THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED AND THEY ARE TASTY

We took the Missionaries to Space aliens restaurant in Bismarck and had great good, and good times , and lasting pictures. If my kids come a visit we will take them here too. Aliens are really pretty good and they love to serve mankind. Here is their sign. Notice the each eye has two pupils..all the better to see you with my dear.
The table may look like an early spread, but it is filled with alien delicacies like Martian Munchies which we always get for an appetizer and sometimes for a main dish. We can end up with the Galatic Sunday which the entire table can sample and eat for an ice cream delight.

As you can see that earthlings are very welcome here. They serve earthlings here with boiled and baked. They are good. As long as it is not an earthling we know.
Here we are after our Alien feed. OUR STOMACK ARE PRECEEDING US OUT THE DOOR BY 5 MINUTES. These are the misionaries in our district, The other older couple are the Shipleys from Rexburg. the Missioanry between elder and sister Shipley is Elder Christiansen and he went on a long journeytwo days after we took this picture... Either to Space or to home (I can't remember). We are happy serving and being served here in the Bismarck North Dakota District.

To day is our preparation day and I thought I would add an entry to our blog. so there you have it.

falling into fall in North Dakota

Fall in North Dakota has come already... Sept 21. These pictures are on our trip for our Sunday Assignment -- which we rejoice in and love -- in Fort Yates Branch. Last Sunday there were 18 people there including Sister Johnson and myself and President and Sister Frakes (the Stake President) and the Pres.Laundreaux, the Branch President). The beautiful trees turning, the rolls of prarie grass each weighing I have been told 700-1,000 lbs. These are stacked along the roadways and in the fields uncovered for years some golden brown (this years patch) and some darker brown (last years not yet needed) and some almost black (food storage not yet needed) from years of plenty of the past. Not quite sure how much good they will be in the future years. Rolls of prarie grass as far as one can see if some fields heading toward Fort Yates.
This Indian house -- Tee Pee was about 1/4 miles off the road coming off of the Standing Rock Reservation. Your can see the flap a flapping in the wind on this windy day Sept. 21st the first day of Fall. 2008
Karen taught Primary today....actually teaching primary in the Fort Yates Branch means she was the music leaders and pianist, sharing time presentor, teacher and assistant teacher all rolled up in one person. She was it in total. She and 10 kids in Primary. A day to remember. The Fort Yates Branch is fun to attend, because if you are an active member or missionary there is always things to do if you go.

I shall close happily and engaged in many good causes.

DAD

here is"White Cloud" -- at one time she was the ONLY Albino Buffalo in the WORLD. But she had a calf that also was albino and just this year another true Albino Buffalo was born in this same herd. That is a strangest thing I have ever Heard !!! They are true Albinos wth pink eyes and no coloring at all (except mud and dirt which they seem to find a lot of.







THIS IS I GOT YOU BABE ! a great song by Sunny & Cher that we thought of when we saw Paul Bunyon and his blue Ox Babe!!

THIS IS SISTER GRANDMA JOHNSON walking across the Mississippi River without a handrail or anything. She just causually strolled across. Good for Her !! I caught the moment on camera for all to see.,

the biginning and the end

THE HEADWATERS OF THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI RIVER. starts so small both mom and i walked across it. This is where the longest river in the continent starts and the 4Th longest
River in the WORLD. THIS IS THE BEGINNING.
THIS IS CONFLUENCE OF THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER AND MISSOURI RIVER. The Yellowstone flows into the Missouri and becomes from here on the Missouri River. This is the END.

OK, it took a while, but we have met the beginning and the end in our mission.

the pictures below (if I can find them) represent the head waters of the mighty Mississippi River (I can finally use the word I learned to spell in first grade when I learned how to rhythmically spell M*I*S*S*I*S*S*I*P*P*I)

and then we have visited the end of the Yellowstone River as it flows into the Mighty Missouri River.

POWWOW pictures

OK, we went the United Tribes International Bowwow in Bismarck at the United Tribe College. It is a BIG DEAL!! Tribes from all over the continent and Europe come. The Pow Wow is The 39th Annual United Tribes International Powwow and this year there are 1500 dancers representing over 70 Tribes and drawing over 20,000 spectators. This year they spotlit another indigenous group: The Sami. Samiland, Sapmi covers the northern part of Norway, Sweden, Finland and western Russia. There are about 100,000 Samis. INTERESTING NOTE: Not long ago, the literature says, musicologists proclaimed that the Sami were the only people on earth who could not sing. They are the only indigenous group in Europe. Karen got a Turtle necklace and we had Indian Taco for lunch which we shared and baklava for desert with fresh squeezed lemonade. We have a few pictures of the Powwow and one of a very rare Paddle fish that is found only in North Dakota and the Ukraine near Russia. I can't understand how they got in those two odd places but there you have it.