Week #23

mothers are amazing

ohhhh the way we let critters have it this week..... so for the past 2 months ive just accepted the fact that there are tons of mice in our appartment, like everyday i see like 4 but this week i had ENOUGH!! as of today i have killed 7 mice on 5 days. thats right, the rest are scared of me now and wont come out. also for the last 2 months ive had some baddd bed bugs that ive just kind of accepted until i realize how bad my matress is... like there is littlery a massive hole in the center of it... hahah wake up with like 10 bites on my ankles, back, and the other night one got me good on my rear end! haahah ordered a new mattress. also my bed frame has recently acquired some weeveles (wood eating bugs) so i wake up with just wood shavings all over me and my pillow.... haha i dont know how im gonna fix that one... its all good!! a little less sleep never killed nobody! 

this week was sooooo dang powerful! not only did we have 6 investagators at church but we had plenty of lesson!! we have a baptismal service this saturday so hopefully everything works out! anyways i wanted to talk about mothers.... aye charllay the way i miss my mom hahaha. so one of our investagators named Albert who we are planning to baptize this week, his mom is a powerful woman, so supportive and sooo Christlike in everything she does. so a few weeks ago when we were teaching albert she asked if we could come teach him on sundays and mondays only cause she wants him to be taught (alberts mom is not a member by the way) and she doesnt want to disrespect us and have him blow off our appointments so she ask if we could teach him on those days because she being a single mother with 4 kids, doesnt have a job and she needs albert to work and provide for the family. we of course said apsolulty yes that is okay!! we will come when ever he is not working. she thanked us sooooo much for understanding. now the cool thing is what happened on this saturday we went to alberts house just to check on the mother cause we knew albert would be working. when we got there the mother had just finished washing alberts church clothes so he could make it on time to church tommorow, what a sacrifice, this mother has to prepare food, take care of her 1 year old, make products that the kids can sell on there head so they have money, yet during the hottest part of the day, this single mother is out in the sun washing her sons church clothes so that he can become a member of gods church and also for a mother so show her graditude for her sons willingness to provide for the family. 

when i saw those dripping wet clothes drying on the clothes line out in front of there house, i got very emotional as it made me think of all the millions of things my mom did for me that i might have not even ever noticed or when i did notice i failed to mention my gratitude for what she did. moms sacrifice soooo much, sometimes we see it, sometimes we dont. alberts mom has taught me soooo much about what this religion can do to families, she wants her son to be happy and she sees that when he is will us learning about gods truth, he becomes a bright ray of sunshine for all to see. i am sooo grateful for mothers. lol i know its not mothers day but i have to say to everyone, be gratefull for a loving mother, cause there are some things you will never notice your mom does until its too late to say thank you. soooo grateful for all those moms out there who have helped me get to where i am in my life. and my mom, no words to describe how amazing that wonderful woman is, she truley is called of god to be a mother of me and my siblings. alberts mom has just helped me reconize how great my mom truely is.

i hope everyone had a great week!! a little mad i didnt get any 18.5 bithday wishes but its fine.... hahahahahaahha i mean my whole appartment cellebrated hahahah

have a great great week, and be thankful, for god truly is good. 

1.went to vegas this week! hahahaha

2.THATS RIGHT SUCKERS

3-5. us making some cakes to celbrate my 18.5 birthday!!!! mannnn soooo dang good!

Week #22

blessed up

figured out how to make chocolate milk this week so preety much this week was sweet. BIG week! we commited 3 to be baptized on feburary 4 so i hope it all works out!! this week has also been sooooo hard to meet with people cause the african cup is happening rn and the whole country shuts down when the game is on. ahahah friday i was in the sun for 9 10 hours straight and didnt see a single investagator hahahahha man im soooo tan!! lol well just my arms and face are. man ive been getting a lot of crap about how i bleach my hair! had like 7 people ask me if i do this week. PEOPLE GET OVER IT, I DONT!! hahahah 

so this week was transfer week and my father elder divver left me, guess what...... HIS WASHING MACHING!!!! LETS FREAKING GOOOO!! hahaha ill be honest the appartment i am in rn is too small for it but man when i leave this place its gonna be niiiice! hahah so greatful for elder divver, not for the wash but for what a powerful missionary he is! my hands are offically raw from washing by hand so the first few minutes of washing hurts and then i just get used to it hahah. 

one of our investagators this week named issacc Goma has commited to be baptized. i met this guy about months ago. and at first we thought he was unserious but after like a month of trying to meet with him we just let him go and then last week he called us and asked why we havent been coming.....as mad as i was for his reason, i was stoked!!! cause he finnally gave us time to teach him and hes turning into one of the most powerful people i know. the questions he asks are sooo deep and thoughtful that i know he wants this gospel in his life! I Love Mission!! another long week ahead cause ghana is in the quarter finals sooooooo. hahahahah sweet is the work and hot is the sun right? hahaha i cant believe im almost done with the new testament!!! its been doomso (light out) a lot more recently so the fans are off so during my studies so when im reading im just dripping sweat on my scriputes hahahahah its not easy oooooooo lol

just something i thought of this week while i was reading in timothy, it says, "abstain from all apperance of evil" somtimes i tell my self oh im not actually commiting a sin, it just looks like it. and as stupid as that sounds it truly is stupid! and it is actually commiting a sin in the eyes of God! why appear like youre being disobedient and then justify the sin. JUST DONT DO IT AT ALL! hahah man sometimes im not the smarted and we make mistakes but we are all learning and ill be the first to say. im trying to become better and im trying to follow christ more perfectly. 

love you all!!! have a cold week. hahahah

elder jeppson

1.WIFE ME!! hahaha my stew and jolaf

2.gave these two a bath this week. lol cuties/devil childs

3.the calm before the storm

4. final pictures with the father, Divver

5.my poor fingers from washing hahahaha lol

Week #21

studyin

this week nothing really happened. thanks for all your concerns and emails about my eyes i am all good now! lol ohhhh ghana! transfer news came and i am staying with elder adu-gyamfi another transfer! way excited for this next transfer. Freda, Albert, Paul, Issacc. are all preparing for baptism this transfer im sooooo excited!!! im beeing studying sooo much lately in fact ive almost read the whole new testement in a month....myy brain is fried! but i love it. ayyye that guy paul knew too much! reminds me of joseph smiths knowledge of the doctrine of this gospel! anyway i want to share something i read that made me laugh paaaaaaa! for all those guys with that lovley long hair back home........ heheheh all those parents need to read 1 corithians 11:14 and think about having long hair hahahahahahahahah

well this week we are talking to lots and teaching a little more then last week. im learning so much about my self that i never knew. about change about past talents that im redeveloping. i just realized the other day how cool the plan of salvation is. like its soooo simple, yet the reward is soooo amazing!! sooo glad i have 2 years of my life fully dedicated to tell people about the importance of this life and how happy we can really be! i love you all! soooo good to see all you guys enjoying the snow back home! 

week 6 our mission made a goal this week to get 3500 gospel conversations and we did it!!! also along with 20 baptisms!! goals really do help us become better people. all those people whoe set a new years goal. live it up and keep that goal. love you all!!! have a good week

elder jeppson

1-3 GOT NEW SHOES FINNALY! 5 months of pure ghanaian terrian killed those bad boys!! haha

4. ghana sunsets...hard to beat

5.call this guy THE ONE. hahah weird guy

6. had my xmas package food!!! YUMMMMMMMMY

7.us and the young mens walking home from church!! YEET SQUAD

Week #20

its not always easy

well this week nothing really happened. in fact we taught 3 lessons all week so man nothing happened at all! hahaha probably one of my hardest weeks so far on mission. my companion is suffering from a badddddd feaver cause of the hamataun so we had to stay inside a few days cause he was weak. me i got a weird eye sickness that is kind of like pink eye back home....but a lot worse hhahahah its funny cause i go around teaching people about the word of wisdom and how drugs are bad for us and i look totally gonzo beans baked out of my mind hahahah ayyyye mission!!! its an air born sickness so everyone is even sketched to shake my hand and get closed to me hahaha. but ayeee its all good cause im in GHANA how freaking sweet is that!!!!! and it rained for the first time in  a month yesterday!!! WAHOOOO! 

this week ive done a lot of reading. A LOT! and ive decided my favorite part of the day is personal study. me and my scriptures. nothing is better. we recieved some referals this week from steven and kofi, our ward missionaries and they are sweet referals. makes me think of back home how many people i wish i would of sent the missionaries to, to go and teach them. how many people i want to know about this gospel that i never told them about it is a big time regret. BUT there is always hope for them and i hope i can in the future do my best to be better.

so because people have been asking what i eat dailey i tell them, usually the Ghana Cape Coast 3, eggs,rice, and indomie (like toporamon). EVERYDAY! ive gotten small small fat so thats nut the funnest. i usally have egg with onion sandwhich for breakfast, then rice and stew for lunch (stew depends on what i make that week but i like my tomato paste stew the most) and for dinner i hope for a FM (free meal) or i come home and get fried rice or have another egg sandwhich with bannanahs and a fanyogo. EVERYDAY hahahah aye foood 

all i have to end with is one of my new favorite passages of scriptures, Acts 5:41-42. talks about how the apostles praised god and thanked him that they were worthy enough to suffer and to be beated for sharing the name of Christ. what a positive attitude Paul and the apostles had. everyday when i think it sucks to walk in the sun for 12 hours i just think about what the savior did for me, how truley lucky i am to be on mission wearing HIS name for all to see that i am hear for one purpose, to testify of the savior, Jesus Christ. i love this work even though its not easy at alllll. its about being positive and remembering why im here and who i represent.

love you all! have a good week!

elder jeppson

1.my newly married couple that just got baptized reppin matching outfits dancing there heads off at the stake new years party. GOALS

2-4. everyone dancing and enjoying the food at the stake party! soooo much food!

5-7. me looking gonzo beans!!!!! hhahahahah man i look soooo gone

Week #19

THATS RIGHT....2017!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! man as i look back on 2016, freaking dopest year of my life!! i got my mission call, my sister came home from her mission, i graduated high school, had a funtastic summer and now im on mission in the greatest country in the world! i hope everyone had a great holidays and enjoyed celebrating this wonderful year we have had. my companion and i and the other guys sat in our compound as the fireworks exploded over our heads. ayeee we enjoyed watching people burn up 2016!

well this week was a little slow cause people are traveling for the holidays and stuff so had like most of our appointments cancel on us! aye its not easy oo. Hamataun is offically here and all the ghanians are dying from the dry heat. me on the other hand like it a TONNN more then the old weather. it feels like a warm summer day back home so it doesnt feel as hot! but its soooo dusty now! hasnt rained for like 3 weeks now so everything is just covered in dirt! my tag is getting niccce testimony too it hahah.

so during sacrement this week sister thomas was feeling sooo sick and she wanted to go to the hospital but before we took her she ask for a preistood blessing from the 4 elders in the district. man it was a powerful prayer given by my companion. and as soon as the prayer ended she stood up and said the pain is gone... in ghana they say WHAT THE WOW! the power of god is real, i know it works through our faith and worthiness. im soo grateful for sister thomas faith to ask for a priesthood blessing. man the church is true the book is blue! 

had a new soup this week that was wayyy good called, (akoko nkwan) my new faviorite soup i thought...... until after our last lesson that night. we were walking back and it hit me sooooo fast and soooo badddd. hahahahahahahahha freaking ghana! ran to the bushes sooo fast hahahha ayyyye my somach everyday is asking me, "what the heck are you thinking putting this into me??!! are you trying to die?!" hahah anyways thought id give you all a good laugh! love you all and happy new year!!!1

(just thought id say, I COME HOME NEXT YEAR! hehehe)

elder jeppson

1.killing some chickens for the new years feast!

2. this is what hamataun looks like, a weird kind of fog alll day long.

3. the soup that ended my life later hahahah 

4. adu-gyamfi, i and sempa at 12;00 welcoming 2017!!

5.BRING IT.

 

Week #18

A "White" Christmas

man what a dope week! hahahha this week was filled with lots of fun adventures especically during the christmas season. i have to admit i was a little sad going into the christmas season cause its about 2824728374 degrees here and everyone is telling me its DUMPING snow back home. but then this whole week i decided i was going to finish the 270 pages i had left in my book, Jesus The Christ. All week i was puttin in work reading it at every moment i could and on christmas eve i finished it! i was to simply say that that book has changed my life. so powerful and sooo spiritual fed i have been as i read the life of the savior. it really kept my focus on the savior this xmas season. hahahah i have to admit though my brain is fried!!! SOOOO MUCH READING! 

so many festive activities we attended and the way i spent money on food this week ayyyyyye its not easy oooooo. hahahahhahahah so my stake president, president foku had both zones of missionaries over to his house for dinner... now i dont know about you guys but how many stake presidents back home feed 2 zones of missionaries, almost 40 elders and sisters at his own house, 3 days before xmas and allll out of his own pocket....... i cant think of any one whos done that hahahah man i love that man soooo much and the fufu we had was tooooooo good to be true! president foku is the perfect example of a selfless person. a man who wants all to feel happy and loved. Foku has been a stake president in Assin Fosu for almost 12 years now...... hahahah WOWZERS. after the dinner we went to the stake center for the christmas carols night in which the whole stake came to. Man the Ghanaians really do love to sing there hymns!! it was a great night!

this saturday was a RM in my last areas wedding. sister lillian! man ghanain weddings to say the least are....interesting hahah but man soooo much fun. i feel bad for lilians dad, man fed about 500 people the best of the best food and had such a beautiful wedding, that mans wallet has got to be suffering hahahah. we missionaries helped pass out the drinks and mannnnnnn the way ghanians come from all over for free food, like even the less actives weve been trying to reactivate for months wont come on sunday but now that there is food. they are the first ones there! hahah ohhhhhhhh GHANA! 

Christmas day. Holy cow was it sooooooo nice to see the family! miss those squirts soooooo much but they still are the same ole jeppson family i left hahah. made sure i had a little xmas breakfast as yesterday i spend 50 cedis on a niiiice box of CHEERIOS!! lololo at church we had a white chrismas! sister elizebeth was baptized by her newly wedded husband on Christmas day. it was a tender moment as husband baptized wife. the church is too true, familys can be together forever, i know it and i will never doubt it. the rest of christmas day we was just eatin food with members and enjoying eachothers company. mission is tooooo sweet! elder jeppson has now been out 4 months... ayyye time has flown!

love you all thanks for the letters and emails! i love you alll! AFEHCIA PA!

elder jeppson

1 and 2: us as fokus party!

3. big j and I doing our wash late at night

4. Lillians wedding

5 and 6. Xmas dinner and my CHEERIOS for xmas breakfast!

7: our white xmas, sister Elizebeth

Week #17

Afehiapa!!

(Merry Christmas)!! hahahah man i hope everyone is having a great holiday! these week has been filled with lots of contacting! so many people travel back to there home town during the holidays so we have lots to teach! We are baptizing sister Elizebeth next sunday, CHRISTMAS! elder Adu-Gyamfi and i are so stoked. have a few referals we met this week that were given by those RM's that came home for the holidays so this next week is going to be goooood!

when we had our lesson with elizebeth she wanted to know about the temple and the things we do. I had almost forgoten how much i love the temple. we had a powerful lesson. but what makes it sooo cool is all week i really missed the temple and i kept thinking about it. but this friday we went to our zone xmas party at the mission home in Cape Coast. and guess what president instructed on..... THE TEMPLES! man it was such a great discussion and i learned sooo much. even more then from working in the temple! hahah president stevenson express his understand and wishes we could as a mission go to the Accra temple but its out of the mission boundary so the area presidency wont allow. its all good but i miss that place sooo much! lovvvvvve president and his wife, they are called by God and i know they are truely inspired. we all a great dinner and then president put on a xmas tradition of theirs. we did the nativity and then watch A Christmas Carol! hahah it was great time.

went on exchange with elder Johnson the Zone Leader on saturday. man we had a good time. that guy is just about to go home so hes ready to leave yet he is finishing sooooo strong! he got pissed at some of our investagators and me cause i was speaking better twi apparently and know more twi then him and ive only been out 4 months. hahahha he wasnt too happy and didnt talk for a while. i felt bad but he says its all good its not your fault. love Big J! we taught lots and has some realllllly really goood Fufu and ground nut soup! Sunday we had an investagator show up at church 2 hours early!! who does that?!?!? isnt 3 hours enough?!?! ahhahah jk but it was a suprise for sure!

i just want to talk about the savior for this last email before xmas. ive been reading sooo much about Christ these last 4 months. i love that man sooo much. but the thing i want to talk about is something that was in this months ensign, the gift of Grace. grace is defined as somthing that allows us to do more then he or she can do and connot do on his or her own well being.  Grace is a strength that helps us get through anything and helps us accieve higher succcess. Jesus Christ gave us grace, and because he did we have potential to become great, even though we will fall short. just as peter lost his faith as he was walking on the water with Christ. Christ will always grab us a pull us our of despair, trails, tribulation, and any sorrows we may face, BUT we have to have our hand stretched out as well, reaching to our savior and our redeemer. Let us rememeber this Christmas season that through Christ anything can happen but with our Christ, we are all lost in the sins we have made. I love my savior and am sooo grateful for him. Christ lives, i know it and i feel his love everyday as i teach these wonderful people.

Merry Christmas! Elder Jeppson loves you more then you know!

elder Jeppson!

(sorry the internet and power fell yesterday hhaha)

1. my boiled plantain and cantumbra

2. Me and Elder Adu-Gyamfi

3. my homie always getting me some Coconut

4.ugliest baby in Ghana hahahah

5-8. us at zone conference looking fressshhhhhhhhh

9. Assin Fosu Zone