We are....

the Missionaries.

Have I ever told you that I love the sister missionaries? Well, it is true...I do. Especially when they do funny stuff that makes me laugh! Sister Madsen has this awesome talent of doing different accents, and well French is one of them, and she does it really well. Well I must tell you why is b/c she took 3 years of French in high school which I didn't know till last week, but you learn more everyday! Well, here is a video of her saying my favorite thing in the whole world. "We are the Missionaries!"

Enjoy!

Paintin!

I love to paint, I would have to say it one of my top 5 favorite things. I paint walls, faces, canvases, and well just about anything I feel needs a little something something. My good friends the Cheney's moved to Great Bend! Which I am pretty sure makes me the happiest person ever...so they needed some TLC for their new house, so Dedra invited myself and the missionaries over to help paint, and of course we were all on top of that in a heart beat, so on my day off we did a little painting! We painted the walls and well my hair and all sorts of other things! Here is the proof of the carnage!

What are you doing Dedra? Well, she is a beauty school dropout for sure!

Eww don't lick the paint...SICK



The true feelings right there!

Well, there you have it, video and photos of the sweet painting action, what sucks is I failed to take pictures of the havoc that was reeked on our clothing. My shirt got a nice coat of brown so I could blend in to the wall, Brother Cheney's butt crack got a nice coat of brown also. Then after Dedra put the first stroke of blue in my hair I dipped my hand in brown paint and smacked her in the behind and left my mark forever. It was a great day in the long run, and I left very tired/sore, plus I woke up the next morning barely able to walk, but all is good!

The Zoo!

Well, this happened forever ago, but I am lamesauce and haven't posted it yet and well, since I am off tomorrow I am staying up late to do some much needed updating to the ole' blogity blog!

So, the jist of this is the neato pictures/videos, but I must say I made the girls do these things (a.k.a feed the bear a leaf!) I took the girls to the Zoo here in Great Bend for one of their P-days, and these are the results, I know I had a lot of good laughs and so did they! I hope you all enjoy!

"Don't feed the bears" Whoops!


Do not feed!


American Gothic redo?

Their true feelings for each other! Kididng they truely do love each other...

I've Learned

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel...... Maya Angelou

Turtle Turtle!

I have a pet turtle, many know that Hna Madsen didn't. So one night over at Alex's house we were entertaining Bryce (6 yrs old) and she did a turtle imitations, and I about died due to it looking almost identical to my turtle Escape`.

Disclaimer: She might not realize this is on the web, so don't necessarily point it out to her that you saw it!

Bike Surfin'

This is a "brain child" of Sister Madsen/Higbee while they were on exchanges together up in Hays. Ya see, when you are riding super fast on your bike, you go with "no hands" and then when you get that going well, then you slowly stand up and start "riding" the "waves". Enjoy b/c you know I do!

Surfin' and Basketball!

The first week Hna Madsen was here we wen't playing basketball at the church for a P-day activity! And this is what was produced, her being a goofball as I would soon figure out was her "normal" way of life! In which I love to death....makes me look less goofy!

Sister Madsen showing me her sweet skills....


Surfin' lessons from the Californian...

I said act "dead" so Hna Madsen cracks a smile like that..NICE

Hay!

Okay so what does a gay horse eat?

HAAYYYYYYY!!!!

Sorry lame joke, and it is much better in person, ask me sometime!

So speaking of hay, here is the video/pictures of Hna Madsen/Sister Gundersen enjoy Kansas's plentiful fields of nothing but hay bales....they had been jones'n to get on one and take a picture. It was a p-day and we had just gone to the Zoo and thought we would go get the pictures they desired...here they are...quite funny how this all took place, too bad no one was there to witness it!

Sister Gundersen munching on some HAY!

Hna Madsen sitting atop a hay bale!
Sister Gundersen a top the hay bale!

Sunflowers!

Sister Madsen has been bugging me since day one of her arrival in Great Bend to find a sunflower field. Well, I had to inform her that they were not in season and that she just had to hold her horses, so she was impatiently waiting to find a field. Well last week we went to Hays and drove past a sunflower field so on our way home I stopped and we had a little photo shoot in the field. It was awesome! I truely love the girls, they are amazing and make me laugh. I hope you all enjoy the pictures!

P-day fun in Salina

P-day for you non LDS members out there equals "Preparation day" which means that the missionaries get one day to clean their apartment from top to bottom, wash their car, do their grocery shopping, check e-mail/write letters to family/friends. They have from 10 am to 6 pm to do those things. Well this P-day we had a "district" get together, which in definition means that the Salina District of missionaries which includes the Sisters in Hays and Great Bend and then the Elders in Salina. The Elders had a family invite all of us over and put together some fun activities for us to do together. We had a Scripture scavenger hunt, a find the tootsie roll in powder sugar thing, and then feed each other pudding while blind folded, and then some water balloons and soccer! It was AMAZING, it was a long drive but I would do anything for the Missionaries so I drove the Hays/Great Bend sisters there for a 3.5 to 4 hour visit..so more time on the road but so goes life! Here is a slideshow of pictures and then a few videos! Enjoy!

Find the tootsie roll in a pan full of powdered sugar!

Sister Madsen and I feeding each other pudding...so gross but yet funny as can be!

Sister Ayala and Sister Higbee taking their turn....they didn't like it at all..

Elder Mendoza and Elder Reita were so delicate with each other

Called to Serve Him!

This video was recorded at Zone Conference in Wichita. I have been a slacker and I haven't posted this video yet, or have I blogged my feelings of the conference. So here goes my feeble attempt to put my feelings into words.

Awesome! There I did it! Okay so really, I love being with the missionaries, that is not a secret. Everyone I know, has at least a slight idea of my love for missionary work and being with the Sisters. So, throw in a few Elders and a 8 hour conference centered around missionary work then you have one very happy Jessica! The whole thing was just amazing, I owe a lot of my passion for missionary work to Zone Conference, they really amp a person up for the work, in fact it was the Zone Conference I attended in April that jump started me on a mission path again. I love them I really do, as for the Missouri Independence Mission, we have a new mission President, President Van Komen. I have been worried that he wouldn't meet the standards that President Hacking set forth, and well I met him and his wife at ZC. I must tell you that I KNOW with no doubts that he was called by Heavenly Father to lead and guide this mission for the next 3 years. I look forward to the work he does here with the Elders/Sisters under his belt. A lot of great teachings took place, but I must say my favorite was President Van Komens talk in the P.M. session that really touched me. He was talking about our missions and how many of us wonder how our families/friends/ancestors feel about us serving. He and his wife were discussing this one day and realized and had a strong feeling that he knew his ancestors knew he was called to serve as the mission president for the MIM and that they were proud of him. And what gave me the chills was this "I know Elders/Sisters that our ancestors are aware of us on a mission, and not only are they aware of us and the missions we are serving, they are with us, they are lining the streets of the areas we work." That right there was engouh to give my soul peace, knowing that my Grandparents on back that are not members (to my knowledge) will be proud of me serving, and will be right there with me on the streets I will walk, cheering me on. They will be following me with a chariot of fire, helping us to teach. The Holy Spirit was so strong, it could bring tears to your eyes. It was AMAZING.

I have been blessed to have the oppurutnity to expirence Zone Conference as a Ward Missionary in preperation for my own full-time mission. I look forward to serving a full-time mission when the time is right and to be able to feel the Spirit that strong for 18 months of my life.

So here is a little video I recorded at lunch time, the Elders/Sisters sing to the ladies whom prepare all of us lunch. It truely is something to see/hear. I love it very much and listen to it almost daily if I have the time! I hope you all enjoy and can understand how important Missionary Work truely is in this day and age.

Animal Noises...

So this is a little video of Sister Madsen and Sister Higbee playing this game that Sister Madsen thinks is awesome. What it entails is a person says a kind of animal and the other person has to make the first noise that pops into their head. Hermana Madsen has tried to get me to play but I laugh to hard to get any noises out. So here you go, laugh and let loose with the girls!

Sometimes I wonder....

Why good people die and the bad people taking our tax dollars get to live on knowing they will never get out of prison.

The reason I am questioning this is because one of my teachers from High School passes away Monday from double pneumonia. It was sudden and there was really no warning, at the age of 45 with 2 children to finish raising. Just hard for me to wrap my brain around. I know about the plan of salvation and where she will be now but I still wonder why. Why? Anyone have any idea? Mrs. Poland was an amazing teacher, she touched my life for sure, I mean she hasn't taught at GBHS since my junior year which was 6 years ago and she still remembered me when she saw me out and about the town. Now she was the principal of Claflin High school and leaves at last 300 kids with out their leader which they have depeneded on for 6 years. Just a sad story, tomorrow I will go to her funeral since it happens to be my day off, and well I just hope she is alright up there in the Spirit World being taught by the missionaries.

But here is to you Mrs. Poland and to your awesome ways. Thanks for being a dedicated teacher to really touched my life in the short time you were my teacher. I love you and will miss seing your smiling face.

Bowling!

Well, this happened last week but well I just now have time to get these pictures/videos posted. I took the Missionaries from Hays/Great Bend bowling before we left for Zone Conference in Wichita. It was a stinking blast. I love bowling and I love the Sisters so of course we had a few laughs!


Above: Sister Ayala (Guatemala) and Sister Madsen (California) singing Sponge Bob Square Pants theme song in Spanish. Sister Ayala loves that back home!


Sister Higbee (Nevada) whom serves in Hays right now doing a little Moon Walk for us!


Sister Madsen (California) went bowling with me a couple months ago on a P-day and well she was doing awesome and I hadn't hit my mark yet, so well after a strike I shot her this look, and I guess she grabbed my camera and made this video. I used to have a really bad temper but I am so much better now! Funny stuff indeed!

Road Trip to Wichita

So, I had the great oppurtunity to drive the Sister missionaries from Hays/Great Bend to Wichita for Zone Conference. I happened to be off so it worked out PERFECT! I think it goes down as the greatest car ride in my history of car rides. We did a lot of singing of hymns, but we put a few twist on it. Check out the videos, one is of Sister Higbee whom is from Nevada then we have one of Sister Madsen from California.

P.S. I about died laughing while driving due to having a sweet asthma laugh and well I couldn't breathe and then I couldn't see due to me crying from laughing so hard.