24 October, 2011 13:21

everyone!!!! hiiiii so this is my last preperation day!!! then off to Fresno, cali!! oh my i am so excited. im going to share somethings in the mtc. if you wanna know the really good stuff you have to email me or write me........ anyway so somethings i like at the MTC: i really like the cereal wall, the other food isnt that great actually it looks good for about 2 weeks, you think to yourself i could stay in the mtc forever!!!! then you realize oh wait we aren't in the real world......the Choir is the best its one of my favorite things to do. the teacher is really funny. The devotionals are amazing the second week we had Elder Holland, then the next week Elder Ballard came then the week after was Elder Nelson oh it was great then it was conference. Conference i thought in the mtc, was going to be hard because there wouldnt be couches, my moms cassarole, blankets, but it turned out to be the best session ever. I really loved all of the talks even Sis. Elane Dalton about fathers, so sweet. Tall lab is really fun. its a computer program where we talk into a microphone and repeat spanish words. most of the elders in the lab, where me and Hna Wiglama are, get really annoyed with us because we repeat words like 20 times. During breakfast, there are some WEIRD i mean super sweet elders. They act there age most of the time. Thankgoodness the sisters are here to help them...anyway some elders like to make animals with their fruit and today an elder made a dolphin from a banana and then he started making the noises! very interesting.......

oct 22,2011

im in fresno i have no time to update but write me and ill write back

1814 n echo ave. fresno ca 93704 love you all. oh shout out to sara v Martinez.....a girl in my ward in madera served and your dad was her mission president. she said he was awesome!!!!! her name was sister mendez!

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24 October, 2011 12:30

Pictures!!!!

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I miss Rachel.

Xoxo elyse

its my 3rd week!!!!!

hellllllllo everyone! I am in the famous mtc laundry room and it is super super hot! today is my p-day and the temple was closed!!!!! so we had a lot of free time. well the first 4 days were veryyyy verrrry long. lots of lines and we went straight into teaching in spanish by the 3 day we were teaching our first "investigator" alfonzo... I can now roll my r's. yup impressive i know. the food i heard was so bad everyone lost a lot of wait. Wrong!!!! ITS so good! there are even vending machines!!!! I am in the laundry room and elders are talking about the narnia boxes!?!?! and the pillow room. so the sisters are on the search for our pillow box in our residence!!! I love my district so much! and my zone is really great! i really dont know what else to talk about.....oh Elder Holland came to the tuesday devotional and the week before was elder Zivic. I Really do love it here, but i cant wait to be in california with all the fresh fruit!!!! I LOVE AND MISS EVERYONE!!!!
also it was fast sunday and i bore my testimony in spanish!!!!!

if you want to write me you can dear elder or send me a physical letter. at
sister Rachel Jackson
mtc mailbox #252
ca-fre 1019
2005 n 900 e
provo ut 84604

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...The MTC is....

Sooooo Im in provo packing and getting ready to head to the MTC tomorrow. Really weird feelings is all I can say on how I feel. I am so grateful to be going but I really have to no idea what to expect. The best advice i've gotten is to forget myself and serve. Sounds simple to me!
my mom and dads flight were at 6:30 am and mine was at 7:30. So glad I had an extra day in provo instead of going straight to the MTC. We got to Provo and got my Motor vehicle report. my mom was super proud that I didn't have any arrests on my record! Then of course I took them to Jdawgs and they loved it! We shopped and shopped and got all the last few things I needed. I was so happy that I got to see Jessica Maloney today. We met up and had my last meal paid by my dad at Pf changs. It never tasted that good as it did tonight!!!!

I am so excited to tell everyone about the gospel and share with everyone my experiences. Please write me if you have time to say hello. You CAN send me candy or cookies. Im totally okay with that! Also, Thank you so much for everyone that came to my farewell! So much fun to see everyone, one last time.

Olive Juice.(a little inside joke)
-Hermana Jackson

...Rachels actually doing it

Its true. Lots of non believers out there but I AM going on a mission. To Fresno California: spanish speaking. My email address is rachelj@myldsmail.net and if you want to subscribe to my blog click the link on the side. My plan is to email my letters and pictures to my family to them and to my blog email. so I can't update it, some one else will!

I havent really started packing up until last friday.

I was avoiding it because I ABSOLUTELY hate packing. so I just laid out my clothes and I think that's good enough for now. Play time because my summer semester ended yesterday and I finally get a summer until Monday night, when I get set apart.......I am nervous but excited. I honestly don't know what to expect because when I think of the MTC I think of a giant long EFY session and I loved EFY so I mean I think I'll be fine, right? and If I think of only others and not of how much ill miss shopping at Sephora and getting goodies from them or Nordstrom's half-yearly. I think ill be fine...... I really do love serving I mean that is why I am going, so I probably should? I'm so excited to help people in every way possible. I'm to teach people what I know about the church. If they see how happy and (stylish) I am, I mean they have to join right? Duh. but I have to work on another strategy to convert though. No flirting to converting like in high school!

Another thing I have a concern about is the bikes. My mission president which is no longer the mission president said that the bike this is for real, he wasnt joking, like I thought he was. He sounds serious like I would be doing a lot of biking............. my New mission President is this guy (You might know Him from the evil dad from "desperate housewives or the coach in "Forever strong:

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Im kidding. Its actually the guy he is playing in the movie "Forever strong" President Larry Gelwix, the real Highland Rugby Coach:



I heard he is really really great. I can't wait!!! Anyway. I'm not sure how the riding bikes thing will work out. In a skirt, any advice???? All I know is that my legs will be great by the end of the 18 months.

twins are double fun but double the trouble

sorry late late post super short too, I just loved this so much this is kingston. Isnt he so stinkin cute.

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... I might die

So first to update. I went on my cruise to the Bahamas. It was a success. (side-note don't go with 2 two-year olds) Disney cruises aren't the biggest but they are the nicest and bestest.... Then it was right to work with finishing my mission papers. (oh by the way I'm going on a mission) hopefully to Italy. I hear if you pray really hard that's where you'll go... So I went to the doctors 3 weeks ago and took a urine sample for my physical. came back negative. Had to do it again. Still negative. Did it again. oh you guessed it still negative. I drank so much water during that time. I consider myself pretty healthy. so Today I went in hoping that my pee would be a good pee. WRONG. So my doctor pulls me into his office and said that we might need to do an ultrasound of the kidneys to make sure everything is okay! That was about the worst thing to say to a hypochondriac like me! My kidneys could be failing as we speak and I could have 3 more days to live... He realizes how I've been waiting for the urine sample to sign off my papers for my mission. So he signs them and I sent them to the stake president!!! EASY. (other than dying) SO FOR EVERYONE WONDERING I WILL HOPEFULLY GET MY CALL APRIL 28th! I'm ready to leave Utah. I miss my family a lot and want to get going on this whole mission thing.

...James Franco is coming to Provo.

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Today has been a James Franco kinda day. Im sure if I was to define that it would mean; hot,fun,sexy, lazy,great kinda day. Instead of Celebrating Presidents day, I celebrated him, because we all know his birthday isn't enough.  I have a few websites I want to share. They are really great. and here they are:

Record Tripping

The Infinite Oz

Neon Bible

This interactive video for a song by Arcade Fire is weird and hypnotizing at the same time.

Paul Neave


Echogenesis

Google Gravity

Sound of Hamburg

Zach Galifianakis- Cant tell me nothing(kanye cover)

Ps if you want some more pictures to stare at instead of studying......JESSICA M. Click here

....March is coming

Which means it will be March 16th 2011. It CANNOT get here soon enough. I am very lucky enough to go on a Disney cruise with my lovely family! I have never been on one before but I heard Its #heckadope.- Hash tags have some how made it outside of twitter into my daily life, and that hashtag is one I use on my twitter alter-ego.  Who knows.

I have a list of things I Think are a must for a cruise:

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...Mormon mommy blogs are addicting. I heard right!

So over Christmas break I saw this article about mormon mom blogs (here) and the hip moms and the queens of blogging. The pro's. All it made me think about was how much I want a house, and a baby and a husband and hip crafty DIY' projects. Pretty much I want to write a blog about how great my life is and my kids and my cool hip life. I envy these super moms because they manage to make people love them and their life but they also show the things they are thankful for. They show off without being show-offy, and I am jealous of that in itself.

Natalie Holbrook

The langs

NIE NIE Dialoges

 

...Rachel sleeps a lot

I got sick last week and slept a ton because that was the doctors orders. Now



that I am healthy, My sleeping schedule is all screwed up. Does my doctor still need me to sleep it off, for how long? I've been getting to sleep really well mom. I still take a non-prescribed sleeping pill but, Its getting easier to fall asleep to Grey's Anatomy. AND Grey's Is not becoming boring. That would be such a HORRIBLE lie. It's actually getting juicier ( Meredith and McDreamy are for real practicing baby making not just for fun) , But this post is not about T.V, It's about sleeping. I love it.

...That its fun to bake on Saturdays

originally uploaded by rachel.michele11.

Once upon a time I promised my friend a giant rainbow cupcake. so 2 months later we made it!. it was fun making the colors and seeing how it turned. It ended up taking about 3 hours or something so it was around 2 am. Rainbow giant cupcake was no longer fun. By the end of the night, frosting was the last thing we wanted to do but it turned out though!!

To see the rest of the pictures click HERE

...Girls can be mean idiots

CambriAnn Is my person, she gets me. This "whore" doesn't.

....Everything is funnier when you're sick

...Spurs are da best

...He's a winner

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...Buck might win at Sundance

So this week I've been going to The Sundance film Festival in Park City, Utah. I'm from Austin, Texas and they have a similar festival called South by south west (SxSW). That has been something i've done since I was 16 years old. Any way, of course I went celebrity watching. I am always shocked how star-struck I get when I see a Famous person because I hate gossip mags. Interesting. So here are the list of people I saw.

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  Paul Giamatti

  
  


• James Franco- Spiderman


• Adrian Grenier- Entourage 


• Zoe Saldana- Avatar


• Neal McDonough-Forever strong and Desperate Housewives


• Oprah - Most powerful woman in the whole wide world


• Judy Reyes-  Scrubs


• Ben Nemtin- The Buried LIfe on MTV


• Jonnie Penn- The Buried Life on MTV

Yesterday I went to the Temple theater with a friend to see a Documentary called Buck.

Its basically about this really down to earth cowboy named Buck Brannaman who essentially is this horse whisperer. (fun fact he helped Robert Redford with the movie The Horse Whisperer) It was his life story from growing up, his inspiration, his family and his accomplishments. It was surprisingly very entertaining. There were a couple parts where I almost cried. He talked about how Horses are a mirror image to your soul (the owner of the horse). It was great, 4 stars.

The second time I was in PC. I was resting my feet in a coffee shop and these three out of towners, started talking to me. They ended up being Dream Interpretors. They have a website and everything. It was really interesting what they were saying about dream and the different kind of dreams there are. It just made me realize how much I love events like this because you meet so many different people form all over the world to come see music and film. Its great. 

...She ☁ Him is great

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She & Him - Don't Look Back from Merge Records on Vimeo.

...These are good for you

So I know I was sworn not to talk about Gossip Girl on here but I have to. So in the one episode Blair is trying to get over chuck and so she tries to fight her addiction with another. Macaroons. I am suddenly addicted to this false addiction of mine. I want them so bad. I've had them before and I forgot how much I loved them! So new thing for the new year: to fix anything, give me Macaroons. If I'm mad at you or you offend me or you just want to be nice, make or buy me Macaroons.