DAD MOM RYAN RACHELLE LIZA EMMA AND CHLOEDOG
Hello! So many great adventures you've had!! Emma dong's drivin?!?!
Wooohoo!! Emma, according to my calculations... if 50% of drivers are
boys... that means 50% of drivers MUST be girls!!!!
HAPPPPY FATHER'S DAYY!!! Did everyone spoil Dad? Dad, were you spoiled
sufficiently? Remeber kids - Dad is great, gives us the chocolate
cake! Really tho pappa, you have no idea how grateful I am for you,
for your incredible example. Through you, I have come to know my
Father in Heaven. Thank you. Your letter is on its way :)
The hardest part about being a missionary is the heart break that
comes with this work. While serving and teaching these people, I've
come to truly love them and I so badly want them to experience the
great and indescribable joy that comes from using the Atonement, from
making the covenant of baptism so that they can have the gift of the
Holy Ghost, from living this miraculous gospel that our Heavenly
Father has provided for each and every one of them so that they can
return home to Him!
Here's one of the many miracles of this week:
So we've been teaching this woman, Del Shaun, for a few weeks and she
is WONDERFUL! She's black, American, and great. She's been preparing
to be baptized, but then all the sudden she stopped responding to us.
It was really hard to get ahold of her and she wasn't getting back to
us. So one night, Sister Rozsa and I felt really prompted to go to her
house. So at 8:15 we hopped on our bikes and pedalled all the way
across the world to go to her house. I'd do anything for her. We got
there, and she was home, and she told us that she'd been talking to
her friends and thought that she should stop learning from us. I can't
properly express just how I felt, but my heart was crushed. I know how
happy the gospel can make her, how much better her life will be, and
it broke my heart to see her reject it. But Christ hadn't given up on
her and neither did we. The Spirit was SOOO strong as we spoke and as
we testified of the Book of Mormon. The words weren't ours as we
pleaded in Christ's behalf for her to keep learning, to accept the
fullness so that He can pour blessings on her head. And she opened up
to the Spirit and it completely softened her heart. After a prfound
silence, I asked her what she was thinking. She quitely asked if we
could still teach her. AHHH!! Gosh, we see miracles EVERY DAY! no,
EVERY HOUR!!!!!! I love this work. I love these people.
SPIRITUAL THOUGHT: The scriptures talk about being "Born of God" and
in Mosiah 27:25-27, it talks about becoming a "New Creature" in
Christ. How incredible! Through the Atonement of our Savior, we can
start completely over, we can be cleanest from all our sin and be
spotless, we can change and become like Him! How marvelous a gift that
is! And in 2 Corinthians 5:17, 20 it says that once we become new
creatures in Christ... "Now then we are AMBASSADORS for Christ." In
the dictionary, ambassador means an authorized messanger or
representative. When we repent, when we use the Atonement and are
truly converted, we become representatives for Christ! That means, we
do that which He would be doing if He were here. So what would He be
doing? Well, lets look at what He did in His ministry on earth. He was
proclaiming the gospel!! He spent His time healing and comforting the
sick and afflicted, and He went about teaching and sharing the gospel,
pleading for us to repent and the be baptized, to accept His Atonement
and to experience the joy that comes from following Him! If Christ
were here, He would be sharing with every precious child of God the
way to eternal life! We have been so greatly blessed with this gospel!
We know the way! We have experienced the exquisite and incredible
peace that fills our souls as we repent! So don't be afraid, don't
hesitate, don't let Satan hold you back, but share! I wish I had
realized this sooner, but its ok because I've been made anew! Remeber
Alma the younger? Read Alma 36. Its such a remarkable chapter. What
did he do as soon as he repented?? He went about and shared the gospel
so that others could experience the exceedingly great joy that comes
from using the Atonement. Be an ambassador for Christ. Represent Him
and help His other precious children know how to recieve a fullness of
joy!
Sister Rozsa and I lost Rhino (her bike) in the elevator this week..
haha! It was quite the adventure. We were locking up the apartment and
the elevator closed with her bike in it lol. So we hopped in the other
elevator with my trusty Cow and booked it down stairs to find the
other elevator closed and now taking some random resident and our bike
to a distant floor. It was great! haha. I love life!
LOVE SISTER JEW JEPPSEN
yay!!!
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