Sister Julia Jeppsen: 6-11-12 Olia (Afghanastan)-Prayed to come now! & Yitsagesu (Ethiopia)

DAD MOM RY RASH LIZA EMMA EDNA MOLD... and guest

FAMBLY ASSEMBLE!!!!!! Hello dearest loved ones :) I love you so so so so very much. With all my heart. K you guys ready for some miracles?!?! They just keep coming. Non stop. I love this gospel. I love my Savior. Oh the Atonment is just so incredible!! Because of Him, because of His great and inconceivable love He has for us, we can and we will return back to our Father in Heaven, and we will get to live together FOREVER!!! Gosh. He loves each and every one of His precious children so much, and it is incredible to be able to go out and share with His precious ones the way they can return home to Him. I LOVE MISSIONARY WORK!!!!!!!!

So, let me tell you about Olia Furmully. She is from Afghanastan, she's about 60 years old or so, and she is incredible. She lives in our apartment building and we would see her every once and a while and she would always invite us to come over to her house for lunch. Well one day we were our working, and we passed out all our BOMs, so we came back to the apartment on our way to an appointment. We were about to leave, but I had this feeling that we should stop by her room and say hello. The spirit is amazing. Well we go, and she was sooo grateful we had come. She said she was praying that we would come visit her, and at that time specifically, because her daughter was out. She told us that she's a Christian convert from her Muslim religion. And let me interject and say that converting to Christianity is a big deal for people from the Middle East because if they return home, they most likely will be killed. We aren't even allowed to baptize people from the Middle east if they are intending on moving back because of it. So super big deal. Well, Olia's faith in Christ is absolutlely incredible!! She told us how she is the only convert in her family, and that her family hates her for it. She never feels safe being around them, but that doesn't keep her from reading and praying. She's read the whole Bible in Farsi, but she so badly wants to study it in English. And she was just so filled with thanks to God for sending us to her so we could help her. So, she told us that we have to meet in secret, in the apartment building computer lounge instead of her apartment, so that her daughter doesn't find out. She says she goes out every morning from 6-8am, and tells her daughter she's going for a walk. But instead she goes out to read the Bible. So we started meeting her at 7am during our get ready time so we could teach her! SOOO incredible! She is absolutely phenomoenal. Meeting with her was so powerful. We taught her about the BOM, about the restoration of the priesthood, about how our church is led by a living prophet - called of God. And she was soo excited! She is so sensitive to the spirit. She kept calling us her angels. Goodness, I love her so much. And we had a BOM in Persian for her (which is a miracle in itself) and read from it with her. But she was only here til Sunday, and now she's gone. She lives in Nebraska tho, and she have all her info and she wants us to get missionaries sent to her at her home there. And we'll be able to call her and stuff to see how she's doing. She is going to get baptized. I just know it!

So guess what. Next year sometime, our mission is getting I PADS!!!! So sweet!! The church is making this super extreme and high tech program for missionary work. What's up?! So stoked.

Sister Rozsa is the greatest. I love her so much. I can't even explain to you how incredible a missionary she is. I really look up to her. And we swear, we must have had a secret handshake up in heaven cuz we are the best of friends. Did I tell you she cuts her carrots like I do?? What are the odds?!

So we met this guy, Yitsagesu (from Ethiopia), bikin along the street, and the Spirit was just so eager for us to talk to him. And man he has been SOOO prepared! Its so exciting. He was so pumped about everything. He is so ready, so eager to learn more about Christ. He said something so inspiring, I have to share it. He said "The key to wisdom is knowledge. The key to knowledge is truth. The key to truth is Christ." So profound, so cool! It is through our Savior that we can learn the truth, and it is by the Spirit He makes the truth known to us.

Ok. I've got to run! I'm sending letters today. Everyone, expect your own personally written letter. And everyone, give each other a BIG HUG and tell eachother how much they mean to you for me. Ready? GO!

Sister Jewb Jeppsen