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| A very Happy :) Elder Jeppson |
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| Map of the Canary Islands |
Hola! Holy cow. I´ve been translated again! Or is it called transferred? It´s hard to tell when you´re in the CANARY ISLANDS!!! Yup, that´s right. Let´s get started with what happend this past week, eh?
Wednesday, P-day. I don´t really remember what happened that night. So let´s skip it. Thursday, well, let´s skip it too. Friday, I got a call from the ayudantes during the morning studies times. ¨Elder Jeppson, we just received a call from President. There is going to be a change in the transfers from the past week. You will be going to the Canary Islands to be with Elder White. We´ll be there to pick you up in an hour. Pack your bags.¨ Holy! So I did. I packed my bags. Elder Raiano and I were a little sad because we got along really well and worked really hard for the 4 days we were together. I think we would be really good together. But we didn´t really have that long to be sad, because I had to pack up everything I had just unpacked once again. I also had to leave behind all the food I had just bought AGAIN. So much food I´m buying for other missionaries these days.... Well the ayudantes picked me up about 45 minutes late, as always, and we were off. But guess what, they couldn´t get my plane ticket until Saturday morning, so I got to spend Friday with the ayudantes (Elder Cerro replaced Elder Ketchum) back in Barrio 2. The first thing we did? We went to lunch in a park with Elder Ketchum and his parents! It was fantastic to get to say goodbye to him AGAIN hahah. Then we went and taught a lesson to Jon, who I had taught in my first transfer. Then we got to see Gorki and Gloria, 2 recent converts in B2 that are superstar members. I was so excited to see everybody again! It felt like it had been SOO much longer than just 6 weeks since I saw them all. So that was a blessing. Then I got to sleep over in the same old piso that I used to live in. Wahoo. Saturday morning we got up bright and early and the assistants took me to the airport. I said goodbye to Elder Driggs, my part-time trainer, for the last time (or so we thought), because he goes home in 2 transfers, and people are always in the islands longer than that (I hope I didn´t just jynx myself). Plane went well. It was weird to be alone, without a companion. I was afraid to talk to any females. haha that´s a joke, but I really didn´t talk to any... I showed up in heaven and got my bag from baggage claim. Walked out and found Elder White and Elder Schuerch (who flew to Madrid later that day) and we went out and about. Saturday wasn´t that great. We helped a member prepare for an activity for less-actives haha. Then Sunday we had church and I got my own little dedicated testimony time to introduce myself to the branch. This branch LOVES missionaries. It would crash without misisonary support. Monday went well as well. Nothing too extraordinary happened on these days other than the fact that I just walk around talking about the gospel with an ocean breeze in my face and a big smile. It´s amazing here! Then on Tuesday (yesterday) we got GOOGLE EARTHED. hahaha I´m not sure if this is for sure, but the dang google earth car that takes street pictures drove by us! I am not sure if they were taking pictures, or just driving by, but it´s always been my dream to be on google earth as a missionary. Wahoo! And now it´s Wednesday. I´m sorry a lot of those days are rushed. I´m trying to get in all the important stuff today. We found out yesterday that I have to go back to Madrid on Friday. bahhaha ohhh my goodness! I haven´t done my residency here in spain yet and the secretary forgot I had my appointment on Friday, so tomorrow Elder White and I are taking a ferry to Gran Canaria to leave him with the zone leaders and then I´m flying there, doing all my stuff on Friday, wasting a day in Madrid because tickets were cheaper Sunday than Saturday, and flying back on Sunday at night. So that´s gonna be interesting /a waste of 4 days missionary work wise in our area. It´s kind of sad, but I´m definitely breaking some type of record for distance traveled in the first 3 transfers in this mission. I have now covered the Madrid mission, Bilbao mission (Vigo), and now Málaga mission (Canaries). Am I a tourist or a missionary? Hmmmm....interesting. ;) Let´s see here. My area! |
| Lanzarote's Flag |
I´m in Arrecife. It´s on the island Lanzarote. It´s the one farthest North and East. It´s like a desert island. We´re the only island that doesn´t have a car. There are also missionaries on Tenerife and Gran Canaria. There are 10 missionaries here. It´s all formed by volcanoes I hear. And P-Days are going to be spent hiking volcanoes and doing cool stuff like that. Today was spent cleaning the most filthy piso in the world that I refuse to live in until it´s clean. Hmmm, the weather here is always sunny and warm, it hardly ever rains, and it doesn´t get as hot as Madrid. In fact, the weather here basically doesn´t vary at all. My new address(again) is:
Elder Guapo
C/Apolo 17, 2B
35500 Arrecife, Lanzarote
ESPAÑA
You know the drill. Anything sent to Barrio 1 I´m hoping to pick up this weekend since I´m already going back to Madrid, but I might not get it until April 29th, when we have a zone conference. As for the package, if it´s already sent, I´ll try and get it this weekend too. If not, you can go ahead and send it right to my piso. I´m not sure if Fedex covers the islands (if it does I´m sorry I doubted, Dad). And also, Elder white got a package with food in it yesterday! So I think it´s still possible! But it was USPS so... Hmmm that´s all I have for that.
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| Elders White & Jeppson |
My new companion: Elder White. He´s dope. He is super chill and we work. He reminds me a lot of
Kylie´s brother, Brock. I know that nobody in my family knows him, but I put that in there anyways... He is from West Jordan, attended Copper Hills, and thankfully did not play lacrosse. We get along great. He has been out for a little over a year, so I finally have a companion that didn´t enter the same day as I did (other than the assistants). That´s all I really have to say about him. He has a great love for music. And we get along great.
Welp, That´s bascially all I have for today. I´m in the Canaries and I got google earthed. We set a baptism date with Omar yesterday for the 30th of April and we already have somebody else for about that time too. I think there is a lot of potential here. There´s a TON less people in the streets here, but we receive a lot more references from members. It´ll be interesting to see what goes down. That´s for sure. I hope I´m here forever. Mom, I have not received the conference talks from anybody. I´m still on a conference fast. I thought Austin Robbins would like to know all the streets around where I live right now have astrological names (in spanish) except I have yet to find Eclipse. Mom, could you send me a picture of my room? I always tell people about my awesome wall paper but they never can see it...Also, could someone (I need to be specific so....Greg) calculate how far I have traveled between Madrid to Vigo to Madrid to Canaries to Madrid and back to the Canaries again? Thanks bro. And when on earth is Mothers day? I hear I get to call home on that day. And when I say call I mean Skype. So be prepared to be stunned with felicidad. I love you all! I hope I covered everything this week. If not, hit me up with an email and I´ll see if I can answer any questions next week. Thank you all for your support and prayers (somebody really righteous must have prayed for me) and letters and everything. This church is true. The Book of Mormon can change your life if you apply its teachings. If I sound like a broken record player then I´m just gonna keep sounding like that because it´s freaking true!
Love,
Elder Jeppson
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