Week #101

20 years and wiser too

well its true im 20 but wiser hhehehe

thatll be for you to decide.

what a great week elder mashale and i had, a few exchanges, a few new people, baptismal interview, MY LAST MLC, went to the church farm in saltpond, and lastly i had the opportunity to baptize 2 wonderful daughters of God as the best birthday present ever!

so greatful to have lived my entire year of 19 in such a good country and setting. sad to leave the teenage years... but im excited for the adventure.

nothing really to share this week. i was asked to bear my testimony at mlc.. and that alone was hard. sooo many of my best friends that ive served with these few years and the way ive just grown to love them!

if you need me ill be workin. so we will talk later.

elder jeppson

1-18. my last mlc, some of my best friends, old comps, and legends.  gotta love my ghana.

Week #100

a bishop's advice

(For those wondering, Peyton gets home on August 15th and will speak in church about his mission on Sunday, Aug 19th at 1pm.  He'd love to have you there!)

well another week come and gone. ill be straight this week was slowwwww as ghanains coming to church on sunday hahahahah but for real it was a good long busy transfer week! got a few new legends in our zone we are excited to work with!

ive been thinking alot about how hard its gonna be to get on a tro in few weeks and head to accra to get on a plane back home. somehow i  feel as joseph smith once felt, knowing that as he left to carthage, he would never return. now obviously im not marching to my death and im definitely gonna one day come back to ghana BUT not as a missionary.... and thats the hard part.

so many mixed emotions about ending a mission. but everytime i think about it, i remember the words that my bishop once told me as i was leaving to come on a mission. he gave me 3 ways to be a successful missionary in fulfilling my calling. 
1. work hard

2. love the people

3. be obedient

these 3 things have been a huge drive for me my whole mission.

i never thought it would be hard to work hard. for goodness sake i love working back home. but it seems that satan knows theirs a big difference from washing cars for a couple bucks an hour, to saving souls from eternal torment and frustration. BUT it can be done, as presidently hinckley shared -- forget yourself and go to work. best advice for a man like me.

love the people. yeaaaaaa i thought this was gonna be cake but sometimes these people really know how to get on your nerves. but one humble ghanain with a willing heart makes up for all the others that just drive you crazy. seeing people as what they can become not what they are, as alma says, "seeing with the eye of faith"

be obedient. in the past 2 weeks we've had some elders go home for disobedience and not sustaining leaders. its sad cause yea its not easy to be obedient and even me ive tried so hard to be exact my whole mission. ill be straight there's been many times ive fallen short of my stewardship but repentance has become my greatest tool to overcome trials. working with the lord helps us stay with the lord.

forever grateful for my bishops advice he gave to me that day. love that man and all the leaders in my ward.

FIGHT TO THE FINISH

love and pray for you always!

elder jeppson

Week #99

bebbia boko

(For those wondering, Peyton gets home on August 15th and will speak in church about his mission on Sunday, Aug 19th at 1pm.  He'd love to have you there!)

chales, family, children, fathers, grandmas, cousins, dudes. whats up?

hahahhahahahahahha email email email what to say what to say....

great week to finish the transfer. 2 baptisms on saturday. that makes for our mission 72 baptisms in the past two weeks. man the work is moving. during this time of the year kids are home from school so its a great opportunity for teaching familys!

had a few fun exchanges. elder ntow (ghanian) and i had a sweet exchange in otuam. love teaching with someone who speaks the language. makes the work sooo much fun!

lots of tiny miracles this week.

world cup is over so people are back to there normal life. (USA QATAR 2022!!)

transfers are this week, so we are excited to see a few new people come into the zone! hahahah so funny seeing greenies, first question i ask is what year they go home. hahahahahah 2020!! YOU SAID WHAT!?! lol

pushin my self as much as i can. trying to stop every bad habit or teaching routine, i want the spirit to teach these lessons, no the same message everytime, everybody has a different story, so the lessons also have different ways to touch individuals, only if you teach it the way the lord needs us to.

love you all!

elder jeppson

just some pics of the week. and yes that is actually KFC hahaha

Week #98

the 4th of july

(For those wondering, Peyton gets home on August 15th and will speak in church about his mission on Sunday, Aug 19th at 1pm.  He'd love to have you there!)

great great week. we got sooo much i tell you!

i love elder mashale, ive never had a guy correct me as much as he does. most people hate that and honestly at first i did but everyday it just reminds me of how much more i can improve. so greatful for that guys example and the push hes giving me to be a better missionary.

sweet is the work.

something ive been learning in my studies. is in mosiah 23-24. alma and the followers that left from the waters of mormon went to the land of helam to posses that land, they become a great people that followed the ways of god in all his doctrine. but god says this to alma, "the lord seeth fit, to chasten his people: yea he trieth their patience and their faith" god wanted to but the people of alma to the test even though they were righteous, god wanted to try their faith and integrity to see if even in trials if they would stand till the end as their prophet that they killed once did, abbinadi stood till the end, litterly burned by fire, standing for what he could not deny.

the people of alma then were given heavy burdens and tasks by the lamanites.

ive notice that the more and more i try to be obedient and work hard the lord tries my patients and faith, weather its with a stubborn investigator who keeps lying to me, or the leaders of the ward wont help us with the work, or even another freaking kid yelling at me, "OBRUNI OBRUNI OBRUNI, GIVE ME MONEY!" its not easy to stay calm or even want to keep being a missionary but i look at all the great examples that were before me that gave WAY more then i ever can give.

im trying to apply what those faithful saints did in the book of mormon. instead of praying to god and asking for deliverance or to be saved, they prayed to find strength so that their burdens may become light, that they would find those tasks to become easier and do it with a happier attitude.

holly molly its not easy but i know i can do this. i know it. im gonna finish this mission and fly through the finish. not cause its easy but because its worth it.

i love you all

elder jeppson

GOD BLESS AMERICA

1-3. service project in otuam for the hospital! lot of fun!
4-6. made some fufu to celebrate suah and 1 year on mission hahahah7-8. mission bro. mashale and i. the best of the best.

9-16. more pics of the 4th celebrating at anamabo, thanks to elder ball! (idahoan)

Week #97

sure its july?

i really got nothing to say. like ive sat here for like 10 minutes trying to think of something to write.

went on exchange with elder andreason and slept in the AP's house... yea boi AC and hot shower!! felt like "i found something" from HOLES and got to take the rest of the day off hahahahah jk we went to work that day and had some great lessons!

besides that we are just working hard and time is just flying.

king benjamin in mosiah 4. go read it and tell me what you think. (yes savvanah and elizabeth and aaron even you guys!!!) hahahahaha

love you all sorry i got nothing this week  

{So here's a little piece from his letter home today -- ". . . just doing all i can to just enjoy my time in ghana! i love this place, i can never forget these feelings i am feeling, everyday i put that rusty ole tag on my chest, i just remember how blessed i am. . . . "}

my camera is dead and my last comp accidently has my charger in cape coast... so i pulled up an old pic of my lineage... love my boys mease and piutau.

elder jeppdaddy