Hiya everyone!!
Yes the rumors are true. Sister Jeppson is back on the roads. Back behind the wheel. Did we convince the office Elders that we needed a car? Oh yes we did, I can put up a pretty good convincing argument if I do say so myself. I am my father's daughter after all:)
No, but actually the car is a heaven sent blessing!! This car is waiting to be sold right now, so it was just sitting in the mission office, so they decided to give it to someone. And because we have been very busy, and it can be a lil unsafe here nowadays, they gave us a car! Which has been absolutely wonderful! We call him Ricardo, and he keeps us nice and safe and warm.
But we had a super busy week this past week!! Had so many lessons and it has just been joyous to see our friends continue to progress and to learn who God is for themselves.
We taught a lot of lessons about the doctrine of Christ this week. Which is so simple and beautiful. As we have faith in our Savior Jesus Christ, we trust in Him wholeheartedly. We have the desire to rely on Him and to follow Him. And as we exercise faith in Him, we have the desire to repent. What a blessing it is that we can become changed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. That is what repentance is. Then, as we come to Him, we are baptized in His name, just as He was. We make those promises with God that we will continue on in faith and repentance and to follow Him. Then we are blessed with the gift of the Holy Ghost. As we live worthily, we are able to have the Comforter as our constant companion. And we are asked, after all of that, to continue on, to "press forward with a steadfastness in Christ and a perfect brightness of hope and a love of God and of all men", enduring to the end.
I am so grateful for the simplicity of the gospel. But most importantly for my Savior Jesus Christ. For He truly is the only way that this is all possible. He is the way and the truth and the life. I am so grateful for the knowledge of these things. For how it gives me the desire to believe and to act in faith. To become all that God needs me to become.
I also wanted to paint the picture of the joy moment I had this past Sunday. Two of our friends came to church!! It was wonderful. One of our friends, has a 5 year old boy who is nonverbal, in a chair and he was so sweet. Our friend was nervous to bring him to church because he can be loud, but everyone in the ward just welcomed her and made her feel so comfortable! It was great.
Ok, here is the scene. The second hour was relief society (womens meeting) And as I am sitting there in the lesson I realize a few things that brought me to tears. Here I was, sat in the cultural hall in a chapel in England. Surrounded by amazing women who have so faithfully chosen to come to church. I was sitting in between one of our friends that doesn't speak a ton of English, and our sweet Maxine, who was baptized a month ago. In front of me to the right was our other friend, my sweet companion, and one of the members that has just recently started to come back to church after not being here for a while, and we have been reteaching her. And to the left of me, was our three sisters sitting around another deaf sister, and all of them were signing to her. None of them having learned BSL professionally, but all have been trying to learn it to include this sweet sister in all of church. And around me, the rest of the room was filled with older sisters, and young young moms with the cutest babies. It was just a tender mercy to me, to see this gathering of women, from all over, from all different walks of life, united under one purpose. The Spirit was very strong and just testify that we truly are all sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father.
Love,
Sis Jepp:)
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| I love learning all about Sister Natasan's culture!! She even put one of her dots on for me! Haha it was awesome |
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| Hot chocolate date! |
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| Beautiful Bradford city center!! |
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We learned how to change tires for young women:) this is Kiya,
I helped her out a lil but hah |
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| Cute young women!! |
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| Train ride to get our car |
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| IN THE CAR |
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Selfies with the sweetest companion:)
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| Cutest matching bracelet Sister Natasan gave me, has the south African flag, England, and Union Jack on it |
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