FAREWELL DAY!! Just like Billy Joel says "I'm Movin Out!"

Super Stoked to be the second Sister Hansen out in the field for 2 weeks!

A dear friend of mine, leaving just a week after me (July 19th)
heading out to Cincinnati Ohio!

My tumble buddy!
Ivy just returned from the Italy Milan Mission
and wishes she was back out there

Don't know what I am going to do without these girls!
Nicole: Weber State Sara: Macon, Georgia Maddie: Weber State
GOOD LUCK GIRLS!

Good News: My best friend fits in my luggage
Bad News: Cant take her with me because she has a bigger step in her life to make, eternity with her man on August 17th!

Typical best friends. LOVE THIS GIRL

My roommate Megan! Still a tall red head!
Love her to death!

Family, family, family!

Cousins! I love this family so much!

Grandma Hansen

Grandma and Grandpa Fisher

Peace out K-town

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it out! I appreciate all of you! Everything came together beautifully and I am so happy about the turnout. Finished with the talk and now to the real stuff, I am so excited to get to the MTC on WEDNESDAY!! Freaking out but a good freaking out. And you know what it means if I am headed to the MTC? That means just a short time until my family gets to welcome home my sister from Mongolia! Then I get to see her the 29th. Big things are happening. Thank you again for the love and support!

Opening the Call

Receiving this picture over text while I was working made it a little hard to focus... for the rest of the day I kept forgetting to breathe and all I could think about is ripping into the envelope when I got home.

After work, I called up a good friend (Megumi) to come babysit me when I picked up the call. The ride from her house to my mailbox was very... noisy, you could say. I was screaming until I opened the mailbox then was immediately freaking out even more. We walked inside and Megumi decided to take my call home with her until I was going to open it (what a good friend... I think). After what happened with my sister, no one trusted me.

Click HERE to watch

My pre-opening guesses were Louisiana and Greece (For no particular reason). But, when I first saw CALIFORNIA, I thought "NO WAY" I was pumped right off the bat. If you watch the video my eyes just widen when I read it. Ultimately, I kind of wanted but was nervous to learn a language. After seeing some of the stuff my sister encountered in Mongolia, especially food and weather, I had to put my whole heart and trust in the Lord and know that where ever he sent me would be the perfect place. Researching the mission I really do believe that he chose the PERFECT place for me.

By the way, the audible OOOHH when I announced my MTC date was due to missing my sister by 16 days...

Lucky for me I was not the only one going through this process. In fact Five people from my ward turned in our mission papers THE SAME DAY. These pretty ladies are great friends of mine and I am excited for what the next couple of years bring.

Alli (Brazil), Mary (Canada), Me (Modesto)

Decision Time

The summer before I went to school I was often attending a lot of my friends mission call openings and farewells. I had little thoughts about going on a mission but it never really occurred to me that I was going to go until August 4th of 2016. I was over at one of my friends houses (Megumi Anderson) and we were just sitting in the kitchen talking about everyone leaving and missions in general, when I told her that I was considering going. As I verbalized that it REALLY occurred to me that I did need to go. I then pulled out a scripture that a friend of mine showed me while we were in the Salt Lake Temple (Tate Shepard - Jamaica). D&C 122:7 This scripture is one my friends like to call a "mic drop scripture"

I then began passionately talking about how I felt about this scripture. After I finished talking about this scripture, Megumi simply responded, "Allison. You need to go on a mission," and I immediately said back "I do." So on this emotional roller coaster about whether to go or not, I KNEW I needed to go on August 4th of 2016.

I came from a special group of young women in the Kerrybrook ward. This picture is of the girls I grew up with in the ward.

Many are already serving or leaving to: Washington, Canada, Brazil, Cincinnati, Brazil, Cali, Indianapolis, Georgia, Japan

As I was up at Snow College this last year, I found a new/strong love for the temple (which was only a hop and skip away from campus) Being able to go to the Manti temple every week really helped me throughout school and other things, ESPECIALLY my mission papers. Going to the temple really kept my head up and reminded me what The Plan is for us. The Manti temple is beautiful, and I strongly recommend going there if you have not.

Austin, Matt, Malia, Me

My awesome sister, Jennifer, currently serving in Mongolia.

At the beginning of my mission process I set my availability date for August 20th, just enough time to spend with Jennifer before another year and a half of not seeing each other. As I kept moving forward with my papers and interviews, I woke up one morning with the thought... "Dang, I can't wait that long." So my next interview I moved my availability date to May 20th. I depart on July 12th to the Provo MTC, 16 days before Jennifer gets back.