Hola familia, amigos, desconocidos, y todos los demás que quizás estén leyendo esto.
What is up in grand Utah? Has Mother Nature stopped hating on you yet? I´m sorry. Life in paradise is still paradisaical. Google Chrome corrected me on my spelling on that word. The past week has been great. Well. Thursday we went on a car drive on the island of Tenerife. We went to see Teide, the highest point in Spain. It´s basically a giant mountain/volcano on the island. The islands were all formed by volcanoes. This volcano got huge, and then broke in half and slid into the ocean apparently. So there is a giant basin near the top that is like a giant, giant field at the top of a mountain. I don´t know if I described that well. But there should be a picture attached of it. So that was cool. 
Friday we had our Zone Conference. It went well. There are 10 missionaries here in the islands, no hermanas. Well, there is also a senior couple and two senior hermanas serving here, so I guess there are hermanas and 14 missionaries. Nevertheless it was good stuff. Learned about setting goals of faith. I´m not good at setting goals, let alone goals of faith, so needless to say I can improve on that, eh? After that we flew back (hopefully my last flight for a good 12 weeks) to teach English lessons and finish up the day. Some people in class started asking about the church so hopefully we can get some investigators out of teaching, since that is the purpose of it and all. OH well, at least people are learning the language of heaven. Saturday was gonna be a productive day, until we decided to attend a wedding. We thought it would take like an hour to an hour and a half so when the branch mission leader invited us we went. It was on like a different side of the island in Tinajo. 30 minute drive. The bride is from here in the island and is marrying some american dude. His brother married the brides sister. Those two met in Madrid when the brother was studying abroad after a mission to Argentina. Long story short the brides sister got converted, married, and then the other two siblings met and this was their wedding. So we went to the wedding, which was interesting. Spanish weddings have like a bunch of clapping, a lot of paper signing, and apparently not a lot of guests usually (so it was weird when these mormons invited everyone) hahah then they went to the temple on Tuesday to get sealed. That´s how you have to do it in Spain. Spain doesn´t recognize temple marriages as legit, so you have to do it civilly (thanks google) and then in the temple. It was cool to see the Spanish style of wedding. Not too different really though. After, we went to their reception for like 3 hours. Tons of food coming out, and I was fasting. Lame! But worth it. About 3/4 through we go up to congratulate the couple. Well the groom is like where are you from? and I´m like well Cache Valley. He says cool my sister lives there, go talk to her. So I do. ¨Hey are you from the blah blah blah jeppsons of Providence?¨ ¨No, do you know Sil Jeppson?¨ ¨Sil Jeppson?!¿¿¡¡ Yeah! he´s in our ward. In fact my husband here used to be Family Home Teaching Companions with him. Boom. What the freaking crap? Steve Johnson and his wife were at the wedding. What a small world eh? I guess they live like a block and a half away from my dad. Cool! So I hung out and talked about life back home for a bit.
Took some pictures. Was mind blown that I ran into them all the way over here on the island of Lanzarote. Still amazed it happened. But so they will be able to personally tell you the story too I´m sure. Moving on. Sunday was a decent day. Not a lot happened out of the ordinary. Rosana didn´t come to church. That made us sad/worried. Then she didn´t answer our calls all day. Uh oh! That´s about all we did for Sunday. Monday morning Rosana called us and told us that she just couldn´t go because she was with her family all day for mother´s day (it was mother´s day in Spain) and didn´t have her phone all day. So all is still well there thankfully. Monday Elder White (the district leader) had a 4 hour leadership meeting via video conference (which is also how we do our district meetings) and I had to be at since he would be alone without me. So that was fun/boring/interesting/I felt out of place. Yup. Hmm yesterday we had our district meeting as always and Ana Ruth and Oscar fed us like all Tuesdays. Amongst all of that we have just been contacting people and trying to find people to teach. It´s been a little bit of a rough patch as far as the work feels like, but I´m sure if we keep it up things will turn around. That is life of Elder Jeppson on the island of Lanzarote in the past week. Not too crazy, eh?In regards to other boring stuff: I got my package finally! Thank you tons. Thank you for the Christmas present Greg. I will be sure to rock that shirt like a boss. Thank you to mom/dad for the other shirts and goodies as well. That CD is LEGIT. It has like all of my favorite church songs on it, even Be still my soul! which isn´t a hymn in Spanish unfortunately. The no-bake cookies are also absolutely amazing. I can´t believe they were baked in Nibley. I love mail! Hmmm, Elder Knorr went home when I got to Barrio 1 and is already engaged. I never told him I stalked him. I was afraid. I did ask to take a picture with him once. He looked at me like I was a nut and it never happened. I did take a picture for him once though. Thought you would all like to know the end of my creeper career. Dad, You forgot to put our line of authority in the package. I thought you would like to know that so you can send me one this week. I got the hockey stats from you mom. Thank you tons even though the Red Wings are super lame and Riley Hazeldine is super happy. Speaking of which I would like to give him a shoutout for his Virginia mission call and ask him to send me his mission office address asap. Oh. Hey. I need to talk about Skype, don´t I? Ok. I will be skyping home this Sunday. There´s some catches. Not really. But I will be doing it at 9:30 your time. I will call mom first and then second dad. The catch is that I get 40 minutes. Therefore I technically get 20 minutes with each family. Keep that in mind ya´ll. I thought I could pull the ¨Hey I get Christmas presents from 2 families why not double the Skype time?¨ card with president, but I guess he didn´t see it as a situation for the divorce to be a benefit, so I am holding steady at 20 minutes with each. Be ready with all sorts of awesome questions and stuff to ask me. I´m gonna be wearing a white shirt and tie, so be ready for that. Also, I consistently wear glasses and that might be odd for some of you. Oh wait, that´s all exactly what you expect. Austin Robbins can be invited too. But if he doesn´t want to, I mean that´s fine. Well goodness look at all of that boring stuff that ended up being kind of long. Sorry ya´ll! I´m hoping this email is legit and makes everybody smile up a storm. Smile storms are the best. What the heck am I even saying...
Welp, I´m sure that I could keep blabbing on but instead I´ll hold off and talk to you all this week. Unless we plan a visit. Then you´ll have to wait 7 months. But don´t worry. That would be rare. Because I´m not going to do that. Welp. Brethren, Adieu!Love,
Elder Jefe-son. Google that. It means Elder the boss
I´m pretty sure.
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