Week #52

Hi Everyone! 

Okay so an update on the area where I am serving... I'm in the Kirtland zone but my area is Shaker Heights. We have a really great area because we have such a variety of people to teach. We have some super ghetto places and then we have some wealthy areas. Everyone is awesome here! I love this area already. Elder Davis and I are getting along really well and having fun together. Turns out that I came out into the mission field with Elder Davis! Super cool so we get to celebrate our year mark together! Elder Davis is from Seattle, Washington and yes he is the zone leader with me. Really all we do as zone leaders is relay info from president brown to the missionaries and info from the missionaries to the assistants. All it is is more responsibility but it's still fun.

We have a few really solid investigators right now that I'm super excited about! I can really see most of them joining the church in the near future which really excites me! One of our investigators that we just picked up this week is a 17 year old girl named Dejah. Its pronounced like you would say dejavoo but without the voo obviously. But funny story of how we found her... So Elder Davis and his previous companion would go get hot fudge sundays from McDonalds all the time and would give pass along cards to the people in the drive through and Dejah was one of those lucky people! She called the number on the back of the card to get a copy of the Book of Mormon and she's loving it so far! She should be at church this coming Sunday which is AWESOME. She is super spiritual and super funny too! She's understanding everything that we teach super well which is awesome! Everything we tell her just clicks in her head. Love watching her learn and grow!

Our other solid investigator is named Anthony and his sister is a member of the church in California. He talks a lot about his nephew who served a mission and he loves missionaries! He came to church yesterday which was awesome because one of the sisters investigators got the gift of the holy ghost in sacrament meeting! Anthony said he loved that afterwards! He told us he is going to fast and pray about being baptized this week or next week so we'll see what happens. 

The members here in this ward are amazing! They all have a strong desire to do missionary work which makes our job so much easier and way more fun as well. I'm excited to meet more of the members this week and help them with their missionary work. I have a feeling that this area is going to be my favorite! 

Super stoked to meet my 1/2 way mark this week but I hope that time slows down a little bit. I feel like I say that a lot but I don't want my mission to just fly by! I'm loving life out here! Anyway I love you guys! Hope you have an awesome week because I know I will. Love you! 

Love, Jack

Ps. I almost forgot to tell you that I am in a 4 man apartment which is a ton of fun but the elders that we live with are in the Cleveland 3rd area which is supposedly the most ghetto area in the mission but they have a bullet box haha! It's a box that they collect all the bullets and shells they find on the streets. And they aren't allowed in their area this week because of the RNC. Anyway Love you!

This is a picture of Jackson that a member texted me this morning. The joy of having a stateside missionary. :)

Jackson's sleeping arrangements!  That's just good missionary living.