Is it Ho Ho or Ha Ha??

Dear Family and Friends,
We had a great visit with Jon on Christmas Day, in spite of the fact that I accidently hung up on him as I was taking it off of loudspeaker. He told me I'm probably the only mom who hung up on her missionary! They were having a white Christmas, but nothing like the Arctic Blast 2008 which we had last Christmas here at home.
I was curious to know how many ties he has....for those of you who don't know.... Jon LOVES ties:) I sent him a tie hanger and he said his ties filled it up plus 2. That means he has 26 ties. I asked him if he burned a tie at his 6 month mark and he said no...but some Elders do. (he just didn't want to part with any)
He's gained about 15 pounds.....but he did fit into the pants we sent him for Christmas.

We woke up on Monday morning and realized right away that we had all forgotten to write him his weekly emails....We ran down to the computer and quickly pulled it up (it took FOREVER for the computer to boot up)...only to see that he had sent only a sad face for his weekly letter. Talk about being mortified!! I couldn't believe we had done that to our one and only missionary. I quickly sent off a reply on the chance he was still there....only to have another sad face pop up. We wrote him anyway...the fastest letters we have ever written on chance that he would check it one last time. This was his reply. You can imagine the relief we felt at knowing he KNEW we loved him and hadn't completely forgotten him!

Subject: haha
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:02:52 -0600

Its been another great week in chesterfield!
I was just getting off but decided to check one last time :)
On Christmas we went to Bishop Blair's in the Chesterfield ward and had breakfast and played games. Then we went to the Blacks. It was a lot of fun. Our appointment with MacKenzie went really well. We pushed back her baptism till the 16th. We feel much better about this and its their date, not ours. Its great.
Well, got to get headed out.
Love ya lots,
Elder Egan