My Yesterday

The day began by cleaning our church building. Mandy and I organized all the classrooms and sang Mary Poppins over the sound of the vacuum cleaner. We had doughnuts and milk afterwards, but soon after that we were on our way over to second breakfast.

The stake was putting on a Relief Society humanitarian aid service project (you know, tying quilts, putting together packs) and they were serving us a "light brunch" in which I harfed a few bagels and some yogurt. They didn't plan for so many women to show up, so they had to make a buy-more-food run. While a few of us waited, we listened as the stake relief society presidency said a few words. My dear Sister West, who has helped me out considerably when it comes to my calling, got up and spoke and then asked the sister who had e-mailed her to say a few words...I paused...was she talking about me? Yes. She was. I had e-mailed her to tell her all about the great success we had had at our RS Valentine's Party, and now she was putting me on the spot.

Soooooooo....I stood up and explained how we had a non-member come to our activity. We made an individual visit to Paulina - who has just moved here from Chile and is nervous about her english. And we took leftover cake around to some of the apartments who didn't make it to the activity. After I sat down, people came in with more food. I hopped up and grabbed some cream cheese for my bagel. I took some yummy almond flavored cream cheese and then this pretty orange colored one. As I sat down, Sister West was announcing to everyone that there was more food to be eaten and that Bro. So-and-So had even bought some salmon flavored cream cheese...I looked down at the pretty orange cream cheese on my plate and then I looked at Mallory. I was suddenly very scared.

Everyone? I, Jessica, have tried salmon flavored cream cheese...and it tastes like summer sausage.

There were so many people at the activity that it was hard for any of our table to really participate, but the sister missionaries came over and talked with us. They were asking me about the non-member friend who had come to our RS Valentine's Party. It was so neat! We were talking with this girl's roommate and just having a great time being excited about sharing the gospel with this already seemingly receptive girl. I hope that the missionaries will have a lot of success with reaching her. This non-member is amazingly sweet.

So although we never got around to helping with the humanitarian project, we were able to help the missionaries find a contact!

Later that afternoon Michelle and I made it to the Logan Temple to do baptisms for the dead. It had been a couple of months since I had a chance to go to the temple, and even longer since I'd been to the Logan Temple. They had gotten new lockers, new benches, and a new confirmation room! And the workers were in a particular good mood when we were there. It was so nice. :)

When I came home I started to work on my 3-D Design project and watch "Kiss Me Kate." Then Clyde, the Elder's Quorum President, was going throughout the building and inviting everyone to come to his roommate's lacrosse game.

I'm not an official Aggie because I have yet to attend a USU basketball game...let alone any sporting event for that matter...heh heh...UNTIL NOW!

Me and Michelle went to Derek's lacrosse game with 10 people from the ward and it was intense! I love lacrosse games - a couple of my friends played in high school, so this is one of the few sports that I actually understand a little about. :) And I'm pretty sure that the fact that I've been watching the Olympics faithfully for the last two weeks (minus 3 nights) has increased my love for sporting events. It was awesome! USU was playing against Montana State...and we won 19 to 5. My butt had completely lost feeling but it was totally worth the awesomeness of watching men skewer each other with poles and chucking a ball at crazy speeds (our man and former home teacher, Derek, is the fastest thrower on the team).

 

Michelle and I

Then I came home to find the neighbors were in our apartment watching a movie and the guys next door were over playing our favorite card game, Pounce. Holy Crap. Me, Mallory, and Phil have been playing Pounce in obsessive amounts this week. It's gotta be unhealthy, but it's addicting...and wonderful. :) But you really can play it too much....so we played Hearts, which Mallory and I had learned to play the night before. It's stressful, especially when Ryan tries to Shoot the Moon. I don't know that I've had such a sick feeling in my stomach since the AP American test my Junior year...and that was wretched.

While Michelle and I were at the temple, Mallory had gone into Ryan's room and stole his stapler and put it in Jell-O. While we were at the lacrosse game, Mallory had attempted to take it out of the mold and it epically failed. It turned into a mush of Jell-O crumblies. ;) But we decided that she should place it back in his room anyway...only one problem....Ryan came home earlier than he had said he would. How were we to get it into his room without him knowing it was Mal? ;)

Phil helped out and led Ryan away...Mal snuck in and dropped the Jell-Oed stapler in his room. A few minutes later, Ryan and Phil came back. Ryan walked in with the stapler in his hand and demanded to know who was responsible for the gelatin disarray. We weren't sure if he knew it was us or not, so we all pretended like we had no idea what was going on. Yet, for some reason, he decided to clean his stapler off in our sink, and in the process he observed the mold covered in green globs that Mal used to form the Jell-O. My, my. That Ryan is a quick one.

So the prank was up. Now the issue at hand was what to do with the mess of green Jell-O. :)

Jell-O!

Mallory, Phil, and Ryan

We watched Phil eat it up. He was like a convulsive vacuum cleaner. He nearly died on three occassions due to the fact that Jell-O goes easily up the nose. We were in hysterics! Mallory was so hyper and Kaitlin, Mal's friend (and our friend too), had an origami puppet named Chomp. It was rad! Then we googled various topics...such as: What is gelatin made of? (Much to Mallory's chagrin), hot dogs, how to draw cartoon eyes, Strongbad movies, Kronk...and the list continued.

Kaitlin and Chomp

 The night was fun-filled. I felt socially productive, but when it came to anything else, I accomplished nothing. Sometimes you need a Saturday like that...and sometimes I need to come up with a lame excuse like that to make me feel better.