So it came while I was in the shower, and my mom comes racing down the stairs and said that the mail lady was at our mailbox! And I told my wonderful mother that I would go and get it myself. About a minute later my mom told me (a little choked up) that the mail lady had brought it to the door.
I then hurried to get kinda ready.. Then I left my house in my sisters car, with my camera and my call! I drove up on "C Hill" that has a panoramic view of Price and opened my call on a rock. haha I didn't cry and I didn't feel like my whole world had changed. Changes like this don't come from the call coming, it came gradually over time. Here a little and there a little. So I didn't feel like my whole world had been flipped upside down. Which I had expected to happen because that was how it always seemed with friends and family. I am kind of grateful for. I think if my whole world had felt flipped it would fade over time. But where the feeling isn't much different from what I have already felt, I think it will stay with me over time. I don't know. It is unique nonetheless.
Then I opened it with my family (most of them over Skype). I had a few friends there that have supported me through a lot of my journey!
I'm going to the Maryland Baltimore mission on April 23rd, 2014. Speaking English!
I am sooo excited to serve! four months better blaze by. I didn't see myself feeling this way. I expected a complete change of heart. Maybe not Alma the younger status. I am obviously still just as excited. But a calmer excitement. Definitely a unique experience.
I just flooded a bunch of emails! Letting all of my fellow members of the Latter-Day Army of Helamen is not an easy task! And I still don't have all their emails! I guess the work is never really done. hahhaha
This will be the last of what you hear from me about my call. Maybe. ;) hahahah
I am so pumped! Know I have a testimony of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I know He lived perfectly so that we might be made perfect someday. I know that the gospel is such a fantastic blessing in my life and I would not change my life or my call for anything in the world. I am looking forward to my life changing as I try to change the lives of those people that I find and will love. It seems so science fictional. maybe more like a fairytale. I cannot believe it is my turn now. I know that the Book of Mormon is the truest book on the Earth today. And I could not be more excited to share it with those I love. THE CHURCH IS TRUE. GOD IS REAL. LIFE IS GREAT.
I am so blessed. Love you all!
-Soon to be Sister Jeppson.
Here are some pictures from yesterday!
For the first and definitely not the last time, I say:
GOOD MORNING BALTIMORE
