Sister Chloe Jeppson- Leeds England Mission : Home MTC=Complete, woot woot

Hello everyone!!

I just finished my first week of being a missionary AND home MTC!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! I’m heading off to the Provo MTC tomorrow and I’m so excited! Home MTC was so amazing! I love my companion so much! She is the very best. I also love my district and my teachers at the MTC:)

This week was filled with lots of spiritual experiences, and fun times, so here are the highlights:

- I had two classes everyday, plus a couple of devotionals. The devotionals are so cool because there are about 300 missionaries on a zoom call, which is super empowering. I am excited to see even more missionaries all at the MTC together. Cool experience with that. We watched a video which was a slideshow of pictures of missionaries, and while we did that we put in the chat what we thought Christ would be saying to us and the Spirit was so strong! It was a really neat experience.

- For pday this week I went climbing at Momentum with my siblings, which was so fun. I’m also going climbing for the last time today for 18 months:)

- Turns out, my companion, Sister Randle, lives 5 minutes away from me haha. And apparently she lived on the second floor of my building at BYU, but we have never met before! Kinda crazy. We met up on Friday to go to the temple together! It was a really cool spiritual experience. Also turns out we are the exact same height which is pretty funny.

- Some of the fun things I did with my family in the evenings were pickle ball, my cousins state soccer game (which she scored an amazing goal at and one, shoutout Elise), Stella’s dance shows, and game nights.

Although I am sad to be leaving my family for 18 months, I am so so so excited to be serving the Lord! I had two thoughts as I was thinking about leaving. First, I am so incredibly grateful for my family. I love them so much and they mean the world to me. I’m going to miss all the crazy and fun times we have, but that’s ok. Which leads me to the second thing. How can I be ok leaving my family for 18 months, missing trips, Sunday night dinners, important events and more? Because Jesus Christ sacrificed His life for me so the very least I can do is sacrifice 18 months of my life, completely devoted to Him. He gave His all for me, so in return I want to give my all to Him.

Anyways, love you all so much!!

-Sister Jeppson:)