DAD MOM RYAN RASH LIZA EMMA and my dear dear friends
OOODALLALEY!!!! LIZA'S GOIN TO BYU!!!! WOOOHOOOO HOORAH! Well done, thou good and faithful servant. And WHAT?!?! Trevor's comin to DC??! AHHH! Thats so crazy. Oh I'm so excited. How glorious.
We had a tender little moment at the Whitesides this week. We were having dinner at their house Friday night, when Alexandra opened her email and found that she was accepted to BYU!! I was so excited. I just knew you were finding out too, Liza. Heavenly Father is so good. It is good to "remember Lot's wife" as Jesus taught us in Luke 17:32. Having been asked to leave the comfort of home in Sodom and Gomorrah, she looked back. Elder Holland teaches us that "she wasn't just looking back; in her heart she wanted to go back... she looked back longingly. In short, her attachment to the past outweighed her confidence in the future... The past is to be learned from, but not lived in... Faith is always pointed toward the future." How blessed are we! There is no need to wish to be where you once were, to enjoy the life you once had. If our dear Father in Heaven so graciously gave to us then, then why would He stop? Trust in good things to come.
Incredible lesson with Libby this week. She's what we call an eternal investigator, but we had a remarkable lesson at the church with the Norths (who I love dearly). I love Heavenly Father. Everything happens at the right time. They had been trying to set up a lesson with them for weeks, but it never would work. Surely it was Heavenly Father's hand. He is in every detail of our lives. He loves us. And oh how I love Him.
LOVE SISTER JULIA JEPPSEN
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| The Whitesides :) I love them dearly. Alexandra got into BYU too! Liza - you should be friends! |
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| Sister Anderson exchange |
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| Beautiful beautiful Warrenton with my beautiful beautiful Sister Smith |
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