was Tuesday, and I just sent you an email. Ok, I'll think really hard and see what I can come up with... I read in the Book of Mormon... I read in Preach My Gospel... I...studied Spanish....Oh! I got to watch the Christmas Devotional and that was sweet.

I keep forgetting it's almost Christmas because, oh yeah, I live in a time vortex. Just two more weeks, just two more weeks. Texas here I come! If we want to get into real specifics I'll tell you: I read the book of Omni today and I've been studying the Plan of Salvation this week...

Ok, so I just remembered something kind of exciting. Hna. Probert and I get to host new missionaries tomorrow. I would be a lot more excited if it weren't so cold. Also, we've been selected to do a "how to begin teaching" workshop for the new missionaries on Wednesday night. So that should be fun. We went to a training meeting yesterday with about 10 other missionaries, and there was no one there to do the training. We started studying on our own, and when someone finally showed up he said, “Sorry, I don't have time to train you today, so I'll see you when we meet on Wednesday. Good luck,” and he left.

By the way, what is going on with this whole blog thing? I keep hearing about it, but I have no idea what's on it, which for some reason makes me a little nervous b/c, you know, it's about me and it's on the internet forever for the whole world to read. But, you know what, I'm cool with it 'cuz I'm just cool like that :) *Ting.

I almost wet myself reading the letter from Uncle Bob. About the cafeteria food....yeah...

Thanksgiving was awesome. My district is way tight, so it was like I was spending the holidays with family. It was really nice.

I'm so out of time.

I love you all!

Love,

Morgan (Alliteration) Heeder


p.s. I found this card in the book store, and I really liked it. It had a flock of sheep, and one of the sheep is wearing a bright red bow-tie. It says, " The thing I miss most about being with you...is no one here thinks I'm funny." I seriously thought about sending it to you, but decided it would be a lie b/c people here do think I'm funny...because I am. and besides, bow-ties are cool. :)

* Don't forget to alliterate when you write to Morgan. It's funny.