Un Decision Grande....A Big Decision! :)

I am posting this to make it official. But most of you know that I have made the decision to come back to Costa Rica in January for another trimester! It was an extremely big decision and I went back and it took lots of prayer and lots of talking with my parents. I went back and forth on it for about a month but in the end decided it was something I should do. I have learned soooo much already but I would like to get a little better handle on the language. My class is mving extremely fast. We should only be finishing present tense spanish and next trimester moving on to past tense. But we have already finished both present and past!!! How amazing is that! So I am very excited to come back and learn even more! I will still be coming home for christmas (which I am anticipating the arrival of December 18th very much!!!) and then I will be returning to Costa Rica January 6th and staying until April 18th!! So this trimester will only be about 3 1/2 months instead of the four months. I can't wait to come home and I appreciate all the prayers and support and of course comments from everyone!! I love you All!!!

All Good Things Must Come To An End

look @ Carson...picking his nose!!! thats a daily thing!






















i think me and raych wore him out! :)



























look how handsome he looks in his suit!!




















me and bray bein crazy!!




















(left to right) me, milton, manuel, kenneth, kendra, raych
carlos, and roy
























P. Blake & P. Jones with some of the guys






















mallory lookin cute n crazy





















LOOK @ THOSE LIPS!! GRANDE!! :)




























Lando & Mallory on crazy day @ school!

























us playing UNO!




Well yesterday Pastor Jones and Marie headed back for Colorado. We have had an awesome time with them. Saturday we went to Parque de Diversiones. It is an amusement park here in costa rica...kinda like a miniature six flags. we got there at about 12:00(cuz it took us like an hour and a half to find it...poor mario....we stayed there until about 4 or 5 cuz it started to rain...which is not an uncommon thing here. after that we went to a restauraunt in pavas...right down the street from the church. it was really fun. there was a jungle gym and me and raych became kids again and played tag with the kids!! it was VERY tiring!! they have sooo much energy it amazes me!! raych is like a big kid...she's funny!!! well my spanish is going good...we have started past tense and they have a lot of diferent kinds of past tenses. like if we want to say something in past tense we just add "ed". i wish it was like that in espanol! :) but i'm lovin it! we had a three day weekend this last week and when we saw gloria at church on sunday we could barely talk to her cuz we hadn't used our spanish in like three days!!! that night they came over and we ate none other than gallo pinto(rice and beans) :) then we taught caleb and gloria how to play UNO!!! u would think they would know how to play since it's a spanish word...lol Gloria didn't get it so she quit but caleb loved it so i think it's gonna be a favorite game when they come over!!! well i have an encouraging story...today i talked to a lady from the school on the phone in ONLY spanish!!! i was very happy!!! i actually did pretty good!!! well i will be posting another blog soon here so keep checking up! i love you all and appreciate all the prayers...someday here soon (or is it soon here...you start loosing your english when you learn spanish!! lol) well anyways some day here soon i will be doing a post in only spanish!!! HOPEFULLY!!! :) it will only be beginner's spanish though!

Laughter Brings Joy to Life!!! At least laughing at Jess Does!!! LOL

Ok so last saturday i was in the middle of a great sleep when i hear someone on an intercom at 6:00 IN THE MORNING. so i thought it was someone trying to sell something like they usually do here. Then the door opens and dee looks at me and it kinda freaked me out cuz she just stared at me with her wondering eyes! so she asked me, "do you hear that?" and i told her no...then we walked out and opened the door. When we opened the front door there were about 75 people walking down our street! they were all led by a van with two big speakers on top. then behind the van was a "catholic priest". at first i didn't know if he was a preist or a member of the KKK. but then i looked behind him and saw a big statue of mother mary being carried by some of the people. Then dee noticed they were all wearing rosaries. so we then concluded that they were catholics. but the wierd thing was that they were all extremely depressed looking people and they had this scary music BLARING from the speakers at 6:00 IN THE MORNING!!! then the musci suddenly stopped and the priest would mumble something...it was seriously a mumble...i think he was chanting something because it was neither spanish or english! so then after he qould do his chant the people would do the chant back. And they kept doing that down the enitre street...who knows where they were going or where they went but personally i'd rather it be kept a mystery. soooo the whole point of that story i guess was to complain about how i got woken up at 6:00 IN THE MORNING ON A SATURDAY!!!! can u believe it? well neways that's enough of that story...

Harry Hutchinson preached on Sunday morning and sunday night. They were both GREAT services and many people got saved and healed! But i have a funny story about sunday mornings service, so here it goes....DeAnza bought all of us little fans to bring to church while she was in the states. So we bring our fans with us on sunday mornings because it is very hot in the church. The kids already stare at us because we're gringos (americans) so to make matters worse now we are fanning ourselves during church AND we're gringos! So raychel pulls out her fan and is enjoying the breeze and i'm listening to Harry pray for people down at the altar when i hear this sound like a motor slowly dying. So i look over at Raych and she has her fan stuck in her hair....so me and dee are crackin up at her and she is laughing and trying to get her hair untwisted from the fan all at the same time. So DeAnza tells me to stand up and ignore it because we are causing a huge scene....people were looking at us and laughing...not helping with this critical situation i might add....lol...so raychel finally gets her hair untangled from the fan and there was a big knot in her hair so she ripped it out. But no worries she is not bald! :)

Ok everyone seems to like my funny embarrassing moments so i thought i'd give you another one...it's a recent one too! It happened today at school! So school just got out and it was raining very very hard...now first i've got to explain the rain here...it is the most amazing rain i've ever seen! It comes down soooo hard that you can't hear what the person in front of you is trying to say. So imagine walking in that!!! So after school i had to go get carson from the nursery. There are about 2 staircases that you have to walk down to get to the lower level. So i walked(in the POURING rain) down the first one and i made it ok. So then i attempt the second one and i got down. so i started to walk on the sidewalk and i lost my flip flop. so i had to turn around and get my flip flop. so i put my flip flop back on and started to walk but it wasn't all the way on my foot. so i trip over my flip flop and my back pack was so heavy that it lunged me forward and i tripped at least 4 times before i finally got my balance again!!! I almost did a faceplant into the concrete!!! So i regain my composure and by this time everyone around me is laughing soo hard so i just stood there and looked up to the sky and i said "don't tease me" in spanish!!! it was very embarrassing but i didn't turn red....i think i'm getting so used to being embarrassed that i don't turn red anymore!! :) To top it off i broke my flip flop and had to walk down the sidewalk in 2 inch puddles of rain!!! So when i finally got to the nursery and fixed my flip flop and got carson and left!!! but it was very very funny!!! then i found out when i got home that mallory was watching me fall fom the gym the whole time and her and her class were laughing at me!!! LOL

Well i think this has been a pretty good update and now i need to go and get some rest for tomorrow's day of school!! FRIDAY!!! TGIF!!! Thank You all for your prayers!!! Keep our family in prayer for health!! We have been passing sickness around and i missed two days of school this week so pray that we all get better! Love You All and Miss You Muchos!!!

Dios es Bueno! ~God is Good
Jess Mo

I also included more pics of me for all of you who say i don't put enough pics of me on my blog and for those who want to see all the "weight" i've gained!! :)