Esto es mi hijo amado, ¡Escúchalo!

Blimey Jimmey, this gator´s a big ´un!

Alrighty, so I´m not really in a super big typing mood.  So if this email´s a short buzz kill, be grateful there are 104 weeks in the mission and it took me like 30 to fail (I know you´ve loved every other one).  Welp, first of all, I´m sure as heck still here in Arrecife.  Thank heavens!  We did get mini-missionaries.  This means they´re 19/20 year olds preparing for their mission or deciding if they want to go and so they come live with us and be our companions for a short period of time.  They will be here for 2 weeks. It´s still Elder White and I here in Arrecife, but we´re really with our mini companions.  Mine has the name of Amado.  I think you should snag out those last names before you blog this bad boy mom, because the missionary department just told us not to include anybodies full names in emails haha.  But so I´m kind of training.  He speaks Spanish pretty well, since he is from Gran Canaria.  He has a SUPER canary accent, which is like super lazy and all slurred together.  It´s perfect for a half sordo jokester like me when it comes to Spanish.  But when you train, you call them your son, right?  Well Amado means loved. in Spanish, adjectives go after.  Así que mi hijo amado means my son Amado as well as my beloved son, which is what Joseph heard in the first vision.  Thought you might like the explanation of the Subject today.  It´s rare, usually the subject is just a mind grenade and everybody spends the whole week trying to figure them out, right?  Cool.  Let´s crack this egg.

Last Thursday. Don´t really remember anything from it.  Don´t have my agenda here to review.  We did eat chicken and clean the piso though, I do remember those out of the norm things.  Friday. Ummmm. We did some missionary work.  Taught some English. Good stuff.  Saturday, we had a grand lesson with Christina.  Ugh.  I wish she didn´t love that the catholic church has so many idols and the Church of Jesus Christ doesn´t have as many.  She still doesn´t want to go back to church because of the emptiness of our idol-free zone.  Other than that she really is progressing little by little though.  She knows it´s true! I swear she does.  Whenever we invite her to make changes she says she wants to but it´s too hard to change and then lowers her head.  I want her to just give it a whirl and realize that yeah it´s hard but so worth it! Needless to say we are continuing with her. De hecho, taught her last night.  We´ll get there.  Sunday we went to church and then contacted and stuff and ate food to survive until Monday, when the mini missionaries came! Wahoo.  We picked them up from the airport and spent the morning getting them back home and unpacked and we went and got another cell phone and doing all that jazz that had to be done, then mediodía, then we whipped them right into the real (missionary) world.  Which means we walked. and we contacted.  And we knocked doors.  And my companion was like jimminy crickets we do this all the way til ten tonight? Yes sir.  So it was a pretty tiring day. But yesterday we had District Meeting, then a surprise meeting with President Watkins where he basically told the island missionaries that we need to drive less (we´re the only 2 without a car, so we didn´t feel too chewed out for that) and to baptize more.  The islands have been doing horrible this whole year baptism wise, and since our purpose is to baptize people, that´s not good!  Hopefully his little get-us-going talk works and the work picks up here in the Canaries.  Wicky Wack.  After we had meeting time we cooked food and went out and about.  These two punks from Gran Canaria love to cook, which is like...a miracle for missionaries.  So we´re loving the real food right now.  Grilled Cheese sandwhiches aren´t old after 2 months of them yet though ;) hahaha don´t worry mom and stepmom, it´s just a joke! We eat fine.  Hmmm, after we ate yesterday we went and contacted a bunch of people, they´re just as Spaniard and/or Colombian as ever.  

bunones...

Then we had a FME with some members, and then we taught Christina and Jon again.  Legit.  My comp loved when we taught people and felt the spirit and stuff.  It was great.  We taught the 10 commandments to them.  Number 2 was fun.  They gave us buñones.  They were good.  I might have even added a picture of them.  Not sure really.  If not, better luck next week I guess.  Today the day of glory we just went to Gran Hotel and up to level 17.  It´s the only building that has like more than 6 floors because of laws here on the island.  So we could see out over all of the reef (Arrecife is Spanish for reef). Good times, and now I´m in a hot and gross locutorio so I can let everybody know I´m still alive! Wahoo.  Good week, eh?  

Level 17 Gran Hotel

Level 17 Gran Hotel Looking over the reef

Welp, now that everybody knows I´m still here, feel free to send anything.  I did think of 2 new things for the package.  St. Ives face wash and refill lead for my pentel scripture marker pencil thing.  To find the second one, Deseret book.  Ask them where the 8-colored pencils are.  I would like dark blue, red, and that´s probably enough.  Just one little canister of each of those colors.  

To finish this one off, the best part.   So this past week I finished the Libro de Mormón for my first time in Spanish.  It was tough at first, but I could still feel the spirit of the book and what I needed to learn, a great example to me of the spirit the book has. By the halfway mark I could feel my Spanish improving a lot and I know it´s a blessing from Gordon B. Hinckley´s promise that if we read the Book of Mormon in a foreign language, by the time we finish it we´ll be able to communicate in the language (or something close to that).  I love the help from the Spirit.  It´s the recognizing it part that´s hard.  The second part of this is that I finished it on June 27.  This day is very important to me because it´s the day Joseph Smith was martyred.  He is such a hero to me.  So full of courage.  So many trials that he suffered to bring this amazing gospel into my life.  As he was the translator of the Book of Mormon, I thought it was pretty cool that I finished it then.  I went back into our little bedroom so I could kneel and pray and thank my heavenly father for Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. I know this gospel is true.  

I also pray and thank my Heavenly Father for all of you.  You´re the bestest bests out there.  

Love,
Elder Jeppson

We´re not sure if the test is positive yet...

Well howdy Ya´ll!

Familia.  It´s been a week.  A freakin´ scorcher of a week too.  Wowsers.  Everybody tells me it´s been like 38-40 degrees.  That´s like 100 to 105.  If I have had the opportunity to listen to your quejas for so long, I am taking this opportunity to curse this heat!  blarghlsnargl It´s hot and humid.  There we go. I did my weather bit.  Now everybody can see I´m still a normal person like everyone back home :)  hahaha Wow. 

So this past week has been a pretty average week.  Not an absolute ton to report, but I´ll report anyways since it seems to be the reason people like to receive these emails that are of gold.  Mom, if you could do the grand placer of copying and pasting this into a DearElder for Elder Robbins, he´ll love it.  Just like I love him.  Last Wednesday we had a P-day.  I talked to you all on it, so we´ll move onto ThursdayI practiced my Spanish that day by living in Spain.  It went well.  We contacted some people and it was great.  I also practice my English by teaching it.  Fara is a new chick that comes to class.  She is maruecan too.  She writes us words in Arabic.  Cool words, like Tanton Jeppson.  I´ll ask her to do the Boss next.  Which reminds me that I need Elder El-Bakri´s mission office address.  


I also had a Friday this past week.  We taught some crazy dude from Cuba.  He just taught us all the Cuban history of why most Cubans try to hop on little boats to Miami.  Hahaha crazy hard accent to understand.  But it´s whatevs.  That´s for you Elder Robbins.  I also learned that cumplido is compliment in Spanish.  Not complimento hahaha.  Ooops. Been messing that one up for a while, not that I say it tons.  I dunno, maybe they both work.  Clearly, I´m still learning.  Saturday we taught Claudia.  It went well.  We found out she had a bad experience in the church about 2 years ago.  Something like she picked up her daughters from it 
(don´t know why they were there) and none of the members were very friendly or something.  I dunno.  So we focused that lesson on the importance of going to church and invited her to the last 2 hours, since she works until halfway through Sacrament meeting.  Tune in on Sunday to see if she went.  Also on Saturday night we taught Christina and Jon.  She told us that she loves having us over and she loves reading the Book of Mormon but she refuses to go to church again.  Rats.  So we´re gonnna seguir adelante with her cool off on the church attendance and focus on her testimony del Libro de Mormón.  Nobody even had to google translate that one.  Cool.  


Sunday came after Saturday this week and it went well.  Nobody came to church, but Claudia did show up with her 3 niñas at the end of the meetings hahaha.  It was fine though, because the members all made friends with her and treated her like an investigator queen.  That´s what she needed mostly I think.  The sketchy thing with Claudia now is that her Evangelical mom is coming into town for 2 months this week.  We´ll see if it hits the fan or if something else happens.  I dunno.  After church we taught Fa.  He didn´t have a ton of time because he had another Chinese friend waiting on him, so we basically introduced the plan of Salvation and then were outties.  He´s too busy trying to become a multimillionaire in 3 years, but we´re doing our best to teach our newest (and pretty much only) Buddhist friend about Christ.  We ate with Javi and Gabi in their house this last Sunday as well.  It´s always nice to have legit members in your area.  Javi served in England and loves occasionally throwing out some ghetto english. I also want all Harry Potter fans to know that a lot of British People really do vacation in the Canary Islands.  If you´re missing the kite on that string then read book number 6 again. On Monday we taught a recent convert from Nigeria.  It went well.  She´s going to feed us African food on Friday.  I´m nervous.  My companion says it´s wicked hot.  Yesterday was district meeting day and teaching Christina again.  She continues reading the Book of Mormon, and had questions about 1 Nephi 8.  So we taught a lesson on Lehi´s vision.  Such a glorioius chapter.  Couple it with Chapter 11 and there´s my invitation this week.  Read Lehi´s vision and Chapter 11 and 12 after it and let me know what you learn new this time.  What sticks out?

Apart from all those adventures not a lot has happened.  I´m pretty sure I´m staying here because somebody from the office called us today and told us that there are 2 mini missionaries coming in for at least 2 weeks.  So I´ll be with a new mini-missionary for at least 2 weeks instead of with Elder White.  We´ll see how that goes.  I´m excited.  Of course this could all be a false alarm and I´m getting transferred and somebody new is coming in to do it.  I would say it´s safe to send letters to Arrecife still, but hold out on the package until next week when I can really let you know what is up.  Like a Boss.  I love you all. Thanks for all your support love letters and stories of glory from back home.  Keep on keepin´ on ya´ll.  Just read the Book of Mormon, Pray, and go to church! Formula for success.  

Con Amor y un abrazo,
Elder Jefeson

Boogy time is just the sound of artificial tears. Thank you Norway

Buenos días!  Rise and shine.  I know it´s summer but wake up ya´ll!  Haha ohh sleeping in. What would it be like to do that?

It has been a good week. Everybody can breathe again.  Thursday we ate chicken at Kikiriki.  It´s a asadero de pollo that a member in the branch owns so every Thursday we get to eat there.  I don´t know if I´ve ever mentioned that.  But it´s legit.  Chickeeennnnn.  Columbian style.  Then we taught some jokesters how to speak English.  They have funny accents.  I´m sure I shouldn´t be talking.  I´m the gringo boss.  Not as gringo as Hermano Koller though.  Hahaha I hope he reads this.  I miss him.  After that we taught Christina and Jon again, about Faith, but it was kind of a fast lesson becasue we had Fany right after.  Less active member.  From....Uruguay!  It´s a fun game to play over here.  Where are they from?  We taught her 2 Nephi 10:23 and told her to Anímese! You need to go to church.  I believe that translates as Become animated! literally.  hahaha. and it´s true.  We need to be animated about the work, church, and our callings.  It´s easy to say as the missionary of course, but life really goes better when God is first in our life and not just a "if I have time" part of our life.  

 

Friday we went to Fuerteventura.  So I have now been to 4 of the 5 islands which missionaries used to be on when it was it´s own mission, 3 of which have missionaries now.  We caught a boat and then a bus and ate with the first members of that Island.  28 years ago they got baptized.  Nuts.  Elder White also interviewed some investigator that this family has been teaching that wants to get baptised.  She actually got baptized on Sunday.  So now she really is almost a member.  She will be confirmed this coming Sunday.  But it´s a pretty desert-ish island as well.  yup.  Hmmm Saturday we taught Paco.  From the Paco and Paqui relationship.  Also Margarita, which is always an adventure.  Sanchez Sanchez SANCHEZ.  blegh.  I´ll explain all this if anybody asks.  We ran into Christina and Jon carrying groceries into the house Saturday night and so we helped them and they made us grilled cheeses for a dinner snack hahaha.   Moving right along Sunday was a pretty...bleh day other than church.  BUT Christina came to church! Jon slept in, punk.  I think she really liked the members but was definitely missing on the whole Catholic stuff.  Like there aren´t any Virgin Marys in our chapel.  What is that all about, right?  haha but overall I think she liked it.  She just has 40 years of catholic in her that of course makes our services a little..foreign to her.  Monday we taugh Saúl.  He´s from Uruguay as well.  I swear there really aren´t that many Uraguayans here, we just talk with them all haha.  We also had a lesson with Liz and Alberto and some of their friends that they wanted to invite to listen to the gospel a bit. Legit members. 

Then yesterday rolled around and we taught Mr. Fa again.  He couldn´t come to church on Sunday cause 

he´s too busy trying to take over the world with all these crazy business ventures.  AKA conferences.   But this lesson went pretty well I suppose.  He opened up and told us a lot about his past business adventures that have taught him a lot and yada yada he trusts us more now.  So that´s legit.  His spanish kills me.  Chinese man speaking spanish to an american punk that has 7 months of learning Spanish.  Phew.  It´s like a crappy accent-fest.

And then today snuck up on me and we went to Costa Teguise to take some pictures (included) of paradise and go shopping.  I finally bought a backpack.  I´m picky. But I FINALLY found a legit two strapper.  Dakine.  All black with Canary Island color zippers.  Which is also Sky View colors.  I was sold.  Mom, if you could let me know what my home account is looking like these days, sería genial.  Gracias.  That´s that.  Another week. Boom. Roasted.  

Other than all of that good stuff I don´t have a lot to say.  Any packages should either be sent today or wait two weeks, because transfers are coming up in 10 days.  Which means that if you wait until next week it´d come in the next transfer and with my luck I´ll be up in Leon on the peninsula again or something.  Goodness gracious.  We´re hoping nothing really changes, but with President Watkins I´ve learned to expect anything.  Like an emergency transfer to the islands.  Wahhoooooo I love my island!  Yup.  Hmmmm. I love you all.  I hope that you all had a great week.  I also hope that Boston loses royally tonight because Tim Thomas didn´t deserve to go to the olympics and he doesn´t deserve a Stanley Cup!  Flop Flop waddily Drop.  Hmmm.  I love you all (again).  I appreciate all the support and prayers and stuff.  Nobody has wanted to one up the rest and actually visit me though (mom, that´s a joke, don´t buy the tickets).  And so it is.  The End. Directed by Elder Tanton Jeppson.

Love,
Elder Jeppson

INSPIRE

Hello everybody.  Family.  Friends.  People I´ve never met that somehow read this.

Ha sido una buena semana!  It went fast.  They all seem to.  Where to begin where to begin.  Well, last Thursday was pretty much uneventful.  We did teach Christina and Jon again.  They have been doing well.  They´re the Colombians.  The mom had some bad experiences with visiting churches so she is super hesitant to attend, but she loves having us over.  So we´re gonna sneak in some members that are Columbian and see if we can lighten her up a bit and get her to church!  Man it´s so much harder for them to progress if they don´t go to church.  Friday was a pretty good day.  We taught our Chinese investigator Fa again.  I can never remember what I told you all the week before about investigators so I´m sorry if I repeat myself a ton.  I do remember telling you he is wise, and it continues.  When he came into the church for this lesson he was like asking us how many members there are and figuring out if the building was big enough to support growth in the future and stuff.  Haha alright man.  Claro que sí.  We also taught Carmen the eternigator on Friday.  She is like reading Doctrine and Covenants now and asking us all these deep questions but just doesn´t want to commit to get baptised.  She says that she is down with it now finally, but that she wants to wait until she goes to Peru with her family in November or January.  So we´ll see what goes on there.  Claudia, the Uruguayan with 3 daughters, also has been going well.  We taught her on Friday as well.  We showed them the DVD of the Restoration and at the end the 12 year old was like "How cool!"  It was great.  They love when we´re there.  It´s great.  Saturday we set up an appointment with some big dude from Tahiti.  But he forgot so we didn´t get to teach him.  I´m excited to set up another appointment with him though.  Somebody from Columbia, Uruguay, China and Tahiti at the same time?  Hahahah wow. Saturday we taught Christina and Jon again about the Plan of Salvation and that went... well.  Christina didn´t understand everything super well right off the bat, but we backed up and slowed down and she got it eventually.  Sunday we had church, which, as always, went well.  It´s like Spanish listening practice for me.  Yay.  

Sunday afternoon we went to Vecindario.  That´s a little city on Gran Canaria.  So once again, I was on a plane.  We went there to visit them so that Elder White could get his District Leader exchanges done.  It was fun to see another island.  I have now actually worked on all 3 of the islands that have missionaries.  So all day Monday we were there too.  It was fun to work with Elder Nielsen on Sunday and Elder Simmons on Monday.  You can learn a lot from working with other missionaries.  That´s for sure.  So Tuesdays we always have our district meetings and this time was awesome because were all there in the flesh.  We usually do it over the video camera.  It´s just not the same.  We did it in the old mission house from back when the canary islands were their own mission.  It was cool to see.  My branch president in the Provo MTC was mission president here in the canaries and described the house in one of his Sunday talks back in the day and it was cool to go there and actually see it.  I wish I hadn´t left his address in Madrid. haha Who would have thought that little address book would cause me so much grief in Madrid!  After we came back yesterday afternoon, we taught Christina and Jon once again and it went well. We taught them the importance of the Scriptures and that we can´t receive the blessings of anything until we do our part.  That´s the importance of agency! We are to SHOW that we deserve these blessings.  They understood quite well I thought.  We´ll see if they read tomorrow when we have a lesson with them.  That´s pretty much all.  We played some ping pong for pday today with Darwin.  He is an investigator in an interesting situation.  He´s probably my favorite person I have met since I have been here on the island.  He´s legit.  And that was my week in a nutshell.  

Seems like everything has been going swell back home.  Swimming pool, Park City, and summer-fest parties seem to be happening everyday.  I got the pictures of the snuggies that Caden, Colby, and Gavin got for Easter.  Loved them.  Thanks Stepmom for the pictures of our family too.  Congrats Gavin for graduation.  Sorry I´m a week late,  but cool announcement.  Yahoo!  A fun story from Spain is that the blasted members make me drink Coke all the time.  They love that stuff here.  So sorry Dad.  I drink Mommy´s drink hahahaha.  I hate it.  Bleh.  I was wondering if anybody could email me with the origin of Jeppson.  Dad, this would be a good thing to ask you to do probably, since you gave me it.  Jeppson.  Where is it from? Germany? That´s what I always thought, but people always tell me it´s from Scandinavia and junk. Sooo.  Also, if you could put my line of authority in the next  package like you were going to do in thet rejected package, I would love that.  Hmmm.  Mini cassette tapes would be nice too.  I only have a couple left.  I guess I could re-record over ones I have received, but we´ll see.  Hmm other requests for the package: Any session of General Conference(Prefereably between 2000 and 2007) in spanish.  Any Music of course.  A DVD of the Stanley cup Finals.  Just kidding on that one of course.  Just make sure you all talk together before sending it (the parents at least) becasue in letters home I´ve always brought up some things I think. I dunno.  There´s nothing I´m really dying without over here.  Life is pretty grand on the islands.  Constant ocean breeze, Burnt neck because it saw sun all p-day last week instead of being hid inside a collar, and people from all parts of the world.  Not a bad life I don´t think.  That´s all I've really got.  I love you all.  I know that this Church is true.  God had a plan for each and every one of us.  He knows us perfectly.  He knows exactly what trials we need and when we need them.  He knows the help we need, and when we need to struggle through things on our own.  I would appreciate it if somebody went to the temple for me since I can´t go.  Let me know how it goes.  Who knows, maybe it´s what you need.

Love,

Elder Jeppson

If I was a rabbit hunter, I´d be a conejero.

Wasssuppp?

Last Wednesday, after the día of gloria ended (p-day), President Earl had a charla with the rama here in Arrecife.  I hear it was legit.  But after that he took us out to dinner. That I know was legit.  He is the president of the CCM, or MTC, in Madrid.  He´s awesome.  I only got to be there with him for a short 4 days, but it was nice to see him.  Thursday we got to teach a lesson with Christina and Jon again from Colombia.  They´re pretty cool.  But they didn´t come to dang church!  Something came up at the last minute of course.  So we´re gonna try and get them there this week.  We have an appointment with them in like an hour and a half.  Also, Elder Velasquez has returned from his mission in Malaga and is now brother Velasquez in our branch.  He´s legit and it´s way nice to have another man to accompany us to visits.  It´s hard to find guys to visit girls with us and we´ve actually had to cancel before.  How lame is that?  But it´s getting better.  Friday night we had a little Elder Velasquez is home shindig.  It was like a Family Home Evening for the branch.  It was pretty sweet.  Also, about a week ago a muslim chick in our English class was asking us who Mormon is and what is this blasted book we try and give people and all those good questions so we explained it to her and Elder White remembered that in our Chapel we randomly have a copy of the Book of Mormon in Arabic (which she speaks as well being from Maruecos, that might be Morocco in English, not sure) and in English class last week she told us that she loves it and can´t put it down.  So we´re hoping that she gets some interest in listening to the missionaries for more than just to expand her English abilities.  It´s a little trickier with Muslims though, trying to teach them without them getting killed/beaten up by their families and friends, etc.  Yup.  Saturday was interesting.  It was pretty dead because the Champion´s league (soccer for Europe.  Everybody lives, breathes, bleeds, eats, sleeps, this stuff) was on and Barcelona was playing England.  It was a pretty dead day.  I´m sure Superbowl Sunday in the States would be a fairly good comparison.  Not many people walk around in the streets when Barcelona is beating England in soccer.  BUT we worked it out and ya está.  


Sunday we had church at 10:00 like we always seem to.  We also attend the branch council meeting and talk with the leaders about what they need and what we need etc.  It went well.  Then after church we had a dinner appointment with some fantastic members named Javi and Gabi.  The zone leaders came to Lanzarote as well to do the district leader exchange thing.  It was fantastic.  I was with Elder Kunkel this time instead of Elder Sanchez.  I like being with Elder Kunkel a lot more than being with Elder Sanchez.  Yup.  That leads me to Monday, with Elder Kunkel.  It was great.  We knocked doors and talked to people and stuff like missionaries do.  The cool thing from Monday is we knocked this China mans house.  He has lived here for like 23 years so he speaks Spanish perfectly.  He has the double culture from China and Spain.  Aka he is Buddhist with Christian background hahaha.  But he let us in and we did a quick lesson 0 overview of what the missionaries do lesson and he is like super wise.  Bustin' out these freakin Chinese proverbs throughout the lesson, except instead of being Chinese proverbs they were just things he was saying that I was like, wow, you go man, you go.  His name is Fa.  Elder White and I taught him in a coffee shop the next morning hahaha.  He has 3 daughters and a wife, but the wife is super Buddhist and doesn´t want anything to do with us.  So be it.  Also yesterday we had a great feast of food with a less active sister that we visit every Tuesday.  Sometimes she comes to church.  It´s been getting better.  She´s super worried about her 14  year old son.  So she´s trying to get them both involved in the church again.  We get fed a lot here in Arrecife lately.  Like 5 times since I last spoke with you grand people.  It´s been a good food week thankfully. 

Today for P-day we had a grand adventure.  We used an early leave day (we get 2 each transfer) to head down to Puerto del Carmen to do some manly shopping.  That mall was a huge letdown.  Small Islands off the coast of Africa have great weather and beaches, but the malls are hurting.  So after that we knew there was a go-karting joint somewhere between Puerto del Carmen adn Tías.  So we started hoofing it out there.  Lo and Behold we walked for like 2 blasted hours randomly searching for a go karting place that apparently is a lot closer to Arrecife hahaha.  We eventually weaved our away around the hills and rock fields of Lanzarote and had the best 8 minutes of go-karting ever!  They´re like the super legit go-karts that Travis Pastrana jumps into his foam pit.  It was way fun. I got faster and faster every lap even.  Learned how to drift go karts and all. It was like I was a grand prix racer that really was in a go kart. hahahah. Ok.  I was pretty bad, and the picture they took of me I have a FAT face.  But I bought it anyway.  We´ll see if it ever gets seen by anybody back home though....  And then we eventually walked to the closest bus stop we could think of, which is at the Airport in Playa Honda.  We basicallly walked 4 or 5 miles in the dang desert looking for go-karts.  Go ahead and google map the triangle between Arrecife, Puerto Del Carmen, and Tías.  You´ll see there´s a whole lot of rocks and NOTHING else.  But it was a fun hike so I´m happy.  

So it sounds like everybody had a great Memorial day weekend. I can´t believe it´s already been a year since Memorial day! I feel like just yesterday I was teaching patience and gas in a mud pit in Brigham City.  I wish I had had a dirtbike today.  Thank you for sending me the trunky pictures dad ;) Just kidding.  Pictures don´t make me trunky.  You can´t trunk-afy this cool cat! All the nieces and nephews seem to be graduating from pre-school and all sorts of good stuff.  Please somebody tell them not to grow up too fast.  Krista, I´m stoked you´re having a boy.  As a mom with two boys already, pink looks appetizing, but I promise you blue is a better oportunity to name the child Tanton.  So this is better. I love you all.  I´m doing grand over here.  Just chuggin along and trying to learn Spanish while talking to strangers in the streets of the Canaria Islands.  I shall talk to you all in a week I think.. Peanut Butter is something that can be sent at any time and place as well as CDs of appropriate music.  That is only because I hear a new package is in the assembly process? Glorious. I´m too spoiled by everybody.  Thank you for all your prayers, love, letters (scoundrel friends are already dying off haha such is the mish...) and support.  Ya´llz is the bests as my Georgian friend Elder Kunkel would say. 

Love,

Elder Jeppson

P.S. Anybody that can find miniature versions of "Predicad mi Evangelio" and get that in a package would steal my heart for the eternities.