Sister Chloe Jeppson- Leeds England Mission : Digging trenches, saving souls, and rescuing palm trees: Rancho Cucamonga edition

Hello everyone!!!

Wow this week has been so crazy! I am in California now! My area is the San Sevaine ward in Rancho Cucamonga. It is super pretty here but also super hot. We had a crazy lightning storm here and 100 degree weather.

Here's the highlights of the week:

-monday was the last day at the MTC, and we had a beautiful sunset to send us off

-tuesday, we were traveling all day and got to California and met our companions that will be be our trainers! My trainer is Sister T. and she's the coolest! We get along super well:)

-we do a lot of finding, contacting and teaching all day long and its awesome

-we also do service projects! We went to the communtiy garden and dug trenches for a couple hours haha. It was way fun and we got pretty dusty and dirty.

-My apartment complex has like ten white people total haha. I definitely need to learn Spanish because pretty much everyone hears speaks it. Even though I can barely understand people, everyone is so nice and friendly and i absolutely love it.

-One of the people we are teaching has some crazy stories! He was telling us about how he had his big toe amputated and then proceeded to take off his sock and show us! haha it was crazy

-Another guy we are teaching is the coolest and has the strongest desire to find God and change. He spent 16 years in prison and he's only 36, but he tells us that God has blessed him and given him a second chance. We are helping him see that God loves him so much and that he can be forgiven! Its really cool and awesome

-a feel sort of like a therapist because people just unload all their problems on you and sometimes you have no idea what to say other than, God is here for you and helping you through all the hard things we go through in life

-we also found a free palm tree on the side of the road so we stuffed it in the car and took it home haha

Anways its been a great week and I love being a missionary. I have learned many things but the biggest thing I have learned is that God is a God of miracles. He loves us so much and wants to bless and protect us as we reach out to Him. There may be really hard times in our lives, but as we trust in the Lord, and that He is our loving Heavenly Father, we can see His Hand everywhere in our lives. I love my Father in Heaven and I know that His Son, Jesus Christ, atoned and suffered for our sins and felt everything that we go through. He is our Savior, our Exemplar, and our Redeemer.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Love, Sister Jepp:)