Week #30

yemenadum boko

by the grace of God im cooooooool! that what i love about twi, fante, aximian all the languages here, they all implement god in their greetings with one another. aye ghana! my second home! well this week was great! its funny to think its been 7 months and my body still is not used to the food but aye thats mish broooo! hahahaha like last night we went for free meal at one of our old investigators, brother adu-gyamfi, and the wayyyyy momi fed all 4 of us....... and all of us just had eaten right before we left sooo we couldnt eat anymore!! so my companion and i started stuffing the empasi into our water sashes and put them in our pockets hahaha and as we were leaving brother adu-gyamfi said, "ADEN?!?! you dont like my wife soup?? is it bad?!?" we said heck nooo its ver very good we are just full!! they wouldnt believe us sooo we all took turns drinking the spicy, hot, thick ground nut soup.... not only was i already getting fat but my buttons on my shirt were about to bust!! we all took turns and downed the suckkeer hahhahahah ohhhh my gosh i have never been soooo full in my hole life! i felt soooo freaking gross hahahah but hey you cant offend a family over food.

well we had a great lesson this week with our brother albert, our recent convert. during the lesson i felt prompted to ask him, "albert since we started teaching you a few months ago, do you feel like a different person now that you are baptized??" took him a sec and then he said something that really moved me. he said, "before baptism i felt good about what i was learning and tryin to change my life, but after i was baptized i feel guided now, like someone is telling me what i should do in my life." the way i was struck when he said that. anyone can feel the presence of the holy ghost, but to have the "gift" of the holy ghost means the constant guidance of God. we just have to be listening to hear those promptings. i love my albert. that guy has taught me sooo much about a change of heart can really change who you are and how you act.

well another week come and gone. happy st. patricks day lololololololo 

elder jeppson.

1-2. us taking turns with the soup

3-4. the elders were a little scared to baptize fragile momi mary so i did it. man the way i was nervous hahahahaha

5. my name in my elder woyesa language

6. momi mary teaching me how to farm cassava

Week #29

The Book of Mormon

this week was great!!! had a wonderful opportunity to have Elder Stanfill of the 70, come and speak to our mission this past week. it was a great full day conference with lots of talks and the spirit taught us sooo many things! i loved it! president stevenson also taught us about have at looking at our mission with an eye of faith. he told us that all of us will never see the lasting effects of our mission. and that anyone that we convert can also change the lives of 100s! it went along with elder stanfills instruction about how the brethren of the church having been discussing about the 1 on 1 effect. its quite remarkable. if one person gets another and then those two go grab another and then those 4 grab another and so on and so on. after only 10 times...thats a 1000 people!!! 

he related this to in our efforts as missionaries we have nooo idea what changing just one persons life can do, let alone 10 or 50 peoples life. so as we have a completely perfect focus on our investigators, the effect of that one can multiply many MANY times over. it was a great discussion! he also told us that west africa covers for about 35% of convert baptisms per year! its remarkable and its soo wonderful to be apart of it! the meeting was wonderful! also hahahah sister stanfill...aye charlay that lady knows the scriptures sooooooo well!! any question she had an answer from the scriptures.. it was incredible! 

i also would like to share about one of my investigators, Paul. paul is a 16 year old boy who is close to a professor on knowing the bible. kid is sooo bright and its pushing me to really know the bible so i can answer questions that come to us as missionaries. anyways paul told us this story after the lesson, he told us that he had been struggling with the idea of the book of mormon and he couldn't accept the fact of having something more then the bible. but he said that while one after noon he was doing his washing and while he was washing he was thinking to himself saying, "why am i going to be baptized into LDS? i dont know if the book of mormon is right?" he said he started to think about what he felt was true about the church, he said that he feels strongly that prophet joseph smith was called of God and he truly restored this gospel, then it clicked for paul... how incredible he said he felt when he realized that if the joseph smith was a prophet then the book of mormon has to be true cause he translated it! and that being baptized in this church has to be the right thing for me! 

as paul told elder woyesa and i this story i knew, i knew paul had felt the spirit of the lord testify to him that this is his church on the earth. and that him being baptized is what god wants for him. wow. missionary work is truly divine and im sooo grateful i can even just watch people change all because of a desire to know the truth. like the back of my dads jeep says, "LIFE IS GOOD" 

it truly is good and i lovvvve my ghana! love you all!

elder jeppson

1.beautiful ghana, its amazing

2-3. at mission tour! good to see the father and my TCs!

4. my crazy zone in our tro tro to cape coast

5. "this heres my thinking shed" -chaw

6.nothing like a little fufu pounding

7. package from mom given to the stephenson then to a member then to me in fosu! thank you stephensons! hahah

Week #28

Happy march 6th! (independence day)

what a great, fantastic, dope, chill, sad, fun, learning, joyful, ect.... this week was everything! hahah it was sad to say goodbye to elder Adu-gyamfi but my new companion from Ethiopia, Elder Woyesa is a hommmmmmie!! the guy is maybe MAYBE 5 feet tall and learned english on mission but he has in just a few days taught me soooo much about teaching the gospel slow and with simple words. the guy is sooooo dope and i cant believe im serving another transfer in good ole assin fosu with him.

this week was stake conference sooo we had lots of good meetings with the stake and with the area general authorities. i cant believe how fulllllll that stake center was, sooo many devoted loving saints in the assin fosu stake and ive had the opportunity over these past 7 months to get close to many many of them! 

ive been reading the old testament, like cooking through it!! i only have about 700 more pages left and i started only a couple of weeks ago. but this week i also started and finished the book, Our Heritage, a book about the early church history. and its soooo crazy to see how the gospel being lived and preached 2000+ years ago to early church history only less then 200 years ago.... What makes the gospel sooo correct and true is that, its the same. the church 4000 years ago is the same church that Joseph Smith restored in the early 1800s. To think that the Israelite's when they became good and they followed gods commandments, God he always tested them to see if they were truly willing to follow him. they either passed or failed gods test of faith. just as the early saints and pioneers in this dispensation. God tested them, he tested them soooo great i cant even imagine the persecution those saints when through, i envy them and i show my most love and gratitude for them. its because of them i am able to wear this black tag with Jesus christ name on it going around telling the wonderful people of Ghana that Jesus christs church is Restored back on the earth today! how great is my job. and i loooove it sooo very much!

to think about patriarch Bonda only a couple decades ago was 1 of the first 6 missionaries in west africa! and now there are almost 800 missionaries just in ghana alone! the church is truly amazing!! i love this gospel, the way i learn from just a few minutes in the scriptures everyday has and is changing my life. God bless you all for who you are and what you do! i LOVE YOU!

elder jeppson!!!

my new comp

old fosu zone

ugliest chicken ever!!

Week #27

6 months... bro...

Literately the hottest week so far on mission... i am soooo red and all my shirts are soooo dirty from the dust and me sweating! we reiceved tranfer news, elder adu-gyamfi is leaving and im recieving a companion from Ethiopia! man im sooo exciting! nothing happened this week besides eating lots and lots of food! my companion and i commited 4 people to baptismal dates so the work is moving again! WAHOO! was told that last year in the ghana cape coast mission we baptized 1,144 people!! sooo cool and 256 of them came out of Assin Fosu! sooo sweet!

as i look back on this 6 months so far... time has flown sooo dang fast!! i love mission sooo much and the wonderful people of ghana teach me sooo much everyday! i love you all and im gratful for your prayers. i really do feel them! short email this week, lots coming your way next week!

elder jeppson

1 and 2. DOPPPPE ZONE ACTIVITY with me reppin the USA 

3. the president foku. most legendary man of fosu

4 getting jacked!

5. us celebrating 6 months inthe dark! hahah

6. arm tan line.... sooo much sun!!! hahah

Week #26

doomso doomso

the way i hate light out at night! for some reason doomso has been happening a lot more latley and especially at night so my fan just dies and i just sit in bed most of the night,wide awak and am just drenched.... apsolutly drenched in sweat! hahahahah sweet is work and hot is the sun! 

GREAT WEEK! lots of great lesson and people are progressing paaa! one of our investagators Anthony, sweet guy, we are teaching him about faith and he asked us a question that i never though before. he asked, "is faith and miracle the same thing or different?"  I loved this question!! took me a sec to think of the way i want to answer his question. we helped him understand that a miracle comes after an act of faith. miracles can never happen with out faith. faith is hoping for a miracle, the lesson later turned into how we can repent using our faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is a miracle, because through him we can be saved. but to be changed through him requires an immense amount of faith that as you repent and try to live a most perfect life, a miracle can and will occur. but with out having faith first that a miracle can happen, it wont happen. it was a sweet lesson and i learned a lot! thats why mission is soo sweet cause sometimes you go to a lesson expecting to teach someone and make them understand a principal when in reality after the lesson you may have learned more then them! hahaha aye misssion is soooo dopppppppppppe!!! ahhhhhhhhh

lol took a RM to a less active this week and it started out a great discussion with lots of questions and good interaction, then this dang returned missionary comes in and no joke.... THE GUY TESTIFIED FOR 25 MINUTES!!! hahahahahah longest testimony of my life. all i have to say is i love that man but i learned something great from him. a testimony doesnt need to be long to be a good one or even short. it just needs to be simple and said from the heart and it will be powerfull to others and change lives. hahahahah never again will i go back to that house with that man as a member 

well our district did great this week and had 7 baptisms on saturday so it was a sweet weekend! last week possibly with elder Adu-gyamfi, were gonna kill it this week! cant believe another transfer come and gone! 

BLESS UP TO ALL THOSE AROUND THE WORLD! LOVE YA 

peace, elder jeppson

1. MY angelina is finished!! man its nice!

2. adu and i in adudabuasi doing some baptismal interviews

3-4.got to see grandma rose in my old area! boncu... another reason im getting sooo fat!

5.prays do get answered....HI CHEWS BOIIIY 

Week #25

back at it

dsjfa;lksjgasdofjsdlkfjsdlkafj s hahahah lol dont know how to start this one so i just gave the keep board a massage. COOL BEANS week! we are back at it finding people to teach after we had the baptism last week so its been a few long days but its sweet! spent about 10 hours in the hospital on thusday cause one of our sisters got sick in the district so we had to go and make sure everything was good! hahahah so that suckkkkkkkked! but hey a calling is a calling and you have to fufill it! talked so some people and tried to comfort those in the hospital and make them laugh and get there mind off how depressed the hospital is. but what i love about the ghanaians is no matter how bad they are hurting or discouraged they are, they will and do respect and smile at you and ask if everything is okay. man i love this people! soooo christlike as they dont look at them selves but turn out and make sure others are okay. lol funny story while we were standing waiting for sister thomas to get treated a crazy man came walking in and went to me and my companion thinking we were doctors cause im white and we were in our shirt in tie so he came pleading for help. the guy was messed up... i heard most of it but it was in twi and the guy was crazy but he had a MASSIVE bump on his forehead that was just gushing blood out of it!!! he said his wife beat him....... what a wife hahahahhahahahah told him that we werent doctors and helped him get away from us lol ohhhhhh ghana! 

this week we had our zone conference so that was sweet! president said he liked my hair cut.... hahhaha that man. we learned tons about commitments and how to commit our investagators better. what i love about president is first off the guy could be the next prophet, sooo powerful when he speaks but also he looooves to talk about agency so he helped us understand that we have to intice people to use there agency to follow god. it was a great conference.

im tryin to finish the old testement in 2 months....... yea so im cooking rn in the bible lololol but mannnn all the stories i heard from a kid are finnaly making sense in the bible!!lovvve the bible! but it seriously sometimes talks about the stupidest things and i just ask my self, "how is this scripture??" hahahah but i just thought it was kind of cool that the only commandment of the 10 commandments with a promise is, "honor thy father and thy mother" something to take note of. 

have a great week all you! love you all! remember... youre all in my prayers cause i love you!! hahahha

elder jeppson 

1. DINNER! lol
2. our zone activity today!! mannnn the way i sweat when we play football

Week #24

what is baptism?

THIS WEEK WAS STRAIGHT OUT OF COMPTON DOPE!! hahahah man after months and months meeting with freda, albert, and issacc, all 3 were baptized on saturday. i had the wonderful opportunity to be john the baptisted so i also baptized 2 child of records and the elders from the other ward had one great lady to be baptized so in total, 6 people this weekend made a wonderful covenant with our loving heavenly father. SO COOL!

but what is baptism?? like why are we baptized? as missionaries you all know that we "teach repentance and baptize converts." but as we are baptized what happens? and the anwser simply is, we make promise with God. now God, will always keep his end of the promise, and as we keep our side of the promise to take upon the name of christ and always remember him god will allow us to come back and live with him for eternity. Baptism, is not the end. it is the first step in many steps that we can and will make in this life. as we are baptized god reconizes that we have now taken upon the name of christ and we will represent him at all time and in all places. I LOVE watching people make sacred covenants with our heavenly father, i think working in the temple really help me have a love to watch people change there life and come unto christ. 

ill keep this email short and send lots of photos cause the pics explain it all. besides that the power went out from saturday afternoon so sunday afternoon so saturday night was probly the hottest, most unconfortable, sleepless night of my life hahah my fan died after an hour so i was dying of heat and couldnt sleep for a second so i took about 2 showers that night too cool down but it really didnt help hahah its all good though cause the power is back on and i had a great night sleep last night hhahah 

love you all have a great week! 

1, when youre from preston idaho and go home in 3 weeks hahaha2-6. pics from the baptism. man it was sooo sweet! i cant even begin to tell you how grateful i am for the example these people have shown to me.

7. some niiiiiiiiiice home made empasii